The good thing about search engine optimization is that it has become so mainstream the past several years that you don’t have to do all the backend dirty work yourself. Simply said, all the prerequisites to Wordpress search engine optimization are ready made in nice simple plugin packages.

General Wordpress SEO Plugins:

• All-In-One SEO Pack – This is one plugin that is the closest thing close to an “all-in-one” package. It optimizes titles, creates meta tags, deals with duplicate content, and more!
• No WWW – Search engines hate when half of your links go to http://www.yourdomain.com and the other half go to http://yourdomain.com. It makes it seem like there’s two sites for them. This plugin allows you to stick to one domain name. Why don’t I use it? Because I’ve set my server to send my domain to http://www.askllora.com which eliminates the need for a plugin.
• Permalink Redirect – Your posts and pages can be accessed through your URL + a backslash (/) and they can be accessed without a backslash. This plugin manages this so that you don’t have problems with search engines thinking you have duplicate content on two different pages when in reality its one same page.
• Google XML Sitemap – Automatically generates sitemaps for your blog and submits them to major search engines. (I already covered this in the plugins I use post.)
• BreadcrumbNavXT – This plugin adds a text navigation bar that shows the pyramid to whatever page the user is on. These are not only great for users, but for search engines as well because SE spiders are crazy about structure.

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