I have been using WordPress for 5 months now. I have come across many plugins and I have even tried most of them. It included all types of plugins. With my experience with WordPress and with the help of my friends, I have finally been able to compile a list of the essential plugins needed for optimizing WordPress (your blog) for search engines.

So the list goes like this…

Google Sitemap WordPress Plugin - The most important! Get your blog posts indexed on Google with this plugin.

Optimal Title WordPress Plugin - You hate long titles,right? Even search engines do. This plugin will display the page title before the blog name. That’s saves a lot of time and helps you get more hits!

Ultimate Tag Warrior - It is a tagging system that helps search engines crawl your site in a better way. You can even make tag clouds and play with many other customizing features.

Permalink Redirect - It does a permanent 301 redirect. Saves your post from being copied.

All-in-One SEO Pack - Yup, the title says it all. You can easily set your page title, tags, description from this one plugin!

Have I left out any plugin?? Feel free to add it.