Free WP Plugins – Get Better Search Engine Rankings Now!
Core Plugins
All-In-One-SEO Pack – This plugin is an important part of SEO. This plugin sets up your blog’s title tags and metatags to include keywords and descriptions. Different title tags place keywords in the title tags and custom meta tags for each blog post, creating more unique content for search engines.
Google Sitemap Generator – This plugin generates a sitemap for search engines to pick up. Search engines give priority to sites with optimized sitemaps.
SE Optimization Plugins
Auto Tagger – This plugin uses Yahoo! to determine keywords related to the content of the article. These keywords are then added as tags to your blog and show up on your posts meta keywords. It’s always best to create your own tags in WP when writing a post, but just in case you forget this plugin will create them for you.
Sociable – This plugin adds links to the bottom of every article allowing your users to share your articles with popular social networks such as Digg, Technorati, and Twitter. This helps people find your site when they are searching popular social networking sites and hopefully brings them back to your blog for more..
Ping Optimizer – Blog pinging notifies blog servers that your blog has recently pulished new content. It shares your content across other networks, increasing your blog’s exposure, but excessively pinging these servers can get your site banned or blocked from future blog pinging. So you have to make sure that you are pinging these servers when necessary. This plugin will handle when and when not to ping these blog servers, optimizing how often you ping.
Security Plugins
Akismet – This plugin is included with every Wordpress installation. This plugin protects your blog from comment spam. Monitor and protect your blog from comment spam.
Database Backup – This plugin will automatically make database backups of your blog and send them to your email. Protect the content on your site from possible server loss by backing up the content on your site on a regular basis.
Simple CAPTCHA – CAPTCHA is a form utility to protect your blog from comment spam by web bots. A CAPTCHA places an images with random text that the user must manually type to submit their blog comment. This utility verifies the commenter is human, cutting down the potential for comment spam.
Link to this page
