WordPress is the widely used Content Management System just because of its ease of use. The second main reason is because of the plugins available for the WordPress CMS. There are thousands and thousands of free Plugins available. The plugins is available for every aspect of a blog and it applies to the search engine optimization as well. Here are few collections of free SEO plugins available in the market,

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1. All-in-one SEO:

This is the most needed plugin for every wordpress blog as it helps a lot in optimizing the blog. The plug-in allows you to configure the home page title, Home page keywords and much more. It also helps you to add title, description and keywords to individual posts as well. This option helps you to rank in the search engines pretty easily for the keywords.

Download: All-in-one SEO

2. Headspace2:

This is an equally needed plugin like the above, either of these two is a must if you have a wordpress blog. Headspace2 allows you to configure meta-data for pages, posts, categories and Home page. Like the All-in-one SEO it allows you to configure the home page/posts titles and keywords. You can integrate your Google analytics and webmaster account with this plug-in.

Download: Headspace2

3. Robots Meta:

This plug-in helps you a lot in ranking in the search engines. The Google spider indexes all the pages by default until unless you block it manually. You can configure the crawling of your blog easily by using this plug-in and no need to update your robots.txt or .htaccess. The search engine crawl your categories and archives by default which will show that your site is duplicating the content although you don’t. This plug-in helps you in specifying the no follow and no index pages easily.

Download: Robots Meta

4. SEO Smart Links:

This is also an important plug-in as it makes interlinking of your posts easy. SEO Smart links automatically links to other posts within your blog using the keywords provided in the control panel. You can specify the number of interlinks per page and the number of links for a particular keyword. There is also an option to make the links no follow but that is not advised.

Download: SEO Smart links

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5. SEO Slugs:

SEO slugs helps a lot in removing the Stop words. Stop words are not considered by the search engines and the spider simply ignores them. For an example when you see the URL of this post it says “6-Must –Have-SEO-Plugins-every- wordpress-blog-should-have” but SEO slugs removes the Stop words and shows the URL as “SEO-Plugins-Wordpress-blog” to the search engine spiders. This helps you to rank a lot better.

Download: SEO slugs

6. SEO Friendly Images:

This plug-in helps you to rank your images which can also drive traffic as well. If your image has an ALT and TITLE then this plug-in shows those name to the search engine spiders. This helps you to rank better for the related searches.

Download: SEO Friendly Images

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