SEO Plugins for WordPress

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.