Hi, I'm Mike Essex, the Online Marketing Manager here at Koozai. Today's
video is requested by Mike Payton, a web developer at AutoTrader who asks,
"What are the best SEO plugins for WordPress?" In this guide, I'm going to
go through ten of our favourites, most of which we use here at Koozai, all
of which we've were beneficial for clients.
The first one is All In One SEO Pack. Now, this is actually my favourite of
all of the plugins. What it does, it's pretty much a catchall tool. So it
will let you set your site descriptions, your meta, your canonical URLs,
any rewrites that you want to do to content. It gives you about
20 separate options, but each one of them is really beneficial and takes
about five seconds to set up. So, if you only get one plugin, use that one.
Next we've got Scribe SEO. Now, for any of you writers, bloggers, or
copywriters, this is an essential tool to have. It is a paid tool, but the
power that it gives you tends to be worth it. What you do with this is it
tries to figure out what the keywords are that you are targeting on a page.
Based on that, it will say, "You've got a 50% keyword density for that." It
gives you suggestions on things you can do to improve the keywords in
the post. If you want to try to rank for a keyword for any of your blog
posts, Scribe SEO is pretty much the way to go.
Next we've got Akismet. This is a blog commenting tool that helps cut down
on spam. This is pretty good because you can't watch your blog the whole
time. If you're not moderating comments, say you're letting everything
through, you need to see the spam really, because otherwise Google might
come along and catch it and count it against you. So any blog comments you
get that are full of spammy links or really bad content, this will stop
them straight away. So it's ideal for that.
Next we've got Google XML SiteMaps. Despite the name, it does work with all
the search engines. What it does is it automatically generates a site map
for you and then puts it in all the relevant folders. This saves you going
through and having to add one every time you do a new blog post.
Then SEO Smart Links. This tool will auto-link any key phrases in
your text to a relevant place of your choosing. If you
want to make it so every time you say "SEO advice" it goes to a page of
your blog post on SEO advice, it's a good way to increase your chance of
ranking for that particular term because you've got all these automatic internal
links.
Then we've got TGFI SEO. This is one for people who use WordPress as a
content management system. It's pretty much all the features of All In One
SEO Pack, but it's just better suited to that kind of site structure which
has categories and product pages. That's one for CMS users.
Then we've got SEO Slugs. This is just a simple tick-of-the-box tool.
What it does is it removes any words in your URL
strings that are pointless. So the words "the" or "and" or "or," they all
get removed and you're left with a URL which is pretty much just good keywords.
Then SEO Booster Pro. This tool looks at the search terms that people use
to find your website and then gives you the option of adding those as tags
to the blog post. Now, if you've ever used Squidoo, you'll notice that has
a similar piece of functionality built in. The reason for that is by adding
these keywords to the blog post, you're then adding more relevance on that
post to those keywords, and it increases the rankings for the post even
more.
The next tool is just called Redirects. Thankfully, if you do search for
that on WordPress Tools List, it does come up pretty high so you should be
okay to find it. What that does is it logs any 404 errors that you get, and
then you can just redirect them later.
The final tool is WP Super Cache. It's a really good way of speeding up
your website. It presents a HTML version to the majority of users. So it
strips away a lot of the WordPress code that takes a long time for search
spiders to crawl through. Faster for the user, faster for the spiders. If
search engines are factoring in site speed as much as we think they are,
then it's good for rankings too. So it's worth having.
All of these tools you should be able to find by searching for them on
WordPress with the names that we've listed. However, they are listed below
this blog post. If you're reading this on anywhere other than the Koozai
blog or YouTube, then please visit Koozai.com to get the full list of
plugins as they may not have been carried over. If you are watching on
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