The 8 Best WordPress Plugins for SEO

Nobody has to explain how important SEO is for your website. Although WordPress does not perform bad in search engines out of the box, there is still a lot that can be improved.

Using good WordPress plugins can make a huge difference in how your WordPress site will be ranked in the search engines. It can be quite a quest to find the right WordPress Plugins. We did most groundwork for you and created this list for with the best SEO WordPress plugins out there.

 

1. Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO has been developed by Joost Valk. With over 4,5 million downloads is one of the most popular SEO WordPress Plugins available.

Yoast also offers several great premium plugins which are worth trying:

• Yoast SEO Premium
• Video SEO
• Local SEO
• News SEO
• Yoast WooCommerce SEO

 

 

2. All-in-One SEO

Great plugin,  offers nearly the same functionalities as Yoast, but is aimed at the less experienced WordPress users. Works great out of the Box.

 

 

3. Google XML Sitemaps

Your website should always have a sitemap available. Also your WordPress site. A sitemap will help search engines index your website. It gives a list of all the pages of your website and how important they are to your website. Google XML Sitemaps generates a complete XML sitemap for your website.

 

 

4. ShareThis

Easily add share buttons to your WordPress site. It does require to register on Sharethis. Easiest way to get customized share buttons on your WordPress site.

 

 

5. Broken Link Checker

Make sure your site does not contain any broken links with broken link checker. The plugins also allows to capture 404 requests.

 

 

6. WP Facebook Open Graph Protocol

With this plugin you can easily add Facebook Open Graph Metatags to your WordPress site.

 

 

7. Redirection

Setup your redirections correctly with this easy to use plugin. Shows 404 errors and easily allows you to make 301 redirects.

 

 

8. SEO Friendly Images

The Image ALT attribute is important for SEO.  This plugin will add the ALT attributes to your images.

 

 

Conclusion

There is no real ultimate all-in-one SEO plugin. You will still need to combine plugins to get your site well optimized for search engines.

These WordPress plugins are my favorites and I have used them in many projects.  With this plugins you should be able to get your WordPress site optimized for search engines.

What are your favorite WordPress SEO plugins?