As a webmaster, you should be able to know the Top 6 WordPress plugins for SEO that will be good for your business or website. Here am going to list out the Top 6 WordPress plugins for SEO you should take very important.

Some one might ask “How do I know? or Have I used it for my blog? Well Yes I have used them and am still using them.

You should also try it and see your self.

List of Top 6 WordPress plugins for SEO:

1.)  WordPress SEO by Yoast

This plugin allows you to actually see how your web page will look like in the SERPs. This means that you can adjust things like a title that’s too long, or a not compelling enough description.

It also makes sure to remind you to put your keyword in your title, description and as an alt tag if you have an image. You also gain the ability to further customize sections that you usually can’t, like the categories, taxonomy archives and tags.

This plugin can also create an XML sitemap for your website, and notifies Google and Bing that you have one. In addition to this SEO benefit of giving the search engines an actual map of your website, it can also be used by human readers as it uses XSL style sheets, making it easy on the eyes.

It could take an entire article to talk about all the features of this plugin; it has no less than 10 other features!

Rating: 4.7/5, downloads: 11,000,000+
Link to plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

2.)  All in One SEO Pack

It’s similar to Yoast’s plugin. Some people trust it more because it’s been around for longer. But you do not need to use both at the same time, cos it might not give you the best result you need.

If you are a complete newbie, this is the plugin you should probably go for. As its description says:

For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.

Ratings: 3.9/5, downloads: 18,000,000+
Link to plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

3.)  404 Redirected

A smart 404 redirection plugin that provides the ability to log incoming 404 URLs in real time, automatically redirect visitors to most relevant content, and provides page suggestions when relevant content can not be found. Admins can also manually add redirects to system and control automatic deletion of old redirects when they are no longer being used.

4.)  Google Sitemap

This sweet plugin automatically creates a Sitemap file for your website after opening it. It also adds this sitemap to your Google Webmaster Tools and push the data from your website there.

That’s it. A plugin doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Remember, plugins were meant to make our lives easier!

Note: Plugins 1 & 2 above do generate an XML sitemap for you, but this one actually links it to your Webmaster Tools.

Ratings: 4.8/5, downloads: 580,000+
Link to plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-plugin/

5.)  Simple URLs

This plugin doesn’t show that it is compatible with WordPress 3.9.1, but it actually is! That’s probably because the coding behind is not dependent on WordPress itself, but on how the server behind it processes requests.

Anyway, this plugin is a URL management system which allows you to turn ugly affiliate links into nice ones, as well as do other redirects and track your outbound links.

What does it have to do with SEO at all? By adding a Disallow: /go/ to your robots.txt file, you automatically stop your website’s authority to leak to the URLs that you redirect to.

Ratings: 4.6/5, downloads: 39,000+
Link to plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-urls/

6.)  Broken Link Checker

Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.