Plugins and Themes to Supercharge SEO of WordPress Blog

Blogging is an easy way for college students and retired people to make money online. Anybody having good knowledge and experience about something can be a blogger, because he/she can share his/her personal experience with people searching solutions for their problems on internet. In return, the blogger can earn money via different ads platforms like Google AdSense and amazon affiliates.

Mostly used blogging platform is WordPress, because it's handy and free for everyone. Today I am going to share information of some excellent WordPress plugins and themes that you probably don't know about.

WordPress Themes

It's usual for newbie bloggers to search for WordPress themes with better SEO. The best frameworks in my opinion are thesis and genesis. Both have built-in options to enhance SEO of your blog.

Genesis

Genesis framework has options for adding meta tags for posts, categories and tags; these options are embedded in genesis while in other frameworks you have to install any third party SEO plugin to do this task. Also, hundreds of different skins are available on internet that are supported by genesis. Genesis's skins are minimal and considered as clean skins with visible text and images. Moreover, almost all SEO rules are followed in genesis framework; some of them are listed below.

    Using H1 tag for blog's title or tagline, it's upon you where you use it.
    No HTML and CSS errors are there in genesis.
    It automatically tells you about your article's SEO. Is it good or bad?

Also Google's spam head matt cutts also uses this framework for his own blog.

Thesis

Thesis also has features like genesis but it can't compete with genesis in terms of quality. Bloggers can consider it a good option to start their blog. But because of some admin panel bugs this theme isn't that much popular in bloggers. It also has eye-catching skins for every niche comprising wonderful colors and designs.

WordPress Plugins

Here I shall only discuss about three awesome plugins that can enhance your blog's SEO.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

It's an all in one SEO plugin for newbies. With the help of this plugin you can add meta titles, descriptions and tags anywhere in your blog. Furthermore, it provides built-in option to generate sitemap for your blog, so there is no need to install any other sitemap plugin. Breadcrumb navigation is important in any website, because it helps visitors to find their current place on blog; WordPress SEO by yoast also provides the option to trigger breadcrumbs on the blog.

WP External Links

After Google's algorithm penalizations (Penguin and Panda) it is essential for bloggers to optimize their blogs according to webmaster guidelines. If you have lots of dofollow external links, then your blog incorporates high risk of penalization by Google panda because it will consider your blog a "spam blog". WP external links plugin helps you to nofollow all external links available in your blog in articles, footer and sidebar.

SEO Friendly Images

If you want your blog's images to be searched in search engines, you should use image alt tag. This tag describes that what your image has, it's essential for all images because crawlers can't read the text available in images. It's difficult for bloggers to add alt tags to their blog's images, if the blog consists of images in huge amount. SEO friendly images adds image alt tag automatically to all images according to the page content, at which image is placed.