There are so many WordPress SEO plugins to choose from.
Rather than giving any advice, I'd like to hear what SEO plugins are you particularly fond of and why?
Please share your thoughts below.
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Over the years I have tried a lot of SEO plugins, including:
- WordPress SEO By Yoast
- All In One SEO Pack
- HeadSpace2 SEO
Far and away the best is Yoast’s plugin.
We use it on our site, How To WordPress 2.0, and highly recommend it to all of our readers and clients. It is on our list of Most Recommended Plugins For Every Blog (http://htwp2.com/recommended-wordpress-plugins-for-every-blog/), and is, amazingly, 100% free at the WordPress Repository.
You can’t beat the features included in this plugin and Joost (Yoast) is constantly updating and improving it. Plus, he has created complimentary plugins that extend its functionality even further. His WordPress SEO News plugin adds Google News XML Sitemap capabilities and his Video SEO plugin is an absolute must for anyone using videos on their site.
Over on http://www.codedevelopr.com I have setup custom meta fields into my theme that allow me to set Keywords, Title, Description, and Twitter hashtags from my edit post page, this works really well as having a ton of plugin is not good for performance, I try to build all the functionality I can into my themes to cut down on plugin usage.
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i think All in one SEO pack is always the best seo plugin for beginner (like me.. :) )
Site - > http://www.unrealwebs.com
Using Yoast's SEO Plugin with Sitemap Generator and All in One Submitter
PS: Yoast or AIO SEO, which one is better ? Can anyone layout 5 advantage/disadvantage ?
For me, i use as less plugins as possible. There aren't many well-coded plugins.
seo by yoast
askimet
postmash
I use the above plugins for my site:http://www.toppressurewasherreviews.org/
On my site http://www.restoranibeograda.com I use:
- All in one SEO pack
- Google XML Sitemaps
- W3 Total Cache
SEO Ultimate, SEO Smart Links and SEO Friendly images.
Can't go wrong with that trio in my view and I really think I've tested just about every one there is!
For those of you using Yoast SEO (hmm, I thought it was called WordPress SEO?) be sure to check your canonical urls are ok as I had problems with mine (http://wpbugs.com/2012/05/yoast-seo-and-nextgen-canonical-issue/).
Also, I use a translation plugin and Yoast SEO doesn't include the translated pages in the site maps where-as Google XML Sitemaps does.
Google XML sitemaps - is the best, thank you!
All in One SEO
High Performance SEO
SEO Search Term 2
SEO ALRP
SEO Smart Links
SEO Post Link
OMG. Do u use all that plugins together?
I've recently started using Yoast SEO and it looks great!
Also like the Ultimate SEO and SEOpress.
Google XML Sitemaps, W3 total cache.
I used all in one SEO pack and it is really the best plugin for me.. aranzamendezdesign.com
Mine is SEO Ultimate. It's one of the most feature rich ones.
Vladimir, as the site linked to in this comment isn't even built in WordPress and is for some Chinese tools site, it must be spam and probably worth deleting!
Thanks for the heads up!
I find these plugins to be very useful:
All in one Favicon
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google XML Sitemaps
Login LockDown
Quantcast Quantifier
Relevanssi
WP Super Cache
For SEO I always install All in One SEO and Google XML Sitemaps
One more plugin to list because so many are going from All in One SEO to Yoast. The SEO Data Transporter works great for importing the All in One SEO data to Yoast SEO.
Just downloaded this morning for a new site the Google XML Sitemap plugin. I used to use the All in One SEO plugin but now only use Yoast SEO plugin. For client websites I use the CMS Dashboard to customize and brand the CMS as my own. Simple Facebook Comments For WordPress has become a favorite of mine too. I'm kind of a plugin junkie I guess. I just created a dog forum website using Mingle and BuddyPress combined. Mingle's support is definitely lacking though.
Great idea for a post. I'm anxious to see more of people's favorite WordPress plugins.
I used to use All In One SEO but have recently started using Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin and am very pleased with it.
Akismet is another thing I always use as well.
Others would depend on the site purpose and requirements.
1) All in one SEO pack - quick setup, easy to handle, mostly it has all I need
(today, you can find a lot of WP themes that already have all you need for SEO,
with even better features then All in one SEO pack plugin has..
e.g. Studiopress, Thesis.. etc.. have excellent SEO features.)
2) Link juice keeper - just install and enjoy - very useful
All in One SEO Pack
TinyMCE Advanced
underConstruction
W3 Total Cache
BackupBuddy
and I kinda like my own plugin Global Content Blocks at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-content-blocks/ :-)
XCloner .. I use it to backup my WP installation..
I'll kick off with Google XML sitemaps - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/