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6 Of The Best SEO Plugins For WordPress To get Higher Rankings
I have previously shared 30 plugins which I use here at ShoutMeLoud. For today’s post, I have compiled a list of recommended WordPress Plugins for SEO. You do not need to use all of these SEO plugins, but each works in a different way, so I would suggest choosing and using the ones that best suit your needs.
In this list I have included some free SEO plugins and some premium plugins, so there is something useful here for all readers.
As you might expect, some of the premium plugins have distinct advantages over the free ones. For example, EasyWPSEO is far better for keyword optimization than the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin.
I will also link to my previous review of individual SEO plugins, so you can learn more about them and decide which SEO plugins are appropriate for your blog. If you think there are any WordPress SEO plugins missing from our list, do let us know, and we would be happy to review them and possibly add them to our list.
Best SEO Plugins for WordPress Blogs:
Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin:
WordPress SEO by Yoast is a best free SEO plugin for WordPress. This single plugin takes care of many aspects of your WordPress blog’s SEO. Using SEO by Yoast you can do following things:
If you are using the All In One SEO plugin, it’s time to ditch it and migrate to Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. This plugin integrates features from some of the most popular plugins like Robots Meta and RSS footer.
You can download this plugin for free from WordPress repo over here. You can watch the video embedded below to learn how to set up the Yoast plugin:
Broken link checker WordPress plugin:
Broken link checker plugin is a very useful plugin for finding all internal and external broken links (404 links). 404 links are nothing but a dead end for search engine spiders, and it’s highly advisable to remove such links.
This plugin may have some issues with certain blog posts. It is possible that it could even freeze your hosting for a while. For this reason, I would suggest running this plugin on low traffic day.
If you have a blog like mine with more than 1000+ posts, use some online websites to find 404 links on your blog.
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SEO Smart Link WordPress plugin:
SEO Smart Link WordPress plugin lets you automatically link your words to any post link. This is very useful for on-page optimization. By finding your site’s high ranking keywords using the Google webmaster tool, you can boost your site’s ranking.
Before you use this plugin, you need to be certain of your internal linking and be aware of Google’s linking algorithm.
This is one plugin I’m using here at ShoutMeLoud, & a major reason for such strong interlinking of ShoutMeLoud.
Also read: SEO Smart Links Premium Plugin Review
SEO friendly Images:
By optimizing your images, you can drive a significant amount of traffic from image search engines. Even here at ShoutMeLoud, almost 1% of traffic is from image search engines, and that is a lot.
This plugin adds ALT attributes into your images, though you need to take care of the image name. If you upload images with names like image002.jpeg or DSC001.jpeg, I would suggest that you make it a point to start giving your images more useful names right away. For example, in this post I have given the name “WordPress SEO” to the image I used.
If you are just researching various SEO plugins for WordPress, you may wish to simply use the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin, as it offers most of the features offered by many other individual plugins.
Here are a few examples:
If you think I have missed any essential or helpful plugins, do let us know in the comments section.
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