Plugins are small files of code, considered “hacks,” that can add fun and useful features to your blog. There are vast numbers of open source plugins available. You can usually choose from two or three that will do essentially the same thing. You may have to try several plugins before you find the one that works for you. Generally, adding a plugin to your blog after it is set up and running isn’t a problem, but sometimes you can run into issues. We suggest researching what you want your blog to do and finding the right plugins to make it happen. Take a look at our recommended list of plugins for SEO and then search the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ for more ideas.

SEO Title Tag

Since page titles are very powerful in the Search Engines, this plugin really helps your WordPress blog’s optimization. It allows you to give each post its own unique title tag – one that is uncoupled from the title of the post. This enables you to write a title tag that’s good for the Search Engines while keeping a post title that will appeal to humans. SEO Title Tag was built by the developers at NetConcepts. Don’t forget to follow their instructions for modifying the code in Theme editor or it won’t work exactly right.

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Ultimate Tag Warrior

This plugin creates a tag cloud for your blog by enabling you to group posts together based on “tags” you include when you write your posts. Tag clouds help your SEO by creating internal links to relevant pages using good keywords.

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Add-Meta-Tags

This add-on makes it easy for you to add meta keywords and meta descriptions to each post and page on your blog. While these may not help in Google, they do still have some influence in other Search Engines.

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SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

By default, every link placed within the WordPress comments section is automatically no-followed. Although this makes it much easier to control spam comments, it also discourages legitimate comments on your blog. Allowing those who share good information to gain a link from your blog encourages more good comments and will likely attract links to your site.

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Related Posts

This plugin will display five contextually related post titles at the end of your post. It shows readers where they can find more information about the topic they’re already reading about. This can prompt your visitors to spend more time on your site, viewing more pages.

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It’s also a great way to theme your blog and to direct the Search Engines, via good link text, to other pages on your site about the same topic. Some of these may be old posts that are now buried deep within your blog and linking to them from a new post can bring the attention of your readers and the Search Engines back to them.

Social Bookmarking

There are quite a few plugins available to enable social bookmarking on your WordPress blog. This one from Apostolos Dountsis is fairly comprehensive. There are quite a few plugins available to enable social bookmarking on your WordPress blog. But now has many new themes that offer social bookmarking features in each theme with a very good placement and so help us to visit our favorite sites and this is very interesting to try.

Google Sitemap

Google Sitemap is a file which contains URLs and some supplementary information for all the public pages or documents of your website. There is no proof that a Google Sitemap will directly affect your ranking in any way. However, it can help Google to crawl your blog better which may result in a more complete index of your page. You may use a plugin which will automatically generate XML sitemaps for your blog. Google Sitemaps Generator for Wordpress Once you have installed the plugin, you can go to the options menu and generate a sitemap for your blog. You can also set the frequency of the updates so that the sitemap is generated accordingly.

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Modifying the Title Tags of your Wordpress Theme

The title tags in your pages matter a lot for SEO purpose but Wordpress themes are usually not optimized for them. To make your theme more search engine friendly. Theme Editor in the admin area of Wordpress. Now open the header.php file for editing and replace whatever is between tag with the following code :

<?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo('name'); } elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo " - "; bloginfo('name'); }
elseif (is_single() || is_page() ) { single_post_title(); } elseif (is_search() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo " search results: ";
echo wp_specialchars($s); } else { wp_title('',true); } ?>

Plugins and Updates

After a major WordPress update is released, we recommend waiting before upgrading. This gives the coders time to make sure there are no bugs in the update. Also, some plugins may need to be reconfigured to work properly, and it gives plugin programmers time to update their code hacks to work with the latest version.