Traffic ! A term every webmaster dreams of .. Certainly wordpress is one of the best cms which is very seo friendly and to accompany there are some beautiful plugins which works like a charm

Below are the list of 8 plugins which help you to boost your rankings and traffic

1 . All in one seo plugin :

All in One SEO Pack – One of the most popular plugins ever for WordPress, this plugin does a bit of everything for you from helping choose the best post title and keywords, to helping you avoid duplicate content and more.

2.Redirection:

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Search engines do not apply penalties to 301 redirects the way they apply them to many other types of redirects. Usually when we do 301 redirects, we need to create .htaccess file and add the rule inside the file. This plugin simplify the process and let us define the rule very easily without any knowledge on .htaccess.

3.Robots Meta :

Robots Meta makes a easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin. it Prevents indexing of your search result pages, while still allowing the search engines to follow the links on them, by adding noindex,follow robots meta tags.

This is a excellent plugin to resolve search engines indexing issue by adding meta robots tags to each post and page.

4.SEO Smart Links :

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. 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. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window. Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

Search engines such as Google like strong internal linking. With this plugin, you no need to create many internal links manually, it will do it for you automatically.

5.Google Sitemap Generator :

Google Sitemap Generator creates  Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

6.Broken Link Checker :

Broken Link Checker Checks your posts for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. Link checking intervals can be configured.

When the number of blog post increasing significantly, checking of broken link become an impossible task. Sometimes the URL or website you are linking is out of service, with the help of this plugin, you can easily identify the problem and update/remove the link quickly.

7.HeadSpace 2 :

HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more.

8.SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin :

SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin If you must have duplicate content on your site for whatever reason, SEO No Duplicate will allow you to state which version of the post search engines should index while ignoring the others.