We know plugins as a tool that is added to a WordPress websites for different purposes. By using plugins on your WordPress site, you can extend its functionality or add new features to it.

Ahrefs’ Joshua Hardwick has published a list of 15 best SEO plugins that can help you to improve your WordPress site performance.

Hardwick says, “I’ve had good experiences with over the years, and some that we now use on the Ahrefs blog (which gets ~240k monthly visits from Google).

Let’s kick things off with the one you’ve probably heard of already.

1. Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress SEO plugins, with more than five million active installations to date.

It’s also the “main” SEO plugin we use on the Ahrefs Blog.

What can you do with it? Lots of things.

  • Create an XML sitemap
  • Verify your site in Webmaster Tools (Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, etc.)
  • Exclude (“noindex”) certain types of content from being indexed in search engine results (e.g., categories, tags, media pages)
  • Create title and meta description templates
  • Optimize your AMP pages. (You’ll need Glue for Yoast and AMP for that.)

But that’s all sitewide stuff. What about at the page-level?”.

15 Best SEO Plugins for WordPress (Tried & Tested)

Ahrefs

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