We have rated, ranked and categorized some of the best and most popular Wordpress plugins to use on your blogs. These are sorted below by functionality so you can pick and choose which ones you think will enhance your blog. Keep in mind the more plugins you add, the more “bloat” there is to your code and having extremely high amounts of plugins can slow down your page load times. We don’t recommend installing all the plugins on this list, simply use this list as a tool to find ones that are most applicable to what you want to do. If you find you are not using a plugin, you should deactivate it so that it doesn’t negatively affect your site speed.

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Plugins which enhance SEO (search engine optimization):

• Google XML Sitemaps Generator – This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
• Broken Link Checker – A plugin for WordPress that checks your posts for broken links, and lets you know if any are found.
• All In One Seo Pack – Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box
• Enforce www. Preference – This plugin will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.
• Quick META Keywords – The Quick META Keywords Wordpress Plugin will automatically add META Keywords tags to every single post on your wordpress blog. The keywords will be derived from the categories under which the article is categorized.
• SEO Friendly Images – automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes

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