WordPress SEO

22. Oct, 2009 0 Comments

Assuming you have filled your blog with rich unique content, then maybe you should have a review of your on site SEO if you have not already done so.

There are many WordPress plug-ins to help you easily optimize your WordPress blog for search engines, if you want to increase your search engine ranking then these plugins will certainly help push your blog in the “Upward direction”.

All in One SEO Pack

A personal favorite of mine, this plugin allows you to control and optimize your blog for search engines. It will give you control of all your meta data for each post, or you can set it to work automatically and auto generate your metadata.

Google XML Sitemaps

This WordPress plugin is pretty simple it creates a compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. When you add a post, page or edit existing content it will automatically update the sitemap.

SEO Blogroll

This plugin will replace the standard WordPress links widget, it will give you full control over your outbound links within the SEO blogroll widget. You will be able to control link numbers and apply rel=”nofollow” attribute settings, to stop your page rank slipping through your fingers.

Redirection

Over long periods of time, you make changes to your blog – sometimes resulting in a broken link structure. This plugin will help you overcome this, so next time your editing a post, or upgrading you can do so with content.

Robots Meta

Hopefully if you have allowed you WordPress site to appear in the search engines, then by default your blog will be crawled and indexed. Sometimes you may want to avoid all your pages being indexed, you don’t want to get duplicate content and be punished now do you ? This will plugin will tell the search engine spider what to crawl and what to stay well away from.

SEO Smart Links

Internal links play a vital role in your blog’s SEO score. Search engines will treat your sites internal links as an indication of how well structured your website is. This is often over looked, so this is where SEO Smart links help you! It totally automates internal linking between posts, you just specify certain keywords.

SEO Friendly Images

Images on you site, should have an ALT tag and be named in the correct way, not just for SEO but also for validation. This plugin will really help automate the naming of images across your WordPress blog.