WordPress is a very user friendly blogging platform and includes a variety of built in features that already contribute to a site SEO features. However, in today’s competitive environment there are certain SEO wordpress plugins that are a must in order to improve a site ranking and to increase traffic.
There are several free plugins such as All-In-One SEO Pack and Google XML Sitemap generator. These two plugins must be uploaded with any wordpress installation.
Still, as powerful as these plugins are, they might be enough for non competitive niches, but not for the highly competitive ones. And guess where the money is ? So additional ones are required. Especially ones that allow easy on page optimization and automatic backlinks. The quality of on page and off page SEO would determine a site’s ranking and when optimized, there is an excellent chance to be on the first page of Google even for the most competitive keywords.
Fore easy on page optimization I highly recommend SEO Pressor.
For building baklinks I recommend WP Syndicator which, for every post, automatically syndicates content to 15 web 2.0 properties.
