The hardest part for any start-up WordPress blog is to get traffic in initial days or weeks. All of us know it very well that its very difficult to get traffic when your blog is new and even after creating content the traffic is almost zero. The reason, the content is still to get indexed in search engines like Google or the search engine optimisation done for the Blog is not good or its not even thought of by the blog author.
As wordpress provides a excellent way of doing different things with the help of small plugins, we can do a lot of this SEO stuff if we use proper plugins already available for FREE. Today we will talk about some of these plugins which can do this SEO stuff for you in a effective way even though you know too little . SEO is the key for getting traffic for any blog or website , big or small.
All in one SEO Pack
This is one of the best plugin for wordpress. It optimizes WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) automatically for you by providing different parameters required. If you are a beginner then you can use the default values set by the plugin and if you are a advanced user, you can fine tune each and every setting and parameter.
- Support for Custom Post Types
- Advanced Canonical URLs
- Fine tune Page Navigational Links
- Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
- ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
- Nonce Security
- Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
- Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
- Generates META tags automatically
- Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
- For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
- For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
- You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
- Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.
Even though this plugin has got a paid version too with some additional features, still the free version is more than enough to drive a good amount of traffic based on your content.
Platinum SEO Pack
This is again one of the best plugin for your wordpress blog. It provides almost same features as All in one SEO pack along with some additional features like Automatic 301 redirects for any permalink changes, Canonical URLs, Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically.
You should choose from one of the above two plugins for your blog as they are must if do not have a Search engine optimised theme LIke Thesis on your blog. If you use a theme like Thesis , you wont need any of these plugins. Its all inbuilt inside.
You can grab Thesis here. (It costs $87 for personal license).
SEO Friendly Images
This plugin can help you drive traffic from Image search of serch engines like google. The traffic from image search is big enough and you cannot miss that. This plugin automatically creates proper ALT and TITLE attributes for all your blog images. ALT attribute is important part of Search engine as this describes image to search engine which generates results for the user based on this key. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you have set.
SEO Smart Links
It provides a ideal solution for linking your blog posts within your blog helping you create deep inbound link structure without much effort. These inbound links are good for SEO and can help you gain SEo juice for your blog and hence drive some traffic. It automatically links keywords in posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags.You can also set your own keywords and set of matching URLs. You can even set nofollow attribute in your posts and open links in new window. All this can help you make your blog more SEO friendly.
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Thanks for those plugins. I already use most of them, but the SEO Smart Links seems really awesome. I’ll be sure to check that one out now.
Thanks!!
Yes, most of the blogs have most of these plugins as it do the SEO stuff very easily to a large extent even for a newbie.
Regarding SEO smart links, its a good plugin and can make a difference if properly used.
olá!excelente matéria esses plugins funciona em blogger?
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