Best Free SEO and Security Plug-Ins for Wordpress?

by ShaunQ

Posted: 12 years ago 18 replies

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Hi everyone,

To be honest not much to add from the thread title

. I was curious as to what the best plug-ins are for SEO and for security. Ideally they would be free, but I don't mind paying a little if I can reuse them on clients websites.

I haven't really done any SEO (though I understand the principles), so if anyone has a few mins, could someone please tell me how the plug-in helps with SEO and how effective that is?

Thanks guys!

#free #plugins #security #seo #wordpress

Abledragon 12 years ago

SEO is more than just a plugin, unfortunately..!

Plugins can help by making it easier to add META titles, descriptions and keywords, fine-tune the noindex settings on your site, create sitemaps and so on, but SEO is also about content, content structure, good coding on your sites and, on WordPress sites, disciplined use of categories and tags.

The same goes for security - website security is as much about a mindset as anything. Plugins can fulfill some functions, but they are not a silver bullet.

This article goes through some basic on-site SEO steps you can take, and there are some SEO plugins linked to in it:

On-site SEO: The Basic Set-Up for WordPress Sites | WealthyDragon

And the second part of this article goes through some security steps you should be taking - about half way down under the heading 'How do I prevent my site being compromised again':

http://www.wealthydragon.com/2011/09...ordpress-site/

I just recently installed the Wordfence security plugin (free), which is doing a great job for me, and wrote about it here:

How to Block Unauthorised WordPress Login Attempts | WealthyDragon

Hopefully those articles will help.

Cheers,

Martin.
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TonySmith4218 12 years ago

I always use the All in One SEO plug-in. It's not a cure all, but it is free and helps a lot. I highly recommend Google XML Sitemaps as well. I NEVER build a site without those two plug-ins.
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ArcherWylde 12 years ago

Platinum SEO and BulletProof Security have a lot of great features and are pretty customizable.

WordPress › Platinum SEO Pack « WordPress Plugins
WordPress › BulletProof Security « WordPress Plugins
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run 12 years ago

My favorite SEO plugin with many functions including page analyze for SEO score, and many more that others don't have is Yoast Wordpress SEO:

WordPress SEO Plugin
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AhelpfulSource 12 years ago

Is sitesell.com a cure all for these problems and does it really optimize your site the best?
I havent joined yet but was thinking about it.
Just wondering if its all what its hyped up to be.
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ksetu 12 years ago

You can try platinum seo or yoast. Both are excellent plugins for on-page seo.
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- customgolf 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ksetu
  
  You can try platinum seo or yoast. Both are excellent plugins for on-page seo.
  
  Both are new for me.thanks for sharing.
  
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- AhelpfulSource 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ksetu
  
  You can try platinum seo or yoast. Both are excellent plugins for on-page seo.
  
  Can you use more than one SEO program on a page and will it help you get ranked better if you do use more than 1 or 2?
  
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  RobinInTexas 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by AhelpfulSource
  
  Can you use more than one SEO program on a page and will it help you get ranked better if you do use more than 1 or 2?
  
  You'll not likely help, and it might hurt. You'll end up appearing spammy with duplication of things in the header, and also might break something internal to wordpress.
  
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TDogger 12 years ago

I use Yoast's WordPress SEO and All-In-One SEO Pack.

All-In-One SEO Pack is the most popular SEO plugin, but Yoast's plugin adds a lot of nice features and offers SEO advice in the Post and Page editor.
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- WarriorFormula 12 years ago
  
  Wow, guys. Thanks for the list. Certainly an eye opener.
  
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Kingfish85 12 years ago

Security is A LOT more than a plugin. Blindly installing plugins is not the answer.
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- kavinjonson 12 years ago
  
  These are my best favorite latest Security Plug-Ins for Wordpress!
  1. Google Site Verification
  2. Google XML Sitemap
  3. Redirection
  4. SEO Smart Links
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josylad 12 years ago

I use all in one seo and google xml sitemap plugins.
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kenstone9 12 years ago

All in One is the best....It has a number of other on-page setting and options that All in One lacks, which gives you more control for each and every page you create.
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shantanu 12 years ago

A brief SEO will do more than a plugin coz plugin has their limitations where SEO tricks and codes having much wider length and width in comparison to those plugins thts why plugins have to be upgraded and complete seo of a website will help you more than any lil script or plugin.
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sandeepsinghyadav300 12 years ago

With the help of plug ins you can do on page SEO but what about off page SEO? You will need to build links to rank. For on page SEO you can use All in one SEO pack.
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RobinInTexas

12 years ago

WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast

Quick and easy hardening for wordpress

Security for wordpress:
Plugins:

Bad Behavior
Login LockDown

Modify your .htaccess file to prevent common vulnerabilities:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
# Disable ServerSignature on generated error pages
ServerSignature Off

# Disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes

#  Protect WP-config.php
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

#  Protect .htaccess file
<files ~ "^.*.([Hh][Tt][Aa])">
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

# Prevent access to comments.php unless referer and user agent are properly set
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post.php*
#You Need to edit the next line to reflect the url of your site 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*http://yoursite.com.* [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

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