32 Essential WordPress Plugins To Keep Your Blog Amazing

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AkismetPeople use SPAM comments to get

backlinks to their website and try to make it rank higher

THE most basic essential Wordpress pluginProtects your blog from being innodated

with SPAM commentsSPAM comments can get up to a couple of

hundred a dayWith Akismet you will never have to sift

through your comments or even look at the SPAM if you don’t want to

All In One SEO Pack A simple to use SEO

plugin Gives you the option to fill

in the fields of a title and description of your post exactly the way you want to have it shown on the search engines

Another field is provided to fill in your keywords for the post

This makes it easier for the spiders to figure out what your post is about

Broken Links Remover In order for your content to

rank higher, you need to have internal links

Internal links are links inside of your post that take your reader to another part of your website

Every once in a while one of those links doesn’t work

This plugin gives you a list of all your broken links so you can go back and fix them

Cbnet Ping OptimizerFirst let’s discuss what a ping is

Basically a ping is sent out whenever you update your blog Pings make your content be indexed faster

Wordpress is already set up to ping your content when it is created which is one reason why Wordpress sites rank so well

However you can still optimize your pings so you don’t look like a spammer every time you update your content

This plugin makes it so you don’t look like a spammer and pings more efficiently

Here’s a list of ping sites that I use http://who-is-erin-smith.com/pings.pdf

Comment Luv Every avid blogger has this

plugin Every time someone

comes and comments on your blog, this plugin creates a link back to the commenter’s last blog post

This creates more comments for you, which creates a better rank, and gives your commenter a backlink back to their blog

A win win situation!

Comment Redirect Usually when someone is

leaving a comment they are just about ready to leave your website so make sure they have seen what you want them to see!

With this plugin you can send your commenter anywhere you want on your website A thank you page to encourage them

to become a lead Your tools page to let them know what

you use and maybe sell something Your business opportunity so they

know what you’re involved in

Digg Digg I LOVE this plugin! Before this plugin you had

to find individual share buttons for each social media you wanted

That means one plugin for Facebook, one for Twitter, one for Digg, etc..

NOW you only have to use one plugin for ALL your social media share buttons

VERY convenient!

Edit Comments This plugin is more for

your commenters When your

commenter posts their comment and realizes they made a mistake they can go back and edit their mistake

I actually had one of my commenters request that I add this plugin!

Exclude Pages From Navigation

Depending on what theme you have for your blog, you might really really want this plugin!

When you create a page you can either set it as a parent page (shows up in your tabs) or a sub parent page (could be a drop down)

Well what about those pages that you don’t want to be a part of the tabs menu or part of a drop down menu?

With this plugin you can choose your page be excluded from the navigation bar and now nobody can see it unless they go straight to it

Perfect for having exclusive content!

Fast And Secure Contact Form

When people come to your blog you want them to be able to contact you right?

This plugin lets you create a form so that your readers can send you an email!

And NO you do not have to know a bunch of html code either and there is SPAM protection

Just choose which form, customize it a little, copy the code they give you, and paste it where you want the form to go!

Favicons What the heck is a Favicon?

When you go to Google look up to the left of the http part in your browser

Do you see the pic on the right up there? THAT is a favicon

It makes your website stand out if someone has a bunch of tabs open

PLUS this plugin acts as a gravatar as well (globally recognized avatar)

A gravatar are those little pictures that you see next to someone’s comment on other blogs

FD Feedburner Plugin If you’re an avid blogger you

need to make your feed look cool and easy to share!

Easiest way to do this is to go to http://feedburner.com and burn your feed (there’s instructions on how to do that on the site)

Once you do that you need to redirect your feed to your cool looking feed on feedburner

This plugin lets you do that very easily! Just type in your new feed and you’re done

Feed Subscriber Stats Kind of a boring plugin Now you don’t have to

log into feedburner.com every time you want to check out your stats

This plugin let’s you see your subsciber stats right on the dashboard of your wordpress blog!

It’s just nice to see your numbers go up

Google XML Sitemaps My favorite type of

plugin! The kind that all you

have to do is click activate and you’re done

This plugin makes a XML sitemap of your blog for Google

Basically computer language of your blog

Popularity Contest This plugin is really

cool It creates a widget

that you can put into your sidebar that will rank your posts against each other to determine the most popular

Underneath every post and page you are given a percentage score for popularity

PopUp Domination This plugin is kicking! 1 of 2 plugins that I have paid

for and was worth ever penny Creates a VERY professional

looking form that pops up over your blog when you get a new visitor asking them if they want to get your offer

This increases your lead generation a TON!

AND it’s extremely cutomizable

Go to my blog to see mine http://whoisErinSmith.com

Pretty Link (Lite Version)

This is a pretty useful plugin!

You are able to cloak a link to a link that looks like your website.

For example if you have a big long ugly affiliate link I can turn it into http://whoisErinSmith.com/aweber

It also tracks how many click you get

Related Posts Thumbnails

This plugin is really good for keeping people on your blog longer

At the end of every post there is a list of related posts with their title and picture

If you have a good title and picture a lot of times your reader will click on it just to see what the post is about

The longer someone is on your blog the more likely they are to become a lead or buy something from you! ;)

Reply Me With some blogs you are

able to get emails whenever someone leaves a comment on the same post you commented on

If there are a lot of comments that means that you’re probably going to get a lot of emails

With this plugin your commenter will only get emails from people who replied to their comment

Robots Meta This is a cool plugin for

SEO stuff but kind of boring because you don’t really see the results

I can have 50 slides on how to set this plugin up so go and Google some tutorials

One thing this plugin does is it prevents your blog from making duplicate content which Wordpress does automatically unless you have a plugin like this

SEO Friendly Images

Yet another boring SEO plugin

All you have to do is activate it

Makes your images SEO friendly

SEO Pressor Unlimited

The second plugin that I have paid for and is one of my favorites!

You choose a keyword that you want to rank for and put it into the SEO Pressor

After you write the blog this plugin will give you a score out of 100 as to how well you can rank according to your keyword

Then it gives you a list of things you need to improve

Gives you your keyword density

SEO Slugs Yet another boring

SEO plugin but pretty cool

This turns your permalink into keyword rich links

It takes out common words like: a, how, to, the etc.

Sexy Bookmarks (Shareaholic)

The more shares you get on social media and bookmarking sites the more people are going to see your post

This is just another plugin that pops up that let’s your reader share your content

I put this one at the end of my posts and Digg Digg at the beginning

Thank Me Later This plugin sends your

commenter an email You can customize

when you’re going to send it and what you’re going to say

You can thank them for leaving a comment and encourage them to come back and leave your link

Top Level Categories More SEO stuff! With these SEO

plugins you’re going to be ranking before you even make a post!

This plugin either takes out the category in your permalink or puts it at the end so your keyword for your post comes first

Wordpress EZ Backup The worst blog day I

have ever had was when I logged into my blog and ALL my content was gone

After a crazy day of contacting Host Gator I finally got my blog back

I could have saved me a lot of trouble by having this plugin that backs up my content for me

WordPress Thread Comment

Have you ever been to a blog and the comments are all jumbled up?

You don’t know who’s replying to who?

This plugin puts all the replies to a comment inside the original comment

MUCH more organized

WP Frame Breaker Sometimes when you

click on a link to go to a site there is a HUGE header taking up your screen

Digg, Unified Tribe, Viral URL all do this as examples

This plugin prevents those bars from showing up

WP Google Analytics There are several

ways to keep track of your website’s stats

Google Analytics is one of those ways

Just create a Google account and copy and paste the code into this plugin

You can also check your hosting service for stats

WP Greet Box This plugin is pretty

cool! Whenever someone

comes to your blog it shows you visitor a custom message

Wherever they come from it has a custom message

Facebook says hey Facebooker, Digg says hey Digger, etc.

WP Super Cache Did you know that the

time it takes your website to load has an effect on your rank?

If your site takes a long time to load it hurts your rank

This plugin helps your website load faster

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