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This has been done a thousand times, but I don’t think people have really documented how to make wordpress as SEO friendly as possible. There are still a few unkown plugins out there that really make life easier. So below is my list of many, maybe something will be useful there:

1. Subster Rejunevation: This plugin turns all of your categories into subdomains, which I hear over-and-over again is great for SEO, don’t know why, but I’ll take the professionals word for it, can’t hurt, so cool plugin nonetheless

2. Sitemap Generator: Sitemaps are great for letting search engines index your content, and this little plugin does all the work for you
3. Statcounter: It’s a free javascript-based statistics counter for your website, if you want something more detailed try google analytics

4. Akismet: Stops comment spam on your site, this little plugin does the trick

5. CG-Inbetween: Allows you to place your google adsense anywhere on your site quickly and easily. Before this plugin, I couldn’t figure out how to put adsense inbetween posts

6. Count inbound links: This plugin uses the MSN API to count your backlinks, and tracks them over time

Other plugins to check out (not necessarily SEO related): Ultimate Tag Warrior (couldn’t get this one to work in the 2 minutes I had with it, but looks cool), Send to a Friend Plugin and Print this plugin.

Another upgrade you should consider with your blog is to change your permalink structure to /%postname%/ under options > permalinks. This provides a nice, clean permalink for your blog posts.