However hard you spend on different platforms to promote your business, it’s not going to work for long unless you have worked out a proper SEO strategy for your website. Advertisements and boosting work for just a specific span of time and once done the traffic curve also slows down. Nevertheless, it’s the organic traffic that keeps your business going however trifling it may be. And optimizing your website for search engines is the key to attract more traffic to your business. In this blog post, a list of 10 WordPress SEO plugins has been enlisted to help you grow your business remarkably.
Yoast is the best and the top plugin in the SEO market when it comes to optimizing your content for keywords. It offers a thorough optimization of your web starting from Metadata, post headlines, URL, sitemaps etc. The plugin also offers a readability analysis to determine whether the content is easy to read, its sentence length etc. It is the easiest and detailed SEO plugin both for the beginners as well as pro.
The most powerful and user-friendly SEO plugin for your business is Rank Math. Owing to its unique features like Google Search Console Integration, rich snippets mark up and 404 error tracker, it is the favourite choice of plugin among bloggers, e-commerce sites, startups, local businesses and every other entrepreneur. If you are already using other SEO plugins like Yoast or All In One SEO in your website, you can easily import all your settings to Rank Math without losing any SERP rankings.
The best tool for the beginners is All In One SEO Pack. Its functionalities are the same as that of Yoast with some top features like automatic meta tag generation, open graph meta tags and helps in removing duplicate content. This plugin offers supplementary add-ons and is more affordable than Yoast.
Another powerful SEO plugin for WordPress is SEOPress. It is a comprehensive and easy tool to manage your SEO. It includes every feature of an SEO plugin like XML sitemaps, redirects, graph support, metadata etc. If you are looking for a pocket-friendly plugin, then SEOPress is the best for you. Its premium version is available at a much lower price when compared to Yoast.
Images are a serious part of SEO that needs equal attention as that of the content. A proper image alt tag with keywords is recommended for a higher ranking of the site. And the plugin of SEO Optimized Images is here to save you from such vital situations. This plugin automatically lets you insert SEO friendly image alt attributes to your posts without any hassle. Without changing the image tag in the database, this plugin helps in gaining traffic through the ‘Image Search’ of the search engines.
Eliminating broken or bad links (if any) from your website is necessary while optimizing your content. Broken links create a bad user experience thus affecting your site’s ranking. Using this tool will help you detect the broken links from your site and help you monitor for missing images via dashboard or emails. This free plugin is highly recommended for big business owners who get very little time to keep an eye on every content links on their site.
Often while the content loads within a few microseconds of a click, images tend to appear slow. To save you from such situations, another plugin for image optimization is Short Pixel. This all-inclusive and unwavering plugin enhances page speed thus ensuring a fast page loading. It supports various file types viz. JPEG, PNG, PDF and GIF. A bulk optimization option is also available for compressing and optimizing images in bulk.
As mentioned in previous posts, it is very essential that your website is mobile-friendly. WPTouch mobile plugin is here to make your site easily available to the ‘mobile browsers’. The plugin adds a simple mobile theme to your visitors thus making it mobile friendly ensuring higher rankings. Its premium features support services like advanced web font controls, eye-catching themes and useful extensions.
Every search engine favours short paragraphs with easy reads. Breaking an ace content into distinct, small and logical sections with an associated on-page anchor makes your content perform better among organic searches. Insert this plugin of the table of content to properly label your sections and subsections for an easy understanding; both of human and search engines. Just click on a particular section in the table and you land on the exact section in the post.
Most of businesses use Google Analytics for understanding the website graphs. Additionally, the MonsterInsight plugin is here to ease your job. MonsterInsight is the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. The plugin fetches all your analytics data directly to your dashboard thus reducing your time energy hovering over your site and Google Analytics.
Since the first four options are alternative to each other for content optimization, make sure to install any one of them. The rest you can use as per your choice and opinion.
