10 Best Wordpress Plugins for SEO (2011)

These 10 great Wordpress plugins will prime your Wordpress blog for SEO success in 2011.

Installing the WordPress content management system (CMS) is most likely the easiest way to blog. WordPress has some of the best-looking web templates available and has many SEO benefits over other blogging platforms. If you're currently using WordPress, you may not be taking complete advantage of all the the tools obtainable - offered away free of charge - unless you are familiar with the thousands of WordPress plugins.

There are about a million Wordpress plugins scattered around the Internet. You can actually find most of them here: Extend Wordpress.

WordPress Plugins allow you to take complete management of a blog as well as the visitor's experience. Plugins help you make something that already works great, to work even better. Here are the most functional and user-friendly Plugins from 2011, assembled them here for you personally to discover, and possibly find a method to apply them to your weblog. These plugins will work for you regardless of whether or not you are a standard blogger, seeking to monetize your website, or merely having a fun time online. Using plugins that cover a wide variety of functions, can make it much more useful and allow your visitors a pleasant internet encounter.

All of these could be installed through the WordPress Plugins management panel. WorldPress has made it amazingly easy to install, control, uninstall, and delete plugins. Select Plugins > Add New and search for the name of your desired plugin, then install it. Bam! Done!

Internal link building. Maximize internal link building by setting up Wordpress to link back to any URL with specific anchor text automatically when that anchor text appears in the content of your Wordpress posts. Limit the linking to 1 or more occurrences per post. Option to nofollow each link. Link any number of terms to one URL just by using a pipe "|" in the keyword box. Decreases bounce rate. Very easy to use.
Comment Luv. Allows users to link back to the most recent post on their blog when they leave a comment on your blog. This does two things, it encourages user interaction and participation, and your readers will get valuable dofollow links back to their blog.
Broken Link Checker. Google Bots hate broken links and they will hate your blog if you have broken links. Checking your site for broken links is a pain in the neck, and most people often don't bother. This very simple but effective link checking plugin will display problems with links on your site right on your WordPress admin screen (dashboard).
All in One SEO Pack. Easily manage the titles, descriptions, and meta data of each post when you create a new post. Also has sitewide settings for nofollowing tags, categories, and archives. A requirement for anyone serious about SEO.
Google XML Sitemaps. Automatically create XML sitemaps for Google Bots to parse. Submit them to your Webmaster tools account for easy indexing of all the pages on your site. Another requirement for any level of Wordpress SEO.
Redirection. Redirections might occur if you change any page or post URLs or if your backlinks appear on the web with incorrect target URLs. Easily manage all of your redirects from your Wordpress admin console. Also logs all errors so you can create new redirects when necessary.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. Display any number of related posts at the end of each post. Like Internal Link Building, this plugin decreases your bounce rate and makes posts with related content link to each other automatically. Google loves this kind of stuff.
No Duplicates. Easily manage duplicate content on your blog by noindexing and nofollowing the content that you want to hide from Google.
WP Mobile Detector. Wordpress will detect specific mobile platforms and will display a mobile-friendly Wordpress template for those users. The better to optimize for mobile SEO.
Google Analytics for Wordpress. You're not doing all this SEOing for nothing are you? You gotta check your Analytics stats to make sure all this is working right. Now you can view your Google Analytics data directly from the Wordpress Dashboard with this plugin.