Recommended Wordpress Plugins
A blog’s functionality is highly dependent on the plugins of the blog. Some plugins are almost a necessity. With each plugins having different functions, below are 7 plugins that I would personally recommend to any bloggers out there.
1. All-in-One-SEO – This is a highly recommended plugins for Wordpress. The plugin allows unique meta description, keywords and titles to each page of your blog and blog posts, to rank well in search engines.
2. Feedburner Feedsmith – When creating your WordPress blog an essential part is having RSS Feed subscribers, and the most important of having subscribers is to be able to track them and keep the count. Which is when the service of feedburner came in play. This plugin converts all of your RSS Feeds, to your custom feedburner feeds, so all of your subscribers are subscribed to one feed therefore you get the most accurate count of your subscribers.
3. WP Super Cache – I highly recommend WP Super Cache to all bloggers. This plugin makes a copy of your web page on the server and by doing so it decreases the page load time and reduces the resource consumption. As most internet surfer are busy, they will hardly wait for more than 3 seconds to check what your site is all about. This plugin helps reduce the possibility of losing traffic due to having a long page load time.
4. Wordpress Database Backup – Wordpress Database Backup is important for a number of reasons. First of all, you can never predict when things will go wrong. Secondly, the plugin provides a peace of mind to bloggers, knowing that they have the latest backup to fall back on, just in case their blog’s data got wiped out.
5. CommentLuv – Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog. With CommentLuv, you can give something back to your community right away by including a titled link for their latest blog post on the end of their comment. The plugin fetches the feed of the commenter while they type their comment and extracts the last blog post title with link and displays it below the comment form. When they submit their comment, the last blog post link gets added on the end of their comment for all to see.
6. Popular Posts – Popular Posts integrates with Wordpress.com Stats plugin, providing a widget to show the most viewed posts. This plugin works great to keep readers attached to the site and subsequently increases visitor’s time on site. Simply add the widget to your sidebar.
7. TwitThis – This plugin adds “TwitThis” to every blog posts to allow your readers to share your article to their Twitter followers. As sharing your article is a matter of a click, the chances of your articles going viral are higher.
Although plugins also plays a big role in building traffic and increasing audience, whatever plugins you use, keep in mind that no plugin can get you traffic without great contents.
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