5 Best WordPress SEO Plugins for Better Ranking of Your Blog

However there are more than 50+ SEO Plugins available and almost more than 60% people use them everyday but most still do not know which one are the Best WordPress SEO Plugins they should use at their blog.
Everybody wants better ranking, results and a long lasting position in search engines. But most of the people don’t follow even the basic onpage SEO Techniques such as Quality Articles, Internal linking, page speed, proper navigation, keyword density and many other things that need to be focused.

People Install WordPress and think its enough for better results as it is said (and obvious) that this CMS is the best, popular and Optimized but this does not mean at all you will not take care of further elements.
However I also offer free installation service for WordPress.

Most Important Factors to Consider:

• Title and Metas are properly setup
• XML Sitemap is managed and linked to Webmaster
• Fresh, Easy, High Quality, Human and SEO Friendly Content
• Make sure content is Socialized (More and More Social Shares)

List of WordPress SEO Plugins:

Now why am I writing this article as there are many available you can search? But to let you know exactly the best wordpress SEO Plugins I have been using over the years and have provided me the best results for my sites and for my clients too. As I said above, there are many, but the important and most amazing, I mean the Best Plugins are these which I have listed below. The reason to let you know about these is only mean to exactly show you how can you adopt a better ranking and position in search engine by just using them.
I am sure by simply setting up these plugins and making changes today, you are going to enjoy a boast in your ranking. So, stick to the post and see how exactly I am doing.
Note: The list below is based on my personal experience which I have tested over the years and I use with all of my WordPress sites.

#1: WordPress SEO Plugin By Yoast:

I have been using this since I started using WordPress and believe me, it is the one which I have found complete solution for my Blog.
Now I am not going to tell you more info about this plugin but you can read about it here. I am going to show you how exactly this helps me.
The very first reason for which I am using it, because it easily lets me setup my title and metas of either home page, inner post or pages. What you are really going to do is to set your own custom title and metas for every single thing you want. Otherwise leaving this point will let every search engine to use and show any title or meta on their own choice. So, how you can set them?
Setting up Title and Meta for Home Page:
Simply, by going to the option available in Yoast’s Plugin which you can find by simply moving your mouse over SEO available in your dashboard after when you have installed it.

Now you will see a page where you can simple write your own. Just simply click on “Home” and write as I have done below.

Now when you have setup your own custom title and meta, the search engine will exactly show what you have setup and the reason behind this is actually you are going to tell them what your site is all about.

Setting up Title and Meta for Post and Pages:
Now for the home page we are done, what about the pages and post we create how can we set our own for them as well? Simply when you are creating, you will see a snippet preview at the end on editing page like below. In this image I have exactly shown how you can write your own and how this will appear in search engine.

This is how you are going to setup custom title, meta and meta keywords for your blog post. Now if you just observe above image, you can see an amazing feature “Focus Keyword”. Here you can see when I just put my focus keyword in which I want search engines to rank me at first page, then it starts telling where this keyword I have used and by highlighting them with green color, I can see I have used in all the places where it suggests. Now lets move to another option to learn more how you can improve more your content to get better ranking.
Page Analysis (Content Analysis):
If you observe the above image again, you will see 4 options are there. Lets move to “Page Analysis” to see what suggestion you can get more.

This is the beauty of this plugin due to which I like it most. You see how many suggestions you got to make more better content. In the above image you can see, green, yellow and a little red color button. The green one are telling that I have done that and its better for me. The one with yellow marks and little red, need to be considered more.
Setting Up XML Sitemap:
XML Sitemap helps search engines to crawl your website easily. By doing so, you are going to help your own site to get better position and ranking is search results. You can read more about sitemap over Wikipedia page here and why it is necessary.
What my point is, this plugin also creates a beautiful structure of your blog sitemap which you can easily submit to webmaster tool of Google, Bing and others. Simply go “XML Sitemaps” option via options.

At this page, check the box and click on save setting and you will get your sitemap ready. Simply submit the URL in your webmaster and you are done.

Here I will stop telling about its more features because if I do so, the article will go so long and I will not be able to cover other best wordpress seo plugins. But for the basic and or better optimization, this is what you can do with this. I will create another post regarding complete setup guidance about it. Now lets move to another one and see what you can do more and more to better optimize your content.

#2: SEO by SQUIRRLY:

When it comes to content writing, SEO by SQUIRRLY is the only one which will help you to optimize your content for both Humans and Search bots with its live assistance while writing article. It is such a wonderful creation for both experts or non experts. Neil Patel and Brian Dean (internet marketers) also recommend to use this (including me ). Again you can read more about it here. Lets dig into it how it helps.
In sidebar while creating a post, you will see Squirrly Options where you can amazing things such as you can add focus keyword so this will check how well you are going to write your content and time by time when you keep on writing, it gives you live suggestion.
OK! Now lets add a focus keyword.

When you have added, it will then analyze and starts giving your suggestion and information about how well you have optimized like below.
Just check what you have missed and simply fill that.

As I said, the more you write and follow its instruction it will tell you what you have done by giving live alerts as below.


Amazing right? So, by this plugin you are going to super optimize your article.

#3: SEO Content Helper Plugin:

Keyword Density Optimization with SEO Content Helper made super easy. What if you are writing a super content but its actually not superb but a spam copy which will penalize or even de-index your blog? To be safe from this situation, you are here to go with this. Read more about how it works and lets take examples how it can help you.
Add Your Focus Keyword:

Now observe the red highlights and fill the gap.
Check Keyword Density and Optimize it:

For a better content and if you are really want to know secret I always try to maintain my density for every single word (as much possible as I can) lower than 1% because repetition of a single word again and again make no sense and search bots think you are spamming by doing so. So, analyze your content and observe which word you have used most and simply remove that by using synonyms or changing sentence.

#4: SEO Permalinks Modifier:

Most of newbies do not consider this much but believe, this is another factor that helps to rank better in search results. Short URL are always better. What WordPress does, it simply create a URL containing all common words what you use while making a title.
For Example:
5 Best WordPress SEO Plugin for Better Ranking of Your Blog:
So, wordpress will make a long URL like this.
bloggingceo.com/5-best-wordpress-seo-plugin-for-better-ranking-of-your-blog
As you can see in below image.

Which is not only long but also look horrible to remember and write.
After hitting first time “Save Draft“, this will automatically remove stop and common words from URL and make it short and SEO Friendly (you can also edit yourself and force your own)
It became like this.
bloggingceo.com/5-wordpress-seo-plugin-ranking-blog

So, this is not only easy, short and easy to remember but also makes a sense to the point what this post is discussing about.

#5: Simplified Social Sharing:

Now what? You have superb and optimized content. Will you not let the people share it across maximum social platforms? The one I am using is Simplified Social Sharing (read more). This is simple and free plugin which adds beautiful plugins on your live post or pages.

The more social signals (sharing) you get, the more are the chances to get better ranking in search results. Simply popularity makes your spot at first place easily
I hope you enjoyed reading out this article in which I have tried to discuss in detail what Best WordPress SEO Plugins are best for your Blog SEO. Share it with your friends and wait for the next article

How to Install WordPress – Step By Step Complete Guideline

Couple of days ago, my friends asked me about “How to Install WordPress” since they are willing to start blogging after reading to one of my post I wrote back in Feb, 2015 about how to start a blog.
All of my friends showed their interest to learn how I manage my sites and do couple of things using WordPress, like managing E-commerce sites, blogs, business websites, etc.
So, today I decided to write in detail how you can easily do the same and process installation is so easy. All you have to do is to understand some basics about Domain Name Setup, Database creation, uploading files, connecting database and you are done.

Furthermore I also offer Free WordPress Installation Service to all of my reader which you can also check. Along with I have decided to share a complete step by step course about making websites or blogs with Wp for free only on my Blog and my YouTube Channel.

#1: Setting UP DNS (Domain Name Servers):

This is the very first step that you need to perform immediately if you have purchased Domain from any other registrar than your host service provider. I prefer to use Namecheap and Godaddy for domain registration and SiteGround for Web Hosting for WordPress Blogs. If you want to know more about DNS, you can read here.

Via Namecheap:

Once you acquire DNS from your host provide, follow these steps.

1. Open account and Go to “My Account” then “Manage Domains”.
2. Click on Domain Name
3. Now click on “Domain Name Server Setup” and put your name servers in the field and click save. As shown in images below.

Via Godaddy:

If you have hosted your domains on Godaddy, then follow below steps for configuration.

1. Open Account, Select product, Click Domains then Manage.
2. Click on “Manage Name servers”
3. Click on “Custom” and then “Enter Custom nameservers” as shown in the image below.
4. Enter Name Servers in the fields now and click OK

Now you are done. If you purchased from somewhere else, follow the instruction in your panel but the procedure remains same.

#2: Create a Database:

Before I continue, if you want to learn how to install wordpress. First you need to know that it is a CMS based platform which runs with MySQL which is a database which stores all the information of your blog. So, here we open cPanel to create new.
Note: Save all information in a notepad file so you can use it later when we need to connect it.

1. In cPanel, you can find “MySQL Database Wizard”. Open it now.
2. Now Create a Database by giving it some name. I recommend using hard names (for better security) then click “Next Step”
3. Create a strong username, again hard and a strong password (combination of letters, numeric and special characters) and click on “Create User”.
4. Next it will ask for its rights. Giving complete, is the best option since we should have flexibility to change anything later in tables.
5. You have done with creation process.

Above procedure is via cPanel. Since it is the most used control panel in the world and I also use this, so I created using it. If you got another control panel then you need to check options properly but procedure would be same.

#3: How to Install WordPress:

I divide this part into three steps. These steps are described below.

• a) Uploading Files.
• b) Connecting Database
• c) Setting up Site

a): Uploading Files:

Since it is open source technology and free to use. Just Download it and upload the main zipped folder which you have downloaded into “File Manager” via cPanel.

Now click on “Upload” which you can find at top.


Simply now upload the folder.

Now you see that the folder is being uploaded.

Now when the folder is uploaded, click on it and then extract it.

After extraction, You will see the folder.

Open it, select all files and move to main “File Manager”. But don’t forget to remove the word “wordpress” after public_html when moving.

b): Connecting Database:

Open your website now. Example www.umeriftikhar.com and you see a page asking you to select the language. It will basically start the final installation process. Select the language and click, “Continue”.

After it, you just need to update few things. As shown in the image below, we need to put DB information which we already created. Click on, “Let’s Go”.

Now you need to take care of few things when connecting.

• Use cPanel username then DB name with underscore like this. cPanelusername_databasename
• Username will also be like cPanelusername_databaseusername
• Password has no changing.
• Leave “Localhost” as it is.
• Table prefix needs to be changed. Since wp_ is common and hackers can get via it easily. Change it something else like wp_ui_ or iu_io_ or whatever you want. I use two words, between underscore. Don’t forget to put underscore in the last.

After connection you will surely see confirmation message as shown in the image below which will make sure the final step remains.

c): Setting up Site:

Right after hitting “Run the Install”, you will see the final step page where you just need to put a little bit more information about Site Title, login name and password and email. Make sure you create a very strong username and password. Don’t forget to check the option where it asks to “Allow search engines to index site”. This is the important part where you must be very careful in creating very strong information for your username and password. Alright have a glance on below image.

Just fill the form and click on “Install” and then you will see the last part like below.

WOW! You just did it I mean I did it but you can also do once you follow all the above steps. Your site login page will be like www.yoursite.com/wp-admin. Each time you have to access to this page when you need to login to your Admin Dashboard.
There is another popular method called “1 Click Installation”.

1 Click Install – Another Method:

It is the fast method which you can use to install as much as quickly. All you need to do is to just find “Softaculous” or a direct icon like below.

Softaculous page will open now. Simple go to “Install”, fill out the form. All the information would be the same as above you have put. The reason why I shared the above method is because I follow.
In Manual process, I have complete control to My database in means of creating strong password. Though we can change any time but manual process is more secured in my opinion. Since sometimes, auto installation might have some issues with server or other thing. So, you must know the manual and actual method.
You can also read to a post about step by step guide to start a blog today.

Final Words:

I hope you enjoyed reading this post. I will now continue sharing the complete step by step guideline to use it. If you liked this post about How to Install WordPress, then don’t be so harsh Got few seconds? Your sharing worth a lot to me. Thank you.