WordPress SEO Plugins report, provides information on the following plugins Yoast SEO, The SEO Framework, SEO Data Transporter and more.
Last Updated: May 1, 2025
Latest News: Updated the documentation.
When it comes to SEO “Search Engine Optimization” and Google search engine you really want to make sure you follow Google guidelines or else you will be penalized. SEO has become a very important step to making sure your site and business is found on line via search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and more. The following is a list of SEO plugins I recommend for your WordPress site.
Information: Always remember to try and not have too many plugins added to your website or blog. The more plugins you add the more request and processing resources it requires to use from your server!!!
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Best WordPress SEO Plugins
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Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 634 million downloads. There are more than 10 million active installations.
Version 25.0 | By Joost de Valk and Barry Kooij | Last Updated: April 29, 2025 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.8.1
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The SEO Framework makes sure your Website’s SEO is always up-to-date without any configuration needed. It also has support for extending.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 3 million downloads. There are more than 200 thousand active installations.
Note: This plugin is receiving great reports and fantastic feedback. I am now using this plugin in all my sites. So far it is showing great potential. The support is super great. If you have a question, an issue the developer replies quickly and with plenty of information to help you. Well done to the developer Sybre Waaijer for his work and SEO knowledge.
Note: You might like to read the following tutorial WordPress The SEO Framework Plugin.
Version 5.1.2 | By Sybre Waaijer | Last Updated: November 26, 2024 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.7.2
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Use All in One SEO Pack to optimize your WordPress site for SEO. It’s easy and works out of the box for beginners, and has advanced features and an API for developers.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 138 million downloads. There are more than 3 million active installations.
Version 4.8.1.1 | By Arnaud Broes, Dougal Campbell, Michael Torbert, Peter Baylies, Steve Mortiboy | Last Updated: April 17, 2025 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.8.1
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SEOPress is a powerful plugin to optimize your SEO, boost your traffic, improve social sharing, build custom HTML and XML Sitemaps, create breadcrumbs, manage redirections 301 and so much more.
No advertising, no footprints, white label, in backend AND frontend. Content analysis to help you write search-engine optimized content.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 11 million downloads. There are more than 300 thousand active installations.
Version 8.7.0.2 | By Benjamin Denis | Last Updated: April 17, 2025 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.8.1
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This plugin allows you to transfer your inputs SEO data from one theme/plugin to another. We all know how difficult it can be to switch themes or dump plugins. The fact that themes and plugins store their inputs SEO data differently makes it even harder. This plugin remedies that.
Just choose what platform your moving away from, and what platform you want to move to. Click “analyze” to see what records and elements are compatible, and click “convert” to make the conversion.
Version 1.1.1 | By nathanrice, studiopress, Md Mazedul Islam Khan, Joost de Valk | Last Updated: August 8, 2023 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.3.5
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Currently there are many SEO plugins for WordPress in the market. But these plugins often have too many options and are very complicated for ordinary users. Access to their configuration section, you will easily get lost in a maze of explanations and options that you sometimes don’t understand. Besides, there are ads!
SEO should be an integrated part of WordPress, where users don’t need or need very little effort to configure for SEO. The main reason is that not everyone understands the terms of SEO and how to configure them optimally.
Version 4.5.2 | By eLightUp, Tran Ngoc Tuan, Anh hungviet91 and barcavn2 | Last Updated: April 17, 2025 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.8.1
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WHAT IS A SITEMAP?
A sitemap is a list of pages of your website accessible to crawlers or users, typically organized in hierarchical fashion.
Sitemaps make relationships between pages and other content components.
It shows shape of information space in overview.
Sitemaps can demonstrate organization, navigation, and labelling system.
PLUGIN FEATURES
Easily create a sitemap which is then updated every hour, or can be updated manually at any time via the WordPress dashboard. You can select pages/posts or entire post types that you want to exclude from the sitemap.
It generates both an XML sitemap and an HTML sitemap that you can display on your site via the shortcode.
Version 4.5.9.3 | By Papin Schipper, boudewijnkok | Last Updated: June 12, 2024 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.5.5
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This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 38 million downloads. There are more than 1 million active installations.
Version 4.1.21 | By Auctollo | Last Updated: April 17, 2025 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.8.1
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SEO Engine is built for the AI-driven future. Create quality content, and we handle the SEO. Simple, neat, and hassle-free!
Here is what SEO Engine does for you:
- Auto-generate meta titles and descriptions
- Automatically use the {TITLE} | {SITENAME} format for titles
- Convenient UI to override titles and descriptions, with AI
- Automatic sitemap.xml and robots.txt generation
- Social Cards for SNS and Open Graph
- Search Engine Ranking
- WooCommerce Assistant (AI)
- Prevent GPTBot (OpenAI) from using your content
Need more? Let us know!
Version 0.3.8 | By Jordy Meow | Last Updated: May 1, 2025 | Compatible up to WordPress 6.8.1
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This list will change from time to time and it will grow with more plugins added. Please keep coming back to review the changes and additions.
If you have a questions please let me know
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