I’ve been working with Wordpress a lot lately. There are thousands of plug-ins and themes available, but if your goal is SEO listen up. Below is a zipped up copy of my Ultimate Wordpress SEO Theme and Plugin Pack.
For people who manage many blogs it can be a pain to find all the right SEO tools for Wordpress. This ZIP file includes the latest version of Wordpress (2.6.1) ready to go with best Theme for SEO purposes (Elements-of-SEO). It also includes my favorite SEO plugins:
- Feedlist - for creating text based social bookmarking links
- Google-Sitemap-Generator - for creating an XML sitemap optimized for search engines
- SEO-Title-Tag - for allowing independent setup of page title elements
- Sociable - for creating chicklets and bookmarking icons
There are a couple more plugins that may be useful to some - allowing stat tracking and pingback management, but those should really be used on a case by case basis.
Download my Ultimate Wordpress SEO Theme and Plugin Pack, upload it and install as normal. Activate the plugins and you’re good to go. . . . . . . tossing Google Analytics into the footer script never hurts either ;).
So here it is. Download the Ultimate Wordpress SEO Theme and Plugin Pack.
This is an excellent SEO plugin pack and theme for the Wordpress blogging platform. I also really enjoy using the category base killer to remove the /category/ part in permalinks and the yet another relevant post plugin to provide relevant\related posts underneath every post; it’s a great way to boost your internal linking. You should try those two out, make sure if you use the category base killer to 301 redirect old urls!
There are a few other plugins that other bloggers like, Category Base Killer is one, but I don’t generally use categories or tags on my blogs. There are some benefits to it from a traffic and SEO standpoint, extra indexable pages and a more structured site map, etc. However for me simplicity is key. Anything that complicates the creation of a page or new content is a deterrent for that effort. I Keep it Simple.