Who doesn’t want to rank well in Google search? Good Ranking can bring lots of traffic which any website owner will look forward to. Unfortunately it’s not something that you can achieve easily. For some people it takes months or even years of active work. I’m not saying it’s impossible. You just need to put efforts on a daily basis e.g. writing unique and fresh content. But even if you can’t maintain site regularly you can still use some WordPress plugins to make it search engine friendly. I have made a list of some good plugins that can help you with search engine optimization.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

This is one of best free seo plugins for WordPress. It allows you to set a template for any page title and description. You can also set an indexing option for a particular page . Keywords, description for any post/page is customizable. You can preview to see how it will appear in search engine. Other important options that are also available with this plugin: internal linking, breadcrumbs, permalinks clean up, RSS enhancement etc. I believe this is a must use plugin for any WordPress site.

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All-in-One SEO Pack

This is a light-weight seo plugin. It allows you to set a title, list of keywords for any template page.  You can also add a custom box for each post/page. It’s very important that you define tags and categories while publishing a new post/page because All-in-One SEO Pack can convert these into keywords automatically.

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Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin creates a sitemap for you so major search engines e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing can crawl your website content easily. If you publish new content it will automatically notify search engine as well as update the sitemap. You can also choose what to include in the sitemap.

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SEO Ultimate

This plugin comes with different modules to help you optimize your site. For example: 404 error, canonical URL, permalinks, share options. You can also customize the meta description, meta keywords, robot tags and so on.

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Google Analyticator

This plugin allows you to connect Google Analytics to your site. But there are so much more that you can do with it. For example:

• Monitor site usage
• Monitor top views, referrers, searches
• Track download link, event, site speed

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Google Analytics Dashboard

This plugin allows you to view Google Analytics data on your WP Dashboard. You can also embed parts of the data into your post.

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Smart SEO by CodeCanyon

This plugin allows you to easily optimize your website. You can set title tags, description, alt text etc.

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SEO Helper

This is a light-weight SEO plugin for WordPress. This plugin automatically checks your draft, post or page and make suggestions on how you can improve it for better search result.

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