What are the best WordPress plugins for SEO?

[Keyur]

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There are so many SEO plugins available for WordPress CMS. I’m aware of the popular ones like Yoast SEO, All in one SEO, Simple 301, etc. What is your list of must-haves?

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[Ritika]

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I believe WordPress is the most SEO-friendly platform. There are numerous plugins available to simplify what is an otherwise overwhelming task for you.
Here’s my list of must-have WordPress plugins:

Yoast SEO
It is currently the industry standard for optimizing WordPress sites. Handles complete technical aspect of SEO for your site.

All in One SEO pack
AIOSEO offers sitemap generation, meta tag optimization, canonical URL handling, Google Analytics support, automatically notifies search engine about changes in site and a lot more.

Simple 301
Let’s you redirect requests to another page or elsewhere, thus, preserving link juice and maintaining URL structure of the site.

Broken Link Checker
Blessing in disguise for blogging sites! This plugin monitors your blog for broken links and notify you if any are found.

W3 Total Cache
Improves overall site performance by reducing page load time, browser caching, quick page rendering, minification of resources, and more.

Squirrly SEO
A content expert consultant right next to you, advising you on all the information necessary to write great content that is both and human-friendly and SEO-friendly.

Google XML Sitemaps
Provides a complete XML sitemap for search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo to better index your site. A striking feature of this plugin is that it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

SEO Slugs
Strips common words like “what”, “you” or “can” out of your post slug or post URL to make it more search engine friendly. Very handy for blogging sites.

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