This is a list of plugins that will help increase traffic to your website and make your website more attractive to search engines.
I recommend using these plugins for all of your wordpress pages.
SEO Title Tag
Inserts search engine optimized title tags using custom field (if defined) or tag name for tag pages generated by UltimateTagWarrior plugin.
By Stephan Spencer, Netconcepts.
Read more about this plugin here: SEO Title Tag.
Add Meta Keyword Tag
Outputs meta keyword tags. For single posts it can create keywords from categories names or Bunny’s Technorati Tags, Simple Tags, or any custom field with keywords/tags.
By Cody Williams.
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
Generates a customizable sitemap containing all posts and pages. (Configure options in your admin panel) By Aleister.
Head META Description
Insert HTML META description tag: excerpt/content brief for post/Page, description for category, and blog tagline for everything else.
By Kaf Oseo.
Landing sites
When visitors is referred to your site from a search engine, they are definitely looking for something specific - often they just roughly check the page they land on and then closes the window if what they are looking for isn’t there. Why not help them by showing them related posts to their search on your blog? This plugin/guide lets you do that, works with a long list of search engines! Plugin is made with help from these scripts: link - link - link.
By The undersigned.
Objection Redirection!
Redirection Gives you the ability to redirect incoming traffic based on pattern matching.
By Dax “The Hammer” Herrera.
Related Posts
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches.
By Alexander Malov & Mike Lu.
Most Popular Categories by Posts
Lists the most popular categories based on number of posts assigned to each category within a user-configurable time period.
By Ang Zhuu Ming (ZMAng).
Popularity Contest
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.
By Alex King.
Search Meter
Keeps track of what your visitors are searching for. After you have activated this plugin, you can check the Search Meter Statistics page to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.
By Bennett McElwee.
Ultimate Tag Warrior
Ultimate Tag Warrior is a tagging pluging, that’s heavy on tag visualisation.
By Christine Davis.
Bunny’s Technorati Tags
Allows easy addition to a post of a space-separated list of tags which can be displayed with adequate Technorati links in the template. Can display keywords instead if no tags are available.
By Stephanie Booth.
Permalink Redirect
This plugin ensures that pages and entries are always accessed via the permalink. Otherwise, a 301 redirect will be issued.
By Scott Yang.
Google Sitemaps
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
By Arne Brachhold.
Nice list. Thanks for this
Nice, thanks!
And I really wasn’t going to add any more plugins - but some of these are just irresistible.
nice post
Great list. Thx for the effort to compile em.
Hi,
I didn’t know that there are some plugins are needed in order to increase the traffic of the websites. Thanks for this imformative article. I am sure this is a big help for me.
Thanks for the list, never really heard of “Dagon Design Sitemap Generator”. I believe it will be an XML sitemap generator. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Monica
True, it creates XML with sitemap for you.
seo never die..if talking about seo, i like wordpress and all in one seo plugin to do search engine optimization.It is great tool to optimize your blog.