SEO Plugins for Wordpress

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is an important process to get your website ranking high in search engine or shall I say Google. Seriously, when people talking about seo it's all about google as it normally brings more traffic for most webmaster than yahoo or bing (msn). There's onpage, offpage and others seo factors, and I'm talking about onpage seo right now. Title and keywords are the most important factor when considering onpage seo, optimizing for each pages can be very time consuming if you updates your site very frequently. If you are using wordpress for your site or blog, there some very good plugins out there to minimize your work and optimize your site to the fullest. Although many might not seem important at all, but there's never too many, every bit count! Even if it's just for yahoo or bing. Ranking first and second is whole lot of different.

So here's the list of plugins that I'll surely install along with every new wordpress site set up.

1.) All in one SEO - Even if you search for the most popular plugins on wordpress site, All in one SEO comes to the top. Basically, it allows you to modify how you want your title to be shown and customize your own description and keywords in Meta.

2.) Homepage Excerpts - Ever wonder how to set the total words for each post displayed on homepage. Homepage Excerpts do just that, setting the words displayed and total of full articles displayed on homepage.

3.) Wordpress page numbers - By default wordpress used next and previous for content pages. There's nothing bad about it until you have too many post and your old articles to pushes back to 5th or even 20th page. That would takes 20 clicks to reach the last page! And Google would deemed those page as unimportant so as the articles within it. With Wordpress page numbers plugin, it display in number instead, so you can jump through each pages easily and so are for Google crawlers. Maybe it's not the most important features, it's definitely better than next link for either your reader or Google.

4.) Cloud tags - Well only if you use tags for your site. I think there's already such funtion in wordpress but it's not set active by default. If you use tags, go to sidebar setting and drag all the widgets you want it to display on homepage to the right hand side. If there isn't a tags widget in wordpress or you need something more configurable, try searching for keyword tags on wordpress official site.

That's all I recommend above for wordpress SEO plugins. Of course, there might be a lot more cooler plugins that I'm not aware of. If you do have some to recommend, post a comment and let other readers know about it. You know, sharing is the way to success.