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The Top 15 SEO Plug-ins for WordPress

So you are maintaining a blog… But are you aware of that there are over 120 millions of blogs in existence? How can you make your blog stand out from the crowd? SEO (search engine optimization) techniques give you an opportunity to do that. The Wordpress community values SEO and has developed thousands of plug-ins to help. We’ve chosen a few of them for you. Have another SEO plug-in to recommend? Tell us more about it in the comments.

All in One SEO Pack – This plug-in does a bit of everything for you. It helps to choose the most suitable title and keywords, avoid duplicate content and more. This is one of the most popular plug-ins ever developed for WordPress.

Google (XML) Sitemaps – Automatically build and ping multiple sitemap services with an XML file an essential tool in any blogger’s arsenal a of SEO tools.  While the name only mentions “Google,” this plug-in creates an XML-sitemap that can be read by Ask, MSN and Yahoo also.

Meta Robots WordPress plug-in – Allows you to prevent indexing of various pages like search pages, sub-pages, and admin pages as well as customizing meta tags throughout your blog.

SEO Tag Cloud Widget – Since their inception, tag clouds have been fairly unreadable by search engines, but with this plug-in they will be converted to SEO-friendly HTML markup that can be indexed.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - As the name implies, it adds related post links to your articles. This will help bring exposure to other posts that the reader may find interesting.

TGFI.net SEO Wordpress Plugin – Optimizes titles and keywords, but it adds a unique twist as it is mainly directed at people who use WordPress as a CMS.

SEO Post Link – The post slug is the blog title you see in a browser’s URL bar, and if it’s too long, search engines don’t like it.  It comes with a list of words to cut from a title when it turns into a URL to make your post addresses that much friendlier.

SEO Slugs – Similar to SEO Post Link as it removes words with little or no SEO value from your post URLs, keeping them shorter and more concise.

Automatic SEO Links – Interlinking your blog can be the key to getting more people to read more of your posts, but it’s a time consuming action. Automatic SEO Links does this for you. All you have to do is tell it which phrases to link to which URLs and it does the rest for you.

Cross-Linker – Similar to Automatic SEO Links. Its a useful application for affiliate links and can be use to set up commonly used words to link to posts or redirects.

Redirection – Redirection captures a log of 404s so you can work on correcting them, helps you with your 301 redirects, and sets up an RSS feed for errors.

Sitemap Generator – An automatic sitemap generator, that builds HTML style sitemap. It supports multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, permalinks, choices about what to display and options to show number of comments and more.

HeadSpace 2 – That lets you rewrite titles, meta-data, allows you to add specific JavaScript and CSS to pages, suggests tags for your posts and a whole lot more.

Simple Tags – Another extremely popular plug-in! Simple tags focuses on helping you choose the best tags for your posts by offering suggestions. It has an AJAX admin interface, mass tag editing and more.

SEO Friendly Images – Images could take attention of the reader before the subject and create great source of traffic as people search for images. This plug-in helps you with making sure that you have “alt” and “title” tags on all of your images so that the search engines can properly index them.

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