You’ve decided to make the jump. You’ve switched your organization to a WordPress site! With your new content management system (CMS) one of your top priorities is to improve your SEO.
The WordPress plugin library has over 51,800 plugins, over 3,000 are dedicated to SEO. So which are the best wordpress plugins for SEO? We’ve done the hard work and created a list of the best SEO.
The 7 Best WordPress SEO plugins of 2017.
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Yoast SEO is a free plugin that provides SEO tips to enhance your content and site optimization. As you make updates it monitors performance within search engines. With real-time tests on your defined focus keyword, images including alt tags, meta titles and descriptions. You know before you hit publish that your article is optimized for SEO.
All in One SEO Pack is an alternative to Yoast, with no experience needed to get started. This free plugin gives as much or as little control as you desire. You have the ability to create an XML sitemap, and tie into Google Analytics. It will automatically optimize titles and generate Meta tags.
JetPack‘s easy to use and intuitive dashboard make it easy to use for nonprofit and other small business owners. This free plugin relays traffic and other site statistics, protects against spam and malware and helps you achieve higher search ranks with an automatic sitemap generator.
Broken Link Checker is perfect for those who want to improve the power of their link building. It’s imperative to ensure your link structure is solid. With this free plugin it automatically monitors your site for broken links and will notify you through the dashboard or via email.
SEO Squirrly is a fantastic free plugin that helps you improve your content. It acts as your SEO expert. It will help you create content that is friendly for SEO and readers. It will analyize your performance and you’ll get reports to monitor your improvement.
All in One Rich Snippets helps you to improve your approach to SEO. By providing search engines and facebook specific information this free plugin helps you rank higher in search results. Stand out from the crowd.
Google XML Sitemaps improves your SEO by helping search engines crawl your site effortlessly. This free plugin, painlessly sets up an XLM sitemap with only a few button clicks.
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Amar T.
Amar is the president and co-founder of AmDee. He has been an industry leader in accessibility compliance—auditing and remediating websites, publishing articles, delivering presentations to national audiences, and training content editors and developers in accessibility best practices.
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