{"id":189,"date":"2011-05-07T23:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T23:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp89.com\/learn\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-05-17T00:43:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T00:43:54","slug":"top-10-seo-plugins-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp89.com\/learn\/top-10-seo-plugins-wordpress","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although WordPress publishing platform is already pretty SEO friendly with lots of built-in features:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>auto RSS generation ( for off-page SEO)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Setting Up Permalinks for Better SEO\" href=\"http:\/\/wp89.com\/learn\/setting-permalinks-seo\">permanent link setup via \"wp-admin\/options-permalink.php\"<\/a><\/li>\n<li>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\/ )<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We may use some good SEO plugins to improve our WordPress site SEO.\u00a0 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<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"SEO Ultimate\" href=\"..\/seo-ultimate\">SEO Ultimate<\/a> (downloaded 211,981 times , 4 of 5 stars based on 76 ratings)<\/li>\n<li>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!<\/li>\n<li>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:\n<ul>\n<li>All in One SEO Pack<\/li>\n<li>Autometa<\/li>\n<li>HeadMeta<\/li>\n<li>Headspace<\/li>\n<li>Platinum SEO<\/li>\n<li>Related Posts<\/li>\n<li>SEO Title Tags<\/li>\n<li>SEO Ultimate<\/li>\n<li>wpSEO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Google XML Sitemaps\" href=\"..\/google-xml-sitemaps\">Google XML Sitemaps<\/a>( We will list more top SEO plugins next our next article. Stay tuned.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although WordPress publishing platform is already pretty SEO friendly with lots of built-in features: auto RSS generation ( for off-page SEO) permanent link setup via &#8220;wp-admin\/options-permalink.php&#8221; search engine pinging via &#8220;wp-admin\/options-privacy.php&#8221; and &#8220;Update Services&#8221; at the bottom of wp-admin\/options-writing.php (notifying search engine indexer via http:\/\/rpc.pingomatic.com\/ ) We may use some<a href=\"https:\/\/wp89.com\/learn\/top-10-seo-plugins-wordpress\" class=\"read-more\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-marketing","category-must-have-plug-ins","tag-seo","tag-web-marketing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress - WP89 WordPress Tutorials<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wp89.com\/learn\/top-10-seo-plugins-wordpress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress - WP89 WordPress Tutorials\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Although WordPress publishing platform is already pretty SEO friendly with lots of built-in features: auto RSS generation ( for off-page SEO) permanent link setup via &quot;wp-admin\/options-permalink.php&quot; 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