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Top SEO Plugins For WordPress
It's no secret that by using WordPress as your main platform for blogging or website building, you greatly enhance your chances of ranking high in the search engine results. Google and other search engines seem to really love the way WordPress is set up, making it the ideal platform if you are looking for more visitors. With some additional plugins to WordPress, you can make your blog rank even higher in the search engines.
Plugins are small programs, some free, some paid, that can do a wide variety of things to your WordPress blog. Anything from counting visitors, to showing the weather to giving your visitors horoscope information. Chances are if you want to do something on your blog, there's a plug in that will help. For the purposes of SEO, there are a couple that you just can't be without.
SEO All In One Pack is probably the most popular plugin out there for getting better rankings. It makes it easy to configure your blog, including the title, meta tags, and meta description, to make it much more search engine friendly. When you see a list of results on Google's search engine, you are seeing the page title, and the meta description. By controlling these, you can control what people see when they look at your site on the search engine results. By having a catchy title and meta description, you can increase the likelihood they'll click on your site instead of somebody else's.
Another essential free plugin is Google Sitemaps. This will create a site map for your blog, making it much easier for Google's spiders to crawl and index your site. You can have great content, but if it's difficult to find, nobody is going to see it. This plugin will not only create a Google friendly site map, but it will update it every time you create a new post.
The next one isn't free, and isn't cheap, but it's necessary if you're serious about getting to page one of the search results. This one is called SEOPressor, and is fantastic for telling you exactly how to build each post so it's optimized as much as possible. For every post and page, you'll see a check list of everything you need to do, and when you're finished, you'll get a score between 0 and 100. The higher your score, the better your page is optimized. This can mean the difference between being on page one, and seen by everybody, and being on page sixteen, and seen by nobody.
By using all three of these plugins, you'll dramatically increase your chances of getting ranked much higher in the search engine results. This will mean more traffic, more visitors, and if you happen to be monetizing your blog, more money.