SEO Slugs WordPress Plugin For Better WordPress SEO
SEO slugs is a very useful plugin that will remove the stop words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ within the URLs of your Blog posts and pages.
For example if you publish a post or a page with a title:
“What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings”
Then the wordpress automatically make the URL of the above most like
/what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings
But after activating this plugin it will remove all the stop words from the URL and make it more search engine friendly. So when you publish a post using the above title then it will assign the following URL to the post:
/immediately-higher-rankings
The best part about this plugin is that it also allows you to change the URL of the post in-case you don’t like the URL that this plugin has assigned to your post. But, you need to check it before publishing a post, just save the post and check its URL and if you like it just publish it or change it according to your requirement.
Download: SEO Slugs WordPress Plugin
Broken Link Checker wordpress Plugin for SEO
Broken link checker plugin is a must have plugin for your Blog. This plugin will notify you if it found any broken link in your Blog. Links usually get broken due to page get deleted, change of subdirectory, site moved to new domain etc. It is very difficult for you to track which links are broken and it’s a very tedious process.
Broken link checker will check all the internal and outgoing links in your site to make sure your visitor would not see a 404 error. It is also a good search engine optimization practice to keep your Blog clean from 404 errors.
Features Of Broken Link Checker Plugin
- It will check all your pages and posts in the background for all the broken links whenever you login into admin panel.
- It will check all the links that are not working and missing images.
- It will notify you on the dashboard if it detects any problem.
- This plugin also allows you to schedule the link checking according to your requirements.
Broken link checker is very easy to install and use. It has its on admin panel from where you can configure this plugin according to your requirements. So don’t annoy your visitors and search engines anymore with broken links, start using this plugin.
Download: Broken Link Checker wordpress Plugin
Robots Meta wordpress plugin To Prevent The Indexing Issue
This is a very useful plugin that will enhance the on page SEO of your Blog. Robots Meta plugin allows you to control the Meta description of our wordpress Blog. This is a must have plugin to optimize your wordpress Blog for search engines and to resolve all the indexing issue.
Features Of Robots Meta Plugin
This plugin allows you to add the noindex, follow robots Meta tag in your post or pages to prevent their indexing in search engines, while still following the links on that page.
This plugin is very useful in order to prevent the duplicate content issue in your Blog. It allows you to add the noindex Meta tag to all you category, tag and archives pages.
This plugin will allows you to add the noindex tag to login, register and other admin pages to prevent their indexing in search engines.
Robots meta tag plugin also gives you the option to add the nodp and nodir robots meta tag so that search engine will not follow the Dmoz and yahoo directory description of your Blog.
It also allows you to give the option to add adSmding robots Meta tag into the head section of your feeds to prevent their indexing.
You can also prevent the indexing of your comments feeds.
You can easily edit the .htaccess and robots txt file within your wordpress admin panel.
Above are only some of the main features of robots Meta tag plugin. This plugin gives you many more features. So just install this plugin to use all features its and make your wordpress Blog more search engine optimized.
Download:Robots Meta wordpress plugin
Must Have WordPress Plugins For Your Blog
I have already posted about best wordpress plugins for your blog but some of the plugins that I have mentioned in that post you can easily avoid to use according to your requirements but in this post i am going to mention only those wordpress plugins that I think your blog must have.
Must Have WordPress Plugins
If you are blogging for for a while then you may know that blogs gets lots of spam comments and to get rid of those spam comments automatically you just need to activate the wordpress akismet plugin in your blog. It is one the best plugin to fight with spam comments.
Search engines are the best source of getting free and targeted traffic and to get traffic from search engines you need to optimize your every post and all in one SEO plugin makes this very easy for you.
This plugin recently launched its paid version but if you don’t want to spend money you still can install the basic version of this plugin or you can switch to platinum SEO plugin which is also very good plugin for wordpress SEO.
Again when it comes to getting traffic from search engines, we cant overlook this plugin too. Google xml sitemap plugin allows us to create xml sitemap to get better indexing in search engine.
Read more about Google XML Sitemaps wordpress plugin
This is very useful plugin to make your blog more interactive. This plugin gives a option to the commenter to check a box before submitting the comment so that the commenter will get emails for further comments.
WP-Super Cache WordPress Plugin
WP-super cache is a very useful plugin, it speed up your wordpress blog and enhance the browsing experience of your blog readers.
This is again a very important plugin of wordpress that every wordpress blog must have. As its name suggest it backup your wordpress database time to time and email you the backup file in a zip format also it allows you to schedule the the backup timings.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
This plugin provides a list of the similar posts and pages at the end of every wordpress post. It help you to reduce the bounce rate of your blog by giving the user more similar content to read on your blog.
You might don’t know that wordpress pings all the pinging services that you have added on your wordpress blog each time when you publish a new post and that is good but wordpress also pings this services whenever you edit a post or makes a future dated post and this is not good for your blog.This over pinging may get your blog banned from all the pinging services but pingfix plugin solves this issues and only ping your post once when it get published.
These days most of the themes have inbuilt option of adding the Google analytics code so that you don’t need to edit the template file to add the code but if your theme don’t have that option then instead of editing the template file you can install the Google Analyticator plugin to add the JavaScript code.
External Links Plugin For WordPress
I found this plugin very useful, this plugins allows you to control all the external links of your blog for instance you can add the no-follow attribute to every outgoing link instead of editing every link manually while posting a post.
I hope this post will help you and do let me know if you know any other must have wordpress plugins by posting a comment and i will update this post :-)
Google XML Sitemap Plugin For WordPress SEO
Google xml sitemap wordpress plugin is a must have plugin for every wordpress blog owner who is serious about getting traffic from search engines. Google xml sitemap plugin will generate the xml sitemap of your wordpress blog that is good for wordpress SEO and present full structure of your blog to search engine crawlers which results in better indexing of your blog in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
Google xml sitemap plugin is easy to install and has an admin panel from where you can configure this plugin according to your requirements. Also, this wordpress plugin is available into many other languages but If you are installing this plugin first time then you might face little problem if your not good with FTP since this plugin required you to create a
sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz file and you need to make them writable using CHMOD 666 before building your sitemap.
After installing the plugin, it will generate a xml sitemap for your blog then you can easily submit that sitemap to Google using Google webmaster tools.
Download: Google xml sitemap wordpress plugin also do let me know if you face any problem installing this plugin and I will help you out :-)
Add Page Navigation using WP-PageNavi Plugin
<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?>
Best WordPress Plugins for Your Blog
I have gathered some of the best wordpress plugins that may help you. WordPress is a open source and the best blogging platform available to us that’s why, wordpress has a very big community of good designers and coders who contribute to the community by giving away free wordpress themes and developing useful wordpress plugins that help us to add the features in our wordpress blog that wordpress lacks.
Best WordPress Plugins
WordPress popular post is a sidebar widget that allows us to show popular post at the sidebar of our wordpress blog. WordPress popular post is also supported by another very good plugin that is wp-post rating.
You might have seen the blog posts that have a star rating, now you also can have that feature in your blog using the wp-postrating plugin.
This is the must have plugin that every wordpress blog should have. It gives us option to optimize our wordpress blog for search engine to get more traffic. It allows us to customize our blog’s title tag, keywords, Meta tags etc to gain more exposure in search engine.
This is another good plugin that can help you to popularize your blog into social media and get you more traffic. It adds “tweet this post” link to every blog post and page.
Most commented widget will add a widget into your blog sidebar that will show the most commented post on your blog.
This is a very good plugin, wordpress related post plugin generates related according to the tag and categories post and shows them at the end of the article that help the user to browse similar content into your blog also it is good for seo too since it interlinks your blog posts.
This is a good plugin that help you to encourage commenting in your blog by showing the top commenter in the sidebar widget.
Dofollow
This plugin also help you to encourage the commenting in your blog specially if your blog is new by removing the dofollow attribute from your wordpress blog and rewarding the commenter with a dofollow link.
If you intralink your blog post and your wordpress blog is configured to accept trackbacks then your blog must be sending trackback link to your blog each time you interlinks your posts. No self pings plugin will disable intra-blog pinging.
This plugin will add the links of your favorite social bookmarking site at the bottom of your post so that the blog readers can bookmark your article and help you to get more traffic from social media.
This plugin is very useful, it allows you to optimize, repair, delete, backup, and restore your wordpress database. You can also schedule this plugin to take time to to back back of you’re your wordpress blog database.
WP-Sticky
This plugin is used to feature a blog post, the best part of this plugin is that you can make sticky post for specific a category.
Turn your wordpress site into a money making ecommerce store.wp e-commerce plugin will give you all the functionality within your wordpress blog that you need to run an ecommerce site.
If you want to upload videos on your blog then this plugin will help you. This Is not just an another video embed plugin, it gives you lots of features like uploading videos, editing of videos using online video editor, manage and track your video content , it supports more than 150 formats of video and audio etc
If you change your blog’s permalink settings then this is the must have plugin for you, it redirects your old URL to new so that you don’t loose any traffic.
I like this plugin very much, it helps you to place the 125X125 ads on your sidebar. This plugin is very easy to use and you can easily configure according to your requirement from its admin panel.
This plugin is very useful for bloggers who promotes affiliate product on there blog, it basically hides the nasty affiliate URL and convert that URL into your blog URL and when some user click on that URL It redirects the user to your affiliate link.
This is a must have plugin to get better indexing in search engine, it generates a xml sitemap of your blog that help search engines like Google, yahoo, bing and ask to index your blog in a better way and shows them the complete structure of your blog.
This is the most essential plugin for every blog, it helps you to take he back up of your blog database. The best part of this plugin is that you can schedule the back up time and it will mail you the backup files.
This is another essential plugin for your wordpress blog, it take the back up of images, theme directory, plugins and mail the zip copy of it to you.
This is another must have plugin for every wordpress blog, it generates the static html file from your dynamic blog that will reduces the loading time of your blog so that your user can browse your blog faster and that enhance their experience on your blog.
This is essential plugin for search engine optimization, if you’re looking to get traffic from search engines then you can’t overlook this plugin. This plugin will interlink your blog posts according to the keywords that you can configure from its admin panel
WordPress blog unfortunately get many spam comments and to prevent your wordpress blogfrom getting those spam comments this is the must have plugin.
This is a very useful plugin that lets your user to contact you using a contact form. This plugin is very easy to use and you can easily configure this plugin according to your requirements under its control panel.
Above our the list of best wordpress plugins according to me, do let me know in comments if, I have forgot any important plugin for wordpress also don’t forget to share your best wordpress plugins that i didn’t mention in this post so that I can update this post.