Three WordPress Plug-ins for Powerful SEO Results

The term “search engine” is a perfect way to define the function of dynamic online directories like Google or Yahoo. If your website is “search engine optimized” search engines have the potential to boost your business income just like a commuter train whisks travellers from point A to point B.

The simple fact is superior search engine rankings improve your chances of being found by your target market and that’s an important business goal.

If your prospective customer searches for a product or service that you offer you can’t afford to be on page two of a Google return. You know yourself that when you’re looking for something online, you place a higher value on the returns that show up on the first page of results.

Who’s got the time to search through pages of search returns? I can tell you that not too many buying customers have that kind of time or patience. Getting top search results on the search engines is fast becoming a necessity for anybody who wants to be in business for the long-run.

There are all sorts of technical explanations for how this occurs and how you can make it happen but what you are likely looking for is the easiest and most accurate way of “making this so.”

Preparing good content that contains your keywords is a beginning point. But one of the easiest ways to move your website up the search engine rankings list is to use WordPress as the foundation for your website. It’s very search engine friendly and there are numerous plug-ins to help you improve your results and website traffic.

Following are three WordPress SEO plug-ins to consider:

1. All in One SEO Pack

The All In One SEO Pack, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ is among the most popular SEO plug-ins and has more than 30,000 downloads. An effective and comprehensive solution, it addresses the basics and allows you set page titles, keywords, meta tags, and descriptions automatically.

Here are just some of the features and functions:

*  Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
*  Generates META tags automatically
*  Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
*  For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Simply install.
*  For more advanced users, you can customize everything
*  You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.

2. Google Positioner

Google Positioner, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-google-seo-positioner/, lets you know which keywords visitors search for while browsing your blog. This is a wonderful analytical tool because it will help you zero  in on the most popular and useful keywords for your readers. This kind of information enables you to focus on what your readers (or prospective customers) are actually looking for. This plug-in coupled with Google Analytics empowers you to have all the information you might need to make sound, strategic business decisions.

3.  SEO Smart Links

Smart Links, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/, automatically links keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. More than 100,000 downloads, this is a highly rated plug-in.  Your internal linking structure is one of the key elements search engines look for when analyzing and ranking your website. Manually creating these internal links takes hours of your valuable time. SEO Smart Links does it automatically.

WordPress was already wonderful at helping businesses to get professional looking websites up fast.  Now with these powerful plug-ins the WordPress platform is even better! There is less and less need to have a costly Information Technology specialist at your beck and call when you want to boost the effectiveness of your website.

So are you ready to shoot for the top of the search engine results? Of course you are!  But now you know exactly where you can find some of the best tools to help realize that objective.

To your success!