11 wordpress plugins you must have, to start a SEO friendly website

As we all know, wordpress is very popular these days and being used as a CMS for websites mostly. Here is a list of 9 plugins which you must have in order to start a successful, robust and SEO friendly website.

All in one SEO pack

This plugin will help you a lot to make your website SEO friendly. You can setup meta tags, titles, advanced canonical URLs for your site and a lot more.

WordPress.com Stats

You can simply enter your wordpress.com account API key and this plugin will do the rest.

WP Super Cache

This plugin will cache your wordpress pages and posts for repeating users. You can also configure it not to cache for registered users of your site.

Google Sitemap Generator

This plugin will help you generate XML sitemaps of your website and will automatically update Google and Yahoo when you update your website.

Akistmet

This will simply discard spam comments from your website.

Wickett Twitter Widget

It will display tweets from your twitter account on your website’s sidebar.

Custom Permalinks

This will allow you to setup custom permalinks for any page or post you like. In fact you can setup html extensions to your posts and pages.

AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Button

This is also a required plugin where your site visitors can easily bookmark your website’s pages and share with their friends on other social media like facebook and twitter etc.

Google Analytics for WordPress

As it says, you have to use it to setup Google Analytics in your website. You will be able to monitor and track your website’s traffic.

SEO Friendly Images

Images on your website play very important role in regards to SEO. This plugin will allow you to tag your images properly and save your hours of manual work.

Robots Meta

The SEO friendly websites must define Meta Robots in the pages. This plugin will do it for you.