Top 10 Wordpress SEO Plugins

This article focuses on seo Wordpress plugins to enhance streams of relevant traffic to our dating blogs.

One day clever people will design plugins to brew coffee, drive our brats to school and feed the cat. In the meantime we - a united body of enthusiasts known as bloggers - must content ourselves with the following list of wordpress plugins which magically optimize our blogs for oodles of saucy search engine traffic. Oooooo, I like the sound of that : saucy search engine traffic. Right, I digress. Onwards!

Google Sitemaps Generator

I tend to install this first out of habit. An invaluable plugin creating a static xml file to enable Google, Yahoo! and MSN Search to intelligently crawl the pages of your wordpress blog. The xml file gets automatically rebuilt when you write or edit a post and google is informed via Google-Ping.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator

A feature-rich accompaniment to Google Sitemaps, the Dagon Design Sitemap Generator creates an actual sitemap (not xml file) for your wordpress blog.

All in One SEO Pack

The All in One SEO Pack enables search engines to more easily understand the content of your blog posts. A powerful, yet intuitive plugin! You can automatically optimize titles, meta keywords, descriptions and avoid duplicate content indexing. It even walks the dog (well, not really …)

KB Robots.txt

With a robots.txt file you can specify which search engines crawl what files on your site. KB Robots.txt generates the file and gives examples of common usages. It should be noted that if your blog is hosted on a subdirectory (like PromoteDating.com), this plugin will be useless to you, since it wont then generate to the root directory - the only place where search engines look for your robots.txt.

Related Posts

Like all good seo plugins this benefits both readers and search engines by allowing them to explore your blog more easily. Take a look at mine down below (my Related Posts plugin, naughty!). A word of warning, make sure you set the options field “how many pages you would like to show” to at least 1, or you get a MySQL error!

Permalink Redirect

Wordpress creates two links for every post, those with and those without a trailing forward slash. To avoid different links pointing to duplicate content, the Permalink Redirect plugin ensures only one url is associated with a blog entry, redirecting all other URLs to the designated post.

Taken from Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, Quality guidelines - specific guidelines:

Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Ultimate Tag Warrior

The Ultimate Tag Warrior is a powerful, well-known and respected tagging solution. It benefits site optimization as well as providing further chanels of navigation for readers. Among many features and customizations, you can add tags to posts, retrieve suggested tags by Yahoo! keywords, generate categories and choose from numerous formatted templates. The overal seo benefits are vast but what it obviously does it help you when targeting certain keywords in the search engines.

FeedBurner FeedSmith

Since the introduction of the Google Reader it is likely that RSS Feeds will feature in Google’s equation for SERPs. The FeedBurner FeedSmith redirects all of your feed traffic to your FeedBurner feed. You get a wealth of information about subscribers, traffic data, methods of displaying your feed, monetization options and a lot more!

Link To Me

A clever little plugin to increase the number of sites linking to you with the right keywords.

Gregarious

At the bottom of this article you’ll notice a Share This Post link. It opens a Social Web and Email tab. This makes it dead simple for readers to share your posts with friends via email or with huge social bookmarking communities like Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Reddit, whilst tagging them with keywords. Your posts will get crawled, and thus, indexed sooner by search engines and you’ll receive traffic both virally and via the social sites themselves.

Piece of advice for new webmasters / bloggers . . .

The above list of Wordpress plugins will have a monstrous impact on your search engine rankings. Read more about each one and discover their particular refinements - Ultimate Tag Warrior and FeedBurner FeedSmith plugins have enough features to choke a chicken! Just keep in mind, seo plugins will only take you a little of the way to getting high search engine rankings. What matters most is relevant content of quality posted with regularity. Enjoy the list and happy blogging!