The most powerful feature of a WordPress blog is the ability to install custom plugins to aid with SEO.

To perform these functions without plugins, would require a great deal of knowledge in website programming.  That would pretty much take out the beginners unless they have money to pay someone to build them an SEO optimized site.

Watch this video to get a quick summary of what each plugin does:

 

Here are my “GO TO” plugins with all my SEO WordPress blogs I create.

SEO Power House Plug Ins:

• Google xml sitemaps
• All in one seo pack

Social Plugins:

• Google +1 button automator
• ShareThis
• Facebook Social Plugin Widgets

Inter-linking Plugin:

• Contextual Related Posts

RSS Feed Plugin:

• WWSGD
• RSS Includes Pages

Increase Load Time & Optimizing WordPress:

• W3 Total Cache
• WP-DBManager
• Smush It
• Use Google Libraries