Best SEO friendly plugins for WordPress
The most popular SEO friendly plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Coming Soon Maintenance Mode leads with 6K+ active installs, ahead of SEO Tag Cloud Widget (200+) and Jawda YouTube Embed (fewer than 10). All 5 plugins tagged “SEO friendly” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 SEO friendly plugins
- 1.
Coming Soon Maintenance ModeThe most installed SEO friendly plugin, with 6K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
SEO Tag Cloud Widget200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 3.
Jawda YouTube EmbedFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 4.
Custom AJAX Search Results (C.A.S.R.)Fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 5.
Elevation BlocksFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 5 plugins tagged “SEO friendly”
Coming Soon Maintenance Mode
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,692by A WP Life1 month ago
A Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode plugin to manage your site's availability with responsive templates and SEO-friendly features.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 62/day
SEO Tag Cloud Widget
Down in the last 7 days:26#11,636by flocsy12 years ago
SEO Tag Cloud Widget displays the tag cloud in a SEO-friendly way, using a search engine optimized html markup.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Jawda YouTube Embed
Up in the last 7 days:13,715#59,318by Sabry Suleiman5 years ago
A very easy wordpress plugin for add shortcode to Embed a responsive SEO Friendly YouTube video
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom AJAX Search Results (C.A.S.R.)
#64,038by João Santos3 years ago
Insert a search bar with AJAX search results anywhere you want with a shortcode
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Elevation Blocks
#74,409by Elevation Team1 year ago
A collection of powerful Gutenberg blocks designed to help nonprofit organizations build beautiful, accessible, and effective websites with ease.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day