Chapter 5: Exploring Popular SEO Plugins

In This Chapter

  • Using plugins for SEO best practices
  • Breaking down your SEO configuration options
  • Generating sitemaps
  • Using redirect plugins
  • Adding breadcrumbs and pagination

You've made it this far, which means that you have the concepts of SEO down and the beginnings of your strategy properly mapped out: Now you need to install the tools. In this chapter, we go through some of the most popular SEO-related plugins. All these plugins have a good developer behind them and a good track record.

Several plugins in the WordPress plugin directory assist with SEO, so it's hard to decide which ones to use. In this chapter, we provide you with the plugins that are the most common, and the ones that we use ourselves, because they are some of the more-solid and reliable plugins available that bring good SEO results.

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