Wordpress SEO Plugins Recommended by Yoast

When you install wordpress, you must be careful to install only plugins that work well together and to avoid installing too many plugins as it will slow down your site. Slowing down your site will not be good for your end-user's experience causing search engines to adjust your rankings accordingly. He mentions buddypress but does not specifically suggest it. When there was a choice of two plug ins, I used several criteria:
* I prefer someone who has a free plugin if they don't have a pro version.
* He features google's analytics and it's version is much higher.
* He suggests the Genesis theme ($60) and a CDN ($40). Maybe later.
* I chose YAPP because it is better known and more automatic.

I plan to use the wordpress multisite feature so I can install and maintain these plug ins once and create new blogs.

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-seo.1.2.5.zip --2012-07-08 22:15:20-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-seo.1.2.5.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1057590 (1.0M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `wordpress-seo.1.2.5.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 1,057,590 2.33M/s in 0.4s 2012-07-08 22:15:22 (2.33 MB/s) - `wordpress-seo.1.2.5.zip' saved [1057590/1057590]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.5.6.zip --2012-07-08 22:33:43-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.5.6.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1435165 (1.4M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `buddypress.1.5.6.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 1,435,165 2.62M/s in 0.5s 2012-07-08 22:33:44 (2.62 MB/s) - `buddypress.1.5.6.zip' saved [1435165/1435165]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-image.zip --2012-07-09 00:14:29-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seo-image.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5815 (5.7K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `seo-image.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 5,815 --.-K/s in 0.04s 2012-07-09 00:14:29 (148 KB/s) - `seo-image.zip' saved [5815/5815]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/w3-total-cache.0.9.2.4.zip --2012-07-09 00:18:52-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/w3-total-cache.0.9.2.4.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 907698 (886K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `w3-total-cache.0.9.2.4.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 907,698 2.01M/s in 0.4s 2012-07-09 00:18:52 (2.01 MB/s) - `w3-total-cache.0.9.2.4.zip' saved [907698/907698]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-pagenavi.2.82.zip --2012-07-09 00:34:38-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-pagenavi.2.82.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 252651 (247K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `wp-pagenavi.2.82.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 252,651 905K/s in 0.3s 2012-07-09 00:34:38 (905 KB/s) - `wp-pagenavi.2.82.zip' saved [252651/252651]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/yet-another-related-posts-plugin.3.5.1.zip --2012-07-09 00:49:08-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/yet-another-related-posts-plugin.3.5.1.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.138, 72.233.56.139 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.138|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 503572 (492K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `yet-another-related-posts-plugin.3.5.1.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 503,572 1.29M/s in 0.4s 2012-07-09 00:49:08 (1.29 MB/s) - `yet-another-related-posts-plugin.3.5.1.zip' saved [503572/503572]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-redirect.1.1.zip --2012-07-09 00:52:09-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/comment-redirect.1.1.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.138, 72.233.56.139 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.138|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 285470 (279K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `comment-redirect.1.1.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 285,470 893K/s in 0.3s 2012-07-09 00:52:10 (893 KB/s) - `comment-redirect.1.1.zip' saved [285470/285470]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/subscribe-to-comments.zip --2012-07-09 00:56:55-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/subscribe-to-comments.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 18236 (18K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `subscribe-to-comments.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 18,236 --.-K/s in 0.09s 2012-07-09 00:56:55 (198 KB/s) - `subscribe-to-comments.zip' saved [18236/18236]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/twitter-tools.2.4.zip --2012-07-09 01:02:24-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/twitter-tools.2.4.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.138, 72.233.56.139 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.138|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 38767 (38K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `twitter-tools.2.4.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 38,767 --.-K/s in 0.1s 2012-07-09 01:02:24 (320 KB/s) - `twitter-tools.2.4.zip' saved [38767/38767]

wp@productlaunchjourney.com:~$ wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-analytics-for-wordpress.4.2.4.zip --2012-07-09 01:10:39-- http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-analytics-for-wordpress.4.2.4.zip Resolving downloads.wordpress.org... 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138 Connecting to downloads.wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 870386 (850K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `google-analytics-for-wordpress.4.2.4.zip' 100%[========================================================================================================================================>] 870,386 1.88M/s in 0.4s 2012-07-09 01:10:40 (1.88 MB/s) - `google-analytics-for-wordpress.4.2.4.zip' saved [870386/870386]