SEO Plugins For Wordpress

WordPress has some powerful SEO functions built in to help you with SEO (Search Engine Optimization), however there are a few very importan

t and must have plugins to help you along the way.  Here is our most favorite SEO related WordPress plugins. These SEO WP Plugins will make a huge positive impact to your blogs SEO.

All in One SEO Pack - Allows you to optimize your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). You can set a specific META Tags for your WP Blog’s main page. You can also specify Title, Description, and Keywords for each post you create. This is by far on of my personal favorite seo plugins for wordpress.

Redirection - Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge.

Search Everything - Increases Wordpress’ default search functionality through an options panel.

• Search Every Page
• Search Every Tag
• Search Every Category
• Search non-password protected pages only
• Search Every Comment
• Search only approved comments
• Search Every Draft
• Search Every Excerpt
• Search Every Attachment
• Search Every Custom Field (metadata)
• Exclude Posts from search
• Exclude Categories from search

HeadSpace2 - Controls almost every aspect of your site’s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. A great WP SEO Tool.

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site.

You can configure meta-data for:

• Posts
• Pages
• Categories
• Home page
• Author pages
• Search pages
• 404 page

You can define:

• Tags/keywords, with suggested keywords
• Descriptions
• Page titles
• Custom ‘more text’
• Site name and site description
• Custom themes - change your theme on each page!
• Custom plugins - load a plugin only on specific pages
• Additional CSS and JavaScript files
• Noindex and nofollow meta tags
• Follow/follow on archive, category, page, tag, and comment links

Robots Meta - This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links and more.

Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button - Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.

SEO Smart Links - SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

SEO Title Tag - Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages - indeed, any URL!

Optimal Title - Optimal Title mirrors the function of wp_title() exactly, but moves the position of the ’separator’ to after the title rather than before.

SEO Friendly Images - SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML.

Do you have a plug-in that you think should be on this list of Top WP SEO Plugins? Add it VIA commenting!

Free Blog Hosts and Blogging Platforms

Creating a search engine friendly blog has never been easier. I have noticed many free blog platform blogs that rank very high on search results. If you want to create a quick blog here is a list of some of the top free blogging platforms.

GreatestJournal.com - Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons.

InsaneJournal.com - Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.

JorunalFen.net - Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various “fandoms” (i.e. Harry Potter, various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.

LiveJournal.com - One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.

Blogetery.com - Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.

BlogRox.com - Runs on WordPress and offers 50MB of free online space.

Blogsome.com - Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.

Edublogs.com - WordPress powered blogging for educators.

WordPress.com - Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.

Blog.com - Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Blog Ladder.com - All blog entries show up on the main ladder as well as inside your own blog.

Blogger.com - A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.

Blogr.com - Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.

BlogSpirit.com - European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.

Blogster.com - Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.

BlogYx.com - Blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.

Bloki.com - Lets you build a blog site and even open it up for collaboration.

Bravenet.com - Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.

ClearBlogs.com - Free blog hosting and offers templates, friends only posts, IP-Banning and more.

Etribes.com - Based in Europe, allows you to create all sorts of websites including a blog.

Multiply.com - Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.

Netcipia.com - Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.

Open Diary.com - Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features.

ShoutPost.com - A platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.

SoulCast.com - Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.

Squarespace.com - Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.

Terapad.com - Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.

Tooum.com - Fully integrated blog and forum which allows for seamless discussion between the two.

Tumblr.com - A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.

Weebly.com - Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.

Windows Live Spaces - Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.

Vox.com - Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.

Xanga.com - Part social network, part blogging, all free.

Yahoo 360 - Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.

Zoomshare.com - Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.