WordPress is one of the most popular CMS; any individual who has basic knowledge of Internet, and blogging can build a website on his/her own. Initially, this was conceived to be just a platform for blogging, but now it’s no more looked at merely a blogging engine!
It has matured as fully functional CMS, which is quite easy to understand, and conceived to be more user friendly than any of the other content management systems available in the market. You’ll enjoy the ultimate power of WordPress only after you start using the self-hosted wordpress blogs. So, choosing the best WordPress hosting solution also plays a major role in enhancing your SEO.
SEO with WordPress is terribly easy too, thanks to hundreds of plug-ins that are freely available in WP community. We present you the best WordPress plug-ins that can help you in web design and SEO process –
SEO Ultimate
There are a number of functions that this plug-in can perform, ranging from management of the meta tags of the posts, pages, down to titles, and keywords. Another important use that it removes duplicate content by making use of canonical URLs.
Suppose if you don’t want your pages or even posts to get indexed by any search engines, then you can set no-index flag, or you can even add nofollow tags on-the-fly.
PubSubHubBub
It definitely helps you in getting the pages, posts of your site indexed in search engines very fast; as an extension to the RSS feeds and Atom, this uses simple protocols namely subscribe and publish, which are enhanced versions of RSS and Atom.
There are many other hubs as well, which are using this protocol such as FriendFeed, and Google Alerts Reader to name a few. Since the subscribing is done in real time, the indexing of pages is quite fast when compared to any of the other plugins.
Google XML Sitemap
This was basically developed for pinging Google, but now other search engines like Yahoo and Bing can also be notified too.
APIs in this plug-in create a sitemap.xml file and automatically submits the newly generated URLs to the search engines, and once you update your website or page then this xml file will get updated simultaneously and also intimate the search engines about your update as well. So, it just intimates the search engines to crawl through the XML sitemap every single time a new piece of content is added to the site.
W3 Total Cache
Caching is one of the popular techniques to improve performance, and reduce server load, wherein few elements of the page will be cached and these files need not be downloaded again; this plug-in does the same job, and it allows most of the elements of the website or a page to be cached, and reduces the download time which in turn enhances the performance, as well as load time of the site. There many other cache plug-ins like Quick Cache and WP Super Cache that perform the same task efficiently too.
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