SEO Plugins for Wordpress Part II
Posted on May 13th, 2008by Michael Gray in Blogs, SEO
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Ever since my initial SEO plugins for wordpress post almost two years ago, I get asked for an updated list a few times a month. Well since we’re up to wordpress 2.5 I thought the time has come. I’ll also put some of my other favorite plugins at the end, they either enhance wordpress features or just make things easier.
SEO
Meta Robots WordPress plugin - Adds meta tags automatically to posts
Aizatto’s Related Posts - Adds related post information to posts and feeds
Cross-Linker - Set up commonly used words to link to posts or redirects (also useful for affiliate links)
Sitemap Generator - Automatically builds and HTML style sitemap
Google (XML) Sitemaps - Automatically build and ping multiple sitemap services with an XML file
HeadSpace 2 - A monster plugin that lets you rewrite titles, meta data, and host of other features watch the video on the page for the full list of features
SEO Title Tag - Don’t need all the power of Headspace try SEO title tag
SEO Slugs - keeps slugs from becoming too long
Utilities
Secure Form Mailer - makes building and integrating multiple and custom forms easy
FeedBurner FeedSmith - Makes integrating with feedburner easy
Feed Footer - Adds advertising, copyright or other custom messages into feeds
Flickr Photo Album - Integrate your flickr photo’s, albums, sets, and groups into your website
flickrRSS for WordPress - add photos from any flickr RSS feed into your website
Future Posts Calendar Plugin - A calendar that shows which days you have posts scheduled to publish, very helpful for multiple authors and scheduled posts.
Full Text Feed - Lets you use the “more” tag and still publish full feeds
GoCodes Redirection Plugin - Add tiny URL style functionality into your blog
Got Banners - Makes adding advertising banners quick and easy without having to monkey with the template
Highlight Author Comments - Makes giving authors comments a different style much easier
Objection Redirection! - Makes setting 301’s (especially lots of them) easy as pie
Wordpress Organizer - Makes adding and managing uploads and images easier
Who Sees Ads - Makes ads or other elements conditionally displayed
Absolute Comments - Makes replying to comments and managing them much easier
Photo Dropper - Makes adding Creative Commons licensed photos from flickr quick and easy
Search Pages - Lets the search box search both posts and pages
Permalink Redirect - Keep urls with parameters from being indexed
WordPress Mobile Edition - Display a simple stripped down version of your site to mobile users
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin - Save yourself thousands of hours of time upgrading wordpress
WordPress Database Backup - Automate backups of your blog
Social
Increase Sociability Wordpress Plugin - Display custom messages for people who came from social sites like Digg and stumbleupon
Share This - add buttons for social networks under the share this icon
Subscribe to Comments - let people subscribe and be notified when new and follow up comments are made
What Would Seth Godin Do - Display a message to a new visitor on your blog
Twitter Tools - Integrate twitter functionality into your blog
Maintenance
Close Old Posts - Closes old posts keeps them from becoming spam targets and maintenance issues
Search and Replace - Lets you easily search and replace information in your database
Simple Tags - Manage and get tag suggestions for all posts
Reports and Analytics
Blog Metrics - Gives you comments and stats on monthly and author levels
Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports - get feedburner and google analytics in your wordpress admin section
Search Meter - Find out what people are searching for on your site
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May 13th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Great list, I have added to my WordPress resources post on my blog. One question though, is there any specific reason why you would favor Headspace2 over All in One SEO?
May 13th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Another great list, Michael. Thanks for putting this together. I’m with Remkus, though. Why not All in One SEO?
May 13th, 2008 at 8:30 am
@Mike: @remkus:
headspace is a lot more powerful, you may not need or use so all in one seo may be fine for most ppl
May 13th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Ok, I just noticed Joost de Valk also favors the headspace2 plugin.. that should persuade any man caring for good SEO
May 13th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Michael,
How about a Marketing/Advertising plugin category? One thing most bloggers like to do is make money on their blogs.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Sweet — love these kinds of posts. Thanks Michael.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Much, much appreciated. You just saved me from many hours of research.
Quality List + Trusted Source = Thing of Beauty
May 14th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Thank you so much for this list. This is seriously one of the best Wordpress Plugin lists available. Thank you very much!
May 14th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I think you sent too much traffic to gotbanners, it’s dead..
May 14th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hi Michael, nice list! A colleague of mine just launched another interesting SEO plugin for Wordpress. It gives you the possibility to track your Google rankings from your Wordpress backend (and keep a history of your score). You can find it on http://www.queromediashare.com/wordpress-plugins/google-positioner-wordpress-plugin or http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-google-seo-positioner/
Give it a try, it looks really nice.
May 14th, 2008 at 7:26 am
thanks heaps gray, just installed at least 6 of those. d/l the rest!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Thank you very much..
May 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Yeah, great list GW, thanks.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
As usual a great post, thanks!
May 15th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Nice list.. I will probe some plugins from the list.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Thanks; some valuable ones I didn’t have. see you on Twitter -
May 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Always nice to see a power blogger drop a list of useful plugins.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
great tips. I will be bookmarking this page for future reference.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:13 am
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