Here’s our list of awesome WordPress Plugins we use to help get our clients’ ranked on the first page of Google.
ShortPixel
A slow website can seriously damage your search engine ranking, and one of the most common pieces of a website that causes slow load times is too-large images. Especially for a photographer, images make up a huge part of your website, and it’s extremely important to reduce their size so your site can load quickly and keep visitors from getting frustrated and clicking away.
ShortPixel allows you to reduce image size without sacrificing the quality of the original image. With this tool, you can shrink the size of your images by 70-80% without any decrease in image quality. ShortPixel has no file size restrictions and supports multiple formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and PDF.
WP Rocket
One of the most common types of WordPress plugins is the cache plugin. A cache plugin helps WordPress load much faster and reduces the load on the server. The faster your website, the better the user experience and the better your search engine ranking.
If you’re looking for immediate results with minimal configuration, WP Rocket is the perfect solution. This plugin is perfect for beginners and is easy to set up on your website. When you pair it with KeyCDN, WP Rocket can completely transform your Technical SEO score.
Astra Security
Web security can have a huge effect on your SEO. Even if your site has never been hacked, attacks from hackers can prevent search engine bots from accessing your site, cause your site to slow down and lose traffic, and even stop showing some pages to Google. That’s why it’s so important to have a website security solution in place.
Astra fights hackers, internet threats, and bots for you. With the real-time website protection of this plugin, you have the benefits of regular malware scanning, login protection, and even a threat tracker that monitors any threats to your site.
Wordfence
WordPress powers more than a quarter of all the websites on the internet, which makes it a popular target for hackers and other malicious attacks. While there are plenty of best practices you can follow to protect your WordPress site, like using strong passwords and maintaining regular backups, it’s still smart to have security plugins in place.
Wordfence analyzes all traffic to your website, determines which traffic is malicious, and discards it, effectively protecting your site from malware and hacks. Wordfence allows you to easily scan your site for vulnerabilities and security issues and provides you with detailed recommendations on how to take care of any problems.
ConvertBox
If you want to grow your email list and engage visitors to your website with additional content, personalized and customized opt-in forms are a great solution. They allow you to promote downloads, social media pages, and just about anything you’d like to visitors to specific pages of your site.
ConvertBox can help you drive more leads and sales with high-converting messages, pop-ups, and opt-in forms. This tool allows you to send different promotions to different visitors based on their behavior on your site.
Schema Pro
Ever wonder how some websites have rich snippets in their Google search results, the ones with ratings, business hours, and all kinds of extras? These snippets help businesses get the attention of searchers and help brands stand out.
Schema Pro adds rich snippets and schema markup to your website, improving the way your site looks in Google’s search results. The best part is you don’t have to have extensive technical expertise to use this plugin. Schema Pro allows you to automate the process of all your pages in minutes without writing a single line of code.
Yoast SEO
Optimizing your WordPress site for SEO is extremely important, especially if you want to drive more traffic to your website and grow your business. There are a wide variety of tools that can help you improve your SEO, and they range from beginner level to very advanced.
Yoast SEO is a plugin that offers tons of features and allows you to automate your search engine optimization. This tool is designed to be easy to use, making it perfect for beginners who may not have the expertise to handle SEO on their own.
Really Simple SSL
If you’re not a technical pro, the idea of configuring your website may be a little daunting. You’ve purchased a domain and are probably eager to get to designing your site and adding content. The last thing you want to do is worry about yet another technical detail.
Really Simple SSL automatically detects your settings and configures your website to run over https. The best part about this plugin is that you only need an SSL certificate, and this tool will do the rest for you.
Redirection
Whether you have a lot of redirects on your website or just a few, it’s important to manage these redirects and keep track of any 404 errors to make sure that your site works well and to maintain a quality user experience for visitors.
Redirection is a plugin that offers multiple features, including monitoring 404 errors and managing 301 redirects, as well as tidying up your website in general. Redirection can also auto-generate redirects when you update a post’s URL.
WP Link Status Pro
Monitoring and correcting broken links on your WordPress site can a time-consuming task. But it’s necessary to keep track of and fix these issues to maintain your site and keep it running smoothly and providing a positive experience for users.
WP Link Status Pro is a plugin that scans your website for broken links, redirects, nofollow links, and more. With this plugin, you can easily fix broken links directly from the scan results.
Bonus: Check Your Site Score
It’s essential to monitor how your site is performing to make sure that you’re providing a positive user experience for anyone who visits your website.
There are several free tools you can use to check your site score.
Pingdom
Pingdom checks your site to make sure it is available and performing well and provides you with insights on load time and how many requests it takes to load your page.
GTMetrix
GTMetrix analyzes your page’s speed performance and provides a letter grade score.
Google PageSpeed Insights
Google PageSpeed Insights reports on the performance of each page on both mobile and desktop. It also provides suggestions on how the page may be improved.
We can help you improve the speed of your pages with our Site Speed services. Click here to learn more.
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