5 Best WordPress SEO Plugins

We all know that SEO is a vast field and it requires lots of knowledge to master it. But if you are serious about blogging, business or about your portfolio then you will do your level best to improve your brand presence and authorship. And one of the best ways to improve your brand presence and authority is SEO, as it helps to drive more organic traffic, customers and leads.

Here I am listing few of the best wordpress SEO plugins that can help you with onpage optimization for.

SEOPressor

SEOPressor is all in one and truly the most powerful wordpress SEO plugin ever built. It has power to manage all your pages, posts, custom post formats or in simple terms your complete website.

It has inbuilt keyword research tool which allows you to find long tail keywords. You can also use it drag and drop functionality to insert the keyword to your content with one click. This feature helps to save 15 to 20 minutes per post basis which you usually waste while performing keyword research on other tools and services.

It also has powerful post and page analysis algorithm which calculate the SEO stat of your content. Then it gives you rating on 100 basis. In this analysis it checks you H1, H2, H3 tags. Then it check for both outbound and internal linking, It even check your images and whether it has alternate and title tag or not. It even offers you functionality to automate the task of adding alternate text by assigning the title hook in its setting page.

SEOPressor also comes with powerful internal linking feature which allows you to assign any particular link with one specific word or phrase. Then whenever you will publish the post, those words will be hyper linked automatically.

This plugin also helps to make your site more social friendly by adding Facebook open graph and twitter Meta data tags. It has inbuilt support for rich snippet which means now you can write unlimited review and they will be made schema.org compatible automatically.

All In One SEO Pack

The world’s most famous and one of the most advance SEO plugin, built for bloggers, online business, ecommerce and magazines. With over 14 million plus downloads and 3.8 as an average rating out of 5, it has to be on the top on my list.

All in one SEO has been developed by Michael Torbert who runs his business and also offer a professional version of this add-on. The pro version has lots of other advance features which you won’t get in free version, including premium support and installation.

Now lets talk little about its features. If you are one among those blogger who really don’t understand SEO and rarely care to perform any onpage optimization, then you must use this plugin. As it can automatically generate meta description, meta keywords for your blog posts. It can automatically optimize your titles using best practices. Additionally it can even add alternate tags to all your images within any of your posts. This is really important task as search bots can understand the graphics and they only need the text based explanation.

Finally its the only SEO plugin which has extended support for ecommerce websites. And with its advanced algorithms it can check your blog for any kind of duplicate pages so as to prevent panda penalty. Overall it’s a complete solution for novice to advance users.

WordPress SEO By Yoast

With over 4.5 million plus downloads and with an average 4.7 star rating over 5, its the second best plugin in its category. This plugin has been developed by SEO expert Joost de valk. Actually he is not just a simple SEO specialist but is also one among the best plugin developer. His invention is being used by some famous websites and online magazines like mashable, thenextweb and others.

WordPress SEO by yoast plugin also include an option to integrate the latest Facebook open graph and twitter metadata so as to make your website more social friendly. But its most important feature is the onpage analysis which is powered by Linkdex.

It gibes you custom boxes to place meta description and keyword tags. Then it automatically check keyword density in your post, checks if the targeted phrase is present in title, post url. It even provide you hint where to place the keyword so as to get better position. Finally with the complete analysis on links (both inbound and outbound) it provides you with the rating based on 100%.

You can even use its inbuilt Flesh Reading Ease scale to check whither your post is easy to read or not. This is very unique feature which allows you to optimize your content for your readers. But that’s not the end; Yoast gives you some advance options to bring some technical enhancements.

Google Sitemap

A powerful yet easy to use plugin from bestwebsoft. It allows you to easily create and submit your sitemaps to Google webmaster and bing webmaster tool. It even generates the .gzip file which Google usually use and consider.

I personally love using this plugin just because of its simplicity and support for multiple post formats. I means if you theme support custom styles for contents like video, gallery, quote etc, then Google sitemap can even include them into your sitemap. This feature is usually missed in other plugins.

SEO Friendly Images

Now you can easily boots your website visitors, since now you can get loads of traffic from Google image search. Do you know that almost 10 to 15 percent searches made on Google are related to pictures and graphics?

Even for keywords like SEO and blogging, if you rank on third or fourth position of image search, you will be able to drive hundreds of extra visitors to your website. ( Now this depends how attractive is your graphics, snapshot or picture ).

Now the problem is that not all bloggers and content writers optimize image. Remember that search bots can’t feel nor they have any expression. They can just read text and in order to tell them that your post have an image you have to provide them with alternate text and title tag. They both are important, but you can move step forward by adding the description and the caption. Now it might be too tough for many of you, especially if your site have thousands of pictures. Well in such condition you can use this amazing plugin.

SEO friendly images wordpress plugin automatically add the alternate and title tags to each every image on every individual post. It will use your post title as the keyword and then will implement it. The best part is that it even makes your article W3C/xHTML valid.

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