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20 of the Best SEO Plugins for W ordPress

March 20, 2009 by Sean P. Aune864

With more than 120 million blogs in existence, how do people find YOURcontent on the Internet? The key starts with great search engine optimization

(SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your

content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries.

You can blog your heart out, but if you dont have good SEO, then odds are you

wont have many readers. Luckily, the WordPress plugin community values SEO

and has developed a number of plugins to help. Here are 20 of the best SEO plugins

to help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more.

Have another SEO plugin to recommend? Tell us more about it in the comments.

All in One SEO Pack One of the most popular plugins ever for WordPress, this plugin does a bit of

everything for you from helping choose the best post title and keywords, to helping you avoid duplicate

content and more.

Automatic SEO Links Automatic SEO Links allows you to choose a word or phrase for automatic linking,

both internal and external, set anchor text, choose if it should be nofollow or not, and more. One of the

best features of this plugin is that it will only do this for the first occurrence of a word in a post so you

dont have to worry about spamming your post with numerous links to the same thing.

Google XML Sitemaps An essential tool in any bloggers armory of SEO tools. While the name onlymentions Google, this plugin creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.

HeadSpace2 This plugin allows you to install all sorts of meta-data, add specific JavaScript and CSS to

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pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

Meta Robots WordPress plugin An easy solution for adding robot metadata to any page you choose on

your blog. You can use it to make your front page links into nofollows, prevent indexing of search pages,

disable author and date-based archives, prevent indexing of your login page and numerous other features.

Nofollow Case by Case This plugin allows you to strip the nofollow command from your comments, and

then you can apply it to only the comments you dont wish to support.

Platinum SEO Plugin The Platinum SEO Plugin offers you such features as automatic 301 redirects for

permalink changes, auto-generation of META tags, post slug optimization, help in avoiding duplicate

content and a host of other features.

Redirection For any number of reasons you sometimes need to move a page from one spot on your blogto another, but then you risk losing that pages status in search results. Redirection helps you with your

301 redirects, captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, sets up an RSS feed for errors

and more.

SEO Blogroll Do you worry that the people you link to in your blogroll are feeding off of your PageRank?

With SEO Blogroll you can make separate sections for various groupings of links, with an unlimited number

in each, and all of them will receive the nofollow attribute.

SEO for Paged Comments With the introduction of paged comments in WordPress 2.7, there was a

potential problem with search engines thinking you had duplicate content as the post would appear on each

page. This plugin aims to take care of this issue for you until the folks at WordPress change things up.

SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings Some themes for WordPress will confuse your sub-header tags

based on the page they are to be displayed on, but this plugin will automatically reset them to make them

more SEO friendly by moving them down one spot in the hierarchical tree. In other words, h2 becomes h3,

h3 becomes h4 and so on.

SEO Friendly Images Images can be a great source of traffic as people search for images of various

subjects, and this plugin helps you with making sure that you have alt and title tags on all of your

images so that the search engines can properly index them.


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SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin If you must have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason,

SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while

ignoring the others.

SEO Post Link The post slug is the blog title you see in a browsers URL bar, and if its too long, search

engines wont take a liking to it. SEO Post Link comes with an already populated list of words to cut from a

title when it turns into a URL to make your post addresses that much friendlier. You can set it so that its

limited to a certain number of characters, cut short words, cut unnecessary words and more.

SEO Smart Links Interlinking your blog can be the key to getting more people to read more of your posts,

but it is time consuming and tedious to do it by hand. SEO Smart Links does this for you automatically

when you tell it what words to link to what URLs, and it also allows you to set nofollow and open inwindow comands for the links.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget Love em or hate em, a lot of people use tag clouds on their blogs. Since their

inception they have been fairly unreadable by search engines, but with this plugin they will be converted to

an SEO-friendly HTML markup that can be indexed.

SEO Title Tag Your tags are an important part of your site for making sure that search engines know

where to place your posts, and SEO Title Tag focuses exclusively on this. Unlike some other plugins, and

WordPress itself, this extension will allow you to add tags to your pages, your main page and even any URL

anywhere on your site.

Simple Tags An extremely popular plugin that focuses on helping you choose the best tags for your posts

by offering suggestions, auto-completion of tags as you type, an AJAX admin interface, mass tag editing

and a whole lot more.

Sitemap Generator This is a more customizable sitemap generator than most with options to support

multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalink support, choices on what to display,

options to show number of comments and more.

TGFI.net SEO WordPress Plugin This particular plugin will do most of the usual SEO work of optimizing

titles and keywords, but it adds a unique twist as it is mainly directed at people who use WordPress as a

CMS.


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Anonymous

Are any of these tools available to use if you have the freebie blogs from wordpress?Because we are stuck!

March 20, 2009 16:08:00 Reply

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AndyBeard

One of the most overlooked aspects of SEO on blogs is indexing depth

http://moshublog.com/2007/10/30/custom-query-string-reloaded-for-wordpress-23-with-tag-support/

Also often overlooked is a simple plugin I created to nofollow links in the content on all but thepermalink pages.http://andybeard.eu/wordpress-plugins/nofollow-those-dupesI wouldnt even bother link dropping it, but Mashable could benefit a lot from using it too

March 20, 2009 16:08:00 Reply

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Although my current WordPress blogs have some of the listed plugins installed I think I havefound a couple on your list that I will be adding over the weekend. Trying to keep up with all this stuffis a daunting task for many of us. Thanks so much for the resource.

March 20, 2009 17:29:00 Reply

Tonya Harmati

Here at http://www.regencyinteractive.com, we have really started to kick start our blog, andthe plug ins are awesome. They are all easy to use and are valuable. We come to this site

every day for information! You guys dish it out daily!

Some of these we have not incorporated yet, we will now!

March 20, 2009 17:35:00 Reply

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Bill

Im sooo tired of hearing about SEO. Lets face it SEO is dead. But, let the SEO freaks

think it is still alive and in a year or two we can visit them all in a nuthouse.

On another note WORDPRESS YOUR SOFTWARE SUCKS!! YOU HAVE A 100,000,000 security holesand you are a million times more insecure than Windows.

BEWARE OF WORDPRESS!!!

March 20, 2009 19:01:00 Reply

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zohaibusman

good for my blog.March 20, 2009 19:03:00 Reply

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SEO

nobody needs more than a few of these plug ins. Actually most only need all in one seopack, google sitemap generator, dofollow plug in and the permalink redirect plug in..and the

right robots.txt file installed to prevent dupe content that word press generates. Everything else isoverkill

March 20, 2009 20:50:00 Reply

AndyBeard

Using robots.txt to control duplicate content is creating hanging/dangling pages

March 20, 2009 21:14:00 Reply

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Steen Seo hman

This is truely a great list.

THANKS

WordPress is a pleasure to use, and all these nice plugins really makes your life much easier.

March 20, 2009 21:01:00 Reply

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Karl Foxley

This is a great list and a worthy bookmark post for easy reference.

Thanks,

Karl

March 21, 2009 01:23:00 Reply

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gilbertogalea

I use a lot All in one SEO, and its great!, very easy & usefull. Ill try the others,Thanks by the tip.

March 21, 2009 02:39:00 Reply

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Harsh Agarwal

I believe SEO frinedly image plugin is one of the bestto get extra traffic from Image searchengine

Make sure you make changes in your Google webmaster tool to index imgaesI wrote a tutorial about this

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-add-alt-tag-into-your-images-wordpress-plugin.html

March 21, 2009 04:08:00 Reply

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Social Bookmarking

it is such a compusory list. All in one SEO pack is the one that will do everything includingSEF page titles, auto meta-description from site copy, different home page title, etc.

March 21, 2009 06:23:00 Reply

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Successful Web Women

Great information! It is important to find the best plugins and I thank you for sharing thisvery valuable information

Yanihttp: //www.successfulwebwomen.com/blog

http://www.successfulwebwomen.com

March 21, 2009 09:37:00 Reply

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Ramn

Another great SEO-Plugin: wpSEO http://www.wpseo.org/

March 21, 2009 10:00:00 Reply

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Herm

I use Blogger rather than WordPress any tips on SEO?

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March 21, 2009 13:01:00 Reply

Stijn

A recent development: Canonical URL's for WordPress, by the inevitable Yoast. Helpscombat double content.

http://yoast.com/wordpress/canonical/

March 21, 2009 08:24:56 Reply

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G. Thomas

This is super! Thank you. I have yet to set up my blog and one of the things on my list is tofirst figure out how to do SEO on it. Now I know.

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March 21, 2009 15:54:00 Reply

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Neil Simon

Has anyone tried the new (released Mar 8, 2009) PeoplePond plugin?http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peoplepond/

Sample Plugin screenshots:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/peoplepond/screenshots/

It dynamically pulls your About Me bio (and pic) from PeoplePond ( http://peoplepond.com), andplaces it into your blog About page.

Its essentially personal SEO, and were seeing PeoplePond bios quickly rising in Google page ranks,due to their SEO optimization.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Neil (plugin author)

March 21, 2009 19:48:00 Reply

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sdb

i love the sitemap generator plugin, it has really helped our blog/store

March 21, 2009 23:53:00 Reply

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Mini Dyer

Warnings to Business Travellers World Wide. White Anglo Saxon Male may be the Minority inAsia. If this happens to you, too, you must call 911 while in the taxi.

At the time of the incident, Andrew Steven Dyer was Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank,Head of Cash and Trade Management, North East Asia. Around the midnight, on his way back from

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Hong Kong Airport, he took the first available taxi on line. Due to her dangerous driving, he got offthe taxi before getting home and she refused to give him any change and insisted on driving himback home instead. She stopped him from taking another taxi. She grabbed his glasses and threw itonto the ground leaving him a 12cm scratches across his face. One of the glass lense fell off fromthe frame. Though the male had more injuries at the time when she kicked him on his chest, becausethe police spoke little English, he only spoke to her and a few other Chinese and arrested him. Within5 min of arrival to the scene, according to the police report, Andrew Dyer was already under thecustody of the police at the Central police station in Wanchai. The police spent no time to investigate.

Although the forensic report stated her injuries on her feet are stress fractures developed over a longperiod of time, the police, with little comprehension of English, misread the medical report andcharged White Anglo Saxon with GBH (Wounding 19). He submitted Complaint Against Police Officerin June 2008 for Racism & Harrassement. The female taxi driver was convicted for beaeting upanother within the same year. She was also convicted for Offering Service in Airport area WithoutPermission of Airport Authority one week after the alledged incident and during the paid leave givenfor her non-existing injuries. In 1987, she was convicted of Causing Wasteful Employment Of Police.

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March 22, 2009 01:08:00 Reply

TR_DestekFollow

Thankx for this valuable post. Will definately be making use of these plugs.http://www.greyaway-tr.com

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William Van Der Linde

Thankx for this valuable post. Will definately be making use of these plugs.

March 23, 2009 01:06:00 Reply

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Bryan - After5PC

This is an extensive list of very useful WordPress plugins. I can surely use some for my ownusage and that of my clients

Thanks for posting them!

March 22, 2009 22:12:00 Reply

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Seo

thanks very much i use only all in one seo pack , but i leardned lots of seo plugins herethasnk so much

March 23, 2009 10:38:00 Reply

Seo

i made other seo plugins in my seo blogpleased thasnk again

March 23, 2009 10:41:00 Reply

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About SEO, wich one you think is better, platinium SEO, Headspace 2 or All in one SEOpack as they offer kind of the same features any thoughts?

March 23, 2009 07:21:02 Reply

SEO

My friend has a blog with WordPress CMS. Ill be sure to forward this article to him. Thanks.

Paul R

March 23, 2009 23:07:00 Reply

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Pinoy Top 10

This is good stuff but they are just too many. Some are duplicate in function. Will you able tosort out a few of these that are working great for you so far? Dont tell me that you are using

them all?

March 26, 2009 14:24:00 Reply

Jes

Pinoy,

I mostly use the All in One SEO. It covers pretty much all of them combined, with theexception of a few listed above.

- Jes

March 27, 2009 19:25:00 Reply

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Jes

Great post! I have some of these in use already, and its great to see that there are moreavailable!

March 27, 2009 19:20:00 Reply

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Ivan | Jobs Blog

Great list! I as a believer of a All-in-One Pluggin combined with the XML Sitemap, but it all

depends what kind of a blog you are publishing. I applied a Seo Friendly Images on a blogwith lots of my sailing photographs,.. and got some 20% traffic increase in a month and a half.

March 30, 2009 14:06:00 Reply

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Iron Spider

Thanks for the extensive list. However, your description for SEO Title Tag appears to beincorrect. Ive been using that plugin for over a year now. That plugin is specifically for

setting the text for the actual HTML title tag of each page on your blog. As most who are into SEOknow, the text in the title tag of a web page has a lot of clout when it comes to ranking well in SERPs.

Your description, however, appears to talking about WordPress tags and this plugin has nothing todo with that.

March 31, 2009 19:40:00 Reply

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Anonymous

I have been using 3 plugins on your list and so far so good they have been bringing me lotsof visitors on my site. If it werent for this plugins i may be doing a very hard time of SEO

coding.

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April 3, 2009 09:56:00 Reply

Zulfnore

Wow thats an impresive list of SEO plugins, these will come very handy in line of businessthanks for sharing :)

@lindseygeorge You indeed better of with a self hosted blog than having one at wordpress.Felexibility and control over your blog are very important in todays blogosphere and you will be welladvised to have as self hosted asap, and it doesnt have to cost an arm and a leg to do so!

April 8, 2009 12:13:09 Reply

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Johar

Thanks for the information, saya suka WordPress I like it

April 10, 2009 19:44:00 Reply

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digitalwebtalk

I use the WP SEO Sniper too.. i think dat would make a good addition to this list.

Its a very effective SEO plugin i know!April 11, 2009 04:53:00 Reply

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Johnny Bond

Is the share this post above a wordpress plugin and if so what is it called? I like the bigicons and the variety of how many are displayed. Any thoughts?? Thanks!

April 14, 2009 22:49:00 Reply

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Bfri

Thanks for putting this list together. I already use a few of the plugins listed here but thereare still some that sound interesting and useful, too. There also some quite interesting

plugin links in the comments. Need to browse through them when I have some more time. Worthbookmarking this page. :)

@Johnny Bond: There is a plugin called Sociable which allows you to implement the share it feature:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable

April 17, 2009 08:34:00 Reply

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Foel

Im using WP Seo Sniper on my blog, i think its useful SEO plugin too.. i recommended onit..

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April 20, 2009 01:19:00 Reply

Matt Prados

Great article thanks for the post.

April 24, 2009 04:15:00 Reply

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shureiman

Thanks a lot!

April 24, 2009 21:09:00 Reply

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ocean90

I miss the plugin wpSEO from wpseo.org.Its very nice and simple. It is for blogs without ads free.

April 25, 2009 11:59:00 Reply

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peter

thank for reviews, I love all in one seo, and sitemap generator

April 30, 2009 07:00:00 Reply

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argusyk

Does anyone know any plugins for autotagging with TITLE and ALT in URLs?

May 1, 2009 07:23:00 Reply

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Nitesh Patel

very good listing of all these plugins every blogger should keep it i with this to optimize SEO

May 2, 2009 07:59:00 Reply

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SEO Expert

Allin One SEO plugin does nor work with WordPress 2.7

May 2, 2009 21:12:00 Reply

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seslisohbet

thank you your comment.This is a wonderfull..!

May 3, 2009 23:06:00 Reply

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mike

thanks for that article! it was extremly informative! keep up the great work!

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Eli the Computer Guy

tHANKS FOR THE LIST. iT IS VERY USEFUL

May 16, 2009 12:41:00 Reply

Name

A great list thanks for this, i am using it athttp://www.lateportal.comhttp://www.windscreenwipers.info

September 2, 2009 20:30:00 Reply

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Minimalismi

All in One SEO and Sitemap Generator are definitely must-haves.

May 21, 2009 16:03:00 Reply

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Dewa

Thanks for this information.. I have a question.. Better use All In ONE SEO pack or platinumSEO ??

May 25, 2009 07:44:00 Reply

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Abhishek

very useful pluginsno doubt about that..I am using some of themdefinitely help in

improving the SEOCan you tell me that if I am using All in one SEO, is it necessary toinstall Headspace2 after that?Both functions almost same..isnt it?

June 4, 2009 10:58:00 Reply

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tasarhane

Google XML Sitemaps not working on my wordpress mu based sites.. but its good for mainsite. agh

June 11, 2009 17:38:00 Reply

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