==== ==== For more information please go to: http://jeffknowles.com ==== ==== 10 KICK-ASS Plugins for Optimizing Wordpress Wordpress is a feature rich product in itself but take note of these 10 KICK-ASS plugins that make your blogging life easier. There are Plugins that Optimize the Wordpress blog structure, eliminate duplicate content, optimize meta-tags, optimize the speed of your blog. These plugins, once installed, perform effectively while on autopilot. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator v3.15 Highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiplepage generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more. SEO Slugs by Andrei Mikrukov v1.0 Removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve SEO. Headspace2 by John Godley v3.6.34 HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks such as keywords/tags, create custom titles, stylesheets, and descriptions that improve your page ranking. Karailiev’s sitemap by Valentin Karailiev v1.o This plugin adds a XML sitemap to your blog. It’s used to show all your pages and posts to the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN Redirection by John Godley v2.2.5 Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors. It is useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation. Robots Meta by Joost de Valk v 3.3.1 This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links. SEO Friendly Images by Vladimir Prevovac v2.6.1 Automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes them W3C/xHTML valid as well. ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match. TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically
appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image. Top Level Categories by Filipe Fortes v1.0.1 Removes the prefix from the URL for a category. For instance, if your old category link was /category/catname it will now be /catname W3 Total Cache by Frederick Townes v0.9.2.2 Improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme Yoast Breadcrumbs by Joost de Valk v0.8.5 This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme. Breadcrumbs provide a way for the user to easily navigate up and down your site, from post, to category, to the next post, or from child page, to parent page etc. It also allows search engines to more easily understand the structure of your site. If you enjoy this post, please quickly do me a favor and share with others and comment below. To Your Success! JEFF KNOWLES