Chapter 4
Exploring Popular SEO Plugins
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using plugins for SEO best practices
Automating SEO tasks with the Yoast SEO plugin
Generating site maps with the XML Sitemap Generator for Google plugin
Redirecting traffic to your site with the Redirection plugin
Optimizing page performance with the WP-Optimize plugin
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 of these plugins have good developers behind them and good track records.
Several plugins in the WordPress Plugins page (https://wordpress.org/plugins/) 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.