9 WordPress Plugins must be used

You can find there are many plugins have been published. However it is hard to try all the plugins to find out what plugins are suitable for you. It is time consuming. Therefore I am here to write this article to let you know my recommendations.

SEO

I think this is the most concern part to bloggers. Being indexed and a High Rank SEO can generate unexpected traffic. The below 3 plugins can really help this.

  1. All in One SEO PackThis plugin can help your site add meta tag. Meta tag can help your site noticed by the search  engine easier. This plugin include site description, site keywords, articles’ title, articles’ description and articles keywords. Once you installed the plugin, All In One SEO Button will be added in the dashboard’s setting part. You can edit your site meta tag.
  2. Broken Link Checker – If you wanna your site be indexed by the main search engines, you should know that broken links will affect your site’s quality. The better quality your site is, the chance of being indexed will be much higher. Besides using the webmaster tools to check broken links. Broken Link Checker can notice you your site has broken links or not immediately.
  3. Google XML Sitemaps – Submitting sitemap can help your site indexed by the search engine more efficient. Normally, a site crawled by Google needed a few weeks. Using webmaster tool and submitting sitemap, it will result in being crawled within one week if your site has quality content. This plugin has one more function that really useful. When you have published a new post, your sitemap will be updated and sent automatically. You have nothing to do to notice the search engines.

Site performance

When your site traffic become large, suffering a long loading time problem because of the theme. Some bloggers may not a professional computer user, have no idea how to improve site performance. The below plugins are going to these users.

  1. CSS Compress – As the plugin name said. It helps you to make your theme css’s size smaller, rewrite it in a better path. The result is your site loading performance would be better than before. The most featured point of this plugin is your have to do only 3 things. 1. Download the plugin. 2. Install the plugin. Activate the plugin. The plugin will run automatically.
  2. WP Super Cache – A great plugin to speed up your site. Once you installed and activated the plugin. You need to enable the Super cache or the cache. You will enjoy the speed when you have used it.

Articles

The following plugins are related to every post. Let your readers share what you write, notice them what to read.

  1. Possibly Related Recent Posts –Automatically displays possibly related posts at the end of each post. It helps your reader to find much information they needed on your site.
  2. No Self Pings – This plugin avoid the ping back of your blog. Bloggers who do not like the ping back should install this plugin.
  3. Light Social – Automatically displays small icon that represent different Social sites. Convenience to your readers to share your articles.
    This is the list of used social sites:
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Yahoo Buzz
  • DZone
  • Facebook
  • Viadeo
  • Delicious
  • DotNetKicks
  • DotNetShoutout
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati
  • Twitter
  • Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)
  • Faves
  • Mister Wong

Contact

Contact Form 7This plugin create a contact form. Let bloggers and readers have one more way to interact. Besides only leaving comment. Email is another way. Simply install and activate the plugin, copy the code and paste it. If you wanna see a sample, you can have a look of this site. The top button ” Contact “.

If you wanna your site have a better performance, I think the above plugins can really help you a part.
However, the most important point is your quality contents. Only quality contents can help you make your readers stay and become your fans.

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Digg This
Reddit This
Stumble Now!
Buzz This
Vote on DZone
Share on Facebook
Bookmark this on Delicious
Kick It on DotNetKicks.com
Shout it
Share on LinkedIn
Bookmark this on Technorati
Post on Twitter
Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)

Comments (3)

 

  1. Dave Higgs says:

    Thanks for an awesome article.

    I will try both the “article” ones – related posts and the community sites one.

    For SEO I use HeadSpace

    Thanks again,
    Dave

  2. Kyros says:

    I am glad to see my article can help you.

  3. Sbobet says:

    Hi, Thanks for the plugins! Perfect! This is exactly what I have been looking for.

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