SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and it means to make your site as
friendly to the search engines as possible. Your goal is to get your site to rank
higher in the search results. This is one of the best ways to get traffic to your
blog.
For the purposes of this tip, we will look at the plugins that can be simply added
to make your site more powerful or relevant in the eyes of Google. All
WordPress blogs will benefit from the following plugins:
All In One SEO Pack – This is a very popular plugin for WordPress and most
savvy users have it installed. It will help you handle your META and TITLE tags,
automatically, as well as let you specify these tags for each page or post. It is
simple to use and can run as is, once you install it. You will have to go to the
settings, to enable this plugin though.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will create a sitemap for your website. A
sitemap is something that Google values, and with a blog it is especially
important. This plugin will also notify the search engines when your sitemap
changes. For example, when you add a new post.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – This plugin will
automatically link to other related posts at the bottom
of your posts. This will hopefully keep people on your
site. From an SEO outlook, it helps by funneling
search engines through all of your content. Makes
your posts easier to find for sites like Google.
SEO Friendly Images – When it comes to SEO, the ALT and TITLE tags of your
pictures matter. The ALT tag describes your image to search engines and the
TITLE tag produces the tooltip when a user hovers over the picture. This plugin
will automatically fix the alt and title tags of your pictures according to the
options you set.
ShareThis – This plugin will add a ShareThis button to you posts. This will allow
people to share your posts in a number of ways. Tthe SEO benefits might not
be apparent right away, but if people are sharing your post it may be generating
backlinks. Add that to the fact that Google is moving towards a more real time
based search. If your blogpost is being virally posted to Twitter and Facebook,
it could mean it popping up at the top of searches.
FD Feedburner Plugin – Feedburner is a great blogging tool. It basically controls
your RSS feed. Many people find a Feedburner RSS feed more professional, so
it helps for first impressions. It also lets you track the people that subscribe to
your RSS feed, To top it off Google now owns Feedburner, and using it could
potentially boost your site’s relevance in Google. Considering all of the other
benefits, it is basically a no brainer to add Feedburner to your site. This plugin
will help with the process.
Easy Policy Privacy – If you use Google Adsense you need a privacy policy, but
here is something people might not know, a privacy policy can help your Google
rankings. I know this because it came straight from a meeting at the Toronto
Google offices and that is the one tidbit they were willing to share. This plugin
has some templates that make it really simple.
There are a lot of plugins available for WordPress but if you are using all of these
listed ones, you will have a leg up over other bloggers.
Install them today, and learn all you can about how to use them. You will thank
me when your site is ranking higher than ever on Google!
These SEO plugns will help
in all search engines at least
somewhat although
currently Google has such
an overwhelming market
share that it is far and away
our target
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