Wordpress is the content management system (CMS) which is widely used by the people now a days to create a user friendly websites. It is an open-source where users can create their own plugins and themes. Let’s assume that you have selected Wordpress for your website creation and created a website using this CMS. But no matter what good your website looks, without effective SEO you will not be able to push it in front of right audiences. Digital marketing and social media hold a significant role in bringing your website top on the search engines and SEO is one of the most important part of digital marketing.

So, how to get started then? Here is the answer.

In Wordpress, there are wide range of SEO plugins available that can help in making your website SEO friendly. 

1. Yoast SEO

This is the most popular and downloaded plugin by the web developers. The Yoast SEO plugin helps in improving the SEO of the website in all aspects. It easily allows you to change SEO titles, meta descriptions, meta keywords, XML sitemap etc.

2. All in One SEO Pack

This is another Wordpress plugin which can help you in making your website SEO friendly. Along with the meta tags changes, it also supports
- Google and Bing XMl sitemaps.
- Google Analytics Support
- Canonical URLs
- Redirect attachments etc
This plugin is compatible with many other plugins as well.

3. Rel NoFollow Checkbox

There are many links on the website where it is important to add the html tag “nofollow” to restrict it from followed by the search engines.
This plugin simply adds a checkbox in the insert/edit link popup for including nofollow attribute. Add the external link and check the box rel=”nofollow”.

4. Google XML Sitemaps

After making any website it is important to get it indexed in Google. With the help of XML sitemaps you can get all the links of your website indexed in Google. Google
XML sitemap plugin automatically generates XML sitemap for your website. As the new content gets added on the website, the plugin updates the sitemap automatically
with the new content. Hence, with this plugin you can constantly keep your website updated and accessible to the search engine.

5. Google Analytics for Wordpress by MonsterInsights

After creating a website, it is important to get it added in Google Analytics to keep the track of it performance. But adding a website to Google Analytics is a
challenging task as not everyone is aware of the procedure. The Google Analytics WordPress plugin by MonsterInsights embeds a tracking code onto the pages of your
website which will send data to measure outbound and internal link tracking, website user demographics, and more.