The Top 3 Wordpress Plugins for SEO

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Dear Warriors,

in these days wordpress is one of the most popular cms. Everybody talks about Wordpress, so i will too

Below i've created a list of my Top 3 SEO Plugins which i highly recommend to use on your SEO campaign too:

My #1
SEOPressor

This plugin is extremely cool because it has an inbuilt keyword tool which allows you to uncover long tail keywords. It has an algorithm included which calculate the Stat of your SEO of your content too and much much more...


My #2
All in One SEO PACK

This Plugin is for all people out there who are not very familiar with SEO. It generates auto meta description and meta keywords of your posts. It also add alternate tags for your images which is very important for the search engine spiders to understand the graphic


My #3
ULTIMATE Video SEO Plugin

If you use Videos for your Traffic generation on your blog, i highly recommend to use this plugin. Because it automatically fetch the video SEO details from it's video hosting services.
Additional it creates video sitemaps which are important too.




Please post your personal favorite SEO Plugins you highly recommend
Allen
#search engine optimization #plugins #seo #seo advice #top #wordpress
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  • SEO by Yoast, SEO Ultimate and All in one SEO are my favourite wordpress seo plugins. They have some features which are really useful.
  • Best Wordpress SEO Plugins
    1) WordPress SEO By Yoast
    2) All In One SEO Pack
    3) SEO Ultimate
  • We have many people that are saying this this and that when it comes to SEO tool that we have to use our blogs can I please get some recommendation to the tools that you use and why that is between All in on SEO tool and SEO by yoast.

    Will be looking forward to you recommendations that you will be offering here
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    • They have no idea of the features and benefits or pros and cons of any of those plugins. They are just repeating what other sheep say.
  • SEO by Yoast is good one
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    Yoast
    W3 Total Cache

    I used SEOPressor. Personally it seemed like a waste of time and money
  • All in One SEO PACK and SEO Yoast are the two plugins I like using. It is helpful and at the same time easy to use. But the results dont rely on these plugins, it is up to you how you use your keywords and how you market your content.
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    • Wordpress doesn't need any extra plugins for SEO.

      The top plugins are not for SEO but for Speed (Caching plugins) and for Security.

      Apparently people have no idea what they are talking about.
  • seo by yoast... What Am I Don't Write Your Posts to the Point Word Gives You a Perfect Score or You'll over-Optimize!!!
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  • i used only yoast... the best one
  • u missed SEO by Yoast its great
  • Yoast is the best plugin according to me. It could save you a lot of time. But I will definitely try the plugins you recommended!
  • I must walk the path less traveled then...
  • Thx for your engagement and the great answers...

    What SEO Plugin, in your opinion is the best for newbies?
  • My 3 Best plugins are:
    1. Seo By Yoast
    2. Jetpack
    3. Wordpress Related Posts
  • I would agree with everyone else.. I love "SEO by Yoast".. very intuitive and super easy to work!
  • Seo By Yoast is the best plug for the WordPress and may this tool is the best .And very easy to use.
  • I did love SEO Yoast and still use it on my personal website, but I think it has been blown out of the water by All IN One SEO, which i use for most of my client websites.
  • Nice to see so many of you have shared valuable information. I feel that the top 3 Wordpress plugins would be:
    WordPress SEO by Yoast
    All In One WP Security & Firewall
    All in One SEO Pack
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    • Why would you list Yoast and All In One SEO in the top 3 together?

      Yoast and All In One have pretty much the same features, you shouldn't use them both at the same time.

      If Yoast is your top pick, don't suggest All In One as well.

      David
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  • I like how WordPress users have fell for all the hype on SEO plugins.

    Plugins have barely any impact on what the WordPress theme outputs which is where almost all the on-page SEO is.

    The idea being able to change your title tags and add meta tags is a huge SEO feature is hilarious.

    Show me a WordPress plugin which can fix a WordPress theme which makes these SEO mistake:

    Uses a sitewide home page link surrounded by a H1 heading.
    Uses poorly thought out anchor text for internal links like "Continue Reading"...
    Uses H* for widget headings.
    Adds so much javascript features page speed is significantly impacted.
    Lacks mobile responsiveness.
    Adds nofollow links to internal pages.
    This list is almost endless, WordPress theme developers make so many SEO mistakes.....

    And that doesn't touch on the core WordPress SEO mistakes like all the PR deleting nofollow links added to comments.

    Or how using Gravatars that aren't cached locally (by WordPress on your server) means if a visitor hits one of your webpages that is heavily commented at 9am their browser will locally cache the Gravatar images. Visit the same page at 9:05am (5 minutes later) and all the Gravatar images have to be cached again, visit again at 9:10am and again all the Gravatar images have to be cached again.

    Cache the Gravatars locally and other plugins can optimize the images and plugins like W3 Total Cache (that's a real SEO plugin) can add them to a CDN.

    The newer plugins that scrape content from sources like Wikipedia, Twitter etc... are even worse, they should be marketed as blackhat SEO plugins, liable to see your site downgraded.

    Very frustrating as a WordPress SEO theme developer, my potential customers don't understand SEO enough to know these issues exist let alone how important some of them are to rankings. They think using a plugin like Yoast or All In One SEO with almost worthless features is all they have to do :-(

    David
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    • I understand where you are coming from- the Wordpress plugins probably profess to do alot more than they actually do, but I do think they have their uses. Optimising and organising your page's metadata is surely quite a productive task for a wordpress plugin to do?

      I agree though that overcoming poor HTML design or abundance of JavaScript would be a hard task to do, regardless of what metadata there
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  • You can also try Broken link checker and SEO smart link .
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  • SEO by Yoast is the best.
  • One SEO PACK is an Good Plugin for Wordpress website promotion , I am try the remaining 2 plugins , but Surly i will use the remain plugin
  • Stick with Yoast Premium, its the best...
  • Yoast seo plugin is the best plugin easy to use i am already used this plugin
  • What about the SEO Ultimate as two mentioned above???
  • seo yoast. real gud. make me moneys. ok bai
  • SEOPressor
    Jet Pack
    Nextscripts
  • @SEO-DAVE - Thanks for the breakdown, that was helpful. How much SEO difference would there be if I had two, practically identical WP sites (same quality and quantity content and link structure), one with an SEO plugin (with all the keywords and meta tags and such filled in) and one without any SEO plugin? Would the sites still both rank the same? Does a WP SEO plugin help SEO at all (like even 5%)? I have Yoast, but I only use it for the onpage optimization tips (because I'm a noob and still learning the ropes). Are the Yoast on-page optimization tips ok to follow, or are those pretty much bogus as well? I don't want to be wasting my time with it if it doesn't even give good advice for on page optimization.
    Thanks.

    @MarkFriedman - Did someone poop in your Cheerios?
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    • That's a really good question.

      The answer is it depends, it can range from a small improvement to a large downgrade!

      If you use the Yoast noindex and nofollow options you will damage your sites rankings, those waste PR.

      Check this Google search out: https://www.google.com/search?q=yoast+noindex+damage

      If you use the meta description tag correctly it won't increase your rankings per se, but if you know how to write ads that generate clicks your current search results could be more compelling. Since the meta description tag doesn't have ranking value, is it really an SEO feature? It's useful, but not essential.

      The Yoast title tag is the interesting one. If you've named all your WordPress posts with SEO in mind: "Post About Keyword Phrase" your title tags will be along the lines of "Post About Keyword Phrase", but could include other stuff like the name of the site.

      5+ years ago most WordPress themes set the title tags as "Name of Site >> Post Title" which has never been best practice.

      Best practice for a site with no branding is: "Post Title"
      Best practice for a site with branding is: "Post Title >> Name of Site"

      So 5+ years ago there was a problem and for some WordPress themes and the SEO plugins like All In One SEO could fix the error without having to hack theme code, this issue still exists with some themes.

      Yoast and plenty of other plugins allow the title tag to be overwrote with whatever format you set. If your theme uses the wrong best practice the Yoast title tag will help, if your theme developer has followed best practice you won't need a plugin.

      Pretty much everything else Yoast supplies is fluff SEO. Breadcrumbs an SEO feature ROFLOL....
      Social media stuff, no direct SEO value.
      Sitemap can increase spidering speed, but won't increase rankings.

      Nothing wrong with the above features, they have their uses, but they aren't really SEO features, they won't increase rankings.

      The on-page optimization tips are based on the content only, they don't take into account your widgets etc... so if you focus a keyword and it says you have the density to low or something the density isn't taking the whole page content into account. It would be like looking at the number of times I've used "Title Tag" in this one comment and working out the density just for this comment and determining yes/no I have the density right for this entire webpage: basically a useful feature that's not accurate!

      And that assumes Google uses keyword density per se as a ranking factor, it doesn't, the absolute density is irrelevant.

      So Yoast can fix one theme SEO mistake (your theme might be fine) and adds some fluff features. Not exactly a killer SEO plugin, W3 Total Cache Plugin is more of an SEO plugin than Yoast, W3 total Cache is awesome on performance/speed optimization issues which are SEO factors.

      I can poke holes in the popular SEO plugins all day.

      David
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  • Here are some more popular WordPress plugins for SEO which are also good and widely used.
    WordPress SEO
    All in One SEO Pack
    EasyWPSEO
    Broken link checker
    SEO smart link WordPress plugin
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  • How often do topics like this pop up here? LOL
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  • Whatever Wordpress plugins being installed for SEO purposes, I see to it that I have:

    1. A statistics tracker, to know more about the audience
    2. An embedder of videos, specifically YouTube
    3. One, which when set up correctly with codes or scripts, that automatically populates all pages with different content
    4. One which creates pages massively in the fewest clicks possible

    I cover these in more detail in my free WSO.
  • @SEO-DAVE
    Thanks a lot for the explanation, it was very helpful. It's good to know the true SEO value of those plugins. I just wish I had have known this BEFORE I spent a week testing every SEO plugin out there.
  • 1.All in one SEO pack PRO
    2. SEO PRessor
    3. SEO Ultimate

    that is my top 3 WP plugins and it works like a charm!
  • I have used seo plugin from yoast, Seopressor 5 and seo plugin from clickbump.

    As per me seo plugin from clickbump is the best. it is very fast unlike seopressor which hogs your resources and it has a very good customer support. it is also cheaper than seopressor.
  • easy wp seo is best for me because it do on page and on site optimization and it really works for me every time....
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