Top 10 SEO plug-ins for WordPress blogs

WordPress plug-ins can greatly assist with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for WordPress blogs. Here’s our top 10 list of Plug-ins you need to install on your blog to boost your search engine rankings.

1) Redirection Plug-in by John Godley – This is a superb plug-in that will help with changing permalinks if you have not set them correctly to begin with. It will automatically redirect any changed permalinks so that you do not get broken links.

2) SEO Slugs by Andrei Mikrukov – Allows good SEO settings for your slugs in your blog.

3) Top Level categories by Filipe Fortes – Allows good SEO settings for your categories in your blog.

4) Robots Meta – Out of the box WordPress creates a lot of duplicate content which is not a good thing for SEO, this plug-in allows you to tell SEO robots not to index certain sections of your WordPress blog.

5) Headspace 2 by John Godley – Amazing SEO plug-in that does so much, you need to read all about it!

6) SEO Friendly Images by Vladimir Prelovac – Allows you to optimize you images using alt tags.

7) Yoast Breadcrumbs by Joost De Valk – Allows you to breadcrumbs over your site which makes it easier for both visitors and search engines to navigate your pages.

Dagon Design Sitemap by Dagon Designs – puts a site map on your blog for humans to see all your content, also makes it easier for search engines to follow you content.

9) Karailiev’s Sitemap – Provides a sitemap in XML, which is language computers read – great for allowing search engine robots to follow your content.

10) W3 Total Cache – by Frederick Townes – A superb plug-in that speeds up the load time of your site which is now another factor that will effect your rankings in the search engine results.

So there we have it, out top 10 SEO plug-ins for WordPress blogs, go install them and watch your site rise to the top!