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3 of the best SEO plugins for WordPress that your blog shouldn't be without

There are so many SEO plugins for WordPress, some better than others of course, some don’t do all that much but below are 3 great plugins that I have been using that would be incredibly useful on any WordPress Site.
SEO Ultimate – I think this great plugin deserves more recognition than it’s gotten up till now. I have never seen a plugin with such a massive array of features, this does everything that All In One SEO, also throws in the same functionality found within SEO Smart Links and a number of other plugins it is essentially the swiss army knife of WordPress plugins. Some examples of its additional features include; code inserter (for use with adding Google Analytics, Adsense section targeting etc) Webmaster verification assistant, Link Mask Generator, Robots.txt editor and you can even export your SEO Ultimate settings to a file so you can import later or use on another blog if you need to, along with support for importing post meta data from the All In One SEO plugin – and there is more, simply a must have for your blog.

SEO friendly images – It seems like a lot of people will focus more on the off page SEO rather than on page, which itself plays a huge roll in drawing traffic to your site from search engines. Out of all of the on page factors, image ALT & TITLE tags seems to be one of the most underused. This great plugin will automatically update all images with ALT and TITLE tags, the plugin will even add these tags to images that do not have them according to the options you have selected.

Google XML Sitemaps – This is a very useful WordPress plugin, it will create an XML sitemap for your site that will allow it to be indexed better by the major search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com. Search engines crawlers will be able to use it to see the full structure of your site and notify them whenever any new content is added.

XML sitemaps are very useful as they allow search engines to index pages that are not linked to your site that you wish to be indexed. It tells them the last modified date of pages, how frequently a page is updated so the crawlers know when to check back for new content or updated content and it will allow you to indicate the priority of particular pages within your site.

Get The Best WordPress Hosting

Since it was introduced in 2003 WordPress has grown to power several million websites and is the most popular tool for blogging (when hosting your own blog). Whilst it was initially a platform for blogs it has evolved into a Content Management System which can be made to look and behave as you require, without the need for any technical expertise.

Having decided to use WordPress you need to make the most of this by getting the best WordPress Hosting. It is not true to say that all hosting companies are the same. Whilst most Linux based hosting packages will run WordPress not all hosts make it easy to set-up and not all provide support if you have problems (as they see it as third party software).

What you need for best WordPress Hosting is a hosting provider which specifically advertises their support for WordPress and also has a good reputation for their service in general and their support in particular.

Without hesitation I can recommend HostGator. They exceed the technical requirements by running the most up to date versions of the supporting software (web server etc.) and running suPHP for best security. They also have “Quickinstall” which makes it easy to install WordPress with one click. Not only that but if you already have a WordPress site hosted elsewhere (including WordPress.com) HostGator will transfer it over for you at no extra cost.

HostGator’s shared web hosting packages include:

* The facility to pay monthly. Although obviously this costs more that paying 12 – 36 months in advance. But in any case there is no contract so you can cancel at any time.
* A Money Back Guarantee – Cancel your hosting within 45 days and you get all your money back.
* 99.9% Uptime Guarantee – So there will be no issues with your site not being accessible.
* Unlimited resources such as storage, bandwidth, email addresses etc. However the cheapest package (Hatchling) is limited to hosting one domain.
* cPanel for controlling everything and extras such as $100 Google AdWords voucher (US customers only).

A key reason why I consider that HostGator provide best WordPress Hosting is their 24/7/365 technical support. Their website offers FAQs and forums on which customers can discuss matters. If you need to contact them you can do so anytime by phone (free in US), live chat or email. I have always found the support team to be very helpful. HostGator Coupon Codes HostGator are well known for their coupons. These reduce your first invoice – the amount you pay during the sign-up process. Below are two coupon codes which you can use:

* WORDPRESSCP1 reduces the first invoice by $9.94. This means that if you are going to pay monthly you get the first month for 1c.
* WORDPRESSCP25 reduces the first invoice by 25%. If you are paying a year or more in advance this gives a significant saving. In fact it reduces the lowest monthly equivalent price to $3.71.

Get The Best WordPress Hosting

Since it was introduced in 2003 WordPress has grown to power several million websites and is the most popular tool for blogging (when hosting your own blog). Whilst it was initially a platform for blogs it has evolved into a Content Management System which can be made to look and behave as you require, without the need for any technical expertise.

Having decided to use WordPress you need to make the most of this by getting the best WordPress Hosting. It is not true to say that all hosting companies are the same. Whilst most Linux based hosting packages will run WordPress not all hosts make it easy to set-up and not all provide support if you have problems (as they see it as third party software).

What you need for best WordPress Hosting is a hosting provider which specifically advertises their support for WordPress and also has a good reputation for their service in general and their support in particular.

Without hesitation I can recommend HostGator. They exceed the technical requirements by running the most up to date versions of the supporting software (web server etc.) and running suPHP for best security. They also have “Quickinstall” which makes it easy to install WordPress with one click. Not only that but if you already have a WordPress site hosted elsewhere (including WordPress.com) HostGator will transfer it over for you at no extra cost.

HostGator’s shared web hosting packages include:

* The facility to pay monthly. Although obviously this costs more that paying 12 – 36 months in advance. But in any case there is no contract so you can cancel at any time.
* A Money Back Guarantee – Cancel your hosting within 45 days and you get all your money back.
* 99.9% Uptime Guarantee – So there will be no issues with your site not being accessible.
* Unlimited resources such as storage, bandwidth, email addresses etc. However the cheapest package (Hatchling) is limited to hosting one domain.
* cPanel for controlling everything and extras such as $100 Google AdWords voucher (US customers only).

A key reason why I consider that HostGator provide best WordPress Hosting is their 24/7/365 technical support. Their website offers FAQs and forums on which customers can discuss matters. If you need to contact them you can do so anytime by phone (free in US), live chat or email. I have always found the support team to be very helpful. HostGator Coupon Codes HostGator are well known for their coupons. These reduce your first invoice – the amount you pay during the sign-up process. Below are two coupon codes which you can use:

* WORDPRESSCP1 reduces the first invoice by $9.94. This means that if you are going to pay monthly you get the first month for 1c.
* WORDPRESSCP25 reduces the first invoice by 25%. If you are paying a year or more in advance this gives a significant saving. In fact it reduces the lowest monthly equivalent price to $3.71.