Best Wordpress Plug-Ins - SEMpdx Searchfest 2009

Wordpress Plugins SEMpdx SearchFest 2009 Presented by David Wallace CEO, SearchRank w w w . s e a r c h r a n k . c o m SearchFest 2009 Portland, Oregon Copyright SearchRank w w w . s e a r c h r a n k . c o m

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Out of the box, plug n' play for Wordpress blogs.
Title Tags & Meta Data All in One SEO Pack – http://semperfiwebdesign.com/portfolio/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Customize title tags, meta description tags, keyword meta tags
Automatically generates meta descriptions from excerpts or first paragraph of your post.
Allows you to have tags become your keyword meta data as well.
Solves duplicate content issues by allowing you to set meta robots meta index/follow rules for archives and category pages
Will need to remove “description” and “generator” tags from header.php file.

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Displays a "Share This" button at end of your post which allows visitors to share a post/page with others. Plug-in supports both e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Just plug n' play.
Social Bookmarking ShareThis - http://sharethis.com/

Integrates your WordPress blog and Twitter account. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. Enter twitter user name and password and select options.
Twitter Twitter Tools - http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

Creates a mobile/phone/PDA friendly interface for your blog with progressive enhancement for advanced mobile browsers. Upload and activate plug-in. Also requires separate theme to be present.
Mobile WordPress Mobile Edition - http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

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Allows you to remove "evil nofollow attribute" from your comments. Just plug n' play.
Comments Dofollow - www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow/

Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry.
Comments Subscribe To Comments - http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

Asks commenter to answer math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. Does require adding code to comments.php file.
Comments Math Comment Spam Protection - http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/

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A true sitemap generator that is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel.
Site Maps Sitemap Generator Plugin for Wordpress - http:// www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
Features:
Support for multi-level categories and pages
Category/page exclusion
Multiple-page generation with navigation
Permalink support
Choose what to display
What order to list items in
Show comment counts and/or post dates
Recommended by Michael Gray ( www.wolf-howl.com )

Generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog, the format supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
Site Maps Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress - www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/
Features:
Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
No PHP skills or file changes needed
User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
Automatically generates a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
Notifies Ask, Google, MSN Live Search & Yahoo about changes via ping
Includes filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap

Removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
Slugs SEO Slugs - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-slugs/
Example:
"What You Can Do Immediately For Higher Rankings"
Wordpress slug - / what-you-can-do-immediately-for-higher-rankings
SEO Slugs slug - / immediately-higher-rankings
The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before
publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won't overwrite an existing slug but
you can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.

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