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Must have WordPress plug-ins for maximum blog benefits
Almost everyone who uses the internet knows WordPress as the best blogging platform. It is estimated that almost 65% of bloggers use WordPress for blogging. With such a large community, you will find thousands of plug-ins to use with your blog. Though Plug-ins provide added functionality for your blog, not all plug-ins are helpful.
Here is a list of “Must have” WordPress plug-ins that will help you get the maximum benefits from your blog.
All In SEO Pack – Free. If you don’t use any other plugin you need to use this one, it will allow you to easily SEO your blog.
Add To Favorites – Free. Self explanatory.
Addthis Social Widget Drop – Free. Helps your visitors promote your blog by letting them easily bookmark it.
Article Import – Paid. Import a zip file of articles and it will feed them into your blog over time.
Adsense Manager – Free. Manage your adsense blocks.
Audio Player – Free. Put audio on your blog for your visitors to listen to.
Caffeinated Content – Paid. This will add youtube videos, yahoo answers and articles to your blog automatically.
cForms – Free. Display spam protected forms on your blog.
Duplicate Content Cure – Free. This is a SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages.
Easy WP Affiliate – Paid. Will turn your keywords into affiliate links.
Faster IM Opt-in – Free with a Paid upgrade. Makes it easy to put an optin form on your blog.
Google Site Map Generator – Free. Generates a sitemap for your site.
WordPress Stats – Free. See the stats of your blog right in your dashboard.
Ultimate Google Analytics – Free. Add your blog to your google analytics account.
Uniquefier – Paid. Turns duplicate content into 100% unique content.
What Would Seth Godin Do – Free. Puts a message up for first time visitors encourage them to subscribe to your rss feed.
WP125 – Free. Easy 125×125 Ad Management for WordPress.
WP-Adserve – Free. Ads server for WordPress.
WP Magnet – Paid. Encourages your visitors to leave comments on your blog.
WP Pagenavi – Free. Adds more advanced page navigation to a WordPress blog.
WP Postratings – Free. Adds an AJAX rating system to your blogs posts and pages.
WP Security Scan – Free. Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions.
WP Spamfree – Free. I have found that this is the easiest spam buster to use. Very powerful.
WP Sticky – Free. Use this if you want to keep a particular post at the top of your home page.
WP Tags To Technorati – Free. This plugin will turn the tags that you use into technorati tags automatically.
WP Videotube – Paid. Will automatically post youtube videos to your blog at a time frame you decide.
Videos – Free. Add videos from several different video sites to your blog posts.
WPD Ads – Paid. Got this one from WordPress Direct. It will put a for sale widget on your side bar.
WordPress Database Backup - You must get WordPress database backup plug-in. This plug-in helps you in on demand backup of your WordPress database thus ensuring that you are prepared for any disasters on your blog.Wordpress
Automatic Upgrade - The WordPress automatic upgrade plug-in allows is developed to allow easy & effortless upgrade of your WordPress installation to the latest version. This plug-in automatically backups your database, downloads the latest WordPress version, installs the files and reactivates your previously active plug-ins.
Permalink Migration Plugin - Permalink is the permanent link to the blog post after it moves to the blog archives. Such links are indexed by the search engines and any changes to these links normally result in a “Page not found” error and hence loss of traffic. The Permalink migration plug-in automates the entire migration process. This plug-in is a must have if you are not satisfied with your blog’s Permalink structure and would like to change it.
Google Sitemaps plug-in - Sitemap is considered as an excellent navigation aid for your site visitor. XML sitemap are also known to provide search engines the necessary information for quick indexing of your blog. The Google sitemap plug-in automatically creates a XML sitemap for your blog and pings search engines informing them about the changes on your blog.
Related Posts - Visitors coming to your blog post through search engines usually leave the blog immediately after reading the post. The related posts plug-in helps you retain the visitor by providing him related posts and thus ensuring that the visitor has enough relevant content to stay on your blog.
GotBanners - This plug-in provides an easy and convenient way of monetizing from your blog. It displays all banners on your blog in a random manner thus avoiding banner blindness for your regular visitors.
So you can see this is quite an extensive list. I have others I use occasionally but I use most of these each time I set up a wordpress blog.
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[...] WordPress provides interactivity. Built into the software is the ability to make comments on all the articles you post or pages on the site. If you are worried about spam attacks or people making comments you don’t like there is also the ability to approve the comment first before it is posted. You can customize a wordpress blog to look like a website..(with a little help from a web designer like me!) Original continual content is a great way to get to gain more traffic and a blog is a good way to easily post your ideas, articles, and pictures without knowing how to design a website. It works like an email editor and is just as easy. Using a free service like Feedburner, you can have people subscribe to your blog for updates. Whenever you post a new article an email goes out telling the people that subscribed and it’s available. In the backend part of the software, you can do all kinds of cool things like look at your stats and see who clicked on what link to get to your blog/site, what phrase they used in the search engines…add plug-ins like some of these. [...]