Welcome to the list of some of the best WordPress SEO plugins which you can use on your blog to better exposure your website and generate swarms of traffic from search engines.

Search engines are the best major source of traffic for most websites and for this singular reason, many blog and website owners often ask for the best SEO tips and plugins that can improve SEO of their WordPress sites.

Therefore, in this post, I will be sharing 8 best WordPress SEO plugins and tools that will improve your website SEO.

My main focus in this post is on the best Wordpress SEO plugins that are very crucial for improving the different aspects of SEO of your website and increase its overall visibility.

Search engine optimization is extremely vital for every website; this is because every search engine mostly Google and Ask can bring you swarms of targeted traffic if your site is properly optimized.

It is important that before you start the optimization process of your website, you should understand the basics of SEO. Read this SEO beginner guide.

WordPress is no doubt the best SEO friendly content management platform; the overall process of optimizing your site is made simple. All that is required of you is to make sure you use a SEO friendly WordPress theme for your blog then install a good WordPress SEO plugin.

8 Best WordPress Tools and SEO Plugins:

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast

It is one of the most downloaded and installed WordPress plugin of all times. Yoast’s WordPress SEO is a comprehensive solution for all your on-site SEO requirements.

It allows you to add SEO title, Meta description, and Meta keywords to each post and page of your site.

You can also write custom title for your main site, archives, and category and tag pages. It also adds Open Graph Meta data, Twitter Cards, Sitemaps and ping search engines whenever you update your site.

2. Google Keyword Planner

The search giant Google is the only one under heaven that has more insights into what people are searching for on the internet

Google Keyword Planner tool is a free to use tool that can give you your own keyword ideas from Google itself by using this free tool.

This free tool is offered to Google’s advertisers for free and anyone can use it. Its main purpose is to show advertisers the keywords they can bid on for their advertising campaigns.

It also helps advertisers choose right keywords by showing them an estimate of search volume, number of results, and difficulty level.

3. SEMrush

SEMRush is a tool that Professionals use to gather analytical insights from their competitor’s in order to improve on their own SEO. Some of the benefits include:

• You learn organic keywords to rank for in your blog
• You get places where you can get back links from
• Insights into your competitor’s advertising strategies and many more.
4. Spyfu https://www.spyfu.com/

Search for any domain and see every place they've shown up on Google: every keyword they've bought on Adwords, every organic rank, and every ad variation in the last 11 years.

Learn how to connect with these domains, too. Find online and traditional leads methods -- social media, email, phone, and address -- you can't find anywhere else.

SEO Research

Outrank your Competitors: Improve your ranks by tapping into your competitors' keyword strategies.

Get to the Top Position: Build momentum. Move keywords in the top 50 results onto the first page.

Sell SEO Services: We make SEO value as easy to understand as PPC, with branded reports.

PPC Research

Find Profitable Keywords: Discover the competitions most lucrative keywords that you're missing.

Eliminate Bad Keywords: Weed out money wasting keywords with our negative match suggestions.

Find the Best Ad Copy: Skip the testing. Leverage your competitors' lessons from historic hits and misses.

5. Open Site Explorer.

This is a great tool developed by Moz, this free tool enables you check the data of any domain name of your choice. You can see who is linking to that domain and what anchor texts they are using.

This great tool offers varieties of information ranges from top pages, linking domains, which pages are linked on your site and many more. Even though this tool is free, it has daily search limits for each user.


6. Broken Link Checker

Broken links are dangerous to the overall wellbeing of your website; it renders bad experience to your audience, and can also affect your website’s SEO.

It is very important that you check your website from time to time for broken links and fix them.

Broken Link Checker is a free WordPress plugin that enables you to find and locate all broken links on your WordPress site. It equally allows you to fix all broken links without having to edit your posts. It is a highly useful plugin, and it’s totally free.

Warning:
This tool can become resource consuming thereby slowing down your server which in turn affects the loading time of your website. Some hosting providers have already blacklisted this plugin on their servers.

7. SEOquake

SEOquake is a very potent SEO tool, though available as a browser addon for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari web browsers.

It is potent enough to provide accurate SEO related information for any website of your choice. The information provided include page rank, site age, last updated, alexa rank, and many other relevant information. SEOquake is one of the most downloaded browser addon by SEO experts.

Another feature of SEOquake is the toolbar which displays all these information for all the search results.

8. KeywordTool.io

Keyword Tool is another very good free keyword research tool available right now on the internet. It helps generate keyword ideas by just typing in a keyword.

Keyword Tool is very fast and most importantly, it is completely free for every user. You can use it to optimize content on your WordPress site. It also helps you generate keyword suggestions from YouTube, Bing, and App Store as well.

Source: http://efogator.com/8-best-wordpress-tools-seo-plugins/

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@Op are you suggesting combination of all these or making a choice?

Cool. but virtually all this plugins cannot be found on WordPress.

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great post op you can add the following plugins with will help your wordpress site rank well on search engine

BJ Lazy Load its a plugin that makes images loads faster and saves bandwidth for your site

Google XML Sitemaps This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.


WP Smush Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.

WP-Optimize is WordPress's #1 most installed optimization plugin. With it, you can clean up your database easily and safely, without manual queries.

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Great plugins and wonderful listing. Yoast is by far the best for SEO. Check here for How to get backlink from nairaland.

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LOL, combination definitely works but do not go on to using all, it could make your blog load slow: Checkout the Post on How to Get Dofollow Backlink from Nairaland, Google Plus, Youtube and Facebook

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@Op are you suggesting combination of all these or making a choice?