9 Best WordPress SEO Plugins and Tools

Tangeer Mehedi
Sep 8, 2018 · 5 min read

Search engines are a major source of traffic for most websites. That’s why our users often ask us for suggestions and SEO supplements that can help improve the SEO of their WordPress sites. In this article, we will share 9 best WordPress plugins and SEO tools that will improve the SEO of your website.

Search engines are a major source of traffic for most websites. That’s why our users often ask us for suggestions and SEO supplements that can help improve the SEO of their WordPress sites. In this article, we will share 9 best WordPress plugins and SEO tools that will improve the SEO of your website.

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast

It is one of the most downloaded WordPress plugins of all time. Yoast WordPress SEO is a comprehensive solution for all your SEO needs on the site.

It allows you to add SEO title, meta description and meta keywords to each publication and page of your site.

You can also write custom titles for your main site, files, categories and label pages. It also adds Open Graph metadata, Twitter cards, Sitemaps and ping search engines every time you update your site.

The list of features for WordPress SEO is extremely long. See why we use WordPress SEO on WPBeginner and on all of our websites. After that, go to learn how to install and configure the WordPress SEO plugin.

2. SEMrush

SEMRush is a tool that professionals use to gather analysis and information from their competitors to help them improve their own SEO.

You can get information about organic keywords to rank, places where you can get backlinks, information about your competitor’s advertising strategies and much more.

SEMrush is a paid subscription and is used by thousands of SEO professionals around the world. It can provide you with a huge amount of data.

3. Google Keyword Planner

Nobody on the planet has more information about what people are looking for than the search giant, Google.

Did you know that you can get your own keyword ideas from Google using the Google Keyword Planner tool?

This free tool is offered to Google advertisers for free and anyone can use it. Its main objective is to show advertisers the keywords they can offer for their advertising campaigns. It also helps advertisers choose the right keywords by showing them an estimate of the search volume, the number of results and the level of difficulty.

As a content marketer or blogger, you can use this information to search for keywords with high search volume, great interest from the advertiser and, most importantly, keywords where you can easily surpass all other sites.

4. KeywordTool.io

Keyword Tool is one of the best free keyword search tools available at this time. It allows you to simply generate keyword ideas by typing a keyword. These keyword suggestions are collected based on Google’s auto-suggestion feature.

These keyword suggestions are a treasure trove of information. The autocomplete feature of Google suggests keywords based on how often a keyword is used for the search. This means that the best results are the most searched terms in Google for that particular keyword.

Keyword Tool is surprisingly fast, and the most important thing is that it is completely free for anyone to use it. You can use it to optimize the content on your WordPress site. It also allows you to get keyword suggestions from YouTube, Bing and App Store as well.

5. Link Explorer

Developed by Moz, this free tool allows you to verify the data of any domain name. You can see who is linking to that domain and what anchor texts they are using. In addition to that, Open Site Explorer offers a large amount of information, such as main pages, linking domains, which pages are linked to your site, etc.

This tool is free, but has daily search limits for each person.

To unlock all the power, you would need a Moz Pro Subscription that also gives you access to your other tools as well.

6. OutreachPlus

OutreachPlus is the best email reach software to crush your marketing goals. It comes with powerful features such as smart personalization, automatic replies, email information such as opening, answering, clicking on links and more.

It is super easy to use and has a built-in email client that ensures that your emails do not end up in spam. You can add multiple email accounts, tracking prospects and get a 360 degree view of your campaigns. This is a great tool to get backlinks, press mentions and connect with influential people. This will help you increase the authority and generate traffic for your website.

7. Broken link checker

Broken links can not only create a bad experience for your users, but they can also affect the SEO of your site. If you have been running a blog for some time, then you should check your site from time to time looking for broken links and fix them.

Broken Link Checker is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to find broken links on your WordPress site. You can then correct those links without even editing your publications. See our tutorial on how to repair broken links in WordPress with Broken Link Checker.

It is a very useful complement, and it is totally free. The only drawback is that it can consume many resources and can slow down your server. Some hosting providers such as WPEngine have already blocked this plug-in on their servers.

8. Rel. No Follow checkbox

When you link to an external site, you are giving part of the authority of your site to that link. If you do not want to do that, then you can add a nofollow attribute to that link.

In fact, you can even make all external links not appear in WordPress. But this might not be a great idea. At some point, you may want to give a save link to really useful sites.

Rel NoFollow Checkbox is a simple WordPress plugin that adds a check box in the pop-up window of the WordPress ticket editor. This pop-up window already has a checkbox that allows you to open links in a new tab. Now, when you add an external link, you can easily do it by simply checking a box.

9. SEOquake

SEOquake is an SEO tool available as a browser plug-in for web browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari. Provides information related to SEO for any website. These information parameters include page rank, age, last update, alexa range and many other parameters. It is one of the most downloaded browser add-ons by SEO professionals.

Apart from that, the SEOquake toolbar can show you all these parameters for all the search results. This information can be extremely useful if you are evaluating the competition for different keywords. You can even download search results in CSV format and prepare your own Excel data sheets for search.

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