Although WordPress publishing platform is already pretty SEO friendly with lots of built-in features:

1. auto RSS generation ( for off-page SEO)
2. permanent link setup via "wp-admin/options-permalink.php"
3. search engine pinging via "wp-admin/options-privacy.php" and "Update Services" at the bottom of wp-admin/options-writing.php (notifying search engine indexer via http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ )

We may use some good SEO plugins to improve our WordPress site SEO.  We may just install 5 or 6 of the top 10 WordPress SEO plugins to really optimize our sites. The following is the top 10 in no particular order

• SEO Ultimate (downloaded 211,981 times , 4 of 5 stars based on 76 ratings)
• WordPress SEO by Yoast ( download 214,556 times, 4 of 5 stars based on 459 ratings) special feature: Google search result snippet previews, let your editors improve your SEO!
• Greg's High Performance SEO ( although downloaded only 90,299 times, it got almost 5 of 5 stars based on 23 ratings)Special about this plugin: it provides built-in support for titles and keywords left behind by alternative SEO and other legacy plugins such as:
  • All in One SEO Pack
  • Autometa
  • HeadMeta
  • Headspace
  • Platinum SEO
  • Related Posts
  • SEO Title Tags
  • SEO Ultimate
  • wpSEO
• Platinum SEO Pack(downloaded over half a million: 535,551 times! 4 of 5 stars based on 88 ratings). The features I love: Automatic 301 redirects for any permalink changes (Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location.This is a new essential feature, not present in All in one SEO, the author said); Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page.
• Google XML Sitemaps( We will list more top SEO plugins next our next article. Stay tuned.)

We will also create some video tutorials on WordPress SEO, the best publishing platform that can get your site to rank higher in the search results.