Great SEO WordPress Plugins You Must Try

YOAST SEO: THE #1 WORDPRESS SEO PLUGIN
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WordPress SEO by Yoast is by far the most popular WordPress SEO plugin that is used by millions of webmasters for the on-page optimization of posts and pages on their WordPress websites. Yoast SEO does everything in its power to please both visitors and search engine spiders. Yoast is popular because it allows you to set your preferred page titles, sitemap, URL and even the Meta description.  Below you’ll find a some sampling of the powers of Yoast SEO: 

  • You can create sitemap and link up your site with Google Webmaster console for verification, link up your site to Bing Webmaster console using Yoast SEO plugin.
  • Yoast SEO plugin also offers users complete SEO page analysis and scores the page based on the focus keyword.
  • You can easily tell if the page is well optimized or not based on the color of the SEO indicators.
  • The most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality at the push of a button.
  • Full control over site breadcrumbs: add a piece of code and you’re good to go.
  • Set canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content. Never have to worry about Google penalties again.
  • Title and meta description templating for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
  • Content & SEO analysis: Invaluable tools to write SEO-friendly texts.
  • The snippet preview shows you how your post or page will look in the search results – even on mobile. Yoast SEO Premium even has social media previews!

Yoast SEO is the most complete SEO plugin and it’s available for free. Yoast SEO plugin is free and can be downloaded from WordPress repository but there is a premium version available on the official Yoast website. The premium version allows you to add more keywords to the optimization and optimize your posts and pages for multiple keywords.  Yoast SEO also has social media integration that helps optimize content for social media sharing. It is also compatible with WordPress multisite making it the best WordPress SEO plugin for multisite.

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Booking Calendar - WP plugin for online booking & availability checking service
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Broken Link Checker plugin just like the name says, it checks for any broken link and then present it to you for you to fix.  Normally, when we delete an old page or an old post that's been indexed by Google Search and Google still shows that old page/post, what happen is when people click on those old-long-gone-page or post, it will either return a 404 Not Found or broken link for images. More precisely it does the following:

  • Monitors links in your posts, pages, comments, the blogroll, and custom fields (optional).
  • Detects links that don’t work, missing images and redirects.
  • Notifies you either via the Dashboard or by email.
  • Makes broken links display differently in posts (optional).
  • Prevents search engines from following broken links (optional).
  • You can search and filter links by URL, anchor text and so on.
  • Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post.
  • Highly configurable.

The “Broken Links” tab will by default display a list of broken links that have been detected so far. However, you can use the links on that page to view redirects or see a listing of all links – working or not – instead. You can also create new link filters by performing a search and clicking the “Create Custom Filter” button. For example, this can be used to create a filter that only shows comment links.

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Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
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MonsterInsights plugin is a complete Google Analytics for WordPress plugin that’s EASY and POWERFUL. With almost 15 million downloads, MonsterInsights is the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

MonsterInsights allow you to connect your WordPress website with Google Analytics, so you can see how visitors find and use your website, so you can keep them coming back. Simply put, we show you the stats that matter.

This plugin makes it extremely easy for you to connect and view your Google Analytics reports from inside your WordPress dashboard. Its tracking settings and workflows make MonsterInsights the most beginner friendly google analytics plugin in the market.

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Booked - Appointment Booking for WordPress
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Use All in One SEO Pack to optimize your WordPress site for SEO. It’s easy and works out of the box for beginners, and has advanced features and an API for developers.

First created in 2007, see why AIOSEO is one of the all time most downloaded plugins for WordPress.

  • XML Sitemap support – submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and improve your SEO
  • Image XML Sitemap submitted to Google and Bing to improve your Image SEO
  • Google AMP support (Accelerated Mobile Pages)
  • Google Analytics support
  • Support for SEO on Custom Post Types
  • Advanced Canonical URLs
  • Redirect attachment pages to parent post
  • Automatically notifies search engines like Google and Bing about changes to your site
  • Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
  • ONLY free plugin to provide SEO Integration for e-Commerce sites, including WooCommerce
  • Nonce Security built into All in One SEO Pack
  • Automatically optimizes your titles for Google and other search engines
  • Generates META tags automatically
  • Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
  • For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
  • For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything to optimize your SEO
  • You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
  • Compatibility with many other plugins
  • Translated into 57 languages
  • PHP 7 100% Compatible

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WP Optimize - Keep Your Database Fast and Efficient
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WP-Optimize is an effective tool for automatically cleaning your WordPress database so that it runs at maximum efficiency.

MAJOR FEATURES

  • Removes all unnecessary data (e.g. trashed/unapproved/spam comments, stale data) plus pingbacks, trackbacks and expired transient options
  • Compact/de-fragment MySQL tables with a button-press
  • Detailed control of which optimizations you wish to carry out
  • Carries out automatic weekly (or otherwise) clean-ups
  • Retains a set number of weeks’ data during clean-ups
  • Performs optimizations without the need for running manual queries
  • Automatically trigger a pre-optimize backup via UpdraftPlus
  • Show database statistics and potential savings
  • Mobile friendly and easy-to-use
  • Translated into several languages

WP-OPTIMIZE HELPS YOU TO:

  • Make space: When you edit a post or page on your website, WordPress automatically saves the new revision to the database. If you edit things a few times (and particularly if the post is long), your database soon gets clogged up with old revisions that just sit there, taking up valuable space. WP-Optimize removes these unnecessary post revisions, freeing up valuable Megabytes of data and increasing speed and efficiency. It also cleans up your comments table, removing all the spam and un-approved comments that have built up with a single click.

  • Take control: WP-Optimize reports on exactly which of your database tables have overhead and wasted space, giving you the insight, control and power to keep your website neat, fast and efficient.

  • Keep it clean: Once enabled, WP-Optimize can run an automatic clean-up on a schedule, keeping a selected number of weeks’ data, according to your specification.

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Event Booking Pro WordPress Plugin PayPal or Offline
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Does your WordPress website have tons of plugins installed to a point where it really slows down your entire site? You've already select which to keep and to uninstall but still face the issue of slowdown website? This Plugin Organizer will let you disable any plugin by any post type or wordpress managed URL. You can change the order that your plugins are loaded, and adds grouping to the plugin admin page.

BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL WHEN USING PLUGIN ORGANIZER!
Reordering or disabling plugins can have catastrophic affects on your site. It can cause issues with plugins and can render your site inaccessible. To find out more on how to use this Plugin Organizer to speed up your WordPress site, go to this page.

With Plugin Organizer you can disable plugins by specific rules. You can also set exception (Enable rules) using the same type of rules. Here are the rules overview:

Frontend
This rule will be true on every frontend requests (except AJAX requests)

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Speed up your WordPress website, more traffic, conversions and money with WP Rocket caching plugin.
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Speed up your WordPress website, more traffic, conversions and money with WP Rocket caching plugin.  Claiming to be the best caching plugin for WordPress with minimal configuration and immediate results, a very bold statement indeed! But with major companies using their services and 92% satisfaction score can't be wrong.  Among its strongest feature capabilities are page caching, cache preloading, static files compression, images on request, and developer friendly.  

WP Rocket has features that no other cache plugins have, and they are:
cache preloading, sitemap preloading, GZIP compression, browser caching, database optimization, Google Fonts optimization, remove query strings from static resources, lazyload, minification/concatenation, defer JS loading, CloudFlare compability, CND, DNS prefetching, mobile detection, multisite compability, eCommerce friendly, multilingual compability, connected users, import/export, and developer friendly.

Someone tested this plugin extensively that he receives less than 1 second load time, less than 1 second! Here is his own quote regarding WP Rocket:

The main difference between WP Rocket and other cache plugins, is the extra performance you get with their preload bot, lazy loading of videos/iframes, and database cleanup (most cache plugins don’t have all these feautures, in which case you would need to install extra plugins). With WP Rocket you can use both Cloudflare and other CDNs at the same time – while most cache plugins only have options for 1. The plugin is updated frequently with new features and you get extensive documentation with fantastic support. The #1 complaint with cache plugins is they can break your site – this should NOT happen with WP Rocket. For what is arguably the #1 factor of WordPress speed (besides hosting), it is definitely worth $39/year.
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Squirrly is more than a SEO tool – it’s a complete content marketing suite.
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As Neil Patel said it himself: “Squirrly is more than a SEO tool – it’s a complete content marketing suite.”

Welcome to Assisted WordPress SEO. Say Good-Bye to Search Engine Frustrations. Squirrly assists you in getting Excellent SEO for Humans and Search Engines.

Squirrly is all about getting great at content marketing. The SEO Live Assistant will help you optimize each article on your blog to 100% for both Human Readers and Search Engine Bots. Therefore, your content will look clean and great to read, while also being fully SEO.

Squirrly also help you with some pretty great keyword research, looking at how much people discuss certain topics on quora, twitter, forums, it tells you how many people try to rank on search engines for those topics, how popular the topics are these days, etc.

After you optimize the content of your site and start building better content, you'll be able to use our Performance Analytics, that shows you how well your articles did on social media and how well they rank (on Google com, on Google co uk, on Google br, etc).

Last but not least, it builds up an SEO Audit every single week, that helps you understand how well you're executing on your content marketing strateg as a whole: Blogging, Inbound Marketing principles, Traffic, SEO, Links, Authority, Social Signals.

The power of Squirrly comes from:

1) Keyword Research (which impresses Neil Patel 10 Time-Saving Blogging Tools You Need To Use) (worth $68 / month :: keywordtool . io). In our tool, you can search for specific markets, not just by using data from google.com, you can do Google .com . br or any other

2) SEO Audit, which is one of the most craved for element of our All-Inclusive solution. It gets data about your site, shows you what you need to fix and how to improve your visibility score. (worth $49 / month :: woorank . com)

3) WooCommerce SEO , which is amazingly useful for ecommerce WordPress sites. (worth $79 at Yoast Woocomerce)

4) Instapage SEO , which is the only such thing on the market. Instapage is the best landing page creation software we've ever used, but they lack SEO on their WordPress deployments. Thus, we've taken care of it. It's the ONLY SEO plugin that works with Instapage.

5) Google GEO Rank tracking for all your pages. What? This is a crazy and really solid benefit you get from using the Squirrly plugin. (worth $99 / month over at GeoRanker) You can use it to track pages for your very own specific country: Spain, Russia, you name it. It will show you the exact position in google of the page for your search engine location. You can set any location you need to track.

6) On-Page Optimization for Search Bots and Human beings on all Your Pages, Articles, Landing Pages, Products. You get feedback from our tool as you're typing your content. You will always know when it's 100% human and SEO friendly, so you can publish with peace of mind. (Worth over $200 / month at Inbound Writer).

7) Social Media Metrics for each page, product, article. Reddit, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter (YES, Twitter! The same api and great stuff that Mashable uses these days, after Twitter removed counts from their own API), Google Plus, LinkedIN. You will get to see your top performing channel for each Article. Amazing value! (worth $99/month at BuzzSumo if you tried using their tool for these details).

8) Inbound Metrics straight from MOZ. We pay a lot of money to bring you these. Just check their API pricing. To get this sort of details in your wordpress it would cost you $99 / month.

9) Content Marketing Lessons (worth $197 over at Udemy.com)

See? The value of using Squirrly SEO Plugin for WordPress comes from these 9 strong points that ONLY we offer to the WordPress community.

Neil Patel, the Co-Founder of Kissmetrics and Crazy Egg made a great video on how to use Squirrly’s Live Assistant:
https://www.quicksprout.com/university/how-to-maximize-your-seo-traffic-with-these-must-have-wordpress-plugins/

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Redirection is the most popular redirect manager for WordPress. With it you can easily manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This can help reduce errors and improve your site ranking.  Redirection is designed to be used on sites with a few redirects to sites with thousands of redirects.  It has been a WordPress plugin for over 10 years and has been recommended countless times. And it’s free!
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Redirection is the most popular redirect manager for WordPress. With it you can easily manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This can help reduce errors and improve your site ranking.

Redirection is designed to be used on sites with a few redirects to sites with thousands of redirects.

It has been a WordPress plugin for over 10 years and has been recommended countless times. And it’s free!

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It is basically a short summary of your page in the search results of Google, Yahoo, Bing and sometimes in the News feed of Facebook in nice format with star ratings, author photo, image, etc.
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It is basically a short summary of your page in the search results of Google, Yahoo, Bing and sometimes in the News feed of Facebook in nice format with star ratings, author photo, image, etc.  
See Examples of Rich Snippets Here.

HOW DOES A RICH SNIPPET HELP?

  • It gives search engines only the important & precise information to display in search result snippets.
  • Rich Snippets are very interactive (photos, star ratings, price, author, etc.) to let you stand out from competition
  • See what difference it makes in CTR (Click Through Rate)
  • Helps you rank higher in search results
  • Helps Facebook display proper information when users share your links on Facebook

Basically, this plugin lets you add schema for one of its 8 different supported content types, which are:

  • Review
  • Event
  • People
  • Product
  • Recipe
  • Software Application
  • Video
  • Articles

It works like this:

Whenever you create or edit a piece of content, you’ll get a new Configure Rich Snippet meta box that lets you select what the post is about (using the aforementioned content types).

If you choose a Review type, you’ll be able to enter the item’s name, reviewer’s name, and star rating (from 1-5).

But if you went with, say, a recipe type, you’d be able to add details for cooking time, image, etc.

If your site is focused entirely on reviews, you’ll be better off going with one of the dedicated review plugins. But if you just want a simple, lightweight method to add schema markup for a variety of content types, All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets is a good option.

It’s also 100% free!

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Shareaholic makes it easier for you to reach, grow & monetize your audience. Arm yourself with a high speed suite of best-in-class content marketing tools. Start in 30 seconds, no coding required.
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Shareaholic is the world’s leading suite of social, analytics, monetization, and share button tools. Included in the plugin are related content and related post recommendations, social share buttons, Google Analytics social data, and a variety of ad monetization options.

Our plugin and suite of tools make it easy for any website — big or small — to engage and grow their traffic, market their content, gain insight, and monetize their audience. And it all lives in one simple dashboard. Built on lightweight JavaScript, our functionality is highly customizable, without hurting your page load speed. In fact, we’re recognized by WP Engine as being a “Essential Speed Friendly Social Media & SEO Toolkit”.

Our single plugin combines the functionality of many social, content, and monetization plugins including: JetPack, Contextual Related Posts (CRP), Social Warfare, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), Shariff, AddThis, AddToAny, and many others.

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Shareaholic makes it easier for you to reach, grow & monetize your audience. Arm yourself with a high speed suite of best-in-class content marketing tools. Start in 30 seconds, no coding required.
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The SEO Optimized Images plugin lets you dynamically insert SEO-Friendly “alt” and “title” attributes to your images. Simply activate the plugin, provide the pattern, and you are ready to go.

The plugin dynamically replaces the “alt” and “title” tags. It does not make any changes to the database. This means that if you deactivate the plugin, everything will return to the original settings.
With the plugin, you can insert an image name, a post title and a post category in the “title” and “alt” attributes of the image.
Give SEO Optimized Images a try: we are sure you will like it!

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 WP Fastest Cache plugin is the simplest and fastest WP Cache system
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This plugin creates a html version of WordPress and cache those html files, which is a lot faster compare to browser rendering php and mysql when ever every time a visitor opens your site.  When a page is rendered, php and mysql are used, therefore, system needs RAM and CPU.
When there are many visitors viewing your website, the system uses lots of RAM and CPU and causing page to load very slow.  In this case, you need a cache system that does not render for every visitor.  The WP Fastest Cache plugin will generate static HTML files based on your dynamic WordPress blog and saves it in the cache.

WP Fastest Cache prides itself on providing an easy-to-install plugin – and it delivers. You don’t even have to modify the .htaccess configuration file.

The plugin uses mod_rewrite to create static HTML files on your website. It also offers minification, GZIP compression, browser caching, and an option for combining JavaScript and CSS files together to reduce requests from your server.

Features

  • Mod_Rewrite which is the fastest method is used in this plugin
  • All cache files are deleted when a post or page is published
  • Supports CDN and SSL
  • Enable/Disable cache option for mobile devices and logged-in users
  • Block cache for specific page or post with Short Code
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    Test Results Comparisons with other cache plugins for Complex Website

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SEOPressor plugin gives you maximum SEO clarity on your WordPress sites with a host of customization & optimization features designed for controlling SEO with ease.
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SEOPressor plugin gives you maximum SEO clarity on your WordPress sites with a host of customization & optimization features designed for controlling SEO with ease.  

SEOPressor gathers the most essential SEO intelligence of your website and present them in one place.

You can gain important insights to your website’s SEO health with crystal clear clarity.

Here are the main benefits of SEOpressor:

  1. Optimizing your content with SEOPressor is quick and easy, saving you time.
  2. SEOPressor Connect provides optimization suggestions for each post/page, so you’re not left in the dark about what to improve.
  3. You can benefit from ranking for multiple keywords for each post or page, thus helping you to drive more search engine traffic.

For $9/month SEOPressor gives you:

  • More flexibility and super fast on-page options and SEO analysis
  • Over-optimization tool
  • Multiple keyword analysis
  • Insights and audit tools
  • SemantiQ builder
  • Crawler manager and smart link manager
  • LSI Keywords analysis and density check
  • Meta options and social

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AMP for WP automatically adds Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google AMP Project) functionality to your WordPress site. AMP makes your website faster for Mobile visitors.
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AMP for WP automatically adds Accelerated Mobile Pages (Google AMP Project) functionality to your WordPress site. AMP makes your website faster for Mobile visitors.

What is AMP?

Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open source project that describes itself as:

For many, reading on the mobile web is a slow, clunky and frustrating experience – but it doesn’t have to be that way. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is an open source initiative that embodies the vision that publishers can create mobile optimized content once and have it load instantly everywhere.

AMP has the backing of many industry leaders – Google, Pinterest and even WordPress.com

Make no mistake about it, Google is indeed taking AMP seriously. Search results on mobile devices already carry the AMP sign:

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Furthermore, even native Android apps such as the News and Weather app carry the AMP sign for pages that support it:

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The big question: Can AMP make everything super fast?

The answer to the above question is slightly open-ended. If your website is poorly optimized, or if you have made nearly zero UX investments for mobile visitors, AMP can offer you a significant boost.

However, you should know that AMP is not a silver bullet. At the end of the day, techniques to improve page load times have existed for a long time – prefetching, prerendering, lazy loading, etc. AMP is an attempt to combine all of that, along with performance optimization tweaks, and deliver a smoother mobile browsing experience.

Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress and otherwise work by loading the crucial elements first, such that the visitor can begin browsing the page right away. Thereafter, it loads the remaining media.

Naturally, the above approach, as well as the coding rules in place, show that AMP focuses more on optimization and efficiency. It is not “improve your page speed a million times!” solution that many folks are claiming it to be.

Now, should you actually use Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress websites?

AMP is surely fast (see this), but it is not the only method to make your pages faster. However, speed is not the only consideration here. There is a practical aspect to things as well. With the rate at which AMP is growing, you might be better off using it than ignoring it. With “AMP” showing up in search results, and everyone else talking about its importance, missing out on AMP may not be the wisest choice.

Plus, if you still are confused, follow the golden rule: Google is recommending AMP primarily for news sites and blog posts. For everything else, such as your landing page, or portfolio site, you can dismiss AMP.

Luckily for WordPress users, there is an amazing free plugin that takes care of everything for you:

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You can install it on your site, and you will be AMP-ready right away! It has its downsides, though. This is something that Joost de Valk pointed out in his post series on AMP. Worth a read for sure if you’re interested in running Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress properly.

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This Social Metrics WordPress plugin collects and displays an analysis of social media interactions and view counts of posts. A new dashboard panel is created called “Social Metrics” which shows how many times each post has been shared on various social networks.
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This WordPress plugin collects and displays an analysis of social media interactions and view counts of posts. A new dashboard panel is created called “Social Metrics” which shows how many times each post has been shared on various social networks.

GET STATS FROM THESE SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Google+, XING, and Flattr

FOCUS YOUR WRITING TOPICS:

Understand what posts your readers are sharing on social networks so that you can write more of what works well.

DO MORE WITH THE DATA:

Export collected data to a spreadsheet for analysis.

For web developers, this plugin collects and stores social metrics data in a way that can be accessed by other WP plugins or themes. For example, the social metrics could be used to display a feed of the most popular posts. Metrics are stored as custom post meta fields on each individual post. This is an advanced feature which requires writing custom code.

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Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites.
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Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized below 1000px (default), the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title.

Big Buttons are used in the vertical Sharebar to the left of the post, while the Small Buttons are used in the horizontal Sharebar that appears under the post title (by default) if the width of the page is less than 1000px (or whatever value you set).

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Simple URLs is a complete URL management system that allows you create, manage, and track outbound links from your site by using custom post types and 301 redirects.  It adds a new custom post type to your Admin menu, where you can create, edit, delete, and manage URLs. It stores click counts in the form of a custom field on that custom post type, so it scales really well.  And by avoiding page based redirects, which is the current trend in masking affiliate links, we avoid any issues with permalink conflicts, and therefore avoid any performance issues.
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Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized below 1000px (default), the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title.

Big Buttons are used in the vertical Sharebar to the left of the post, while the Small Buttons are used in the horizontal Sharebar that appears under the post title (by default) if the width of the page is less than 1000px (or whatever value you set).

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Super fast, light-weight plugin for adding schema.org structured data markup in recommended JSON-LD format automatically to WordPress sites.
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Super fast, light-weight plugin for adding schema.org structured data markup in recommended JSON-LD format automatically to WordPress sites.

Enhanced Presentation in Search Results By including structured data appropriate to your content, your site can enhance its search results and presentation.

What is Schema markup?

Schema markup is code (semantic vocabulary) that you put on your website to help the search engines return more informative results for users. So, Schema is not just for SEO reasons, it’s also for the benefit of the searcher.

Schema Key Features

  • Easy to use, set it and forget it, with minimal settings.
  • Enable Schema types at once per post type or post category.
  • Valid markup, test it in Google Structured Data Testing Tool.
  • Output JSON-LD format, the most recommended by Google.
  • Reuse data saved in post meta, which is created by other plugins.
  • Extensible, means you can extend its functionality via other plugins, extensions or within your Theme’s functions.php file.

Supported Plugins

Schema plugin integrates, and play nicely with (not necessarily a full integration):

  • Yoast SEO
  • AMP plugin
  • WPRichSnippets
  • The SEO Framework
  • Visual Composer
  • ThirstyAffiliates
  • WooCommerce
  • Easy Digital Downloads (EDD)
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