Well, for once I would like to take first place in the search for Google! How many site owners told myself this phrase? Most likely, the majority. Even if not all.
1. WordPress SEO by Yoast
WordPress SEO powered by Yoast – one of the most popular in the directory WordPress. This plugin is already has more than a million downloads and the quality is high enough + strong rating. To note, it is also one of our top Seo favorites.
The plugin allows you to set many parameters related to search engine optimization at both the global and the local level. Its features include:
And it has even more wonderful features. This plug-in is very similar to the plugin made by Yoast. It offers almost all the same features but is designed for less experienced users who have no need to configure every detail of their site by hand. The list of functions is almost the same: Which of these two plug-ins to use - it's up to you. Each of them doing great job with its tasks, and they will be able to successfully optimize your WordPress site. When it comes to SEO, you can not forget about social networks. They not only can be potentially massive source of traffic, but are also one of the aspects that are taken into account by search engines in the preparation of their ratings. We think this is more than enough to try to optimize your site for social networking.
This plugin adds the Open Graph data to your content WordPress. This means that your posts and pages will be beautifully displayed in Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn feeds.
2. All-in-One SEO Pack
3. WP Facebook Open Graph Protocol
4. ShareThis: Share Buttons and Social Analytics
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In order to get SEO-exhaust of the social networks in the first place, you need to let your visitors, you staged a "bump" (Bring up my post) on Facebook and Twitter.
5. Better Click to Tweet
Twitter - a platform which loves good quotes. Therefore it's necessary to provide the opportunity to your visitors to quickly and easily share interesting lines of your posts on Twitter.
Plugin Better Click to Tweet - will allow you to make it real. It is an offshoot of another popular plug-in Click to Tweet, which, unfortunately, has not been updated since November last year.
Use Better Click to Tweet is easy: convert your tweet shortcode, and everything else will make the plug-in itself. Quote appear in slick box with the button "tweet". Your visitors will be very grateful to you.
The images - is not only an essential part of your site design, but also an important element of SEO. Here are a few plug-ins that can help make sure that you use your image correctly.
6. SEO Friendly Images
Once we started talking about the important SEO settings that are often forgotten, it should be mentioned that the names of the image files are also taken into account in the search engines. Consequently, they must be linked with the post or page on which they are located.
However, renaming media files to WordPress can deliver a lot of trouble: download the file, rename, upload to the site and remove the old one. Too much action, is not it?
However, this came to the end. Media File Renamer allows you to change the names of your images directly from the panel of WordPress. But that's not all! Plugin also updates all references to where the file is used to avoid any mistakes during the transition. Well, is anything better to dream
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8. WP Smush
Optimizing images for SEO is not just filling in all the information correctly, but also that make sure are loaded as quickly as possible. The load time of page is also considered by the search engines.
Apart from the fact that we should choose the right size of the image in the editor WordPress, we should also use this plug-in, developed by a team WPMU DEV.
It removes unnecessary information from your images. This means that the file size decreases, but without quality loss. It sounds good, right?
The main highlight is that the plugin will perform its operations automatically when you upload an image to the site. Existing files can also be optimized in volume. Pro-version is also available.
9. EWWW Image Optimizer
This plug-in works in the same way as WP Smush. It automatically optimizes the images uploaded to your WordPress site, and can reduce the size of files that already exist.
The difference between the two plug-ins that EWWW uses other tools for this process. WP Smush is based on the (now defunct) algorithm Smush.it, created by Yahoo, while EWWW uses a bunch of other utilities.
11. Social Metrics Tracker
You want to know how your content is getting on the social networks? The plugin will tell you that + the helpful information on how your users posts shared on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest and Google+.
Check out how your site looks in the social network directly from the control panel. This is a great tool to get an overview of the current performance without the need for external tools.
In addition, Social Metrics Tracker allows you to export the results into a spreadsheet for further analysis.
If you want to raise your position in search engine results for certain queries users in order to promote your site, you can always choose one of the comprehensive SEO plugins.
It is worth noting that although some premimum services and are on the list, most of these services for free. In addition, many of the items in the list, you can easily find in the catalog of WordPress.
Hopefully, these plugins and tools will help you improve your site's position in SERP. Experiment, analyze and translate into reality all conceived ideas. After all, for you, there are no restrictions. See you on the first page to Google!
Do you agree with this list? Is it worth anything to add to it? Be sure to write in the comments about your favorite SEO plugins for WordPress and share your impressions on paper.
