Top 3 WordPress SEO Plugins

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Every website aims to rank high on the search engine rankings. With Plugins, managing WordPress sites becomes a lot easier and fun. Fortunately, there are many plugins available for search engine optimization as well.



SEO Plugins give you a lot of customization options such as,

- Customizing the title of your website.
- Changing search engine titles of the pages and posts.
- Customize preview snippets.
- Analyze your SEO.
- Edit tags.
- Assist with keyword targeting.
- Measure readability score of your content.
- Creating a sitemap
- and much more.

Here is a list of top three WordPress SEO plugins.

All In One SEO



All In One SEO gives all the options on a single page. Many users may find it a bit overwhelming to deal with, but it can save you from the hassle of opening different pages to find different options. Each section of the page deals with different areas or set of features.

The help icon gives a description and a short documentation on the option. It provides a meta box for editing SEO settings post by post. While editing a post, you will find the SEO meta box below for editing. It offers advanced tools for each post and let you control indexing by search engines.

All In One SEO also comes with a lot of features such as Robots.txt, XML sitemap, SEO data importing and exporting, Bad Bot Blocker, Performance manager, etc.

To Sum Up

All In One SEO is an excellent SEO plugin packed with a lot of powerful features. It is best for those who own multiple sites, as a single license can be used for any number of websites.

Yoast SEO



Yoast is probably the most popular WordPress SEO plugin. It offers you all the flexibility that you need for optimizing your site for a good ranking. It lets you set up titles, meta descriptions, social sharing information for each post.

It is designed to be very beginner friendly so that everybody can start optimizing their site right away after installing the plugin. All the advanced options can be found in the Advanced menu, that you need to turn on manually.

Yoast gives SEO and readability recommendations for each post. These recommendations are beneficial while writing your posts, especially for the beginners. You can click the gear icon to switch to the advanced view. If you don't want the search engines to index or follow your page or post, you can do that in the advanced view. It also allows you to tweak the social settings for your posts.

Yoast's settings section has been divided into pages for different sets of features. Help is available on all the pages of the settings section. It comes with a variety of tools to cover various aspects of the SEO, such as XML Sitemaps, breadcrumb navigation, importing data from Google Webmaster tools, graph meta tags, robots.txt, importing or exporting SEO data, .htaccess editor, etc.

To Sum Up

Yoast offers a comprehensive set of tools. With all the options provided by Yoast, you can take care of SEO right from the Dashboard of your WordPress site. Yoast is liked by beginners and advanced users alike. Beginners like it for the ease of use and advanced users like it for the tonnes of extra features it offers. Yoast is very inexpensive if you own just one site, but you will have to buy separate licenses for each site if you own more than one website.

Premium SEO Pack



Premium SEO Pack is packed with a lot of cool features such as advanced social and link building features, SERP keyword rank tracking, page speed testing, sitemap creator, social share tracking, etc. It also offers a unique feature, called SEO Mass Optimization option. You can use this option to optimize multiple pages and posts at once.

It also comes with an inbuilt Google Analytics support. It helps a lot in tracking the results you achieve after tweaking your website. The social stats module shows the reach of your posts and pages. Its SERP tracking module shows how well your site is competing with other sites in the same niche.

To Sum Up

Premium SEO Pack is a fantastic utility for WordPress site owners. It offers many unique features that are extremely useful in a variety of circumstances such as social tracking, Analytics, etc.

Final Verdict

All of these SEO plugins do their jobs extremely well, and it is not easy to declare which one is better than the rest.

Yoast SEO, however, appears to be the best bet out of the three. It offers more features than the other two, and its content analysis tool truly stands out. For beginners, this tool alone can set them on the right track. 

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