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WordPress Plugins for SEO

The list below is by no means a must have, but rather the bare minimum you need to have installed on your WordPress site if you are even half serious about SEO.

  • All in One SEO or Yoast SEO – Both SEO tools lets you customize many of the previously hidden aspects of your web site. You are able to easily set default values for page titles, descriptions key words – everything. Even better, you can override these settings for each individual post.  This is a very powerful (and easy to use) tool.
  • Google XML Sitemap – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.
  • 404 Redirection – Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors. Great tool if you have changed your site and deleted old sections or pages.
  • WP Socializer – WP Socializer is an advanced plugin for inserting all kinds of Social bookmarking & sharing buttons. It has super cool features to insert the buttons into posts, sidebar. It also has Floating sharebar and Smart load feature.
  • Subscribe to comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry, with Double-Opt-In Feature.

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  • SEO Hero Studio
    February 3, 2017, 9:33 pm REPLY

    Hi Rob,

    Great blog, what is your opinion about W3 Total Cache plugin? Performance optimization is quite a key metrics nowadays.

  • Mark Henry
    July 7, 2018, 5:27 am REPLY

    Hey there! Thanks for this fabulous post.
    You can also add one more security related free WordPress plugin called User Activity Log. This plugin has strong power to track and monitor all the activities of your users in your website. It also helps admin to get notified if any selected user logged in at the admin area. To know more visit here: http://100cms.org/extension/wordpress/5444-User-Activity-Log-WordPress-Plugin

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