Here is a list of some of the must-have WordPress plugins. They are ideal if you do not have the tenacity to do all of your SEO work manually.
1. SEO Ultimate
This is a tool that has the ultimate everything (well not really). It is another plug-in that has a grand name for just another set of tools. This plug-in will extend the native canonical of WordPress so that you can spread your content across multiple URLs and the spider will still recognize it as one chunk of content (I.e. not copied content which is harmful to your SEO).
There are five genres of tools that comes with this SEO tool. That is one of them; the others are the bog standard tools for helping you to optimize your WordPress SEO. Most people buy this plug-in for its canonical properties. If you wish to spread your WordPress content over multiple URLS then this plug-in is a must have.
2. SEO Smart Links
This plug-in is clever in the fact that it will automatically link your web pages and blog posts. It helps you to link your internal pages a lot better. If you link, your internal pages then people are more likely to click the links to see your other pages. It also helps webs spiders to crawl your pages, so that your website is more “live” (for want of a better word).
This plug-in does the linking automatically but will also allow you to internally link your pages manually with your own keywords. In other words it is not taking the gun out of your hand; it is just shooting off a few shots whilst you are distracted. It also still lets you do all of the usual link stuff, such as no follow, open new window, open new tab, etc. This plug-in simply fills in the gaps for the work that you do not do manually.
3. SEO Rank Reporter
With this fantastic SEO tool you are able to track the keywords in your site to be sure that you are optimizing your pages with the right ones and to check to see if your current keywords are pulling their weight (so to speak). You can make it issue you a report every three days if you like. You may also set it so that it will send you a notification email if one of your keywords has a serious change in status.
4. SEO Friendly Image
Many people do not properly optimize their images because it is time consuming, boring and not something that is immediately noticeable from just looking. That is why this plug-in was created. It makes optimizing your images a little more automatic. It helps you to provide your images with a title (very important) and give it ALT text (important for when the image does not load).
5. SEO Content Control
This helps you to identify weak content in your site and then fix it. It is not really interested in the weak content such as poor writing. It identifies pieces that are poorly optimized. It identifies posts that are too short or that have no clear keywords. It will identify the posts that do not have a description and other things of that ilk.
6. All in One SEO Pack
This is a set of tools wrapped in a plug-in pack. This has made this a very popular set of SEO tools for WordPress. It holds almost every tool and solution you will need to optimize your WordPress blog. Let’s not forget that WordPress is already one of the most optimized formats that if freely available on the web. So what these tools do (essentially) is to ensure that you are using WordPress to its full potential.
This plug-in will optimize your site automatically by producing your Meta tags for you and helping you shape and restructure your web pages. If you feel that you are more advanced then you can use its advanced features (how about that eh? (But there’s more). The advanced features allow you to customize your descriptions, post titles, tags and URL structures.