3 WordPress Plugins for Search Engine Optimization

July 14, 2008 by Joseph

3 WordPress plugins for Search Engine Optimization

Wordpress is a powerful blogging platform and the number one choice for many serious bloggers. This post will briefly discuss how you can optimize your WordPress blog for the search engines by making use of the following three WordPress plugins.

All in One SEO plugin.

The all in one search engine optimization plugin will help you optimize your WordPress blog by doing the following:

It will help you define your homepage title, keywords and description.

It will help you define each page / post title, keywords and description.

Prevent indexing of duplicate content in your archives and categories.

Define if you want to use category for your Meta description and many more.

Click here to download. and learn more information about the SEO plugin.

Google Sitemap Generator.

This powerful plugin will create a Google compliant sitemap for your blog. Each time you create a new page or post, the plugin rebuilds your sitemap to include the new posts or pages, which in turn are submitted to Google and the other major search engines.

Because this plugins uses Google sitemap which is part of the Google webmaster tool, you can literally have your new post indexed within seconds of its submission. Download the Google Sitemap Generator here.

Simple Tag.

This is a powerful WordPress plugin that takes the worpress inbuilt tagging a step further. The plugin will enable you to be able to:

Easily use your own tags or recall previously used tags on your blog.

Use suggested tags from other sites like Technorati, Delicious or Flickr.

Use Yahoo tags and many more.

You can learn more about this plugin by visiting Simple tag plugin download page.

These three WordPress plugins above will get you started in optimizing your WordPress for the search engines. Of course there are many more plugins that you can use to further custom build your own blog. You can read more by visiting: