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Plugins to Help People and Search Engines For A WordPress Blog
Author: Ryan Ward | March 8, 2008WordPress out of the box offers an excellent platform for search engines, but, there are a number of free plugins to improve upon the out-of-the-box platform. I use a number of plugins, but, there are others and some may be better than the ones I use so if you have any recommendations, please reply in the comments below. Here are the ones I use:
- All in one SEO pack- This plugin allows you to use the title of the post as the title displayed as well as allows you to add meta keywords and a unique meta description for each post.
- Dagon Sitemap Generator- This plugin allows you to create a page that will dynamically index your posts and pages automatically.
- Feedburner Feedsmith- You need this to install Feedburner.
- Google Sitemap Generator- This one generates an XML sitemap for Google.
- Subscribe to Comments - If you want people to communicate on your blog, this one notifies them that someone else has commented on a post that they have also commented on automatically.
- WP-Cache - Helps to get your blog and posts to load more quickly.
There are other really good plugins for WordPress and because it is open source, there are new ones coming out all the time. You may be interested in making your blog comments dofollow so that they pass link juice back to the commenter, but, that is up to you. just Google for one and there are a handful. There are pros and cons to doing this. You will get more commenters, but, you might get more spam as well.
One of the most important things that you can do does not involve a plugin at all. In tyour CMS, go to: Options then Permalinks. Select custom, specify below and enter: /%postname%/ and then click update permalink structure. What this will do is automatically make the title of each post the url, so for this post it you be: realestatetestblog.com/plugins-to-help-people-and-search-engines-for-a-wordpress-blog
O.K. So that is my list. Please feel free to add your recommendations…
Topics: seo |
March 25th, 2008 at 12:57 am
A nice one is generic footer. I use it to add a signature to all my posts.
I want to ask: If I have /%date%/%postname/ is this a problem. I wanted to change as you suggest but then all my links get stuffed up…for obvious reasons.
Thanks for sharing. Johan
April 12th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Thanks,
I’ll look at genreric footer. If you change your permalink structure, your posts will need to be recached with the new URL’s. It will take some time, but since you already have the post title…I would just leave it.