10 Free Useful Plugins for Bloggers
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Raushan Jaiswal
Founder of Codewing Solutions
Co-founder of Rara Theme
Blogger
PublicSpeakingResources.com
Trekroute.com
Disclaimer
Neither I am associated with any of the plugins
mentioned in this presentation nor I get any benefit
from them by giving presentation about them.
Floating Social BarSocial media sharing plugin
• Floating social media
• Optimized for Speed
• Handful of social network that matters
Drawbacks
• Not good user experience in case of sticky menu
Welcome MatEmail list builder by SumoMe
• Effective to build email list
• Easy to configure
Drawbacks
• Couldn’t disturb the users
• May increase bounce rate
Yoast SEOSearch Engine Optimization Plugin
• Add titles and descriptions
• XML Sitemap Creation
• Add Open Graph Meta Data
• Provide SEO suggestions – page analysis
Drawbacks
• Gives unnecessary notifications
StreamTrack content changes
• Track when changes were made
• Track who made the changes
• Useful for blogs having multiple users/authors
Drawback
• Load on database
Lazy LoadLoad images only when visible to the user
• Improves page load time and server bandwidth
• Useful to blog having several images
Drawbacks
• Personally experience compatibility issues in few blogs
Google XML SitemapGenerate XML Sitemap
• Supports all kind of WordPress generated pages
• Supports custom URLs
• Notifies all major search engine every time new post is
created
Drawbacks
• Could cause performance issues on large websites
• Generally, not allowed in WordPress managed hosting.
Example, mediatemple.net, wpengine.com, etc.
Udinra All Image SitemapGenerate Image Sitemap
• Automatically creates image sitemap
• Ping Google, Bing and Ask.com
Title Experiments FreeSplit (A/B) test for multiple titles
• Write multiple titles for a post
• Discover which title has more CTR (Click Through Rate)
w3 Total CacheWeb Performance Optimizer using Caching
• More than 5 million downloads!
• Enables caching
• Improve web server performance
• Page speed improve – impact SEO
Drawbacks
• Malware issue
• Broke down some forms created by plugins
• Generally, not allowed in WordPress managed hosting
Sucuri SecurityWordPress Security
• Monitor security
• Offers real time alert
• Malware removal
• Website security scanner
Drawback
• Too many emails