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WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines. Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts, pages, and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database. There is a lot to learn about search engine optimization and site submission. Here are just a few plugins, which help you to improve your SEO.

5. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

Rating: 4/5
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/ 

4. Seo Watcher

Briefly said, Seo Watcher checks your daily Google rankings directly inside of Wordpress.

More precisely, you may enter three website URLs and three keywords. Subsequently, Seo Watcher will check which of these sites are listed in Google’s TOP 100. The plugin is installed inside of only a few seconds and delivers a wealth of useful information. Quite simply.

The plugin works as follows: Seo Watcher connects to the Google server, as if it was a regular user and requests the 30 sites (at maximum). Then the data will be saved and incorporated. This explains the limitation on the amount of sites and keywords. If Seo Watcher would request considerably more sites, there might be negative consequences. (That is Google blocking the requesting IP.)

Rating: 5/5
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-watcher/ 

3. SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.

Rating: 4/5
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/ 

2. All in One SEO Pack

Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

Rating: 4/5
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ 

1. HeadSpace2 SEO

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site.

Rating: 4/5
Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/ 

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