When it comes to looking for plugins and extension to maximize your SEO, it can be a bit overwhelming. If you simply type in plugins or extensions for SEO into a search engine you will get millions of results. Some will be helpful, others will not. To help you weed through the trash and find the treasure, we have come up with a few that you will want to use on a regular basis. Keep in mind, not all of them are free and not all of them may apply to your unique situation. This is sort of a catch-all list so that we can share as many of them as possible in hopes that you will find one that you like.
SEO TextOptimizer
If you make content for a living, you might want to pick up this free extension. The basics of what it does are it goes through the text that you have written and makes sure that you have optimized all that you can. It takes a look at your text and measures it against the known criteria of how search engines rate your content. It will then provide you with some suggestions on the things that you could change if you wanted to. As with any other “checker” program, you can feel free to make the changes or not. If you have something that is really working for your content and the optimizer suggests you change it, you can give it a try. There is no harm in giving it a shot. If it does not work, you can return to your old way of doing things. However, if it does work, you may find yourself wanting to make more of the changes that it suggests in the future.
SEOquake
This free plugin is a way to analyze your keyword metrics. Often SEO managers and ORM managers are looking for a way to gain that competitive edge against the competition. If you can find out the things that are working and the things that are not, you can better tailor your future keywords to suit your needs. The best part of this plugin is that you can see how the SERPs are going to react to your keywords before you commit to them. Simply drop the keyword that you are interested in and you will get a full report on the quality of the keyword. You will also be able to see how competitive it is in your industry. This may lead you changing the keyword so that you can better rank on other aspects of your industry. Remember, no everyone is searching for things on the internet the same way. If you can change up the words, you might be able to grab that niche market and use that as a springboard to bigger and better keywords.
BuiltWith
Have you ever been to a website and really liked the way that the content was presented? Try as you may, you are not able to find the way they make that website function. This is where BuiltWith shines. It was first designed as a developer/designer/researcher tool but has since taken off. Simply activate the free plugin on the page that you are on and you will get a full readout of how the page was designed. This will help you to better design your website. You are not going to want to use everything that they have because you are going to want to stand out. However, you can most certainly figure out how they do that one thing that you really like. In addition to helping you to better design your website, BuiltWith can monitor and track the following information for you: widgets, frameworks, hosting, analytics and so much more. Honestly, if there is one plugin that you take away from this article, we hope that it is this one.
Serpstat
Serpstat is a free plugin that will help you analyze all the things that are most important to you. Everything from domain traffic to meta plugins and everything in between. On a side note, you need to know that if you are going to use this free plugin, you are going to have to sign up for a free Serpstat account. As with all free things, you need to know that they have to make money as well. Nothing is truly free, right?
WordPress SEO by Yoast
If you didn’t already know, Yoast is one of the most popular SEO sites in the world. They host a blog that you can find most any information about. With their free plugin, you will be able to track and analyze many of the things that you have not been able to track and analyze before. Well, you may have been able to, but not with as much ease as with this awesome plugin. You will be able to add meta keywords, titles, and descriptions to your post, provide the crawlers with a clear path to your site navigation, analyze your on-page SEO, see what your snippets are going to look like before you post the blog, and much, much more! Add this to the easy to use interface and you have a plugin that you will use almost every single day.
WAVE Evaluation Tool
There are a number of web browsers online, and your customers will use them all. Of course, they are not using them all at once, but they will use them at different times. Additionally, you have so many people that like different browsers, you need to have your bases covered. That is where WAVE comes in. WAVE will evaluate your web content and make sure that it is accessible to all. Accessibility is a large part of the algorithms of Google. Therefore, you will want to make sure that your content and site is available to anyone wanting to search for it.
Conclusion
Trying to pick the best the best plugins to use for your analytics can be a bit of a tough egg to crack. We hope that you have found one of these plugins to be helpful to you. In order to make better content, you have to make certain that your content is being seen. A lot of the above-listed plugins will make sure they are. Take the time to take a look at them and you may find a new trusted plugin that you can implement on your site or sites.