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1. All in One SEO Pack
In my opinion, this is the most useful plugin of all time. Helps you pick the post titles, keywords, tags and more. It also allows you to noindex the category, tag and archive pages which helps you avoid duplicate content issues.
2. Google Sitemap Generator
This great little plugin creates a sitemap file each time your blog is updated. Search engines love sitemaps. The name is misleading as yahoo, msn, ask and many others will read the sitemap. Very easy to install.
3. Google Analytics
Google analytics allows you to get detailed stats on your blog. How many visitors, where they came from, which pages they visited, where they exited. Possibilities are endless with google analytics, a great free tool
4. MBP Ping Optimizer
This little plugin will control your pinging. You don’t want to be pinging the search engines every 10 secs, this allows you to control the minimum time between pings as well as a ping log.
5. Automatic SEO Links
Allows you to choose a keyword/keyphrase and turn that into a link each time it is mentioned in the blog. You also have the ability to choose nofollow. This will only work for the keyphrase once per post, so you don’t have to worry about having spammy looking links in your posts.
6. Nofollow Case by Case
Gives you the ability to choose which comments don’t deserve follow tags and which do. This helps with comment spammers and allows you to look after the genuine commenters.
7. SEO Friendly Images
It’s important to SEO your images with alt tags – you can actually get lots of traffic from images. This plugin will ensure that your images are SEO optimized. If you forget to add alt tags, this plugin will add them for you.
8. SEO Post Link
When you set a post slug, sometimes they are too long and search engines don’t like that. This plugin will shorten the post slugs i.e http://www.bizboink.com/short-post-slug. The plugin will cut out unnecessary words, you can set it to a maximum number of words or characters
9. SEO Smart Links
Use this plugin for internal linking. By linking from one post to another, you can keep readers on your blog for longer. It can take a while to manually add those links, so use this plugin which will create a link to a certain page when you use a certain word/phrase.
10. SEO Title Tag
This allows you to make your post titles different to your title tags. By default wordpress will use your post titles as the title tag. The post title should be something catchy, but the title tag should be full of related phrases and synonyms which can help capture more visitors in a wider net.
11. Redirection
Whenever you need to move a page to another address(which happens somtimes), you can use this plugin to ensure a smooth redirection without losing your position in the search results.
12. Google Positioner
This plugins allows you to follow which keywords are bringing you visitors from the search engines. This helps monitor your search engine rankings.
13. Related Entries
This plugin allows you to output a series of related posts based on the keywords used in the post. This helps your readers move onto the next most relevant post.
14. WP Backlinks
This plugin allows you to manage reciprocal links with other websites. Whilst reciprocal links are not the best quality links you can get, they are still an important part of the overall SEO in Google’s eyes. They make your links look natural. Be sure to only trade links with related sites with good page rank.
15. Wordpress Global Translator Plugin
Make your blog available in over 41 different languages. Gives you a much bigger audience.
Next time we will be revealing 15 Wordpress plugins to pimp your blog