What are the best SEO tools and plugins that we can recommend if we asked this often?
Search Engines are the major traffic source on the internet, and this is the reason.
With the help of Optimizing your websites can help you rank higher in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) and grow your brands significantly.
In this blog, we will talk about tools and plugins of WordPress that you should use. Some of the tools have similar functionalities, so we will also highlight which ones are the best for specific use cases.
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Things You Must Know About WordPress SEO Plugins & Tools
When you are reading about Worldpress SEO Tips and tricks or when you search on Google or Bing keyword “best free WordPress SEO Plugins”, you will come across so many articles that feature so many different types of tools.
They can be overwhelming and non-techy for the users.
To get a higher ranking you don’t need so many tools this is the truth.
For instance, you never wanted to use more than one plugin of WordPress on your site. Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress, and All in One SEO (formerly All in One SEO Pack) will mention. To avoid plugin conflict you need to pick one plugin.
SEMRush, Ahrefs, and other power tools we will mention, you don’t need all of them when you start first since they have similar features that tools we use in the business share, and
which features are the best among each tool?
Let’s look first at WordPress plugins and Tools.
- All-in-One SEO for WordPress (AIOSEO)
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In the WordPress Market, All in One SEO for WordPress is the best WordPress plugin. Which is used by 3+ million users, without learning any complicated SEO jargon it helps you to improve search rankings and is used by 3+ million users.
The essential features are provided on the free version, but if you use the pro version it will help to outrank the competitors.
It comes with the easiest wizard setup which automatically helps you choose the best SEO settings for your business. AIO SEO provides you with TruSEO on-page analysis with a checklist that is actionable to optimize your pages and posts.
The on-page SEO checklist contains a smart meta tag generator where you can use dynamic values (month, day, current year, custom fields, author info, and much more) in your meta description and SEO title. You don’t need to update a post to change SEO titles this means.
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With Rich Snippet schema markup AIOSEO also comes with, smart XML sitemaps (with advanced controls), other useful features, and also SEO health checks to grow your visibility search engines.
To add Open Graph metadata there is a built-in social media integration. You can choose with a thumbnail or image this means you wanted to show your pages are shared on social media sites like Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Snapchat, Tik Tok, etc.
They have also a powerful schema generator that helps you get star ratings and other rich snippets in Google.
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WooCommerce SEO tools for eCommerce Websites are also included in AIOSEO. The features included individual product page optimization, dynamic optimization, product image SEO, and other features which are handy features to bring more organic traffic to your e-commerce store.
It includes full control of RSS feeds for more SEO-savvy users, local SEO, Robots.txt editor, breadcrumbs, Advanced redirect manager, Google News Sitemaps, Video SEO, IndexNow Integration, 404 tracks, and many more.
It has SEO user roe for business owners, so you can access and manage important SEO fea without handing over control of your site.
Far From other SEO plugins,tures AIOSEO provides a game changer for internal linking which is Link Assistant. With its help of it you can identify link opportunities, provides suggestions in real-time, and internal links can be bul-add with just a few clicks.
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AIO SEO added recently a Search Statistics add-on with the help of which you can track keywords, you can also see search insights and much more right inside your dashboard WordPress.
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(AIOSEO) overall is the comprehensive and most beginner-friendly WordPress SEO plugin on the market available. You can easily configure it and stop the need to install so many plugins to do things on your WordPress Website.
To get started and don’t have a budget you can freely use AIOSEO.
Also, we have created a blog on 33 unique things you should know if you use AIOSEO.
- SEMRush
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On the overall market, SEMRush is the best tool. Which is used by SEO professional experts, bloggers, marketers, and small and large businesses, it gives a comprehensive set of tools that can be used to grow your website traffic.
With its help of it, you can easily find organic keywords and search terms which you can easily rank for and how you can beat them in rankings.
The SEO Writing Assitant tool to beat the top 10 results helps to improve results for your focus keyword. WordPress is integrated with it and with the help of this you can write SEO-friendly content.
With the help of it you can also generate SEO templates and easily get SEO (Search Engine Optimization) suggestions for your content Advanced SEO recommendations.
To help you find extra keyphrases for your focus keyphrase SEMRush seamlessly integrates with All in One SEO (AIOSEO). After that, with a click of a button, you can add them to your content.
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If you are interested in learning more about keyword research we have created a blog on how to do keyword research for your niche website.
SEMRush’s competitive intelligence and SEO rank tracker features are the reasons why we use SEMRush.
- Google Search Console
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Google tool which is Google Search Console is free and is used for website owners and monitor webmasters and maintain their presence in Google SERP (Search Engine Result Pages).
It cautions you when Google is not able to index or crawl your website. You can also get helpful tips on how how to fix those crawl errors.
The most important thing it shares which keywords your website is ranking for, average position, anchor text, impressions, and many more things. With the help of this tool, you can find keywords where you can rank easily higher by optimizing your content simply. For your keywords to cam up with new blog post ideas you can use this tool.
- Yoast SEO
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Yoast SEO allows you to optimize your WordPress Website for Search Engine which is a very popular WordPress SEO plugin.
With its help of it, you can add easily SEO descriptions and titles to all pages and posts on your site. You can add also social media images and Open Graph metadata to your article.
With the help of Yoast SEO, you can generate automatically XML Sitemaps for all your website content which makes it easy for crawlers for search engines to crawl your website. With its help of it, you can import easily your SEO data if you have been using another SEO plugin.
Readability Analysis, Google and Social previews, and faster load time for better user experience are some of the features of these tools which are included.
If you are interested in knowing more details about this tool do check out this tool on how to install and set up the Yoast SEO plugin in WordPress.
- Google Keyword Planner
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Google another Google keyword planner which can help you create your keyword ideas from Google itself.
Expect Google no one has more insights into what people are searching. Anyone can use it for free. It helped to show advertisers the keywords they can bid on for their advertising campaigns.
You can also use it to advertise the right keyword by showing them the search volume estimated, difficulty level, and the number of results.
You can use this data to find keywords with high search volume as a content creator, high interest in advertisers, and more importantly keywords where you can outrank easily all other websites.
- Ahrefs
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For marketers, bloggers, and businesses Ahref is an all-in-one SEO analysis tool. It competitor and alternative to SEMRush and provide so many tools and features which are similar.
With its help of it, you also do keyword research, backlink research, competition analysis, SEO audit, keyword ranking monitoring, and more.
You can also use it for content analysis which helps you improve content while targeting specific keywords.
Backlink Analysis is the most helpful feature. This tool tells which websites are linking to multiple competitors, but not us. This helps us to build more partnerships and get more backlinks.
We can also find content multiple of our competitors are ranking for that we aren’t so that we can create a strategy on those subjects to get more exposure.
There is another benefit of this tool to identify keyword cannibalization and duplicate content which will help us upgrade and merge the right content to boost our rankings.
We pay for both SERRush and Ahrefs for the above reasons because they are both good for specific use cases.
- SEOPress
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Another simple but very powerful plugin of WordPress. This includes all the features which you would expect from an SEO plugin like meta title, description, image, open graph and content XML sitemaps, redirects, and many more.
For beginners, it comes with a straightforward setup, and For advanced controls for more experienced users.
The paid version costs less money compared with the premium WordPress SEO plugin on the market.
Note: SEOPress is a WordPress SEO plugin. Always remember you only need one SEO plugin on your website.
- Rank Math
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We have another plugin that is uuser-friendlywandaallowsyou t optimize your site for both social media and search engines. It comes with a wizard setup and authorizes you to import data from other plugins of SEO during the setup
With its help of it, you can add easily meta titles descriptions, and also Open Graph metadata to your blog post. XML Sitemaps can be also generated from this WordPress plugin features based on user roles
Note: AIOSEO alternative is Rank Math. Always remember for your website you only need one WordPress SEO plugin.
- Schema Pro
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With the help of Schema Pro, you can add rich snippets to your site which makes it stand out in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)
Top plugins of Worldpress such as (AIOSEO) All in One Seo add already structured rich snippets of data to your site. However, if you need more schema types or wanted to extend the functionality of your existing WordPress SEO plugin then Schema Po is for you.
Mapping the plugin data to the Schema Pro field schema pro allows you to use it alongside your existing WordPress SEO plugin.
- KeywordTool.io
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Right now keywordtool.io is one of the best free keyword research tools. With its help of it, you can easily generate keyword ideas by typing in a keyword. Google autosuggest features help to gather those suggestions. From Bing, Youtube, Amazon, and, more websites it shows you keyword suggestions.
Treasures of information are these keyword suggestions. Search volume, CPC (Cost per Click), and other data for each keyword you can get by upgrading to their paid plan.
- Redirection
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You can also use Redirection to set up redirects in your WordPress website which are SEO-friendly. It is a handy broken link checker which helps you fix easily 404 errors in WordPress by setting up redirects.
Broken links can create a bad experience for your users and can affect your website’s SEO. You should check your website from time to time for broken links and fix them if you have been running a blog for some time.
There are so many ways to find easily broken links in your WordPress website. You may need to fix the broken links by pointing users to the correct one or removing the incorrect link.
If you want to know more details about broken links check this blog on how to find and fix broken links in WordPress.
Alternative: AIOSEO Advanced Redirects is an alternative to the very powerful Redirection Plugin.
- SEOQuake
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For website owners, SEOQuake is a useful SEO tool. It is easily available for browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari Web browsers.
Any website provides SEO-related information. This data includes page health, age, last updated, Alexa rank, and many other parameters. It is one of the most downloaded browse addons by professionals SEO.
