WordPress is the best platform to develop a site on for many reasons. It’s simple interface allows you to easily manage your site, and a worldwide community of developers have created some amazing plugins that build off the inherently awesome SEO foundation of WordPress. I consider the list below some of the most “essential” plugins that I install on every site to greatly enhance SEO and boost traffic.
Platinum SEO Pack – What more can I say about this, other than it should be required and used by anyone who’s faintly interested in optimizing their site. It lets you optimize every page AND post’s title, description, and keywords.
Google XML Sitemap generator – Does what it says. Generates a site map on the fly and submits it to the major search engines, including Google. Helps attract those search engine spiders.
SEO Smartlinks – Internal link juice is great, and this plugin finds related keywords and phrases from other stories or posts on your site, and automatically links to them.
A good ping list – Go to “Settings – Writing” and check what services are notified when you update your blog. If you’ve never been there before, chances are there’s only one. I’ve compiled a list of well over a hundred sites to notify when you update your site. Download it here!
Auto Social Poster or Wicked WP Poster – Don’t you have having to go to Twitter and announce your last blog post, or trying to bookmark your site in delicious to bump some traffic? These do all that and more for you; automated social bookmarking made easy.
SEO Super Comments – Now you can have each comment become an individual indexed page on your site. Brilliant!
Some other essential plugins:
Maxblogpress ping optimizer – Save your site from becoming a ping spammer with this plugin.
YARRP – Yet another related posts plugin. Helps boost internal page links by pointing users to related articles and posts.
A better “Read more” link – You can see my previous post for more on this, but the point is to generate a keyword-rich internal link by using the post title as the “Read more” link.
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