Get Top Search Engine Rankings With WordPress SEO Plugins

Posted by Jeff

on August 9, 2007

Self-hosted WordPress blogs are probably the fastest way to get to the top of the natural search engine listings. There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins available but here I will discuss just a few that help with SEO and ultimately top search engine rankings.

The main WordPress plugin that really helps with SEO and search engine rankings is All in One SEO Pack This plugin does several very important things. The latest version of this plugin has options for adding your WordPress blogs home title, description and keywords. The most advantageous option for SEO is the Rewrite Titles option. This option will display the more search engine friendly title of your post before the name of your blog in the title tag. Helping the keywords in your post title getting picked up first by the search engines.

The other WordPress plugin that helps with search engine rankings is Google (XML) Sitemaps. Installing this plugin will build a sitemap for you WordPress blog and automatically notify Google of any updates. There is also an option to include Yahoo with the inclusion of a Yahoo application ID.

Using the keyword rich title of your post in the URL will also help with SEO and search engine rankings. This can be done using a custom Permalink structure. Read more about custom Permalinks here: WordPress Custom Permalink Structure

These plugins and options as well as good keyword rich titles and of course good original content all contribute to top search engine rankings. Continued use of these tactics will get you in the top of of the search engines in no time. Don’t believe me? check this Google search for WordPress Guides. This site, running on WordPress, is on the first page of Google for the term WordPress Guides in under a month. It doesn’t even have a page rank as of the post it is so new.

This post was inspired by Carl Hendricks of Home Based Business Prosperity Carl asked this question on the Ask WordPress Max Questions About WordPress How do plugins – WordPress or otherwise – help your blog rise in search engine ranking? Visit his blog Home Based Business Prosperity and website CEHMagic. Thanks Carl for contributing to the blog!

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Trackback by PlugIM.com on August 9, 2007 @ 4:37 pm

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Comment by Carl Hendricks on August 10, 2007 @ 12:36 pm

My question has been answered thoroughly. Plus by using the methods and tools described I have had articles reach the top of Google’s search engine. Excellent advice, Jeff!

Carl Hendricks,
http://www.cehmagic.blogspot.com

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Comment by Venki on August 29, 2007 @ 9:05 am

HOw can i make my blog searchable, plz make my blog searchable, i enabled the option , i made my blog public to search engines, but still it is not showing my articles .. my blog is http://blog.strutsland.info

Comment by Jeff on August 29, 2007 @ 9:33 am

Venki You may try using a few plugins to help:
All in one SEO
Google Sitemaps
Ultimate tag warrior
Tagilize it

Your blog is fairly new and that is factor but if you integrate those plugins it will help.

Comment by Make My Blog Money on November 27, 2007 @ 11:25 am

I have my list here

Wordpress plugins that will make your blog successful

Comment by arbimuhswamma on February 7, 2008 @ 12:08 am

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Comment by Adi on December 31, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

I use All in One SEO before but my Google SERP was dropped to the ground ! i uninstall it and do SEO manually and it send back my SERP to top 10 again. Not sure what wrong is with the plugin.
Is there any plugin to increase page rank ?

Comment by Jeff on December 31, 2008 @ 12:47 pm

I know of no plugin to increase page rank, that usually comes from backlinks and good original content. And the All In One SEO plugin really has nothing to do with that. I will never setup or use a WordPress blog without it.

Comment by renantech on January 27, 2009 @ 12:00 am

thanks for sharing I already using this plugins..

Comment by seo hosting on February 25, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

Thanks for the info. If you can do all of these things while running your Wordpress blog, then you could quite easily achieve very high search engine rankings, which in turn will result in a substantial amount of traffic coming to your site. This will perform even better when you apply certain on-page and off-page SEO techniques as well.

Comment by Seo Tips on April 20, 2009 @ 10:45 pm

Good collection! ))
I would also recommend another plugin – Automatic SEO Links 1.41, it’s great for automatic interlinking of all documents containing a set keyword.
Regards,
Andrew

Comment by LinkDirectory on April 22, 2009 @ 2:11 am

Choosing the right keywords is important. It’s quite funny that certain keywords unrelated to your website content point visitor to your website. It will make them immediately leave because they don’t get what they are looking for.

Comment by mesol on April 26, 2009 @ 6:06 am

One of the latest link building fads seem to be commenting on peoples blogs. Now personally I think this is a good idea, everyone seems to be a winner, blog want reader, SEO want link from multiple different blogs. Everyones happy. (It does tend to create a whole loads of complete rubbish conversation completely built to get post by hay no victims there)

Comment by Bostn Web Design on May 12, 2009 @ 7:49 am

Thanks for the link to the All in one SEO Pack… goldmine link. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. I oiwe you one!
DAN

Comment by Joanna on June 5, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

Well, yes, its useful to create your own blog, when you have for example you have other websites they could get some google links, or what do you think?`

Greetz Joan

Comment by Gustav Klimt Paintings on June 7, 2009 @ 9:37 pm

Wordpress with always need a little tweaking to maximise its SEO potential, but is certainly a good product and can achieve good results fairly easily. For newbies too, they can slowly improve as their SEO knowledge increases over time.

Comment by Automatic Data Entry on June 18, 2009 @ 9:49 am

I love the SEO plugins for WP. My favorite is All in one SEO. So easy to use and very user friendly.

Comment by Marci on June 18, 2009 @ 4:08 pm

Nice collection and another interesting topic of seo and rankings. General blog are really good ranked by google and yes, I think its possible to improve the position with wordpress plugin.

Greetings

Comment by Frank on June 19, 2009 @ 7:46 pm

This should always be the first plug in you start with for any blog!

Comment by Seo Blog Advice on June 29, 2009 @ 6:28 pm

This article has nice tips and all these plug-ins are essential for everyone who’s starting a blog right from the beginning. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.

Comment by GPT on August 13, 2009 @ 7:24 pm

Very nice read. ALl in one SEO is a great plugin.

Comment by muscle building supplements on August 21, 2009 @ 6:39 am

The all in one SEO package is great and a must have for all wordpress blogs.

Comment by Scott Carvin - Denver SEO on August 25, 2009 @ 12:42 am

I agree, tha all-in-one seo plugin is a great plugin. I also recommend the goole site map plugin.

Comment by Lepki on August 26, 2009 @ 7:50 pm

Another WP plugin I use is the KB robots plugin. It’s quite small but does help with keeping the bots out of certain directories of blog categories.

Comment by info lowongan kerja on August 27, 2009 @ 3:35 am

if talking about wp plugin, i just used some plugin for SEO only

Comment by Brian Kopp on September 8, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

Sounds like a great SEO deal.

Comment by Anchor zotrim review on September 9, 2009 @ 12:32 pm

Seo Packages are something that is new to me. I’m glad I read this so I could understand it better.

Comment by Will on September 9, 2009 @ 5:02 pm

Wow, these packages sounds like it is a great deal. I’ll check them out.

Comment by Joel on September 10, 2009 @ 8:25 pm

This is a wonderful article on the All-In-One SEO plugin. A useful tool for your site.

Comment by Paul on September 11, 2009 @ 8:10 am

This plug in sounds awesome!

Comment by Search Engine Optimization Florida on September 18, 2009 @ 12:15 am

SEO has come a long way on Wordpress over the years. It’s interesting to see how many plugins are available today.

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