Top 5 Must-Have WordPress Plugins For All 

Below, I’m going to discuss 10 WordPress plugins that can help turn your site into an SEO powerhouse. These plugins won’t guarantee high search engine rankings, but they’ll definitely improve your chances of SEO success.

1. Yoast SEO

WordPress SEO by Yoast is the most popular SEO plugin on WordPress for a reason. This can be seen in the approximately 2,000 reviews, with an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars.

There are many features to focus on, with some of my favorites including:

• Page analysis tool.
• Technical WordPress Search Engine Optimization
• XML Sitemaps functionality

When it comes to page analysis, you need to know exactly what you’re doing. SEO by Yoast makes sure that you’re always on the right track.

For example, Yoast SEO can quickly scan any page for images, ensuring that each one has an alt tag that matches the primary keyword for the post. Along with this, it checks your content for length and confirms whether or not your meta description is up to par. And, that’s just the start.

2. All in One SEO Pack

If you don’t want to use Yoast SEO, which is the one I prefer, you can always give the All in One SEO Pack a try.

The name pretty much explains it all.

Since its release in 2007, this WordPress plugin has been providing webmasters with an easy to use solution to many SEO related challenges.

The biggest benefit is the fact that you don’t need any experience to get started. If you can read and you can input the right data in the right fields, then you can use this plugin.

For some inputs, you may not need to touch anything (unless you want to, of course).

With the above, you can stick with the defaults, which is often best, from an SEO perspective. Or, you can alter the format to better suit your needs.

Top features of All in One SEO Pack include:

• XML Sitemap and Google Analytics support.
• Automatic optimization of titles for all search engines.
• Automatic generation of META tags.
• Helps you avoid duplicate content, which can have a negative impact on search engine rankings.
• Ability to override any setting.

Overall, All in One SEO Pack gives you as much or as little control as you want. As you gain experience, you can take on more responsibility, through the advanced features of this plugin.

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3. Google XML Sitemaps

What are you doing to ensure that your site’s content gets indexed?

If you don’t have an answer to this question, you’re missing the boat. Sure, the search engines may find your content without being pointed in the right direction, but you don’t have to sit back and hope for the best.

With the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, a sitemap will be generated automatically. Subsequently, its easier for search engines to index your blog.

Best yet, once you create a sitemap and are comfortable with the settings, you never have to do anything else. Instead, the plugin does everything for you, updating your sitemap after each new piece of content that you publish.

There are many “Basic Options” to address, so make sure that you focus on the importance of each one. If all else fails or if you don’t know what you’re doing, stick with the plugin’s default settings.

Once you create a sitemap, it’ll look something like this:

Pro tip: submit the sitemap URL to Google via Google Search Console.

The Google XML Sitemaps plugin does everything right, all in an easy to understand and efficient manner. You couldn’t ask for anything more from a sitemap creation tool.

4. Broken Link Checker

As you create more and more content, you’ll find one thing to be true: it can be difficult to keep up with the management of your blog.

This is where tools, such as the Broken Link Checker plugin can help.

The name says it all, with this plugin checking your content for broken links and missing images. If you’re lucky, you’ll never be alerted that there is something wrong with your site. Of course, don’t expect this to happen.

It’s good to know that the plugin can keep a watchful eye on your website, notifying you of any broken links. This allows you to focus on what you do best, such as creating content, while never having to worry that broken links are working against you.

Some of the top features include:

• Ability to monitor links in posts, pages, comments, and even custom fields.
• Detects any link that doesn’t work.
• The option to give broken links a different appearance in posts.
• The option to prevent search engines from following broken links.

Being that this is a guide on how to use SEO plugins, the final point is the most important. You don’t want your site littered with broken links, as it can have a negative impact on your rankings and user experience.

With the option to prevent search engines from following these links, you never have to worry about the consequences that could happen before you’re able to remove or alter the link.

The Broken Link Checker plugin is both simple to use and powerful. With more than 400,000 active installs and a high rating, it’s worth checking out.

5. All In One WP Security & Firewall

Despite the fact that WordPress is extremely secure, this doesn’t mean that you can forget about all of the risks that are out there.

To protect your website, to the best of your ability, use All In One WP Security & Firewall.

There is nothing wrong with extra security, beyond what WordPress already provides, as this will help keep your site running efficiently.

For example, there are many user account security features:

• Password strength tool.
• Stop user enumeration.
• Ability to detect any accounts with an identical display name and log in. This is a poor decision, from a security perspective, as it gives hackers half of what 

This is another area where the plugin can help, as it provides a security points score, based on the current set up.

(via Tips and Tricks HQ)

The last thing that you want people to see in the search results is this:

(via Google)

Not only will this chase people away from visiting your website, but it can kill your reputation. With all this working against your site, rankings can suffer as a result.

Using the All In One WP Security & Firewall plugin will give you greater peace of mind about the security of your WordPress site.

Conclusion

Do you have experience with any of these? Would you add others to the list? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.