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For those of us who are using WordPress as bloggers, we already have a great SEO advantage.
WordPress has been designed to make search optimization easy, but if you really want to ramp up your SEO efforts than there are few plugins that will really help you out.
1.All-In-One SEO
This is the first plugin you should get as soon as you install WordPress. I know there has been a lot of discussion here about whether to use All-In-One SEO or Platinum SEO. In the end it really does come down to personal preference, but just get one!
2.Google XML Sitemaps
If you want the search engines to make sure they come back and check for new posts then you need to make it as easy as possible for them. the Google XML Sitemaps plugin allows you to quickly set up a sitemap for your blog and set the rules for Google to abide by. You can then import this sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools if you use that.
3.SEO Smart Links
This is one that I have only recently come across – and cannot wait to upload and get working for me. SEO Smart Links helps you automatically link between your blog posts. This is done by you specifying certain ‘anchor text’ and the post you would like to link it to, and it will automatically find all the times this keyword or phrase is found on your blog and change it to a link to your post.
4.Broken Link Checker
If you want to make sure that your WordPress blog is totally optimized then you need to fix or remove and broken links that are leaking your PR juice. This is also important from a usability point of view because you want to make sure that visitors are not getting sent to outdated posts. Broken Link Checker does exactly what it’s name says, it monitors links in your posts and pages and notifies you on your Dashboard with any broken links.
5.NoFollow Plugin
Then to totally optimize your blog, you don’t want to be leaking juice to certain outbound links (affiliate links, etc), so you can use the NoFollow plugin to individually choose which links to make nofollow and which to make dofollow.
While SEO isn’t solely based on on=page optimization, these 5 plugins will make a great start for any blogger looking to increase their search engine traffic.
Thomas Sinfield is an internet marketer and blogger that teaches people how to conduct their own SEO services. To learn more visit his SEO blog.
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