Yoast SEO

Yoast’s mission is SEO for Everyone. Our plugin’s users range from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet.

Yoast SEO Free contains everything that you need to manage your SEO, and the Yoast SEO Premium plugin and its extensions unlock even more tools and functionality.

Description

Yoast SEO: the #1 WordPress SEO plugin

Since 2008 Yoast SEO has helped millions of websites worldwide to rank higher in search engines.

Yoast’s mission is SEO for Everyone. Our plugin’s users range from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet.

Yoast SEO Free contains everything that you need to manage your SEO, and the Yoast SEO Premium plugin and its extensions unlock even more tools and functionality.

GET AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION

To rank highly in search engines, you need to beat the competition. You need a better, faster, stronger website than the people who sell or do the same kinds of things as you.

Yoast SEO is the most-used WordPress SEO plugin, and has helped millions of people like you to get ahead, and to stay ahead.

TAKING CARE OF YOUR WORDPRESS SEO

Yoast SEO is packed full of features, designed to help visitors and search engines to get the most out of your website. Some of our favourites are:

  • Automated technical SEO improvements, like canonical URLs and meta tags.
  • Advanced XML sitemaps; making it easy for Google to understand your site structure.
  • Title and meta description templating, for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
  • An in-depth Schema.org integration that will increase your chance of getting rich results, by helping search engines to understand your content.
  • Full control over site breadcrumbs, so that users and search engines always know where they are.
  • Faster loading times for your whole website, due to an innovative way of managing data in WordPress.

5+ million active users, last updated a week ago.

5 stars, everyone claims its a must have.

I think this is a helpful plugin if your goal is get people attention.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.

Our core platform is free, flexible, and amplified by a global community. The freedom of open-source means you retain full ownership of your store’s content and data forever.

Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce.

  • Create beautiful, enticing storefronts with themes suited to your brand and industry.
  • Customize pages in minutes using modular product blocks.
  • Showcase physical and digital goods, product variations, custom configurations, instant downloads, and affiliate items. Bookings, memberships, subscriptions, and dynamic pricing rules are only an extension away.
  • Rise to the top of search results by leveraging WordPress’ SEO advantage.

Built-in tools and popular integrations help you efficiently manage your business operations. Many services are free to add with a single click via the optional Setup Wizard.

5+ million active downloads, updated a week ago

4.5 stars, users say its a great, must-have plugin, however, some claim it slows down the website.

I think this is a great plugin. I think it will make ecommerce stuff easier to use and create.

Visual Composer Website Builder

Visual Composer Free contains everything that you need to create a simple website. It is the most powerful free version page builder on the market with 40+ ready-made elements and templates, as well as mighty design options.

Visual Composer is an all-in-one plugin that lets you make beautiful websites from header to footer. You can create custom page layouts in a code-free way.

Make unique header, footer, and sidebar templates to use them throughout your entire WordPress site with the help of Global Templates. Additionally, there’s a Dynamic Content feature that allows you to design templates with dynamic content placeholders (devs will love it).

Last updated February 16, 2021 (as of 2/18/21), Active installations of 80,000+

4.5 stars, users claim it is a good visual page builder, however they also claim that to get the best results you must get premium.

I think that this is a nice plugin to have if you need extra help with designing, however, I’m not sure its 100% necessary for me right now.