WordPress SEO plugins

26 September 2024

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Senior SEO-specialist

Making life easier, don’t we all want that? I do when optimizing websites.

WordPress has fortunately created several plugins. With SEO plugins allow you to automate a long (manual) process and make improving your website much easier. I cover the SEO plugins in WordPress that you need to know more about for your own website.

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What are an SEO plugins for WordPress?

An SEO plugin, on WordPress, is a plugin that you easily download. With such a plugin, you can automate specific processes and thus need to spend less time and energy on them.

So with a plugin, you improve your website in an easy way. You no longer have to spend hours modifying URLs or adding internal links to improve your website’s SEO.

I can almost call myself dependent on these plugins. The people who make improvements on our own site or client sites know exactly how a plugin works. Manually implementing improvements is almost out of the question. It saves a lot of time and energy, which we can then spend on other assignments or tasks.

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The best SEO plugins in WordPress

There are several SEO plugins that I have downloaded into WordPress. I use them daily. I list the most used SEO plugins, by myself, for you with a brief explanation.

SEO plugin	Short description
Yoast SEO	A comprehensive SEO tool that helps optimize your content, generate XML sitemaps, and manage meta tags. It also offers readability analysis and suggestions for improvement.
All in One SEO Pack	This plugin offers similar features to Yoast, including support for XML sitemaps, SEO integration for e-commerce sites, and automatic optimization of titles for search engines.
Rank Math	Provides advanced SEO analysis right in your WordPress dashboard. It has a user-friendly interface and features such as advanced SEO optimization, rich snippets, 404 monitoring, and redirect management.
SEOPress	A simple, powerful SEO plugin for WordPress that helps improve your SEO rankings, increase traffic to your website, create HTML and XML sitemaps, and manage social media shares.
The SEO Framework	Focuses on providing an automatic, fast and white-hat SEO solution. It is lightweight and provides basic SEO needs without additional bloat.
SEO Squirrly	Designed for non-SEO experts, but deep enough for SEO specialists. Provides content analysis and SEO recommendations as you type, and tracks your progress with weekly SEO audits.

SEO plugins + description.

Each WordPress SEO plugin allows you to make your website even more findable for your target audience. There are both paid and free plugins for WordPress. Often a plugin is available for free. However, you are somewhat limited in the possibilities with this. A paid version offers extensive options and thus brings many benefits.

The usefulness of an SEO plugins

When you use an SEO plugin in WordPress, the big advantage is that you are faster and easier off, than if you have to make optimizations to your site yourself.

Another big advantage is that you can perform multiple optimizations in a shorter time. For example, when you want to implement internal links on every page, using an SEO plugin is many times faster than having to manually enter the internal links.

WordPress SEO plugins