Best WordPress SEO Plugins

Here’s a great list of WordPress SEO plugins which I am using and suggest to all my readers.

Today WordPress is used by more than 50 million websites, and it is undoubtedly the best blogging platform ever built. Today not only professional bloggers but many online businesses, an online magazine, and internet marketing firms are using it to run and expand their business on the web.

Top WordPress SEO Plugins:

We all know that SEO is a vast field, and it requires lots of knowledge to master it. But if you are serious about blogging, business or about your portfolio then you will do your level best to improve your brand presence and authorship. And one of the best ways to enhance your brand presence and authority is SEO, as it helps to drive more organic traffic, customers, and leads.

And to assist you with on-page optimization here, I am listing few of the best WordPress SEO plugins for 2016. They all are extremely functional with options like force rewrite rule, automated content optimization, social media integration and many other.

1.SEOPressor:

SEOPressor is all in one and truly the most powerful WordPress SEO plugin ever built. It has the power to manage all your pages, posts, custom post formats or in simple terms your complete website.

It has inbuilt keyword research tool which allows you to find long tail keywords. You can also use it drag and drop functionality to insert the keyword into your content with one click. This feature helps to save 15 to 20 minutes per post basis which you usually waste while performing keyword research on other tools and services.

It also has powerful post and page analysis algorithm which calculate the SEO stat of your content. Then it gives you a rating on 100 bases. In this analysis, it checks you H1, H2, H3 tags. Then it check for both outbound and internal linking, It even check your images and whether it has alternate and title tag or not. It even offers you the functionality to automate the task of adding alternative text by assigning the title hook in its setting page.

SEOPressor also comes with a powerful internal linking feature which allows you to assign any particular link with one specific word or phrase. Then whenever you publish the post, those words will be hyperlinked automatically.

This plugin also helps to make your site more social friendly by adding a Facebook open graph and Twitter metadata tags. It has inbuilt support for rich snippet which means now you can write an unlimited review, and they will be made schema.org compatible automatically.

2.Rank Reveal:

Rank reveal is a premium service which allows you to find keywords for which you are ranking and for which you can rank higher in future and which you never knew existed. It enables you to find long tail keywords with very low competition but high conversion.

I am listing this service in this post because of many requests in the comment section.

Rank reveal uses proprietary ranking graph data, and its is one of the largest collection of ranking data which regularly monitors search engines for website ranking. It then tells you about all the keywords for which you are ranking on SERP and also about its position. These keywords were once hidden from you because of webmaster tools and google analytic.

But that’s not the end. You can also keep your eyes on your competitors ranking and on all of their keywords. Then you can use them to optimize your website and can get better results.

Furthermore, rank revel provides you with local rank tracking supporting more than 175 countries. Overall rank reveal is very impressive service and can help you to get a better ranking if used properly.

3.Ultimate Video SEO Plugin

If you are an owner of a video blog and want to improve its organic traffic, then it’s a must to have plugin. This video SEO plugin automatically generates schema.org video object markup and helps to show video thumbnail on search result pages.

After installing this plugin, you don’t need to perform any serious settings, and you can go straightforward to your posts and start creating a new articles and tutorials. But now you will notice a new field below your post editor and it will allow you to add video, it’s details and thumbnail.

One of the most important features of this plugin is its ability to fetch automatically video SEO details from it’s respective video hosting service. Furthermore, it even generated video sitemap which helps Google and other search engines to index your new pages easily, and it’s content. Thus, this plugin helps to rank your video higher on SERP and contributes to driving extra organic traffic. Currently, it supports almost all the leading video hosting websites like Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many more.

4.All In One SEO Pack

The world’s most famous and one of the most advanced SEO plugin built for bloggers, online business, eCommerce, and magazines. With over 14 million plus Downloads and 3.8 as an average rating out of 5, it has to be on the top on my list.

All in one SEO is developed by Michael Torbert, who runs his business and also offer a professional version of this addon. The pro version has lots of other advanced features which you won’t get in the free version, including premium support and installation.

Now let’s talk little about its features. If you are one among that blogger who don’t understand SEO and rarely care to perform any on page optimization, then you must use this plugin. As it can automatically generate meta description, meta keywords for your blog posts. It can automatically optimize your titles using best practices. Additionally, it can even add alternate tags to all your images within any of your posts. This is a really important task as search bots can understand the graphics and they only need the text-based explanation.

Finally, it’s the only SEO plugin which has extended support for eCommerce websites. And with its advanced algorithms, it can check your blog for any duplicate pages so as to prevent panda penalty. Overall it’s a complete solution for a novice to advance users.

5.Yoast Plugin

With over 4.5 million plus Downloads and with an average 4.7-star rating over 5, it’s the second best plugin in its category. This plugin has been developed by SEO expert Joost de Valk. He is not just a simple SEO specialist but is also one among the best plugin developer. His invention is being used by some famous websites and online magazines like Mashable, the next web and others.

WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin also includes an option to integrate the latest Facebook open graph and Twitter metadata so as to make your website more socially friendly. But its most important feature is the on page analysis which is powered by Linkdex.

It gives you custom boxes to place meta description and keyword tags. Then it automatically checks keyword density in your post, checks if the targeted phrase is present in the title, post URL. It even provides you hint where to place the keyword so as to get a better position. Finally with the complete analysis of links ( both inbound and outbound ) it provides you with the rating based on 100%.

You can even use its inbuilt Flesch Reading Ease scale to check whether your post is easy to read or not. This is a unique feature which allows you to optimize your content for your readers. But that’s not the end, Yoast gives you some advance options to bring some technical enhancements.

For example, you can set nofollow and noindex tags to category, tags, author, archive and individual pages. You can even generate breadcrumbs and sitemaps. It even gives you an option to add rel canonical tags so as to prevent the duplicate content penalty. Furthermore, with an option to verify Google authorship and to optimize RSS feeds so as it prevent it from scrappers this is an ultimate WordPress SEO plugin.

6.WP Social SEO Booster

This plugin is all about making your website social friendly. We all know that Google has been considering social signals to rank web pages on SERP. And so we should take every step whether small or big to make our site more user and social friendly. Few of the important things are adding social media sharing buttons, using Facebook open graph tag, adding Twitter metadata, using Google authorship and finally adding microdata.

And this plugin allows you to perform all this task quickly and with just a few clicks. Most importantly it easily integrates with great SEO plugins like Yoast, All in one and others. It allows you to add rich snippets to all your articles. WP Social automatically add the Facebook open graph, twitter meta, and HTML5 Boilerplate optimized .htaccess. It even adds the item prop tags ( which can be called as item property ) to all your post titles. This helps to make your post-Google plus friendly.

7.Google Sitemap

A powerful yet easy to use SEO plugin from bestwebsoft. It allows you to create quickly and submit your sitemaps to Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster tool. It even generates the .gzip file which Google usually use and consider.

I love using this plugin just because of its simplicity and support for multiple post formats. I mean if you theme support custom styles for contents like video, gallery, quote, etc., then Google sitemap can even include them into your sitemap. This feature is usually missing in other plugins.

8.SEO Friendly Images

Now you can quickly boost your website visitors since now you can get loads of traffic from Google image search. Do you know that almost 10 to 15 percent searches made on Google are related to pictures and graphics?

Even for keywords like SEO and blogging, if you rank in the third or fourth position of image search, you will be able to drive hundreds of extra visitors to your website. ( Now this depends on how attractive is your graphics, snapshot or picture ).

Now the problem is that not all bloggers and content writers optimize the image. Remember that search bots can’t feel nor they have any expression. They can just read the text and in order to tell them that your post has an image you have to provide them with alternate text and title tag. They both are important, but you can move a step forward by adding the description and the caption. Now it might be too tough for many of you, especially if your site has thousands of pictures. Well in such condition you can use this amazing plugin.

SEO friendly images WordPress plugin automatically add the alternate and title tags to each every image on every individual post. It will use your post title as the keyword and then will implement it. The best part is that it even makes your article W3C/xHTML valid.

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