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WordPress is one of the best CMS platform with easy-to-install plugins and themes. There are millions of sites using WordPress because of its easy features. Plugins are like body parts of WordPress, without plugins WordPress is incomplete.
Even though WordPress is good, it’s not SEO-friendly without SEO plugins. There are many Free and premium SEO plugins which you can use. WordPress SEO plugins can boost your SERP rankings.
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There are several WordPress SEO plugins, but today I’m listing out 5 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress.
5 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress
WordPress SEO by Yoast
WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the best and ultimate SEO plugin. This plugin handles almost everything related to SEO; from Meta descriptions to breadcrumbs, from XML Sitemaps to Google authorship. From On-page analysis to Social Integration.
Features
- XML Sitemaps
- Meta tags and meta link elements
- Breadcrumbs
- Social Integration
- Import and Export functionality
- RSS Optimization
- Snippet previews
- Page analysis
- Lets edit .htaccess and robots.txt file
- Google Authorship
All in One SEO pack
All in One SEO pack is another top SEO plugin which does the similar work as Yoast. But it has some other features like Google analytics support and SEO integration for e-commerce sites.
Features
- XML Sitemap
- SEO support on custom post types
- Google analytics
- Fine tune navigational links
- Advanced conical URLs
- Automatically optimizes titles
- Avoids duplicate contents found on WordPress
- Generates meta tags automatically
- Default setting is enough
- Compatibility with many plugins
SEOPressor (premium)
SEOPressor is a highly recommended premium on-page SEO plugin with lots of features. I brought this plugin a month ago and so far it has given me good results. This plugin does everything with additional on-page SEO features.
As you know on-page optimization plays an important role in SEO, it’s one of the highly recommended Premium SEO plugin.
This plugins lets you optimize your post to rank higher on Search Engine. It shows you the keyword density of your targeted keywords and also helps you to avoid over-optimization.
It also supports Rich Snippets, with rich snippets you can get good results on SERP, it also increases the CTR (click through rate). You can add reviews, ratings in your snippets. It also lets you add Facebook graph and twitter cards which is very useful. Read my complete SEOPressor Review here.
You can try SEOPressor free trail for 14-days without spending a penny.
Features
- On-page SEO
- Multiple Keyword Analysis
- decorates your keyword fonts
- adds ALT Texts to your images
- Over Optimization Check
- Latent Semantic Indexing
- Rich Snippet
- Automatic Smart Linking
- Social SEO
Google XML Sitemaps
Even though SEO WordPress by Yoast has Sitemap feature, many WordPress users including me faced issues like 404 error. Since Sitemaps are very essential to guide search bots, it’s wise to use this Google XML Sitemaps plugin. This plugin will create a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
Sitemap allows search Engine Crawlers to completely understand the structure of your site and retrieve it more effectively. This plugin supports all kinds of WordPress pages as well as custom URLs.
Moreover it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. It automatically pings search engine bots.
Features
- Creates a special XML sitemap
- Guides major search engine bots like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com
- Helps you to Index faster
- Helps search bots to understand your site structure
- Supports WordPress Custom URLs
- Pings Search engines every time you publish new content
SEO Friendly Images
Many don’t know this, but optimizing images with proper ALT tag is also necessary. It describes your images to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes.
If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well
Features
- Automatically adds ALT tag to your images
- Automatically adds TITLE attributes for SEO purposes
- makes the post W3C/xHTML valid
Conclusion
These are the top Best SEO plugins for WordPress which can help you boost your SERP rankings. Using at least couple of these best SEO plugins is necessary to stay ahead.
Nikhil says
March 26, 2014 at 3:00 pmHi Adithya,
Great List of WordPress SEO plugins. Right now I am using a WordPress for SEO by yoast. It’s great and really worthy. I used All in one, but it’s not effective as WordPress SEO. SEO pressor is also a good choice and value for money.
Thank you sharing this list. 🙂
Adithya Shetty says
March 26, 2014 at 3:19 pmHi Nikhil,
Yes, there is no match for WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. It’s one of the best free plugin.
And yes, SEOpressor is a good premium plugin.
Thanks for reading! 🙂
parthiban says
March 27, 2014 at 12:28 amHey Adithya Shetty ,
Nice list of best WordPress SEO plugins. SEO Friendly Images is one of the best free WordPress plugin for optimize your all blog images automatically..
🙂 🙂 Thank you very much for sharing this WordPress plugins…
Adithya Shetty says
March 27, 2014 at 9:00 amHi Parthiban,
Yes, SEO friendly images is best to optimize images for better SERP rankings.
Thanks for stopping by!
I. C. Daniel says
March 27, 2014 at 1:23 amI’m very satisfied with ALL in One SEO Pack, to be frank I installed this plugin in all my websites, handle meta data with ease.
Seopressor indeed is a super plugin, even if is premium, worth paying. See you next time buddy!
Adithya Shetty says
March 27, 2014 at 9:03 amHi Daniel,
All in One SEO Pack is good plugin, but many prefer WordPress SEO by Yoast.
SEOPressor is one of the best premium SEO plugin.
Thanks for stopping by!
Ryan Biddulph says
March 28, 2014 at 3:18 pmAll are winners Adithya! I have a few installed on my WP blog.
Thanks for the share.
Tweeted!
Adithya Shetty says
March 28, 2014 at 3:26 pmHi Ryan,
yes, all these SEO plugins are recommend!
Thanks for reading!
Milee Cyrus says
March 29, 2014 at 9:00 amHi..
It’s great to be here once again..
Hey can i know that automatic translator plugin available now for WordPress??
Adithya Shetty says
March 29, 2014 at 11:14 amHi Milee,
Yes, there are couple of good translator plugins. Checkout Google Language Translator plugin.
Thanks for stopping by!
Manoj Jain says
March 31, 2014 at 1:27 pmHi friend,
I read your post really very interesting and helpful for every wordpress users and most helpful point-
The actual XML Sitemap plugin can generate a unique XML sitemap that provides navigation for engines like google, Bing as well as Yahoo to raised index your blog. These sitemaps ensure it is much much easier for world-wide-web crawlers to see the finish structure of one’s site to retrieve it more effectively.
Thanks for this posting.
Adithya Shetty says
March 31, 2014 at 1:33 pmHi Manoj,
Yes, Google XML Sitemaps is very good sitemap plugin.
It helps major search engines to crawl our sites efficiently.
thanks for reading!
Manpreet Kaur says
March 31, 2014 at 6:55 pmHi Adithya,
Thanks for this useful posts. This is certainly going to help new bloggers. My vote would always be there for the first one SEO plugin by Yoast. I have been using that since a long time and it’s good.
I am facing one issue and I am wondering if you can help, I set up the authorship thing on my blog and it was working for some time.. like i could see my picture etc with my article on google search results but now it kinda disappeared. Can you help?
Adithya Shetty says
March 31, 2014 at 8:39 pmHi Manpreet,
Yes, SEO plugin by yoast is very good!
Talking about Authorship, in a recent update yoast plugin has removed rel=author on homepage. So your profile picture won’t appear on homepage in google search, but it’s still working on posts and pages.
You can use this Google Structured Data Testing
Tool to troubleshoot.
Hope it helps!
Laura Ben says
April 2, 2014 at 3:36 pmHi Adithya,
I have been looking for wordpress plugin for images and this post has been of help. I will download and see how effective it will be for my blog. Yoast is another plugin I have been hearing people talk about it but I really want to know how good it is.
Adithya Shetty says
April 2, 2014 at 3:42 pmHi Laura,
Yoast is one of the best and recommend SEO plugin, almost everyone use it!
thanks for stopping by!
sameer says
April 3, 2014 at 8:58 amHi Adithya,
SEO matters lot for online world. and i am newbie on WP so your list of best seo plugins help me lot. i was unaware about some seo plugins which you list above. so really thank you for sharing.
Adithya Shetty says
April 3, 2014 at 9:59 amHi Sameer,
I’m glad you found this post useful.
Thanks for reading!
Mohammed Saimon says
April 9, 2014 at 3:59 pmHi Adithya.
All these plugins are great but I have found that WP SEO by Yoast is the best. Thanks for your nice post.
Adithya Shetty says
April 9, 2014 at 4:13 pmHi Saimon,
SEO by yoast is one of the best SEO plugin, everyone should use it.
thanks for stopping by!
Mehreen Ali Syed says
April 18, 2014 at 12:41 amim using Yoast SEO Plugin on my site dailynewscompany.com but someone said that install Easy WP SEO Plugin for better results on same site, now my question is that can i use both on my site ?
Adithya Shetty says
April 18, 2014 at 9:48 amHi Mehreen,
I’m not sure it’ll work or not. I’m using both SEO plugin by Yoast and SEOpressor without any issue.
Raj Kumar says
May 4, 2014 at 7:53 pmHi Adithya,
Great post on SEO plugins for me wordpress seo by yoast is best, I have never tried any other what u say?
Adithya Shetty says
May 4, 2014 at 8:27 pmHi Raj,
SEO by yoast is good enough!
thanks for reading!
Akshay Hallur says
May 19, 2014 at 7:04 pmAdithya, good post. SEOPressor is one of my favorite, it’s intelligent in detecting LSI keywords. But I think you missed EasyWPSEO, its a perfect substitute for SEOPressor.
Let me know which is better, Yoast XML sitemaps or Google XML sitemaps?
Cheers,
Akshay Hallur.
Adithya Shetty says
May 20, 2014 at 8:47 amHi Akshay,
Yes, SEOPressor is one of the best On-page SEO plugin.
Haven’t tested EasyWPSEO, so didn’t list it.
Google XML sitemaps is best, because Yoast’s sitemap has some conflict issues.
thanks for reading! 🙂