WordPress posts and pages, by default stand a better chance of ranking high on search engines compared with other CMS and blogging platforms. For this reason, WordPress blogs play an important role in the overall SEO strategy of many websites. With the right customisation and tools, you can ensure your blog posts receive maximum coverage on search engines with minimal ongoing effort.

5 WordPress SEO Plugins

1) All in one SEO Plugin

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You can customise each post on your blog for maximum search engine results. It provides full control over assigning Titles, Descriptions and Keywords to your posts and pages individually. It also reduces chances of duplicate content penalty and handles canonical URL’s. Using this plugin you can also assign “noindex” tags to less improtant content to ensure your main pages get more attention from search engines.

2) SEO Smart Links

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If you want to harness the full benefits of internal linking, then this is the perfect tool for your blog. The plugin allows you to automatically link keywords to other related content within your website. It can be useful for generating traffic towards internal pages of your website and encourages site wide indexing on search engines. You can also create custom keywords that are automatically converted to hyperlinks to specified pages.

3) Google XML Sitemaps

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The sitemap plugin automates the process of creating and XML sitemap for your blog and submitting it to Google, Yahoo and other major search engines. A new sitemap is submitted automatically to search engines each time you update the content on your website. XML sitemaps are different to sitemap pages on the front of the website. You would otherwise be required to submit it manually to Google via your Google Webmaster Tools account.

4) WP to Twitter

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Most bloggers promote their content on Twitter. It is common for blog publishers to post a tweet with a link to their new blog post or web page. Twitter data is also featuring increasingly at the top of main search engines. WP to Twitter is a plugin that automatically posts a message on Twitter when you add or update a post on your blog.

5) Add To Any

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Add to Any is one of the many social bookmarking plugins used widely on websites and blogs. It is a social plugin that makes is easier for users to share your content with others. Add to any combines all leading social bookmarking websites and social networking websites as well as ‘email a friend’ and ‘add to browser favourite’ options. Links grouped into tabs is more appealing and offers better usability. .