WordPress, although incredible right out of the box, does need some help if your going to do anything spectacular with it. Fortunately there are thousands of plugins waiting for you to mess around with them. Lots and lots of them you will never need, and a good amount of them are just useless, although entertaining. Once you get past these plugins, there are a whole lot of them that can really be quite useful.
What does every WordPress user need? Well one a Websitea, but aside from that a means to market themselves by utilizing both good SEO practices and social networking. Whether your a blogger by passion or profession, either way, this is how to get your ten cents around the internet.
SEO:
In reality there are many SEO plugins for WordPress, but there seem to be three real open source players:
WordPress SEO
WordPress SEO has a number of features allowing you to quickly edit meta data and taxonomy data. It also includes automatic XML sitemaps and robots.txt files, as well as .htaccess editors. As well it has many other helpful things like breadcrumb support, conical support, permalink help and focus keyword testing.
SEO Ultimate
SEO Ultimate includes a lot of features that can be fine tuned depending on your preference, it’s author continues support and promises new features in the future, but currently it includes:
- Title Tag rewriter
- Meta data editors
- Canonicalizer
- 404 monitoring
- File editors
- Slug optmization
- Competition research
And many more that I will not list here. This plugin certainly provides a large number of SEO options, the downside is that all the options may be a bit daunting at first for beginners.
Platinum SEO Pack
Platinum SEO has a long list of features as well, but seems to focus more on meta data and permalinks, and this is does great, however it does seem to leave quite a few features out. It does however include:
- 301 redirection for changed permalinks
- Cononical URLs
- Title optmization
- Meta tag generation
- Helps to avoid duplicate content
- Lets you override generated meta data
- Customer Taxonomies
As well as various other features, the good news is, what it lacks is made up with it’s flexibility to work with other plugins to fill in the gaps.
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