{"id":11510,"date":"2011-03-29T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:50:30","slug":"top-5-wordpress-seo-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/webmasters\/top-5-wordpress-seo-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP 5 WordPress SEO Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Hannah Gibson<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>WordPress is becoming an increasingly popular platform for company websites as well as blogs. The good news is that there are many plugins for WordPress that make life a bit easier for SEO. The thing that makes these plugins even better is the fact that they make it easier for you to maintain an optimised site even if several people are managing the site. The plugins mentioned below aren\u2019t just \u2018nice to have\u2019 for an optimised site \u2014 in my opinion, they are \u2018must-haves\u2019 for any SEO project.<\/p>\n

1. All in One Webmaster Plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n

For any SEO project, it\u2019s likely you\u2019ll want to have webmaster tools and analytics installed on the website. Installing these programmes is so simple with the All-in-One Webmaster plugin. It allows you to install webmaster and analytics tools such as Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics really easily by simply pasting your verification code or ID numbers into the settings. It\u2019s so easy to do and there is no need to know HTML or manually add the code into every page.<\/p>\n

2. All in One SEO Plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n

We all know how important certain on-page elements are for SEO and that if several people are updating a website (especially non-SEO\u2019s) often the elements can be forgotten about or not created properly for SEO purposes.
\nThe All in One SEO plugin allows you to set the page title, meta description and meta keywords for the homepage, but the best thing about this plugin is that it allows you to create dynamic page titles and descriptions etc for every page and post. So basically you create a consistent structure for the elements across your site, for example the page title structure could be set so that it\u2019s created using the name of the page along with the name of the company.
\nAdditionally the plugin adds the option to create a page title and meta description within the page edit screen so they can be customised easily.<\/p>\n

3. Broken Link Checker Plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n

This plugin is essential for any website, and should be installed for usability reasons more than anything else as it notifies you of any links on the site that don\u2019t work and go to a 404 error page.
\nIn terms of SEO, broken links create problems for search engines as the spiders can\u2019t crawl the site properly, meaning the page being linked to might not be indexed! Obviously using this tool means that you don\u2019t have to regularly go through every page on your site checking each link works, saving masses of time.<\/p>\n

4. Redirection Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n

Redirections are often forgotten about when launching a new website or updating an existing one. Any time URL\u2019s are changed or removed, it is important to set up redirects so that anyone who visits an old URL will see a new page rather than a 404. This includes search engines.
\nGoogle et al might have indexed a long list of your old pages, which means that these could show in the SERP\u2019s (search engine results page), especially if the site has been optimised for SEO already. Search engines often take a few days to a few weeks to crawl your site and index your new pages, therefore people will still see the old URLs in the SERPs and will therefore see a 404 page if no redirect is in place to take them to the newer version of the page.<\/p>\n

5. RB Internal Links Plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internal linking should happen naturally on any website, again more so for usability purposes than SEO. This is why anyone working on the site might create them, whether they know about HTML or SEO, or not. Although the link they create will work to begin with, it could be possible that someone else updates a particular page on the site, subsequently changing the URL of that page. In doing so, they will have to go and update any internal links to that page so that the link still works instead of a 404 page being returned, as well as allowing the spiders to crawl those links.<\/p>\n

With the RB Internal Links plugin, this problem is avoided and again lots of time saved should any URL change ever happen. The RB Internal Links plugin adds the function to select the page you want to link to by \u2018page ID\u2019 rather than the URL address of that page. So for example, you create a link to \u2018page 32\u2019 on the site, rather than \/products\/category3\/172 , so when you decide to update that URL to \/products\/shirts\/red the link will still work.
\nNot only does this have SEO benefits, but also usability benefits for anyone who will be updating the site, as the plugin function nicely allows you to simply select the page you want to link to, rather than having to find the URL or page ID number.<\/p>\n

Hannah Gibson is the SEO specialist at Attacat – Edinburgh SEO<\/a> & Internet Marketing Agency<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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