I don’t need to repeat the same thing that WordPress is an open platform for the creation of a website that is based on MySQL and PHP.

All of us associated with this field knows it well. But, it is more important to ensure that your WordPress blog is SEO friendly also.

Now the question is, “How to determine whether your site adheres to the parameters of SEO?”

It’s simple! Implementation of the WordPress SEO plugins to your blog can magically enhance the traffic that was previously coming to your website.

Thanks to the technology that does so much for us. We just need to make use of these tools for our website’s bang on performance.

The article highlights a few of the popular as well as the top SEO plugins for the WordPress site that can do wonders and can help you stand out in your prospects.

Yoast SEO Plugin
This one is not only my favorite but the choice of many others out there. It’s free, it’s easy to use and above all, offers the best advice when it comes to the implementation of the Search Engine Optimization tricks.

Though you can also buy its paid version with additional benefits, but believe me, its free version is as good.

Features

Offers you the liberty to add meta keywords, meta description, and SEO title to every page of the site.
You can tag pages, customize pages and images and can also add SEO title and description to the pictures.
Pings the search engines each time you update a page on your website.
Many other features make it a hot favorite of all the digital marketers and bloggers out there. Just give this WP SEO plugin a try for exploring it to its optimum.

Google XML Sitemaps
Sitemap helps the search engine bots to discover your blog’s link. It is necessary for every site owner to create a sitemap for his/her blog and then submit it to Google Webmaster and Bing Webmaster tool

so that the bots can crawl and index your website in a quicker pace.

Now the question here is, how to do it? This is where the role of Google XML sitemaps comes into play.

The feature of Sitemap has been added to Yoast plugin recently, and you can use it without hassles.

Broken Link Checker Plugins
This is again a popular SEO WP plugin that serves as a messiah for removing broken links and fix redirections. It is effortless to install and serves as a necessary audit plugin for SEO.

Before we proceed, let’s have a detailed analysis of what is broken links. Broken links are the dead links containing a 404 error code.

This error usually occurs when a page is removed from some website, and when a visitor tries to open that link, they get 404 error. When search engine bots discover these links, they negatively affect your website.

Hence, this tool redirects the visitor to your website without causing any harm to its search engine rankings.