Friday, March 11, 2016

Useful Programs to boost your SEO on Wordpress

FileZilla - This is a free program that allows you to upload/download files to web servers like Godaddy.
https://filezilla-project.org

The info you would need is the host name, user name, password and port.  Godaddy would have that info if you hosted with them.

SpyFu - This is a limited free program that allows you to check out other websites and see where their traffic is coming from.  You can get a lot more out of it if you buy the paid version.
https://www.spyfu.com

Screaming Frog SEO Spider - This is a fantastic tool that you can run on a website to see stuff like broken links and things like that.  Just started playing around with it.   This was the program I used to find my broken links.
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider

Useful Wordpress Plugins

Here are some great Wordpress plugins I use
Ninja Forms and Ninja Popups - These are the plugins that I use for newsletter signups.
Social Count Plus - Allows you to display your social media accounts and how many followers you have.
Yoast SEO - Awesome on page SEO plugin.
Yuzo - Related Posts - Displays related posts
Contact Form 7 - Allows you to create forms for things like a Contact Us page.
Akismet - Helps prevent spam.