10 Must-Have Free Plugins For Your WordPress BlogMany people create a personal blog to socialise, some for business, some use blog for news announcement, free tips and informations to create visitors awareness and branding online. Creating an effective blog is important, no matter what is your purpose behind building a blog, for personal or For any online business…
Most people have the basic essential features that comes along with the wordpress blog, some blogging service don't and only comes with the basics widgets and we have to add in other widgets or plugins to enhance the overall blog features and user experience. if you are using a self-hosted wordpress blog, you will have much more flexibility in terms of adding plugins than if you are creating a free hosted blog where some features are limited.
Here are 10 essential plugins which you could download free and installed to create a much more effective blog with good user experience and increases more traffic to your blog.
Social bookmarking is a way to have your blog link posted on social bookmark sites like delicious, reddit, stumbleupon, Digg, Technorati..and many more. Usually these bookmarking sites have high page rank. More links below..
Add a Social Media Widget to allow people to connect to your on social network site like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace or Youtube. These enable people to add and follow you in social network where you could socialise and add value to your friends..
3. Tweet Button
Add a retweet button to allow people to retweet your blog post on Twitter. Retweet your post enable more blog exposure to social media in Twitter.
Add a Facebook share button to allow others to share your blog to friends in facebook. This maximise your blog exposure and view.
Add a SEO plugin to increase your blog visbility to search engine for all blog post. It enable you to add a description, title and keywords search for every blog post.
Add this plugin to generate a sitemap for all your wordpress post, pages and categories to increase searchability from search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN.
7. Related Post
Add this plugin to show posts which are relevant to your current post. You could customise it to show the number of posts which are related to the same Tags. Related post helps to increase more page views on a blog post within the same tag.
Add a Ping optimiser. Ping services is available in wordpress, its important to optimise your pinging of blog post to all ping servers and not to over ping which may harm your blog.
Add a WYSIWYG text editor that brings in much powerful editing capabilities than what is currently in your wordpress blog. You will like this plugin.
10. Optin Form Adder
Add a Optin form adder to manage and customise and outlook of your optin capture form. This will give you must more flexibility in where you want to place your optin form to maximise your leads and list building.
That's it..
Hope these plugins can helps to enhance your blog user experience and maximizing your traffic to your post.
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Enjoy Blogging!
To Your Success,
Allen Tan
Founder of eEntrepreneurs Club
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