10 Free and Recommended SEO WordPress Plugins
What’s a website without SEO? Nothing, to be exact. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the most obvious way to make a site popular. So today, I am sharing a collection of 10 absolutely free WordPress widgets (also called plugins or addons) that could enhance a website’s SEO rankings greatly and easily at the same time.
All of these widgets are the best of the best so I’m sure that they will leave you with scratching your head about what to take and what to leave.
You might also like to view: 10 Free Yet Useful WordPress Widgets to Power-up your Blog
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All in One SEO Pack
Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links is a WordPress plugin that improves the overall SEO strength of your blog by automatic interlinking your content as well as allowing you to specify your own custom keywords to be automatically linked to any website or page.
Super Tags
The Super Tags plugin, is a customizable alternative to the default WordPress® Tag Cloud widget. This widget makes it possible for you to fully customize a Tag Cloud ( or multiple Tag Clouds ) to meet your specific needs.
Platinum SEO Pack
Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your WordPress blog.
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
SEO Ultimate
This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex, meta tags, slugs, canonical, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.
Greg’s High Performance SEO
Configures over 100 separate on-page SEO characteristics. Loads under 700 lines of code per page view. No junk: just high performance SEO at its best.
SEO Tools by SEO-Automatic
These are five of the tools for member use at SEO Automatic, and they’re now available for use on your own site too.
Scribe SEO
Scribe is a SEO software service for WordPress – think of it as a content optimization assistant that analyzes web pages, blog posts and online press releases with a click of a button.
SEO Data Transporter
This plugin allows you to transfer your inputs SEO data from one theme/plugin to another.
Awesome Comments!
I used to like the All in SEO plug in while the Platinum version just seemed completely over the top. Google is quite on the ball these days and does not need as many pointers as it did in the old days. Just bought Genesis for my new blog with SEO plug in built in so will see how that goes. If not will be adding All in SEO probably.
Where is the Yoast seo plugin?
My 2011 resolution is to focus on my best blogs and discard the rest. I’ve been, at the same time, picking my favorite plugins so that every important blog of mine has the same plugins and SEO structure. Makes sense right? But ‘duh!’ this was not always the case.
Consequently I am very interested in the plugin: Greg’s …SEO as it’s a new one on me and reads like it could be v.cool indeed. I have recently moved from AllInOneSEO plugin to Platinum SEO ditto but all being well it looks like this might supersede both.
Thanks for posting this in January before I got to ‘stuck in’ to my resolutions
Holy cow, this is a great list. We have been using Platinum SEO for a long time, I’m going to have my work cut out for me testing some of these others.
Cool! This is great for beginners like me.
Wow! That’s a response more than I expected. Thanks everybody.
I Actually thought this is just would go like a routine post.
Currently using “All in one” but I am not to happy with it. I will be testing some of these on your list.. also might try the Yoast plug.
Thanks for the list!
Would you rocomend all in one seo over yoast’s seo anyone?
This is a good read for all beginners of wordpress. Thank you for sharing and keep on blogging.
@broadbeach gold coast
Don’t get emotional with Yoast, I also love it.
There are a few reasons which made me not to choose Yoast plugin in this post. Yoast is a bit too popular and might not be something new. I also needed something for the sequel of this post as well
Great list. But how about OnlyWire? I think it is quite useful
Currently using “All in one” … waiting for something better.. thanks for you post!
I can see that you posted All in one SEO on top of your list. I’m also using it on all of my blogs despite most people considering it not that good, but that’s probably because of his popularity and everyone compares another plugin to All in one SEO.
I still have a tip: by default All in one SEO is configured to set noindex for tag and category pages. If you show only summaries on the front/tag/category pages there is no point in adding no-index to tag and categories pages.
@Lucian
Thanks for the Tip, appreciate it.
@Reklama internete
Since OnlyWire is basically a Social Media plugin, rather than a routine code based SEO, this was not mentioned here. I will definitely name it when I’ll make a post about SEO via Social Media.
Readers! OnlyWire.com is a pretty handy tool for submitting your content to 30 famous Social Media networks.
I have used the All In One SEO Pack for years..will have to give SEO Ultimate a try as well as a couple others..thanks for posting.
The best SEO WordPress Plugins.. thanks for sharing..
I was bit surprised not to the SEO plugin from Yoast on your list, is excellent SEO plugin, but of course not so easy to configure like All in one SEO or Platinum SEO. I did not know the plugin “SEO smart links” and the “Super Tags” so I will definitely test them to see what then can bring. Does the Super tag allow you to enter description to the tags?
One of my person favourite plugin is TS custom widget, is quite good to use for SEO purposes also.
Regards, Morten
That Scribe SEO plug in is like a tool that is made in heaven. It’s really great to use.
Tayyab Reply:
February 10th, 2011 at 12:42 am
Scribe SEO, that good… really!! I should take a serious try of it now. Thanks for your comment.
Thanks for SEO Smart Links. I’ll upload that one and see how it works. I have been looking for a plug in that can interlink my content and certain words to specific pages. Looks it will really help streamline my blog linking strategy.
Tayyab Reply:
March 2nd, 2011 at 1:11 am
@10 Degree
Glad I was helpful.
Thanks, great list but I don’t think Super Tags is an SEO plug-in.
such an awesome list of plugins, thanks. its very useful for me .
Tayyab Reply:
June 13th, 2011 at 3:15 am
I’m glad it helped
Excellent Info! Thanks!!!
Tayyab Reply:
September 7th, 2011 at 5:11 am
You’re welcome
Would you rocomend all in one seo over yoast’s seo anyone?
dear admin, can you share with us waht plugin you use “related stuff you will love” could you ?
Ayaz Malik Reply:
September 18th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Hello Kyrul,
Yes it is YARPP, Yet Another Related Post Plugin, I have done a little changing to show thumbnails though.
Tayyab Reply:
September 19th, 2011 at 6:02 am
I’ll be making a post on displaying relate posts in WordPress on this Wednesday (21st July). It’ll contain related plugins and tutorials. Don’t miss it.
Awesome post! It helped me heaps with the SEO of my site whystress.org
hi,
you have provided awesone plugins, I’ve download all, please add new pluging, thanx
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