One of main reason why lots of bloggers decide to use WordPress blogging platform, is because of the availability of ready to use solutions in the form of plugins. If you don’t know how to create XML sitemaps, there is a plugin for it. If you don’t know how to find broken links in your blog, there is a plugin for the same.
If you are newbie to SEO and don’t know how to SEO your blog, there are plugins to help in optimizing your blog content. As I have experience there are plugins for almost every requirement you can dreamt of in the form of plugins. It’s all about finding the right plugin for your needs and using that on your blog.
Here is the ultimate list of SEO Plugins you can use on your WordPress blog for making your blog more SEO friendly. It’s not advised to use all of them, you should use those SEO plugins from this list only that you are in real need of or addition of whom can make your blog contents more eligible to be in top 10 list on major search engines:
1. All In One SEO Pack
This is one of must have SEO plugin for WordPress blogs. This plugin will help you in optimizing your bog contents for search engines. This plugin can help you in making titles and meta data for your blog home, posts, pages, categories and tags more search engine friendly. This plugin can also be used to fix issues related to canonical URL’s and duplicate content issues.
2. Easy WP SEO
This is a premium SEO plugin for WordPress blogs. This plugin can be really handy if you don’t know how to carry out different Onpage activities on your blog posts. This plugin use 23 Onpage SEO factors while helping you in carrying out different onpage activities on your blog contents.
3. SEOPressor
SEOPressor is another premium SEO plugin for WordPress blogs. It is compatible with latest versions of WordPress and can be applied to self-hosted WordPress blogs only. This plugin can be considered as a good alternative to Easy WP SEO plugin. This plugin will help you in performing all those onpage activities that you should be doing to get top rankings on major search engines including Google, Yahoo and Bing.
4. Broken Link Checker
For standard websites, I use Xenu type of software’s to find broken links. If you have a website carrying thousands of pages, you may face some issues with such software’s. But for WordPress blogs, there are much easier options available in the form of plugins. You can use Broken Link Checker plugin to find and correct all broken link related issues on WordPress blogs.
5. W3 Total Cache
What you will do if someone ask you to improve the speed of your WordPress blog as it’s too slow compared with other websites and blogs. This is going to happen as not only your blog readers but search engines also love faster loading websites and blogs. Faster loading blog will have an edge over other websites in search engine rankings on Google as per recent algorithmic changes. W3 Total Cache is a page caching plugin which will help in improving the performance of your blog by serving HTML static pages to your readers. W3 Total Cache plugin is used by most popular blogs like mattcutts.com, mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, yoast.com, kiss925.com, pearsonified.com, lockergnome.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com and css-tricks.com.
6. WP Smush.it
This is one more plugin helpful in improving the speed of your WordPress blog. This plugin used to compress images that you are uploading on your blog as part of posts or pages in the background. You should use this or any other similar plugin to reduce the size of images on your blog.
7. Google XML Sitemaps
What you will do if you have a fresh new blog and your blog posts are not getting indexed in search engines? Most SEO experts will ask you to create an XML sitemap of your blog contents and submit that to search engines. Do you know how to create XML sitemaps? If no, doesn’t worry there is a Google XML Sitemaps plugin available in WordPress plugin directory that will automatically generate XML Sitemap for your blog contents. You can even ask this plugin to ignore certain type of content types that should not be included into XML Sitemap file. You can submit the same XML Sitemap file to Google through your Google Webmaster Tools Account.
8. Nrelate Plugin
Nrelate is a related post plugin for WordPress blogs. Best thing about this related post plugin is that it allows you to show thumbnails with regular text in related post section. This type of plugin will be very beneficial in improving the engagement numbers for your blog. Lots of internet marketing experts will ask you to add Nrelate or similar related post plugin on your WordPress blog to improve its bounce rate and page views per visit etc. type of metrics. If you don’t want to try Nrelate, you can give a try to YARPP which is the most popular related post plugin for WordPress blogs.
9. SEO Smart Links
This SEO plugin which is available in free and premium version can be used to interlink your blog contents in a search engine friendly way. You can use this plugin to create automatic internal links for targeted pages and posts of your interest from your blog with their respective search terms.
10. Performance Profiler Plugin
I would highly recommend using this plugin on your WordPress blog if you used to install too many plugins on your blog. Installation of too many plugins can have negative impact on your blog overall speed. Performance Profiler Plugin (P3) will create a load time graphical report for all active plugins. So you can delete some unused plugins and find better options for those plugins which takes too much time in loading and whose functionality you don’t want to miss anyway.
Do you know any other SEO Plugin that you would love to have in this ultimate List of SEO plugins for WordPress blogs, do share it in the comments section.
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I prefer taking opinions from everybody regarding the best SEO plugin for my blog. I noticed that you have placed All in One SEO at the top of the list. Do you think it has the edge over Yoast SEO?
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The automatic Sitemap generator is one of my favourite plugins so I’m not surprised to see it is on this list! When I made my first ever website I had to build my own sitemap and upload it via a FTP client. It was an absolute nightmare. WordPress sitemaps are 1-click-wonders!
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nice article bro :D Thanks for your submit . I m using WordPress SEO by Yoast and i will vote only for it. I consider it is more User Friendly to me and accurate also :)
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large list of plugins its very helpful to me and it help me to find broken link’s of my blog and also for some other query thanks for sharing this information with me.
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Smush.it plugin sounds interesting. I will go and try it right now!
Thanks for compiling this great list of plugins. They look great.
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Great collection of useful seo plugins for wp… Aware of and tried a few of them. Gonna try the Nrelate plugin
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Excellent list of bloggers here. I know most of them and they are really great at commenting. They leave such wonderful comments that add value,
Best collection of SEO pack Plugin. I like all in one seo pack most. appreciate your good job. keep up the best work.
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Great and useful list anil…
I have been using EasyWPSEO and loved it’s LSI and reading level feature…Which is very useful specially after post panda SEO…
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Hi Anil,
A nice list to compare the plugins I have and what I need to install on wordpress. I have All in one SEO, but after reading the commments, I think i should try the WordPress SEO by Yoast. I still do not need any speed boosting plugins. I will try the broken links plugin to check. Thanks for sharing the list.
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Great compilation but i think your missing YOAST which i think is the best of them all.
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I am still new to this world of SEO and blogging. I keep reading a lot about this and stumbled on your site as i was looking for more thing to learn. I found your post very useful and learned quite a lot about new plugins. Evidently you have gone through a great deal of hardwork. Thanks for the detailed post and looking forward for more!
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Awesome collection! I appreciate the effort you took to compile the list.
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it would be nice, if all of those WordPress Pro plug-ins were free of charge… LOL
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Thank you very much Anil, I’m making the change from the Yoast plug in to all in one SEO as all in one gives me much better titles quickly and easily
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Thank you very much for the useful list Anil, I’ve made the change from the Joost plugin which I’ve been using for a while as all in one SEO plug in gives me immediate results with regards to my page title
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I have just started learning about SEO. thanks for providing this list..
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that was just awesome….i use all of this except Performance Profiler Plugin (P3) yeah i am trying this one
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Oh man… what a list… I really think that I need to get handy with SEO… On my blog, I dont really work with SEO, my partner does it all for us! :-P
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Hi anilagarwal, Kevin Stacey here..
I want to first give credit where credit is due and compliment you on how detailed and structured your post is on listing an elite group of plugins. I don’t see too many bloggers going into detail like you have…that’s the mark of a blogger who knows their WordPress plugins.
For optimization, free plugins like WordPress SEO by Yoast, XML Sitemaps and even All in One SEO are really great as they lay down the basic SEO foundation for a WordPress site, but every blog is different and nothing works best for everyone.
I always suggest looking at a side-by-side comparison of the best seo plugins for WordPress in order to make an informed decision of what the best plugin is for that blogger and their website’s specific needs.
Here’s my most recent write-up on the subject:
WordPress SEO by Yoast vs All in One SEO vs SEO Ultimate
http://www.bestseopluginforwordpress.com/best-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-seo/wordpress-seo-by-yoast-vs-all-in-one-seo-vs-seo-ultimate/
Check it out and let me know what you think.
Great article btw…I’ll be referencing this post on my main blog.
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Thanks for the great overview on WordPress plugins. Currently I’m using a few of the listed tools for my WordPress site. Thanks for the tip on the W3 Total Cache plugin, I plan on implementing this to help improve my page load time.
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I love SEO Pressor. I had to stop using Smushit because it was causing errors in my database and on top of that it stopped working. Do you have an alternative for that one?
I would stay away from SEO Smart Links. that one is getting people penalized and I saw Yoast talking about it on Facebook.
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I would recommend you give a try to Easy WP SEO Plugin. You can know more in detail about this premium plugin and my experience with it here http://bloggerspassion.com/easy-wp-seo-plugin-review-premium-onpage-seo-plugin-for-wordpress/. No doubt, both the plugins are fine. But if you ask me which one is better, I would go with Easy WP SEO. Both the plugins aim at helping you with your blog posts onpage optimization.
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Seo Smart links is excellent, its helps your internal linking, plus its very helpful when you have many posts with the same subject. Interesting article. Are there any plugins for Image galleries that you can recommend?
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Yes very nice way, i use this pack and enjoy.
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I’m using WordPress SEO by Yoast – it really is a fantastic plugin! It’s regularly updated and recently had a few extra features added i.e. it now has a traffic light system so you can easily spot pages that need attention ;)
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All in one SEO plugin is must have. I can’t imagine blog without it.
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nice list of plugins dude….here is one more plugin YOAST, it is also very useful……
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Great post, I use AIO SEO, Google xml and broken link checker on all of my sites. Am currently trying out Yoast seo too on my new blog, I hope it turns out well.
I will check out the perfomance profiler, i have not used it before.
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All are awesome wordpress plugins. I will definitely use them.
Definitely worth trying out – Especially if you know you have a couple of links that need attention – no matter how old the links are.
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There are many plugins used to boos the search engine rankings. From my point of view, I think that All in one seo pack and W3 super cache are the best plugins on the market. I use them extensively with great results.
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Apart from these plugins, we can give a try to Easy WP SEO, which is a premium plugin for WordPress blogs. I have been using it on my blog for some time now and I’m very satisfied with the results after using it.
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Nice article and thank your valuable information and I wish you luck
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“SEO Smart links” and “Broken link checker” are two of the best Plugins to use post-penguin. It is important to have optimized and active (no broken -or at least 301,401 redirects etc.) link structure in your website when trying to rank in the SERP’s. Definitely worth trying out – Especially if you know you have a couple of links that need attention – no matter how old the links are.
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Hello GEO. There’s lost of SEO plugins here huh? Lots of them are free too (or most). You should definitely go and download them and test them out if you have just started out.
Anil, I particularly found the mention of ‘Performance Profiler’ very valuable. I didn’t know there was a plugin that could help you with that. I generally just have the plugins installed that are absolutely necessary, or that’s crucial to my blog. .
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really nice collection of information bro :) I use WordPress SEO by Yoast its the best i used so far :D
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I have been using two of the. All In One SEO Pack anda Google XML Sitemaps. Those Plugins help my Blog to get lot of traffic.
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Awesome list of plugins. I have used all of these and have almost all of them running on my blog. I have cut back on the caching plugins as I find that they can be an extra point of failure.
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This is an excellent post with lots of useful information. Plugins for WordPress for maximizing SEO perfomance should be top priority for every blogger.
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this is really helpful for me..i like the broken links checker most and ready to use it..coz it will save lot of mine time of broken link check..
gr8 article..thnx a ton for this
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Anil,
Thanks for the post. I traded All In One SEO and Google XML Site Maps for WordPress SEO by Yoast. Wp Smush.it really does make a big difference in site load time. Broken link checker can save you a lot of frustration.
I have never tried SEO smart links. I will havve to give it a try.
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I use WordPress SEO by Yoast (best plugin I have used by far)
Also, the Smushit plugin has given me issues as well as W3Total Cache. They both will break your site if you aren’t careful, I think the Smushit broke a slider I had on a realtors site and W3 had issues with another plugin I was using.
As always, test and be careful with plugins…
Great round up nonetheless.
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I always have been using All In One SEO Pack plugin,it’s quite effective :)
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