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August 30, 2013Millions of people use WordPress to create new websites and blogs. It is easy to use, allowing even the most novice of bloggers to create and update the look of their site. It also provides its users with a large range of plug-ins that enhance their sites and blogs. WordPress plug-ins, when used wisely, can be effective in improving the Google ranking of a site by increasing Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
SEO relates to various methods people use to increase visibility of a site thereby increasing the number of visitors to the site. Some of the best plug-ins that WordPress has available are listed below.
1) WordPress SEO by Yoast
This is a powerful plug-in. It is a bit complex compared to others that are available, but not hard to use and well worth the time to learn. The user interface of this plug-in makes it easy to use efficiently. It provides four times better results than any other plug-in. WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the best because it combines the features of other plug-ins such as Robots-meta, Google Site map, Google webmaster tool into one. However, the best feature of this plug-in is that it allows users to see a preview of how their site will look in various search engines. Get a perspective of what those who will visit your site will see, assess if it is eye catching or plain, too long or short and adjust before it is ever published. A simple change that can improve traffic and page rank drastically. With over five million downloads and an overall rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars, this plug-in is undoubtedly one of the best SEO tools in WordPress.
2) SEO Friendly Images
This is a simple WordPress plug-in yet so effective. It automatically creates suitable title tags for the pictures present in the user’s sites or blogs by adding atl and titles to all of your images. Unbeknownst to most people, about 15 percent of searches from Google are done through images. Keeping in mind that Google has a volume of over a billion searches per day, being able to attract viewers through images can significantly increase traffic to your site in a short period. The algorithm of this plug-in is very simple. It uses the title of the desired post from the site and uses the name of the image used in the same post, combines them together and creates suitable tags for the user. One of its features is that it makes our post W3C/xHTML valid. Since it is an automatic plug-in, it is exceptionally easy to use. More than a million people are using this service and getting incredible results.
3) SEO Ultimate
This is another notable plug-in for WordPress. This is an all-in-one SEO plug-in, which means that it has a combination of multiple features. Amazing features such as 404 errors, open graph, Meta tags, no index, auto links, title tags, snippets and many more. These powerful features make this one of the top rated plug-ins in WordPress. It uses the power of the anchor text to boost internal SEO ranking pattern. Its mass editor feature makes it easy for users to go back to their older posts and add descriptions and helps in specifying open graph data for multiple posts. One of its handy features is that you can downgrade to previous versions just in case the newer versions of the plug-in have kinks that need to be worked out or a new user interface. It also implements advanced SEO algorithms and instructs multiple search engines with the use of robot.txt editor.
Among these three plug-ins, my favorite plug-in is SEO Friendly Images. Apart from the multiple features of the other two plug-ins, SEO Friendly Images provides traffic to sites and blogs in an entirely different way. While the other two plug-ins assist for SEO through Google page ranking, SEO Friendly Images assists us through image searches made with the help of Google Image Search. Using this plug-in with other SEO managing plug-ins, we can double our success rate by making use of both Google search and Google Image search. Sites that do not have this plug-in do not tend to have as high of a success rate. The fact that it approaches a different way for SEO management than other plug-ins is the selling factor for me.
