WordPress offers great plugins that can help you increase your blog’s visibility for SEO and SMM purposes. As we explained in previous articles, both have been intertwined long after the boom of social networks. Here are 3 WordPress blog plugins to help you take advantage of both. in parallel for optimal results.
1. all-in-one seo
True to its name, the all-in-one SEO plugin takes care of your blog’s SEO (search engine optimization) automatically. The beauty of this plugin is that it will work great if you are an SEO beginner, but it packs advanced features for SEO experts. You can enjoy it for free or go for its pro version for $39. Here are some of its amazing features:
- optimize your blog titles for search engines automatically
- Automatic generation of appropriate META tags for your blog pages
- SEO integration for WordPress eCommerce sites (the only plugin that has this feature)
- Remove duplicate content typically found on WordPress blogs
two. add anyone
A great social sharing plugin designed to help your blog visitors bookmark, share, and email your blog posts to over 100 sites, including social bookmarking sites (such as Digg and Delicious), social networking/microblogging sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz) to name just a few. It also comes with a Twitter button and a Facebook Page Like button.
It also comes with an email sharing tab that allows sharing with popular email services (gmail, yahoo, AOL…etc).
The Add to Favorites button in this plugin is compatible with all major browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.).
On top of that, this plugin comes with a customizable smart menu, which puts the sites your visitors use to share at the top of the menu. In this way, you could easily know where your content is shared at a glance.
3. Twitter Tools
This Twitter tools plugin integrates and syncs your WordPress blog and Twitter accounts so that every time you create a new post, it gets tweeted automatically. Sweet!
We encourage you to check out the WordPress plugins page for more plugins that might suit your unique needs. Stay tuned for our next article as we will discuss 3 other must-have WordPress plugins. Until then…