I have previously shared 30
Plugins which I use here at Shaz Adds. For today’s post, I have compiled a list of recommended
WordPress Plugins for SEO. You do not need to use all of these SEO plugins, but each works in a different way, so I would suggest choosing and using the ones that best suit your needs.
In this list, you will find hand-picked best free SEO WordPress plugins and some premium plugins that you can use for your blog.
Do read the description mindfully to understand what the plugin does and use only if you are not using any alternate plugin for the same purpose.
I will also link to my previous review of individual SEO plugins, so you can learn more about them and decide which SEO plugins are appropriate for your blog. If you think there are any WordPress SEO plugins missing from our list, do let us know, and we would be happy to review them and possibly add them to our list.
With over 5+ million downloads, Yoast SEO is the first SEO plugin that every WordPress user should be installing. This single plugin takes care of many aspects of your WordPress site SEO.
Infact, if you have been using seperate plugins for Sitemap, redirection and a few other features, you can stop using them once you use Yoast SEO.
Here are a few things that you could achieve by using Yoast SEO plugin:
- Add meta value for homepage
- Add meta value for single post
- Social media optimization (Image, title & description)
- Create sitemap file
- Edit robots.txt and .htaccess
- Google search console integration
- Control indexing of your blog
- Set focus keyword and optimize for on page SEO
Note: Meta values are meta title, meta description.
I have written this detailed tutorial which shows you how to setup the SEO by Yoast plugin.
You can download this plugin for free from WordPress repo over here. There is a pro version of Yoast SEO as well which adds a few extra features such as :
- Redirection
- Yoast Internal linking (Helps in better linking of your blog)
A simple and powerful plugin that continuously scan your WordPress site for broken links. It offers an easy to use dashboard from where you can quickly fix those broken links.
It helps in finding & fixing all internal and external broken links (404 links). 404 links are nothing but a dead end for search engine spiders, and it’s highly advisable to remove or fix such links.
Another good similar plugin is LinkPatrol plugin which let you control link juice flow to external sites.
When talking about SEO, how can we not include most popular WordPress SEO tool called SEMRUSH.
This is one tool I have been using for last 5 years and this has been of immense help from the phase of Keyword research to optimization and also to track Keyword ranking.
Unlike others which are plugin, this is a web based tool.
Think of SEMRUSH as a complete SEO suite for people with or without SEO skills.
The most popular feature of SEMRUSH is, it let you do the complete site SEO audit which helps you to identify SEO issues that are preventing the organic growth of your blog.
