Improving your SEO can have a major impact on your site’s search ranking, which can lead to a boost in traffic. If your site runs on WordPress, there are two leading plugins that can be used to manage and enhance your sites meta data and content to generally improve the SEO of your site. Check them out below!
The All in One SEO Pack is a very popular plugin that can be used to enhance your WordPress site’s SEO. With the plugin, you can enhance the SEO of any post or page by overriding default meta tags to create your own — this includes titles, descriptions, and even keywords OR you can allow the plugin to generate meta tags automatically. The plugin is lightweight, will work with any theme, and is the only free plugin that will provide SEO integration for e-commerce sites (including WooCommerce).
2. Yoast SEO
Yoast claims to be the “#1 SEO for WordPress plugin”, and that fact isn’t surprising. Their WP plugin is possible for a reason. With Yoast, you can not only create your own meta tags, but you can actually go beyond to analyze the SEO performance of an entire page or post. With page analysis, the Yoast plugin will tell you whether or not your page has good, passable, or bad configurations for maximum SEO based on the content, keywords, titles, subheadings, etc, and will let you know what you need to remedy in order to enhance your SEO.