Top WordPress Plugins – Social & Search

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image_thumb2Plugins are small applications that enhance a specific set of functionality on the WordPress blog publishing platform. Today I will be presenting you with the top applications to help you improve the social media and search optimization features of your blog:

 

 

  • Google XML Sitemaps
    This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog. This is the optimal way for Google to index your site and the functionality is not available on the default WordPress distribution
    http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

 

  • WordPress Social Sharing Optimization: Advanced SEO for Social Websites
    Display your content in the best possible way on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. – no matter how your webpage is shared!
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsso/

 

  • Shareaholic | share buttons & related posts
    Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu and related content widget to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/

 

 

 

  • Share Buttons by AddToAny
    Share buttons for WordPress including AddToAny’s universal sharing button, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and many more
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-any/

 

 

  • SEO Friendly Images
    Allows you to configure how the plugin will add ALT and TITLE attributes to images to improve the SEO performance of each of the posts that the image is associeated with
    http://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-image/

 

 

You can search fo additional plugins online at: https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/