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My Top 9 WordPress Plugins

WordPress is a wonderful blogging tool. After my first experience with it I have subsequently started moving all my blogs across to this platform. It’s been around for ages and stood the test of time, provides a great tool and obviously has an abundance of third party plugins that transform your blog into a powerful beast to promote your articles.

Here are my Top WordPress Plugins to date that I feel every wordpress blog should look into:

  1. Feedburner Feedsmith – This is only useful if you are using feedburner to manage and track your feeds. It takes every rss link on the blog and ensures that it redirects to your feedburner RSS feed. Making your RSS tracking more reliable.
  2. Google Analytics for WordPress – add your google analytic ID to this plugin and gain more insightful research from the traffic on your bog
  3. Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
  4. Headspace – This is a must have for any blog that is serious about SEO. This allows complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets etc.
  5. Lightbox 2 – A great plugin that displays images in a lighbox java effect. Gives a nice professional touch to the website.
  6. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimiser – This plugin changes the way your wordpress blog pings its search engines. Basically it forces wordpress to become less annoying and more likable by search engine. Without this plugin there is a possibility that your blog gets blacklisted from the Google gods.
  7. Sociable – Adding social links to your blog posts making it easier for your fans to share your work with their world.
  8. WordPress Download Monitor – Fantastic monitoring of files that you have downloadable off your blog. It’s important to see if people actually download what you put online. This tells you how many downloads you are experiencing on each downloadable file you choose to monitor.
  9. WP-ContactForm – Simple and effective form for allowing people to contact you via email.

To download and install these plugins and search for the names. This way you are assured of getting the latest update rather than this article linking to old versions of the plugins.

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