If you are looking for the best plugins to optimize your Wordpress Blog for Search Engines (SEO)… this is my Top 10 List.

In BlogCrash Blog I’m using almost all.

All in One SEO Pack - This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. With All in One SEO you can tweak some important basic SEO options like Titles, Descriptions, Keywords, and avoid Duplicate Content.

Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

Enforce www. Preference - This plugin will help preserve your permalinks by enforcing your no-www or yes-www preference (http://example.com/ vs. http://www.example.com/) and will strip off index.php from the ends of URIs.

SEO Smart Links - SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs.

SEO Friendly Images - SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

Broken Links Remover – This plugin helps you fix bad/broken links, both text links(anchor tags) and image links (img tags).It blocks the display of such links on your wordpress post/page, until you fix them. These links would not be visible to search engine robots as well as the human readers, until you correct them.

Sociable - Sociable is a plugin which adds beautiful social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. You can see this plugin in action in this blog.

Permalink Redirect - This one checks the current URL against the permalink WordPress has defined for the post, page or category you’re in, and redirects to that permalink if they don’t match.

404 Notifier - If you’ve decided to move things around on your site, you might overlook a few redirects and end up with some broken URLs. This will help you catch those so you can take care of them.

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer - By default WordPress pings whenever you post a new topic in your blog. That’s fine and that’s what we want. But do you know WordPress also pings whenever you edit and update any existing post? This is very dangerous because your blog can be banned from ping services because of excessive pinging. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin” corrects WordPress’s pinging system and solves this the problem.

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