WordPress SEO Plugins:

There are plenty of WordPress SEO plugins in the market – free and paid.

But do they actually work?

Before we go into the subject, let’s examine what WordPress plugins do for you. Back in the old days when everything in the web world had to be coded by hand, you had a whole lot of work involved in making a site, submitting it to Google, and every time there was a new update on your site, you had to make sure it got indexed again. Very tedious process.

Along came WordPress and with it came the valuable advantage of being able to automate your various tasks with the help of WordPress plugins: whether you need to submit your sitemap to Google, block spam, ping the search engines, or get SEO plugins that automate the job for you.

Types of SEO Plugins:

Of course, there are no SEO plugins that will do the job completely automatically, but nonetheless, there are some that facilitate this job fairly easily. There are various SEO plugins that you can use on your WordPress sites, like:

All-in-one-SEO
Platinum SEO
SEOpressor

These various SEO plugins certainly help us in making sure that our posts and pages receive SEO attention, how do you know about details like keyword density, SEO score for your page, and other factors?

SEO or search engine optimization could be divided into two aspects:

On-page optimization
Off-page optimization

What do you need your SEO plugins to do for you?

Let’s look at what you need to do for on-page SEO.

All your posts would need to have keywords and tags which, of course, you would provide manually. But the advantage of having these SEO plugins installed on your site makes it all the more easier. Where you have Platinum SEO or All-in-one-SEO installed on your blog or site, it makes it so easy to simply type in all those attributes, and the plugin does the rest – getting the information through to the search engines, etc.

As part of your on page optimization, you would need to have:

Your h1, h2, h3 tags underlined, italicized, bold – and not all at the same time.

This means that your pages or posts need to have sufficient keyword density, so that the keywords on your page are able to have enough instances where they can have those attributes. For example, your keyword in the first occurrence could be italicized, or made bold, or could be underlined. Subsequent occurrences could have other attributes added, and so on.

Another aspect of on-page SEO is, and one that many of us often neglect, is that you need to add keywords to your images – both in the actual name of the image, as well as in the alt tags.

You need to have your keyword included in the first sentence as well as in the last sentence.

It’s a proven fact that pages which are optimized well typically score much higher than any competitive pages which have not been optimized well enough.

What does this mean in real terms?

This simply means that when you have 2 competing websites, the site which has better on-page optimization will need to not work quite as hard as compared to another site which has not devoted sufficient time to the on-page SEO aspect of their site. This means that the former site would need fewer backlinks than the latter site.

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