WordPress SEO plugins updated July 2nd 2011.
WordPress is very good out the box for SEO, but it’s not perfect, so a combination of a good WordPress SEO theme like my Talian 05 Search Engine Optimization Theme with a few select WordPress SEO Plugins and WordPress becomes a brilliant WordPress SEO CMS.
Some of the SEO WordPress plugins I used to use like the aLinks plugin are no longer updated, so I’ve had to find alternatives (WordPress plugins no longer recommended still listed at the bottom). Also found a few other useful WordPress plugins.
Recommended WordPress SEO Plugins
The SEO WordPress plugins below are in no particular order. Some I use on all WordPress sites I own, some I use on a small set of WordPress sites.
Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
The Stallion WordPress SEO plugin was created by yours truly, it’s role is to conserve link benefit from parts of a WordPress site you don’t want indexing. WordPress login/admin pages, monthly archives are the most obvious uses of this WordPress SEO plugin.
If you currently use plugins to noindex and nofollow parts of your site like the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin you are wasting/deleting a lot of link benefit the Stallion WordPress SEO plugin can recover.
Read more about the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin.
Download Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin
Post Teaser WordPress SEO Plugin
Found this WordPress plugin a while ago, out the box it’s OK, though the plugin creator used the anchor text “More” for links rather than the name of the post. More, Click Here, Home are terrible words from an SEO perspective to use for text links, so don’t do it, it’s bad, wrong, BIG SEO mistake 
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My SEO version of the Post Teaser plugin creates an excerpt of a post automatically, like if you added the more tag within your posts and links to the main post using the title of the post as anchor text (basic SEO to use relevant keywords for all text links).
If you’ve bought an AdSense + SEO WordPress theme from this site (or downloaded one of the Free WordPress SEO themes) you’ll have noticed they already automatically create an excerpt of a post (excerpts on archive pages reduces the chances of having duplicate content problems) so why do we need this WordPress plugin?
The excerpt version of my WordPress SEO themes strips all HTML formatting from the excerpt text (links, images etc… are removed). On some WordPress sites like affiliate sites with affiliate links that you really don’t want affiliate links from your home page this is a good thing, but on sites where you want all links (and images) to be counted by Google for both SEO and usability reasons the plain text excerpt version is far from ideal.
For example my wife’s site Happy People Good Karma Blog has a lot of images and YouTube videos, the archive pages of the site looks better (better usability) and is better SEO wise having excerpts that include HTML formatting.
Not completely essential, but looks good and helps with search engine optimization if you have links in the top of your posts text. I use this WordPress plugin on all WordPress sites except affiliate type sites where I don’t want affiliate links repeated on archive type pages (wastes less link benefit).
A new plugin author has taken this plugin on and created an update (November 2010), I’ve used this plugin for my version below, basically adding SEO’d defaults. If you upgraded to the new version (via the WordPress built in update page) and now have double continue reading links and awful anchor text download the file below, and upload over the /post-teaser/ folder. Now go to the Post Teaser admin page (under Settings >> Post Teaser on your Dashboard). Near the bottom click the “Reset to Defaults” button. This will overwrite the awful anchor text settings and search engine optimise the continue reading link.
Download Post Teaser SEO Plugin updated: November 2010 to new version (works fine in WordPress 3.0.1: November 2010).
Contextual Related Posts SEO Version
Note: recently found this plugin is generating a lot of database queries on some sites especially if it’s a big site. Not looked into why yet, if you are running the Stallion Theme the database queries are shown in the footer of every page when you are logged in. I’ve found this plugin can add a couple of hundred database queries on some sites (not good, ideally you’d keep it below 100). If you find your site has a lot of database queries with this Related Posts plugin I recommend using the other Related Posts plugin (see later) that has less features.
Been using the Related Posts WordPress SEO Plugin (see next plugin below) for years and the Contextual Related Posts Plugin does the same thing, but better. This plugin shows related posts, but also adds thumbnails at the side of the listing.
You can see this WordPress plugin in action at the bottom of Talian 5 Theme Support.
I’ve incorporated the code into Stallion 6 and the zip file below is setup so you don’t have to make any configuration changes to the plugin to work with Stallion 6. Not fully tested with Talian 5 yet (this is not incorporated into the Talian 5 or other themes code on this site), if you have problems try the plugin settings.
Note: I’ve added a bug fix to the zip file below, I contacted the plugin author at least a month ago and he said he’d incorporate the fix into the original plugin. So far no update, so I’ve disabled auto update in the zip file below so it doesn’t break the bug fix or the changes I made to work with Stallion 6 with no extra setup.
Download Contextual Related Posts SEO Version updated: March 2011.
Related Posts WordPress SEO Plugin
This is an amazing WordPress plugin for mixing your content up a bit. When configured correctly it will post a list of related posts somewhere (I use it at the bottom) on a blog posts page. What it does is look for related posts, adds a link to that post and a short extract (you can have just the text link and no excerpt). If you have a lot of posts this can make a significant difference to your sites SERPs because relevant pages will automatically link together.
You can see this WordPress plugin in action at the bottom of Vapourer Moth Caterpillar Photograph. My wife takes amateur photographs of wildlife mostly, but she doesn’t have many moth or caterpillar photos, and currently (November 2010) there’s 2 related posts at the bottom of the page thanks to this WordPress plugin (she’s put about 400 of her photos on that site, so not bad accuracy to list just two of them).
I use this WordPress plugin on ALL my WordPress sites .
Download Related Posts SEO Plugin updated: January 2008.
Most Popular Posts WordPress Plugin
This is a replacement for the Popularity Contest SEO Plugin which is no longer supported/updated. The Most Popular Posts WordPress Plugin adds a widget with your most popular posts based on number of comments mostly. Basically adds links to the most popular posts which should keep them popular in search engines.
Not wrote much about this, but I use it on most of my sites (highly recommended)
http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/
©Feed Plugin : SEO Version
This WordPress plugin adds copyright information to your RSS feeds, you can use the plugin to add text links back to your site from sites that scrape your content via your RSS feed. The original CopyFeed plugin is good, I’ve created an SEO version that’s better that you can download below.
The CopyFeed SEO Version can do everything the original does, plus by default links to your home page with the title of your site as the anchor text (strange this wasn’t a default option, seems obvious). I’ve created a search engine optimized default settings for the plugin that require little setup.
Activate the plugin, go to the plugins options page (under Settings >> ©Feed), paste the suggested “Possible key” into the “digital fingerprint” box, scroll near the bottom and click the “Update Options” button.
This will give every post in your RSS feed a link back to that post, a link back to up to three related posts and a link back to home. All with search engine optimized anchor text. If a lot of sites scrape your content this could generate a lot of backlinks (not high quality, but they all help). You can change the defaults, those are the settings I use.
You can confirms it’s worked by checking your RSS feed page (reload it a few times if the links don’t show).
Download CopyFeed SEO Plugin updated: September 2011 (works fine in WordPress 3.2.1: September 2011).
Remove Links in Comments WordPress SEO Plugin
This is a very good SEO plugin, when a comment is made with a text based URL (like http://www.domain.com/) WordPress automatically converts it into a text link with a nofollow attribute (adds the relevant HTML code to turn it into a clickable link). Since nofollow attributes delete link benefit/PR we need to limit the number of nofollow links on our sites and this WordPress plugin helps. When the plugin is activated text based URLs are no longer converted to clickable links, they remain basic text like this:
http://www.domain.com/
The benefit is obvious, no wasted link benefit through a nofollow link, the disadvantage is it means your visitors have to copy and paste the URL to visit the site. I think protecting a sites SEO is more important.
This WordPress plugin does not work with links where the commenter added the HTML code
<a href="http://www.domain.com/">Anchor Text</a>
these will still generate a nofollow attribute. What I do is manually edit these comments and delete the HTML parts of the links and convert to just the URL. Nofollow links delete link benefit, remove them all.
Note to Stallion WordPress SEO Theme users, this is a Stallion theme feature (no need to install this plugin).
http://ducedo.com/remove-links-in-comments/
SEO Smart Links WordPress Plugin
SEO Smart Links is a replacement for the aLinks WordPress plugin that is no longer actively supported and doesn’t always work (if aLinks is working on a blog it’s fine, but some can’t get it to install). The SEO Smart Links WordPress plugin can change keywords within the body text of posts, pages and comments into keyword rich links. This plugin is better than the aLinks plugin I used to use, it can block adding a link within header code (H1, H2 etc…) that aLinks couldn’t do and the number of keywords to link out from works (a feature never implemented in aLinks). Unlike the aLinks plugin, SEO Smart Links will link from the body of comments as well.
Unlike most of the WordPress plugins I recommend for SEO reasons, this is actually a true SEO plugin (was created for SEO reasons). Most of the other plugins I recommend aren’t specifically designed for SEO usage.
I’ve not used this WordPress SEO Plugin on many sites yet, just haven’t got around to installing it etc… (me being lazy). You can see it in action on my original SEO Tutorial page (wrote that SEO Tutorial 4+ years ago). Every text link in the comments are due to this WordPress SEO plugin.
Warning: use this SEO plugin with care when linking to a network of sites. For example I have several search engine optimization relevant sites and if for example every time I used the phrase “WordPress SEO” I linked it to my WordPress SEO Tutorial it could get quite link spammy fast, especially if you linked to half a dozen different pages to an external domain! My advice is only use this WordPress plugin for internal linking (excessive internal linking isn’t an SEO concern, it won’t cause a penalty for link spamming) and manually add links to other domains so you can limit the number of links.
I use the default SEO Smart Links WordPress Plugin from: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links
Vladimir Prelovac creates some very good WordPress plugins, well worth a look at his other plugins: I use several including his Smart YouTube plugin http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/smart-youtube that makes it easier to add embedded YouTube videos (my wife appreciates this plugin for her sites a lot as it’s much easier for her to add a video using the plugin, she’s not as comfortable with code as I am
WP-PageNavi WordPress Plugin
This WordPress plugin adds a new navigation menu near the bottom of archive pages (home, category, monthly etc…). By default WordPress themes have a Next and Previous links which from an SEO perspective means deeper content does not get a great deal of PR/link power!
By installing WP-PageNavi archive pages will now link to up to 7 archive pages (can be configured to show more/less) including the first page and the last in that archive set.
What this means is search engine spiders will be able to find your deeper archive pages easier, so with LARGE blogs more of your deeper content should be indexed.
I’ve created a built in style sheet for this plugin for Talian 05.
I use the default WP PageNavi SEO Plugin from: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/
This plugin author also creates some interesting WordPress plugins, well worth a look.
WordPress SEO Super Comments Plugin for Talian 05
I use a customized version of the SEO Super Comments Plugin from http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins. I couldn’t get the original SEO super Comments plugin to work with Talian 05, so had to dig deep into the plugins code and using a combination of hacking the theme and the plugin got it working exactly how I want it. Unfortunately this means my version of the SEO Super Comments Plugin only works correctly with Talian 05, so I send it with the Talian 05 theme zip file to customers only.
The SEO super Comments plugins takes your comments and turns them into post like pages. See this post like comment page for an example:
http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html?cid=22683
The Talian Sales/support page has around 300 comments and most of them are indexed as post like comment pages in Google thanks to this plugin (they can gain their own traffic/SERPs).
I’ve made significant SEO improvements to this plugin including limiting the post like comments to only comments with a reasonable number of words. Changed the title element of these new pages from the same title as the post the comments are from to the first 20 words of the comment (makes them more SEO unique). Also improved the linking back to the original post and to other comments by the same author.
Last time I checked the original SEO Super Comments plugin won’t work correctly in WordPress 2.9+ because of canonical URL issues. Basically WordPress added canonical URLs to posts and the post like comment pages inherit the canonical URL (means they won’t be indexed by search engines). To get it to work with Talian 05 I disabled canonical URLs in the theme (using remove_action (‘wp_head’, ‘rel_canonical’); in the themes functions.php file) and build them at theme level for all pages except the post like comment pages.
If I could get it to work with all themes I’d release my version of SEO Supper Comments here.
Note to Stallion WordPress SEO Theme users, this is a Stallion theme feature (no need to install this plugin).
WordPress Twitter Plugins
You can gain low quality backlinks by using WordPress Twitter plugins such as the TweetMeme plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ which adds a small button (there’s one on this page, the green Tweet/ReTweet button) that will Tweet your posts to TweetMeme and on your Twitter acount (you need a Twitter account)
And the Tweet Old Posts plugin from http://www.ajaymatharu.com/wordpress-plugin-tweet-old-posts/ that Tweets Old Posts automatically based on your settings.
Your Twitter links (on your Twitter account) are nofollow so have no SEO value, but some sites that copy Twitter feeds don’t use nofollow and so they count as backlinks. Not high quality backlinks, but they all help.
SEO WordPress Plugins in General
You may have noticed most of the WordPress plugins above are not real SEO plugins, this is because I put as much of the SEO into the themes code. There are plugins like the All In One SEO WordPress plugin (see my All in One SEO Plugin Review) and the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin (see my Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review) that add meta tags, create custom title elements, but the WordPress template code is very versatile and so you don’t need these SEO plugins as long as when making a WordPress template you know what you are doing from an SEO perspective.
In the case of the All In One SEO Plugin and the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin if you don’t know what you are doing you can seriously damage your sites search engine optimization by adding thousands of nofollow/noindex links that delete link benefit/PR!!! I would never advise using the All In One SEO Plugin/Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin for those reasons, it adds nothing useful to a WordPress site and in the wrong hands can seriously damage SERPs!
If you’ve bought one of my templates and want to see how much effort goes into the SEO coding open up header.php into a text editor and compare it to a header.php from any other WordPress theme you have. All that code is how we get the targeted title elements in various types of blog pages rather than the standard title of most WordPress themes.
If you are one of my theme customers don’t use the All In One SEO Plugin and the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin it adds duplicate meta tags and messes the title elements of the theme up.
If you’ve bought a WordPress theme from the site and feel it would benefit from a specific plugin support (for SEO reasons mainly) please let me know. I wasn’t going to add widget support, but customers kept pestering me about it and they were right.
Old WordPress SEO Plugins no Longer Recommended
Alinks WordPress SEO Plugin
Been using the Alinks WP plugin for a while, not specifically an SEO plugin (no plugin on this page is really an SEO plugins), but when used correctly it makes using internal linking easy.
Open up the SEO Blog Templates with AdSense page and you’ll currently find 8 text links within the content of that blog post. I manually added 2 of those links (the Rounders and the Scribe BlogSpot links) the remaining 6 links are automatically added by the Alinks plugin.
When Alinks is installed you open up one of the modules, add a keyword and list where you want that keyword to link to when that word or phrase is used within a post.
For example I want the word SEO to link to the home page of my SEO Consultant Services site (so yes you can link to other sites as well).
Very useful from an SEO point of view since manually adding links to a large site is a pain, this takes the hard work out of internal linking.
No longer supported, use the “SEO Smart Links WordPress Plugin” above which is better.
Download Alinks SEO Plugin updated: January 2008.
Popularity Contest WordPress SEO Plugin
With this plugin installed all your posts are rated according to various factors including the number of comments. This score as represented as a % is then shown at the bottom of each post with 100% being very popular.
The top posts are then linked on the menu giving easy access to your most popular posts to visitors and search engines (if a post is popular adding more links is probably a good idea).
I wouldn’t use this with WordPress 3+, see the “Most Popular Posts WordPress Plugin” above (much better).
Download WordPress 2.5 Popularity Contest SEO Plugin updated: May 2008.
Please note the original Popularity Contest plugin no longer works with WordPress 2.5. Fortunately I found 2 fixes which are included in the file above to bring this plugin back to life
Download WordPress 2.3 Popularity Contest SEO Plugin updated: January 2008.
If you haven’t updated to WordPress 2.3 please use the file below.
Download Pre WP 2.3 Popularity Contest SEO Plugin updated: January 2008.
I no longer use this plugin because it’s not been kept up to date and it’s very heavy on server usage (a lot of MySQL queries) that’s caused issues on popular sites of mine. It’s a nice WordPress plugin, but needs updating and making more efficient and with the other Popularity Plugin I’ve found not needed.
David Law
Website - WordPress SEO
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Thanks David,
You have just saved my time, my efforts and my all frets (from SEO perspective) using wordpress.
Hello Dave,
I have just couldn’t find the term on which the ‘related posts plugin’ sorts for related posts.
secondly -- I realized that alinks does not work when simple tags is activated.
please advice,
Nissim
Related posts plugin needs setting up first, so check the readme file for instructions. If setup correctly there is no term to add or anything it’s all automated. This means sometimes you don’t get related posts listed on blogs with little content or on posts that you or I would expect to have related posts on. Like this page, there’s no related posts listed despite this page being related to lots of posts!
The aLinks and Simple Tags problem I’ve no idea what it could be, I’m running the aLinks (downloaded from this page) and Simple Tags 1.6.4 (slightly out of date) on http://www.elvincountry.com/ with no problems. Probably installed the Simple Tags at WordPress version 2.6 so maybe something changed, I only use it on a couple of sites.
I don’t offer support for these plugins as I didn’t write them.
In the readme files there are links to the original authors sites, maybe others have run into this problem and found solutions. Unfortunately the aLinks plugin authors site no longer works.
David Law
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Greeting David,
I have installed the theme and I tried install plugin alinks but it gives me a fatal error when I try to activate it. After I download the plugin I unzip it and FTP to sites/wp-content/plugins file. I have download it from your link twice and twice I get triggering fatal error. Any suggestions.
I activated SEO Post Teaser but it tells me that there is a 3.11.3 Version upgrade from 3.8. I presume I should not upgrade to 2.11.3 am I correct.
Thanks.
WordPress SEO Plugins
Hi,
Just tried to activate Related Post SEO and it is also giving me a fatal error. I am using Word Press 2.7.1.
Appreciate your help.
Hi Serge,
Not had that error with those plugins and have a lot of sites running the latest version of WordPress (2.7.1). Because you are getting multiple plugin problems suggests it’s not due to the plugins directly.
This is what I’d try.
Deactivate all plugins and trying those plugins independently, sometimes 2 plugins can’t run together?
Download the full version of WordPress 2.7.1 and upload it over your current files: if you have a corrupt file or an out of date file (messed up upgrade) this will fix it.
Note down the fatal error and do various Google searches see if others have had this problem.
Although I don’t think it’s the plugins at fault, unfortunately the original author of the aLinks plugin (headzoo.com) no longer updates the aLinks plugin, the domain above is no longer even live! As WordPress updates issues are going to develop, so far I’ve personally not had any problems with aLinks, but I’m sure eventually this plugin will stop working (WordPress 3.0 maybe
).
Every few months or so I take a quick look at what’s new in WordPress plugins, but so far not found a similar plugin to aLinks to replace it, I prefer to use plugins that are kept up to date, (right now I think 3 of the plugins above are no longer updated by the original authors) even if I find a new one that’s updated today there’s no guarantee that will be the case a year from now. So far been lucky with not having problems or been able to find sites online with new bug fixes.
My SEO version of the Post Teaser plugin has significant code alterations to make it work for better search engine rankings, I wouldn’t use the original plugin without the modifications since the link to the full post has terrible anchor text (“Read More” if I recall correctly).
Are you sure you are looking at the right plugin when you say it’s updated to 3.11.3, when I go to the site I got the original from it still says it’s version 3.8?
Hmm, looks like there is another plugin with the same name that is based on the original Post Teaser plugin (original no longer updated). WordPress plugin authors don’t make things easy
I’ll take a look at it and see if it’s better than the original Post Teaser. From the text seams there is a difference, original would clip the post at X characters, the new one cuts at the end of a paragraph. As long as your posts aren’t one big paragraph this could be a small improvement (it’s also kept up to date).
David Law
WordPress SEO Plugins
Thank you for the very and interesed plugins
Hi
Just to ask if you are doing AdSense customization. Want also to include into my existing website, thanks.
Very nice and informative list of wordpress plugins I think plugins play a vital role in optimizing your wordpress blog and all blogger should navigate and search for usefull plugins and implement them on their blog
Think you started blogging for the same reasons I did:,lucy
thanks, download adsense template in you site. In Russia no template for adsense.
keep getting an error message:
Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/online03/public_html/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 858
only happens with this theme. any work around?
I checked your site for the widget error and I saw two error messages, one above each sidebar.
Looked through Google and WordPress forums for this problem, found nothing on the WordPress forums, but there’s a LOT of pages indexed in Google with this error message running a lot of different themes. Many of the site with this error indexed in google don’t have the error when you load the site (either temporary error or they fixed it).
Couldn’t find any page discussing this error! When I went back to your site 10 minutes later the error was no longer there.
Did you fix it or did it fix itself?
If the latter would be something at your end (server issue for example).
Have another customer with another issue and by luck noticed the domain she is testing Talian on had a sub-domain (she’s running WordPress multisite) had this error message. I think the issue with her installation is host related (not enough server resources), but could be related to your problem and if you did find a fix would appreciate a point in the right direction.
Let me know if you have any more issues.
David
WordPress SEO Plugins
Hello David,
I did fix it myself. Since there are no widgits installed or nessessary, I went to the public_html/wp-includes and edited the PhP code. I removed the lines in question (858-860?), and it worked out great
The page was perfect on the main site, but on a sub-domain it gets screwed up.
HTH
Glad you got it to work, little concerned it required hacking core WordPress files. I’ve not tested Talian 05 on a WordPress multisite using sub-domains (didn’t cross my mind to use that option). I’ll give it a test over the next few days see if it’s an issue with sub-domains.
I’m thinking about rewriting the widget code for Talian, there’s a newer way to generate custom widgets now that allow users to set titles of widgets and other options and for some of the widgets that are specific to the theme would be useful to have that option.
Thanks for letting me know how you worked around the problem. If I find an issue I’ll post it on the Talian sales page and drop you an email with details.
David
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I purschased Talian and can’t download.Can you help?
Regarding downloading the Talian 05 zip file, a few customers (well under 1% of customers) have reported the download not completing after multiple attempts.
Don’t know why a download would fail multiple times, possible cause is your Internet cache folder is set too small. Though the Talian 05 zip file is just 2mb in size (big for a WordPress theme because of the 100 banner images) would mean you have a really small cache (understand the default is 50mb), so highly unlikely.
Not a problem if you can’t download the theme zip file, drop me an email or a comment here using the email address you ordered with (must be that email address so I can find you order) and I’ll email the file ASAP.
Your zip file has been emailed Larry.
Let me know if you run into any more problems.
David
WordPress SEO Plugins
Hi Dave,
Paid for and downloaded talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05.zip today. Had no trouble with the download.
Put it in my plugins dir, no problem, then clicked install. This is what came back:
Unpacking the package…
Installing the plugin…
Plugin installed successfully.
Looks ok, yes? Well…
Tried activating it with “Activate Plugin” link, received this msg:
“The plugin does not have a valid header.”
Tried the whole process again, then “Network Activate” (trying to use it with wp-mpp plugin as well -- is this part of the problem? wp-mpp seems to work just fine). Got the same msg:
“The plugin does not have a valid header.”
All the software seems to be in the right place; talian does not appear in the plugins list anywhere -- not active or inactive.
Am running as “Super Admin” -- intending to create subdir domains, blogs: eg, “subdom.mydomain.com” when working.
WordPress SEO Plugins
Talian 05 is a WordPress theme, (not a plugin) you’ve uploaded it to the wrong folder.
If you upload to the /wp-content/themes/ folder you’ll have access to Talian.
Let me know if you run into any more problems.
David
D’oh!
Mea ineptum. Got it now, and it works just fine.
Thanks for your patience, Dave.
Colin
hey there,
as far as wordpress pluggins that are supported and compatible with the latest talian theme, what are the best pluggins for gaining backlinks for seo. Thanks.
I’m not aware of any safe WordPress plugins that will automatically generate backlinks beyond getting your sites listed on sites that copy Twitter feeds and RSS feeds.
If you look at the top of this post there’s a little green Tweet/Retweet button. That’s a WordPress plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ (allows you and others to easily Tweet your posts) in combination with http://www.ajaymatharu.com/wordpress-plugin-tweet-old-posts/ (automatically tweets old posts based on settings) generates some low quality links (nothing special, but they all help). You need a Twitter account for the second plugin.
Before you asked this question didn’t really think of this as part of SEO, which is why they aren’t included in the plugin list (DOH!).
I’ve looked at plugins for adding sites to Digg etc… but the ones I’ve looked at add links (usually nofollow links) as the Digg type links. Nofollow is SEO damaging, so we shouldn’t use any plugins that add nofollow to our sites. I was in the process of converting a plugin to use javascript links (which if done correctly Google etc… ignores), but got distracted with other things
I’m looking at a WordPress plugin (in the testing phase) from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/copyfeed/ which allows you to add HTML code (links) into your RSS feeds so when your site is scraped for content you get backlinks. Unlikely to get high quality links, but they all help and once setup no input from the site owner.
You should be very careful with services that offer automated backlinks. Generally speaking the concept is a link farm, you add a plugin and you get links from others running the plugin (link farm).
Was reading about a plugin called BlogPress SEO Plugin that offers this as a service, but the plugin includes malicious code that can give the plugin author access to your Dashboard (hack your site)!
David
WordPress SEO Plugins
Hi Dave.
You kindly provided a multisite sitemap template for use with Talian on the MPP forum.
Do you have a SEO version of a sitemap that can be used on a standalone Talian site please or even a standalone non-Talian site.
happy to pay but I can’t find one on your site.
Many thanks
Nigel
There’s two built in sitemap pages with Talian, one is a basic sitemap that only links to the Posts and Pages of your site and the other does the same as the basic sitemap and links to the latest comments.
You can see the latest comments sitemap version in action on this site, the link is at the top right of the page on the navigation menu.
To use the sitemap templates, create a new blog Page (not a blog Post) and under “Page Attributes” >> “Templates” select one of the sitemap page templates.
Give the Page a title like Sitemap (you don’t need any content to the page, but you can add some if you want) and Publish the page. It will be added to your navigation menu like you see above.
David
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