Top Wordpress SEO Plugins

I've decided to make a helpful thread regarding the different plugins that can be very useful to Wordpress blogging system when it comes to search engine optimization. Wordpress itself is pretty well optimized out the box, not including the duplicate content issues that can arise... but we'll save that for another day.

I've personally used all the below plugins; you can find other ones that do the exact same thing, but I've tested these and used them in a live blogging enviorment and can vouch for them. Please, feel free to reply with your comments on a specific plug-in or maybe one that I missed.


All in One SEO Pack - This plugin allows you to set a specific title tag, meta description and meta keywords per post. You can also change the title for your categories, pages, etc. You also have the option to use the robots meta tag on specific sections you don’t want indexed by search engines. Quite a few other things, but you'll have to see and learn for yourself. ;)

SEO Friendly Images - This plugin will automatically update all your images alt attributes and title attributes if they are not already set. This is a great time saver and can help provide more organic traffic via Google Image Search.

Category Base Killer - This plugin actually removes the /category/ section in your permalinks. This is a optimal search engine optimization move since your removing a useless section of your URL structure.

Paginated Comments – You can set a title tag for each page of comments, including the meta description and keyword tags. You can do this by size and number of the comments.

NoFollow Case by Case – This is for those who want to control which links and comments receive a nofollow attribute and which ones don’t. This is more geared towards Pagerank but has some usability when it comes to SEO.

Wordpress Reciprocal Links – This is a great way to manage your reciprocal links, or link exchanges on a specific page on your Wordpress blog. This is a great way to build backlinks to your blog and also increase the resources available to your readers.

Yet Another Relevant Post Plugin – This is a favorite Wordpress SEO plugin of mine. This allows you to inject relevant posts automatically at the end of your blog posts, which is great for internal linking structure. This is the most advanced Wordpress SEO plugin that can do this. It uses a measuring system of relevancy so you can alter how relevant each post displayed will be and among how many will be displayed.

Google XML Sitemaps – This Wordpress SEO plugin automatically generates a valid XML sitemap of your blog. You can set specifics like priorities for different sections, update times and more. Out of the many different Wordpress SEO plugins for Sitemaps this is the most advanced one, however others might fit your blog better.

Google Analyticator – This Wordpress SEO plugin is a great way to add your Google Analytics code to all your blog pages. This allows you to monitor the progress of organic traffic via Google Analytics and see where your visitors are coming from and what they are doing when they arrive at your blog.

KB Robots.txt – This allows you to control and edit your robots.txt file via the Wordpress administration sections. This prevents you from having to ftp in and out of your web hosting account each time you want to make an update.

Sociable – This is my favorite social bookmarking Wordpress SEO plugin when it comes to marketing via social bookmarks. You’ll find tons of these plugins; however I like the easy setup and usage of this specific one.

Google SERP Checking Plugin – This allows you to view current search engine results positions for whatever keyword or keyword phrases you want saving you time when checking where your blog or posts are current at in SERPs.

Out of that list I would say that installing the all in one and the sitemap plug in are absolute keys.

use headspace2...its like all in one seo pack but much better.
seo slugs removes slugs in your titles for better seo.

I really don't understand how does it work:
"SEO Friendly Images - This plugin will automatically update all your images alt attributes and title attributes if they are not already set. This is a great time saver and can help provide more organic traffic via Google Image Search."

For a blog there are many images in the content. But the images are different and I'm sure its need different title and description tags. How does it know what's the required text image by image?
Same title and description would be a bad decision . . .