Chapter 5

Exploring Popular SEO Plugins

IN THIS CHAPTER

Check Using plugins for SEO best practices

Check Breaking down your SEO configuration options

Check Generating site maps

Check Using redirect plugins

Check Adding pagination

When you have the concepts of search engine optimization (SEO) down and the beginnings of your strategy properly mapped out, you can install the tools you need. In this chapter, I go through some of the most popular SEO-related plugins. All these plugins have good developers behind them and good track records.

Several plugins in the WordPress Plugins page assist with SEO, so it’s hard to decide which ones to use. In Book 7, I cover plugins in detail, but in this chapter, I discuss the most common plugins, as well as the ones that I use myself, because they’re solid, reliable plugins that deliver good SEO results.

Exploring Must-Use Plugins for SEO Best Practices

Here are the plugins that this chapter covers:

  • Yoast SEO: Gives you complete control of the search-engine optimization ...

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