You spent a lot of time in order to create a website that was perfect in your opinion, worked on the content for a long time, and finally launched it. Now sit and wait: “I got such a good site, there will certainly be a lot of visitors and clients”, right? But you yourself understand that expectation is not reality.
In order to attract organic traffic to the site (i.e. traffic that is not based on paid advertising), it is necessary to apply search engine optimization (SEO).
SEO is an ongoing process, but, fortunately, WordPress offers many tools to help you approach this issue more effectively.
But do not forget that before you start the optimization process, you must understand the basics of SEO.
All you need for your WordPress site is:
- a quality WordPress theme,
- a well-developed SEO strategy,
- SEO-plugins for WordPress, which will help you implement this strategy.
So, the best plugins for WordPress are as follows:
1. WordPress SEO by Yoast
2. Rank Math
3. All in One SEO Pack
4. Premium SEO Pack
5. WP Meta SEO
6. W3 Total Cache
7. Rankie
8. SEO by SQUIRRLY
9. Redirection
10. All in One Schema Rich Snippets
11. Ahrefs
12. SEMrush Writing Assistant
13. MonsterInsights
14. SEOPress
And now in order.
1. WordPress SEO by Yoast
SEO by Yoast is the most widely used SEO plugin for WordPress. This is a free software module that offers you almost all the functions for optimizing your website from SERP preview (search results page) to creating an XML sitemap.
One of the key points of working with this plugin when conducting SEO-analysis of a page is that it tells you how to best use the targeted use of keywords, how often do you use keywords on your page or maybe vice versa too often, and how better just optimize the title, meta description, and URL at the keyword level. This plugin can be considered as a guide to managing each element, based on the best SEO practices.
2. Rank Math
Rank Math helps you optimize your site while writing content by providing all the information about your posts in real time without having to leave the WordPress interface. You also have the opportunity to optimize headings and meta descriptions using the preview and thereby reducing the likelihood of SERP display errors in the search engine.
The most interesting thing is that this plugin has been optimized, so it does not affect the speed of your site. Rank Math also offers additional SEO features such as redirect, 404 monitoring, and SEO for sites built on the WooCommerce platform (WordPress-based online stores).
3. All In One SEO Pack
The All In One SEO Pack, which has been downloaded over 65 million times since 2007, is a popular choice for both beginners and professionals. It can automatically generate and send XML sitemaps to Google or Bing, optimize headings for search engines, generate meta tags and much more. There is also support for Google Analytics and AMP, integration with other popular plugins is possible.
4. Premium SEO Pack
What makes Premium SEO Pack unique is the fact that this plugin, unlike others, has advanced features that work with SEO elements. Besides the fact that it has a set of basic functions, such as creating a sitemap and monitoring Google Analytics, this plugin also includes unique functions for monitoring page speed, advanced snippets, 404 page verification, minimizing CSS and JS files and link building (link building masses). It also provides information about your internal links and how optimized your images are.
5. WP Meta SEO
WP Meta SEO is a meta-information editor that allows you to easily optimize the entire site at once (without having to go in and out of each individual page), while saving you an incredible amount of time.
This plugin also integrates with the Google Search Console to support keyword matching. This way you can use real Google data when you think about your keywords. In addition, WP Meta SEO has additional built-in SEO features, such as a redirect manager and site map generator.
6. W3 Total Cache
Site speed is a significant ranking factor for Google and other search engines, because they want to get sites that meet the needs of searchers, while providing a good base for themselves.
W3 Total Cache is a must-have plugin to improve site performance by integrating caching, minification and CDN, to minimize load time.
7. Rankie
Remember that your SEO strategy is only as good as its data. Rankie's goal is to provide you with more data for making SEO decisions.
This plugin allows you to keep track of your rankings and create really good reports, and also provides the analytical data necessary to make changes to your pages. You can even track targeted keywords to monitor ongoing activities, as well as add new keywords by which users will find you.