Once you install WordPress and start posting regularly, you can sit back and relax — WordPress will do the rest of the SEO work, right? Wrong. Sure, WordPress will automatically does some things automatically like sending out pings, and creating RSS feeds. But there’s more work to be done to take your Search Engine Optimization to the max, and thankfully there are a handful of excellent plugins to help.

In this article, we look at three great plugins to maximize your WordPress site for SEO -- HeadSpace, Sociable, and Google XML Sitemaps. All three will help you jump ahead of the pack when you learn and use them well. Tips on how to do that are given with helpful screenshots... take a look now.