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15+ SEO plugins for wordpress

By milardovich | June 7, 2009

The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has lately become one of the most important factors that influence in the creation and maintaining of a blog. This is why here, in the resources section of coolshowcase we decided to create a list of the Top 15 SEO plugins for wordpress.
1- All in one Seo Pack
One of the most complete ‘all-included’ plugins. Very customizable and easy to use. Really recommendable
2- Platinum SEO Pack

3- Simple tags
Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin This is THE perfect tool to manage perfeclty your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 tags.
It was written with this philosophy : best performances, more secured and brings a lot of new functions.
4- SEO slugs
The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
5- SEO Title tag
SEO Title Tag makes is dead-easy to optimize the title tags across your WordPress-powered blog or website. Not just your posts, not just your home page, but any and every title tag on your site! If this plugin, along with a few hours of keyword research and copywriting of optimized titles, doesn’t make a significant impact on your search traffic, you’re doing something wrong!
6-SEO Friendly Image
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
7- SEO Tag Cloud Widget
SEO Tag Cloud Widget displays the tag cloud in a SEO-friendly way, using a search engine optimized html markup. It looks the same as the default WordPress Cloud Tag, but with an optimized html markup. You can put it to your sidemenu.
8- SEO Booster Lite
The plugin detects and collects visits by users from search engines, especially from those pages listed on page two of the search engine.
By adding the provided widget in your WordPress blog, it will present site-wide links to these pages with the search terms it has detected, and by adding site-wide links to the posts with the search term from the search engine, it will attempt to boost those pages from page 2 to page 1.
9- WP_LinkTools
Publicise your posts and pages by adding them to the social bookmarking site Delicious, automatically as soon as you post them. Without editing old posts or pages, link to your own articles with accurate anchor text (good SEO) , for affiliate products you can just state the product name and have it always link to the correct affiliate, even if you change merchants – no more searching through and editing. For people with many sites you can centralise your list of links and synchronise each blog with ether Delicious or your sites OPML feed or links. Combine these aspects and you can maintain the links, both internal and external, in your post and pages with great ease.
10- Sociable
Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
11- Share this!
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.
12 – Twitter tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
13- Twitter This
Allow to your readers sharing your blog post at twitter.
14- Share Buttons
The easiest way to add sharing buttons to your blog posts for: Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Email, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.
15 – ShortURL
ShortURL plugin allows you to use your blog as a URL shorterning service by implementing both HTML and HTTP Short URL Autodiscovery specifications. Short URLs will be in the form of http://domain/basepath/-code. The autodiscovery feature allows third-party services that honor it to use your own short URLs instead of generating new ones using services such as TinyURL, bit.ly, and others. This gives your posts and pages canonical short URLs that give you all SEO benefits and don’t leak traffic out to external domains and will prevent linkrot.

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