11. Google XML sitemap for Videos
As you can tell from the name, this plugin will generate you an XML sitemap for the videos embedded on your website. The only drawback I can see here is the limitation I can see here is there is no mention of pulling in videos that use video sharing websites other than YouTube.
Despite the limitation, this is a handy little plugin.
12. Google XML Sitemap for Mobile
If your website or blog uses a responsive layout that resizes automatically to fit various devices and monitor sizes then you won’t need this plugin, however if you have a mobile site that is completely different to your main website then you will find this plugin incredibly useful.
This is a great way of letting search engines know about your mobile website but it’s also recommended that you add canonical tags on your mobile pages so that there is no chance of having any duplicate content issues.
13. Google XML sitemap for Images
Another handy XML sitemap generating plugin for you here that will build a sitemap for you that contains links to all of the images you’ve got attached to posts or pages on your website.
There’s not much to it, install, activate and click generate and the sitemap will be built for you.
14. SEO Friendly Images
This plugin was created by Vladimir Prelovac who has created some great plugins and even browser add-ons in the past.
SEO Friendly Images is a really straight forward plugin that will add title and alt attributes to all of the images on your site.
You can choose exactly what piece of data you want to pull in to form the alt tags and title tags. You can choose to use the post title, image file name, category or tags and you can also use any combination of these to give some well varied alternate/title tags.
15. Local Search SEO Contact Page
This is an extremely useful SEO plugin for local businesses or agencies/individuals that work with local businesses.
With a few clicks you can populate an entire contact page with your business name, address, opening hours, phone number, payment methods, links to social profiles, embeddable Google Maps.
This plugin also supports rich snippets and gives you the option to use customisable QR codes.
This is HUGE time saver.
16. SEO Content Control
When you’ve got a lot of posts on your site it can be difficult to identify opportunities for improving your content. The end goal is to get more traffic to your site by making your site more visible in search but where do you start when you’ve got a lot of posts?
This plugin allows you to easily find the posts on your site where you’ll be able to get quick wins by adding to existing content and tidying things up.
17. SEO Data Transporter
The problem with SEO meta data within WordPress is that it can be quite easy to lose that data when you swap plugins or themes.
Some plugins like WordPress SEO by Yoast come with some powerful import/export features and other plugins like All in One SEO (the free version) can lock in your data giving you no room to export which is a nightmare.
This plugin allows you to easily transport data between plugins and theme frame works (a lot of theme frameworks will have internal SEO options so you don’t always need a plugin).
Imagine if you had no coding experience and had to migrate data on a 500 page website by hand – ouch!
18. Google Analyticator
In order to understand what’s going on with your website, its traffic and also how visitors interact with the website you need a comprehensive set of analytics data.
There a lot of different alternatives but Google Analytics is powerful, free and easy to setup so is a common choice for most.
The only thing is that you need to tracking code to each of your pages to make this work, this is easy to do with certain themes but outside of that you might end up having to edit some code – if that’s not something you’re comfortable with then this plugin is a great option for you.
Setup is simple, just add your tracking ID, select enable and you’re off.
One of my favourite features that is included with this plugin is ability to exclude logged in users from your Google Analytics data, you can choose to exclude based on different roles too.
There are a lot of additional features for you to get more out of this plugin including outbound link tracking, download link tracking, dashboard website, site speed tracking and more.
19. Comment Contact Exporter
I love the idea behind this plugin because from an outreach perspective it’s a great way to build a list of contacts that know who you, fast.
The Comment Contact Exporter will export your data to a CSV file and will include email addresses, URLs and names of commenters.
You can also connect to the SEOMoz API to pull in domain metrics which will make organising the contacts you’ve exported very straight forward.
20. SEO Rank Reporter
I personally feel that monitoring rankings within search engines is becoming less and less valuable as time goes on due to the number of personalisation factors within Google. It’s gotten to the point where just searching in a different browser can alter the results that you find slightly.
Despite that, tracking rankings is still a great way of getting an overall picture of what’s going on and can highlight potential issues.
Just add your keywords and you’re ready to go, SEO Rank Reporter will update your rankings every 3 days and display them in a graph and table layout. You can also see start dates, rankings at start, current rank and change in rankings.
You will also be able to see how many visits you’re getting from the different keywords but this feature will become less and less useful as the rate of the dreaded “not provided” keywords increases.
Note: If you manage client websites or you wish to track a large number of keywords you may be best off looking at an online rank tracking tool instead of this plugin.
Summary
There you have it, 20 of the top free SEO plugins for WordPress, plenty for you to be trying out and testing.
Remember that you don’t need all of these plugins, every website installation is slightly different, some plugins you may need because they give you features that you don’t have with a WordPress theme and others you may need because a theme is lacking.
Use as much as you need, but don’t fill up your site with plugins that don’t add any real value to your site or help towards accomplishing the goals of your website.
What I’m trying to say is, be selective.
Which SEO related plugins are using right now on your WordPress based site? Let us know in the comments below.
Source http://designyea.com/2013/wordpress-seo-plugins/
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