6 Crucial Wordpress Plugins To Improve Your SEO And Traffic

Posted: June 27th, 2009 | Filed under: Themes Comment

The beauty of Wordpress is the ability to create such complex websites, with little to no actual coding knowledge. Wordpress plugins allow you to personlize, customize, and enhance the look, feel, and flow of your site. While you do not want to flood your site with every plugin you come across, there are a few plugins that are a must for every Wordpress user.

1. All in One SEO - This plugin allows you customize the head tags and meta tags for each individual post. This will help improve the search engine optimization of your site. [Download]

2. SEO Smart Links – Do you get tired of linking the same keywords everytime? With this plugin, you can specify keywords and what they should link to. You can also choose to link to other articles within you site automatically, which helps your SEO as well. [Download]

3. Subscribe To Comments - Gives commentators option to receive email when their comment has been replied to. Many times readers will leave comment and never come back. With this plugin, you can not only remind them about it their comment, but it will also get them to come back to your site. [Download]

4. Post Views - Tracks view counts for each individual posts. Promote your most popular articles, by easily showing top [your number] posts. [Download]

5. Yet Another Related Post - Odds are if somebody just finished reading one of your articles, then they will like to see more of the same. This plugin will automatically grab related articles and post them wherever you want or, the default, at the bottom of your article. [Download]

6. XML-Sitemap – A crucial part of getting the spiders to succesful crawl your page is to release a sitemap, so they can read your site easier. This will obviously lead to more search traffic. This plugin will automatically updated your sitemap and submit it to the popular search engines after every article. [Download]

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