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WordPress SEO Plug-ins from Tools Sessions at SMX West 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Search Engine Marketing Expo at SMX West included tactical sessions in addition to strategy. One of the tools presentations included a focus on WordPress plug-ins available to help manage Search Engine Optimization of blogs. There are lots of tools, these are some of the most important in getting started.
All in One SEO Pack – This is the must have plug-in for your WordPress Blog. It allows you to:
- Customize title tags, meta description tags, keyword meta tags
Automatically generates meta descriptions from excerpts or first paragraph
of your post.
Allows you to have tags become your keyword meta data as well.
Allows you to have tags become your keyword meta data as well.
Solves duplicate content issues.
A couple other plug-ins that will help make WordPress a bit more SEO friendly:
Headspace – http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/
SEO Title Tag – http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/
Dofollow – www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow/
Allows you to remove “evil nofollow attribute” from your comments. Just plug n’ play.
ShareThis – http://sharethis.com/
A plug-in that will display a “Share This” button at end of your post which allows your
visitors to easily share a post/page with others. Plug-in supports both e-mail and
posting to social bookmarking sites. Just plug n’ play.
Twitter Tools – http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
Integrates your WordPress blog and Twitter account. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Enter twitter user name and password and select options.
Subscribe To Comments – http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/ Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
Math Comment Spam Protection -
http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/ This plugin asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. Does require adding code to comments.php file.
This set of tools was presented by David Wallace of
SearchRank
For more information please contact the Search Engine Marketing Team at Schipul – sem@schipul.com
If you need help in starting your blog, the teams at Houston Web Design teams at Schipul will help create your blog site with the correct plug-ins and tools to manage your presence.
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“Search Engine Marketing Expo at SMX West included tactical sessions in addition to strategy” i didn’t know this thanks for sharing.
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