Essential Wordpress Plugins- You need to have!

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Welcome back!

I want to share with you some of the plugins that I use and feel that you might want to seriously consider using on your wordpress blog .   Plugins give you the ability to accomplish things techie wise that a you probably would not be able to do if it came down to it. Getting your hands dirty with coding and stuff and I can say who has time to do that.

I mean really!

So I have a list created below of some Essential Wordpress Plugins you might want to use for your blog when you are just starting a blog and if you want to kick it up a notch.

All in one Seo Plugin- gives you the ability to optimize your site keyword, header, title and description tags. Something that Google and especially yahoo looks at a lot when it comes to rankings.

Google Xml Sitemap- This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog

Wp-Cache- Helps to handle spikes in traffic and make your blog faster.

WP Auto Upgrade- Allows you automatically upgrade to the latest version

Rss Footer- Adds extra content to articles in your Rss Feed with an editable anchor text.  So if anyone tries to Scrap your content at least you would be getting some link love back with your anchor text!

Meta Robots Plugin- helps to improve seo functionality of your blog.

These Six essential wordpress plugins will help to make your blog a more self efficient Seo Machine!

For more Information on Seo see my Resource on it  Click Here! And My SEO BOOK teaching Search Engine Optimization!

How to use the Robots Meta Plugin from Joost de Valk on Vimeo.


Wordpress Plugins you can’t live without

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Blogging is great sociable way to have fun online while at the same time being  able to teach and share your experiences with other.

The platform that was created as a content management system has grown and expanded so much, that now many plugins enable your wordpress blog to be taken to whole new level.

Blogs allow for the ability to use the site for so much than a basic online journal. From everything from data feeds and scripts and rss posted in many directories.

The possibilities are endless and that is why for your blog to be on that level as the higher ranking ones. You need to check out these awesome wordpress plugins.

All in one seo pack allows you to enter data for your title tags, keywords, and description of post for each individual one.

Google Site maps allows your wordpress blog to be able to focus on pings throughout MSN, YAHOO, GOOGLE ETC.

Related Post plugin will let your readers search around your blog more for more consistent material.

W-p Affiliate plugin allows you to post your affiliate links and mask them so no one can steal affiliate commissions.

Sticky post allows your post to stay up as long as you need it to no matter what.

RSS footer plugin- Makes it super easy to add a line of content at bottom of feeds  with a link back to site.

W-p link directory plugin is one that I just recently found out about, and it helps to set up a directory of listings of links for the site of your choice. Great for seo too.

Permalink Redirect plugin- Makes sure there is 301 permanent redirect if the requested url is not listed and keeps the browser on your site.

Stay Tuned for part two…. of some fun plugins I will list soon for your blog.