With thousands of blogs already in existence, and thousands of new ones coming up every day, its really tough for a new blog to catch the attention of the web world. Its tough, but definitely attainable, provided you are equipped with proper SEO strategies.

No matter how much quality you inject in your contents, unless you are playing your SEO stratagems wittily, you will end up among the lamenters. So if you own a WordPress blog, and are serious to make it a success, then you better chalk out a proper WordPress blog promotion plan.

To help you in your cause, we have here provided you with a list of some SEO plugins for your WordPress blog.

All in One SEO Pack:

This is probably the most popular and most useful plugin for SEO. This plugin is developed in such a way that it works just great for both the beginners as well as the advanced level users. This pack comes with some very useful features, like,

• Automatic META tag generation
• Helps you to avoid duplicate content
• Automatic optimization of you titles for search engines
• Fine tuning of Page Navigational links.
• Canonical URLs

Redirection:

Each of the post in your blog has a unique URL, which is called permalink. It has often been observed that while making some changes or adjustments in a blog, one ends up breaking the permalink structure. This affects the overall traffic toll to your blog, as due to the broken permalink structure, many of your visitors won’t be able to find a blogpost while following such links.

This can be avoided by a 301 redirection, and this Redirection Plugin helps you in doing that. This helps you to reduce the number of traffic to pages of your blog that simply do not exist.

Automatic SEO links:

Automatic SEO link plugin helps you to put your links automatically. This provides you with the facility, where you will just have to choose the words and the corresponding links, this Automatic SEO plugin will do the rest by replacing all the matches in the post of your blog.

Meta Robots:

Search engine robots by default crawl your blog to index it pages. Its goods from the point of your search engines popularity, but sometimes this can also backfire as it creates duplicate contents sometime giving birth to the chance of getting punished by the search engines. So ideally you should make your pick about the pages you want search engine robots to view. This Meta Robots plugin helps you in doing that.

SEO friendly images:

This plugin helps to set the image tags easily and thus saves hours of work behind it.

Google Positioner:

This plugin comes with a facility that offers you to select your keywords according to a result that tells for which keywords you are getting searches. This makes you proactive rather than reactive.

SEO Slugs:

This plugins help you to remove stop words from permalinks. Stop words can affect your search engine ranking, as they are ignored by search engines. So their presence will do more harm than good.

Google XML Sitemaps:

This plugin helps you to create sitemaps for Google, and it can be read by all other major search engines like, MSN, Yahoo and ASK.

HeadSpace2:

This plugin helps you with stuffs like, installing meta-data, adding specific Java Scripts and CSS to pages and more.

SEO Post Link:

Post slug or the blog title that can be seen in a browser’s URL bar, plays a major role from the SEO point of view. A very long post slug can be adored by the search engines, so it must be trimmed to a shape that is just perfect for search engine’s liking.  And this plugin does a great job in helping you do that.

Plugins are tools that provide you the additional functionalities to your blog. And with the availability of thousands of plugins, you can do almost anything with your blog. You are also given the privilege of developing your own plugins and use them in your blog. While the installation of some plugins is just a drag-and-drop task, the installation procedure for some can be quite bothersome.

Let us get acquainted with it through a step by step depiction;

1. Go to the WordPress site and surf through the list of plugins to select the one most suited for your purpose. Buy your time to select, as there are several alternatives available for almost every type of plugin. And a wrong selection will only magnify your headache.
2. Download the zip file containing the plugin to your computer, unzip it, and save the files, preferably on your desktop in a folder for future convenience.
3. Now move the unzipped files to the root directory of your local website, so that you can easily transfer them to your web server later on, via a FTP program.
4. Open your FTP program, log into your site’s root directory, and find the folder containing your WordPress plugin files.
5. Find the folder named, ‘wp-content’, and open the ‘plugins’ folder within it.
6. Transfer all the Word Press application files to this ‘plugins’ folder using FTP.
7. Now, log into your WordPress site, open your admin dashboard and look for the ‘plugins’ link. On clicking this link, you will get to see the plugin you just uploaded.
8. Now select the plugin by clicking on the checkbox, and then simply click on the ‘activate’ link to see your plugin live.