For 301 redirect management, there is a plugin called Oddly Enough. It will also log and track all your accumulated 404 Errors, so that is very cool to have. This plugin will help you with your site functionality without having to worry about pesky 404 errors and etc. It is very easy, just make your setting to execute a 301 redirect to any URL destination should your visitor get a 404 error. Having 404 errors makes you look smacked unprofessional, and that is not a good thing. With this plugin you don’t have to worry about all of these anymore.

If your site use a lot of images, then SEO Friendly Images is for you. On-page SEO for various items, including your text of course, is an important part of the optimization process. Were you aware that you can optimize the images on your site? SEO Friendly Images will speed-up your image SEO by assigning proper image alt tags and the title tags. This handy little plugin will sense if your image tags are not in place, then it will alert you and you can tell it what to use. Great way to save time if you use a lot of images.

You can optimize your links for the search engines with SEO Smart Links. It will optimize your site links so the search engines will recognize the keywords or phrases you want your site to be indexed and ranked for. The way it works is SEO Smart Links will find those words in your site, then it will create links to other pages that have the same words on them. You can set it up to link to individual pages, posts, categories or even other tagged words.

Millions of bloggers and marketers have discovered how powerful and versatile this platform really is. Internet marketers are constantly discovering the versatility of this platform in their IM businesses. Perhaps there are those who believe WordPress is just for the casual blogger. This is absolutely not true! You can use this for any type of site and for any purpose. Moreover using all of the plugins that are available, you can make it do whatever you want.

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• Automatically optimize your blog/website’s title for search engines.

• Generate your meta description automatically.

• Edit you own keywords.

• Avoid duplicate contents found on your WordPress blog.

• And more…

It is currently compatible with WordPress 2.5.1. The sad thing is it will no longer to be updated or supported by its original author in the near future; but the good thing is it found its new home – read All In One SEO Pack Finds New Developer to find out more.

I just installed it and loved it. If you are interested, download All In One SEO Pack here.

• Unzip the all-in-one-seo-pack.zip file you’ve download.

• Use FTP to upload the file to this folder /public_html/wp-content/plugins/.

• Login to your WordPress Dashboard; click on Plugins to activate it.

• Now configurate it by clicking on Options/All in One SEO (for WordPress 2.3.x) or Settings/All in One SEO (for WordPress 2.5.x); see how it is done from here.

Some themes may not show the meta tag. That is because those themes may miss the appropriate call to wp_call() usually found in head.php. You can fix this by logging in to your WordPress Dashboard, clicking on Design/Theme Editor/head.php file. Insert <?php wp_head(); ?> right above </head> and save your head.php file.

One more thing, once you use this All in One SEO Pack, there is no need to use other plugins such as Head Meta Description and SEO Title Tag. Otherwise you’ll produce duplicate title and description for your blog/website.

That is it. Once you set it up, It will automatically optimize your WordPress blog/website for search engines.

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1. Use Head Meta Description – This plugin here automatically creates a dynamic header description for your blog. So make sure you get it.
2. Use SEO Title tag – Title tags are the most important factors for on-page optimization. With this useful plugin, your blog will work like a charm.
3. Use permalinks – It is very important that you use permalinks so that other bloggers can use them to refer to your posts. My blog only uses %postname% and it is so far so good. Some people like to include /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ and it is fine too.
4. Make sure your title is in front of url – Suppose you title looks like this: WordPress >> Free SEO Tips for WordPress. You don’t want that. Instead you want this: Free SEO Tips for WordPress<<WordPress because your want the search engines to read your post title first instead of read your blog title first.
5. Use tags – Download this useful tool here. They are not only allow search engines to crawl your site efficiently but also create specific pages for your tag/keywords.
6. Put keywords in your title – Keywords are very important words about your blog so make sure you place some keywords in your title.
7. Use ping service – If you use WordPress software, your default ping service is provided already. I just leave the way it is. Ping service will notify your related sites that you have just posted your blog.
8. Use Google Sitemaps – Google Sitemap will help index your blog. It will also analyze your blog. If anything is wrong, it will show it to you so that you can fix your problems right away.
9. Use WordPress robots.txt for your blog – A robots.txt not only helps your blog rank higher in search engines but also increase your blog traffic as well.
10. Tag related posts together – It helps to link related posts together. It also helps your visitors to learn other relevant information to a specific topic. Besides it allows search engines to crawl deeper to your blog.

Update 7/21/2008: For tip 1 & 2 & 4, now you can replace them with All in One SEO Pack. For more information, read this post: All in One SEO Pack for Your WordPress Blog?

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