Owing to its ease of use Wordpress has become the largest Content Management System used in the world. Wordpress is very SEO friendly and offers various optimization methods.

Well, Wordpress on its own does not have many built-in SEO features but there are plugins that will help you with Wordpress SEO. Firstly, if you observe the URLs in Wordpress are not SEO friendly and they don't contain the .html extension. All of this can be overcome with the use of plugins.

Meta Tags for every page

It is important to have Meta Tags defined for every post and page on your Wordpress website and these plugins will help you do the same.

• All in One SEO
• Wordpress SEO by Yoast
• SEO Ultimate
• FV Simpler SEO

Fix the URLs 

You don't want URLs that show all of your pages as directories to Google. Get the lovely .html or .htm extensions that Google wants to see and separate directories from pages. Some plugins that you can use for that are:

• Add HTML to Page
• Add HTML Extension to Specific Pages

Generate Sitemaps

Generate Sitemaps for your website so that it is easy for Google to index your site. There are many plugins for this. Below are some plugins that will help you to do the same.

• Google XML Sitemaps
• XML Sitemap and Google News Feed
• Google Sitemap by BestWebSoft

There are many more plugins for Wodpress SEO available out there. Try to use as less as possible because each of these plugins will generate extra code for your website. A lot of code on your site can make is slow. There are plugins to optimize images but why do you want to use a plugin just to put in alt text for your image? You can do that yourself. Use plugins only for something that is really required.

Ray SEO offers top notch SEO services for Wodpress websites. If you are on Wordpress then you have found the right company to take you forward with Google. Move ahead in ranks and beat your competition with Ray SEO.