In this section we will see that with all the plugins we can facilitate many of the tasks in the field of onpage SEO at both structuring of posts, load speed and many other aspects. Without these plugins, these tasks would be pretty much heavier tasks. We also recommend using the minimum number of essential plugins on our WordPress blog, since they are pieces of code that do not have a direct relationship between them and can even cause incompatibilities with each other.
SEO Plugins Road
1. WordPress SEO by Yoast
2. All in One SEO Pack
It is also one of the most used Plugins. This WP plugin is also one of the best WP SEO Plugins and it is rival of WordPress plugin by yoast. Both of these plugins have almost similar functions. It also works very well and you could select one or the other which depends on the Compatibility of either plugin with your template.
SEO Plugins for internal linking
1. SEO Smart Links
This WP plugin assists you to put internal links to your site automatically. You could choose the keywords to link with your best articles. By using it, you can develop the bounce rate and also spending the authority and position of the older posts to the new posts. It is a good way to do internal link. We can also do internal linking manually, but this plugin makes it is so much easier.
2. Broken Link Checker
It checks all of your pages and automatically and informs you if it finds a link that is broken or does not exist anymore. Using this plugin would be very helpful because Google ranking bases on the links and Google does not like the pages or posts with broken links. In addition to that, it also notifies you if an image does not exist anymore. It is available for free.
3. 404 Redirect
It is very important and necessary plugin because it will collect all 404 errors and notifies you.
SEO plugins for optimizing images
1. Smush it
It is a simple nut useful plugin that let you to decrease your weight of images to upload. It doesn’t alter the size of the image it only compresses them. This will advance loading speed of your blog.
2. SEO Friendly Image
As mentioned above, Google does not recognize the images so it's must to add a description and alternate text in all. By using this plugin, you can to automatically fill the image descriptions with the respect to title of the post. By using this plugin, your website will not have images without any description.
3. Regenerate Thumbnails
This plugin recreates all thumbnails with new sizes that you assign to them, so you could easily tailor your whole library images to new sizes that are used in your template and thus reduce load time of your blog or website.
Various WordPress SEO optimization plugins
1. Google XML Sitemaps
It helps you in creating a new sitemap of your site for each time you are posting something new.
2. Google XML sitemap for Video
This creates video positioning for every video file that you set. This is a great plugin to have an impact in search results for visibility for your videos as it displays image of you video in the search results like you see for YouTube videos. It's a way great to get traffic from Google.
Load speed SEO WordPress plugins
1. BJ Lazy Load
This plugin makes the content visible when they are loaded by the user. This removes the load at the beginning of everything and improves load times. It may help if your page uses many plugins and pictures and displays content costing a few less seconds.
2. Google Page Speed Insights
This plugin uses the tool Google Page Speed to give you advice and recommendations to lighten your page. Google gives you a score from 0 to 100 failures and tells you how to correct them.
3. W3 Total Cache
The cache is a copy of elements that stores your web browser reader. This means that there are elements that do not have to re-download.