In order to do so quickly and easily, though, there are several plugins available to help with incorporating WordPress with Twitter. The top 6 are:

1. TweetSuite gives you several options to add Twitter to your blog. You can Re-tweet, use tweet-backs and automatically tweet on particular posts. If you have a new blog post you can set it up to automatically post to your Twitter account, expanding your viewers from those on your site alone to those following you on Twitter also.
2. TweetThis is a simple tool but one that is extremely handy. This adds a “Tweet this” icon to every post. Visitors to your WordPress blog can see content they want to share with their own network and can click on the link to automatically tweet about the post. Making the sharing of posts very easy for visitors encourages them to help market your site all for free.
3. Twitter Badge will add an icon to your posts that you decide to Tweet or share on your Twitter account. This way people can see which posts are popular on Twitter and can help a post continue to get exposure or help out a new post by tweeting about that one.
4. Twitter Sharts allows you to incorporate your Twitter status anywhere in your WordPress blog. This is a fun and interesting way to make your site more personable and interactive.
5. Wickett Twitter Widget is a plugin you can add to your WordPress blog to display Twitter posts or tweets on your side bar. This will help add to your relevant content increasing your SEO. Plus it will help add interest to your WordPress blog allowing viewers to see additional information. It may even spark some ideas for expanded posts on your blog.
6. WP Twitip ID allows you to incorporate your users’ Twitter ID’s to their blog posts and comments. You can increase your Twitter following by adding all the users on your site to your Twitter account and encourage cross promotion of your site via Twitter and post tweets.

Nowadays almost everyone has a Twitter account. Making it easy and quick for users to help promote your site by tweeting on your WordPress blog posts is a must. Using Twitter and WordPress as compatible and related formats to cross promote your site is a great way to attract more visitors and expose your message to more people. Use the top six Twitter and WordPress plugins to accomplish this goal easily.

Related posts:

1. Using WordPress with Facebook: The Top Ten Plugins to Make it Easier
2. Using WordPress to Promote Affiliates
3. 5 WordPress Plugins to add Professionalism to your Blog

SEO means that you make your site more easily indexed by search engines so that when someone searches for particular keywords that relate to your site, your site will come up within the first few results. There are many ways you can optimize your site so that this works best for you. WordPress has multiple plugins available to help you. Choose from the top 10:

1. All in One SEO is a WordPress Plugin that does what its name implies: just about everything. This is the perfect plugin for those who do not want to install multiple applications but still want the versatility to do a lot of SEO functions. What this plugin will accomplish is SEO for titles, descriptions, keywords, no index of duplicate content, per post and per page modifications of default data to be more SEO friendly.
2. Platinum SEO is another all inclusive plugin designed to make SEO options quick and easy without having to install multiple applications. This is perfect for the beginner WordPress user who wants to ensure good SEO without a lot of hassle. Titles, meta tags, duplicate content settings, permalink settings, indexing, archiving, following, post and page settings are all addressed in one easy to use plugin.
3. Redirection is perfect for any time you need to change your links on your WordPress blog. When this occurs you run the risk of losing any search engine indexing that has already occurred. However, with this plugin you can manage your redirects so you do not lose any indexing plus get a listing of any 404 page errors so hey can be fixed as soon as possible. This plugin is available in over 10 languages.
4. No Follow Case by Case is a plugin that allows you to tell search engine bots whether or not to index or follow a particular link on your site. This way, you can have relevant links indexed appropriately without giving benefit to others’ sites who post links to help promote their own blogs. You can choose to have a search engine follow those you wish to support and not to follow others on a case by case basis.
5. SEO for Paged Comments is especially handy for busy interactive sites. If you have an interactive community where you have a lot of people commenting on your posts you run the risk of having multiple pages for comments. This alone is not a bad thing; a busy blog is great. However, if you have multiple pages of comments the original post will appear on each page and each page is its own link. The problem occurs with search engines that may penalize you for duplicate content. This plugin eliminates this by posting an excerpt with a link as opposed to the entire text.
6. If you do need to have duplicate content for some reason you will need to address this for SEO purposes and SEO No Duplicate plugin will take care of that for you. It allows you to have duplicate content on your site for visitors to see but you can identify the parent post that you want to get indexed and followed and any additional versions that you want ignored. This will ensure you do not get penalized for duplicate content while allowing it to be seen.
7. SEO Friendly Images is a plugin that makes creating “ALT” tags easier and ensures your embedded images help your SEO. Because images are a valuable tool in assisting with your page ranking, it is important to optimize them as much as possible and this tool makes it easy and quick.
8. Google Sitemap Generator is a great tool for SEO to create a sitemap for use in indexing. However, even though it was designed specifically for Google, the most popular search engine, many others use this format as well. So, if you want to get high placement on Yahoo, MSN and Google, this is a great place to start to automatically generate the sitemap without needing any coding knowledge.
9. Tag Cloud Widget is a plugin that allows you to use tag clouds without having the indexing problems normally associated with their use. While attractive, they are typically not readable by indexing bots and therefore do not get the benefit of SEO. With this widget it converts the tags to HTML so they can be read easily.
10. Related Entries is a helpful plugin that allows you to take full advantage of SEO possibilities using internal links. This plugin finds other posts within your site that are related to the original one and links to it. This way viewers can browse easily to additional content within your site while allowing you the benefit of increased SEO all at once.

With the inclusion of some of these handy SEO plugins you can optimize your site quickly and easily without needing to learn any extensive SEO tricks or hire a coder. The top ten SEO plugins for WordPress will take care of a lot of the necessary activity for you quickly and easily. You can increase exposure to your site via better search engine placement and increase your SEO with very little effort when you use these handy tools.

Related posts:

1. How to Change Links without Losing Traffic in WordPress
2. Top Ten WordPress Plugins to Optimize your WordPress Blog
3. Use Twitter to Promote your WordPress Blog: The Top Six Plugins

On note of caution, don’t stuff your blog full of plugins. Carefully choose which plugin(s) you want based on the features. I also like to use plugins that seem to have a good support system. When I see a plugin support homepage that looks outdated or underused, that is a good sign to me that there will not be anyone to help me with this plugin if difficulties arise.

So, what are some good plugins that will increase you WordPress rankings? This article will discuss some plugins that are useful when you are trying to get your WordPress blog to rank well.

1. Broken Link Check 0.5: Often blog posts will have links to outside pages. When these pages are no longer active this becomes a broken link on your post and broken links are frowned upon by the search engines, therefore, it is important that you not have any broken links on your site. The Broken Link Check plugin will alert you to broken links so you can fix them. With this plugin you can:
   • Check your links in the blogroll
   • Receive broken link notification immediately
   • Have your links on one page so you can view, edit, remove links all from the same page
   • View broken link information in a dashboard widget
   • When you edit or delete a link, bookmarks, custom fields and posts will be updated automatically. Awesome!!
2. SEO Smart Links: Search engines love to see interlinking going on in your blog. This means that you will be linking to other pages/posts within your blog. SEO Smart Links connects keywords and keyword phrases contained in your posts and comments to your corresponding posts, categories, pages and tags that are on your posts. This is all done automatically after you have configured it in the admin panel. You have complete control over this entire process with options you may customize. With SEO Smart Links you can:
   • Link keywords and keyword phrases within your post to other posts, pages, and comments
   • Set up a list of keywords that you do not want to link to
   • Use customized keywords to control the external links
   • Enable caching to speed things up
   • Set up links to open in a new window
3. Google XML Sitemaps Generator: Submitting a XML sitemap to Google is like telling Google that you are on the web and what you have to offer. It’s like an invitation for the search engine spiders to come on over and check out your site. Although it is called Google XML Sitemaps Generator, the format works for Yahoo!, Bing (formerly MSN search) and Ask.com. This plugin also alerts the search engines to any changes in your blog. When this happens, the spiders come running back for another look to see what’s new. All this spider activity will help your WordPress blog to rank better for your keywords and keyword phrases.
4. All in One SEO Pack: With this plugin you can customize post titles, descriptions and tags. When you do this customization, it helps you improve your search engine optimization. This is a fairly sophisticated plugin, but that should not intimidate you. It is designed to work upon installation with no programming, however, if you are an advanced WP user and feel confident in making adjustments to this plugin, there are plenty of things you will find that will make you happy such as:
   • Ability to fine tune your navigation links
   • Automatic search engine optimization of titles
   • Automatic generation of META tags
   • Ability to override titles so you can incorporate the META keywords and descriptions of your choice.
5. Alexa Rank or WP-Stats-Dashboard: As you are trying to improve your rankings, it is nice to know where you stand. Using one of these plugins will give you up to date information on where you rank in Google, on Alexa, Technorati rank, etc. Alexa Rank is more simplistic and will give your Alexa ranking information. WP-Stats-Dashboard is will give you information on Google PR, Technorati, Alexa, etc.

Related posts:

1. Increase Traffic with Landing Sites
2. How and why do you use post tags?
3. Need Better SEO for your WordPress Blog? Choose from the Top Ten

However, for older WordPress blogs or for those who already have blog posts using the default system, changing the permalinks may cause some problems.  First, if a user has bookmarked or posted the link elsewhere, the old link will no longer work which may detract traffic from your site.  Next, it may affect search engine indexing of your site which will directly affect search engine optimization.  This can be quite problematic but there is a solution that will allow you to change your permalinks without adversely affecting Google indexing, Yahoo indexing, other search engine results or bookmarked links.

The way to accomplish this change is to use a simple plugin that is available for WordPress.  The plugin name is the Permalinks Migration Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalinks-migration-plugin-for-wordpress/) available through WordPress.  All you need to do is download and install the plugin to WordPress.  There are now two settings you need to define.  First, put in the setting you used to use for your permalinks.  Then, put in your new format that you will use from now on.  Save your settings and all links will revert to your  new pages without losing any indexing.

This is a great way to change your site with existing content and site links without adversely affecting your traffic and SEO.  Once you are finished setting up the plugin, go to a search engine where you have results (such as Google) and search for a particular link.  Even if it shows the old format, click on it.  This should automatically redirect you to the newly formatted link title without any problem.

Related posts:

1. Need Better SEO for your WordPress Blog? Choose from the Top Ten
2. Increase Traffic with Landing Sites
3. Top Ten Navigation Improvements in WordPress