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Traffic to my blog increased by about 20 percent after installing these plugins. They work! Let’s have a look at them.

All in One SEO Pack

“Automatic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) out of the box for your wordpress blog …”
Add titles, description and keywords to your wordpress blog post and pages. All are used by search engines to rank your blog.

Google XML Sitemaps
Creates a googe friendly sitemap which google will find and in return index your blog higher.

KB Robots.txt
This plugin gives you control over your robots.txt file. A robots.txt file gives instructions to search engines spiders on how to crawl the pages of your website. You can use the robots.txt to tell the search engines to ignore certain pages with the effect of focusing search engines attention on the pages you want index. Take a look at the robots.txt file of my blog for an example.

Be warned that the Google XML Sitemap plugin edits the robots.txt as well as the above. Be careful as it may overwrite your existing sitemap. Keep a copy of the file.
At this stage your blog will start looking very attractive to search engines and your search engine traffic in terms of unique page views should increase nicely. The next step is to capatalise on the traffic coming to your blog by providing incentives to keep the traffic moving around your website.

The following wordpress will plugins will achieve this.

Popularity Contest

You can create a most popular posts list with this plugin. Put the list in your blog sidebar to constantly promote your best content on each page of your blog.

Related Posts
Put this list at the end of each out your posts and it will automatically will generate a list of related posts.

Hopefully this 5 plugins will help increase traffic to your blog. They worked for me!

If there are any SEO Wordpress plugins that you would recommend, please leave a comment.

Thanks.

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