WordPress plugins database is so huge that it would take months for me to write down a review on each. On the other hand not all the plugins are useful to everyone. Blogs of different niche and kind have different needs. So plugins that I am going to talk about are going to be useful to each and every blog you own irrespective of the type it belongs to.
I do not want to be very descriptive about these plugins because this post is not going to be reviewing the WordPress plugins. But instead it is just about how these 5 important plugins can change the face of your blog internally and externally.
Since this post is not going to review any of the plugin I would just make it a good to know sort of a post. However I will post individual reviews of the following plugins and also the rest of the best WordPress plugins on NPXP in the coming posts.
1) All In One SEO Plugin
Download: All In One SEO Plugin
If you are new to SEO or just a blogger who wants to benefit from the search engine optimization boost then this is for you. I would say almost everyone creates blogs for others to see and enjoy it. So why not reach the people through the Search engines?
Search Engine visitors are well targeted and if they are on your blog then it simply mean they are after what you have to offer. So it’s just too important of a WordPress plugin that can bring huge search engine traffic provided your blog offers good content.
2) Contact Form 7 Plugin
So why should you have a contact form on your blog? Well who doesn’t wants to be contacted by their blog readers? This is a useful WordPress plugin for the sheer reason that it connects with your blog visitors.
In any event the contact form on your blog will come in handy if someone wants to advertise on your site. The contact forms on my blog are generally used by visitors to provide me feedbacks and appreciations. I completely enjoy being contacted by people about my blogs. What about you?
3) Subscribe 2 Plugin
Your blog readers can subscribe to your posts via email. So every time you update the content the blog readers are notified about it through an email.
By this way you can sure that you retain the loyal blog readers base. It’s good to improve traffic on a constant basis.
4) Google analytics for WordPress Plugin
Google analytics for WordPress
As a blog owner you can track your blog visitors through many methods. The most preferred way that I choose is actually through AWSTATS (A Cpanel feature used to track visitors).
It is available in most of the Hosting providers including the one which NPXP is on – Hostgator – The Best Hosting Company . The next preference is of course Google analytics, what better way to know than through the eyes of Google itself.
Google analytics is a free to use tool if you have a Google account, which is pretty obvious. It gives you an insight of what Google thinks is important for a website to rank well on their search engine.
5) Google XML sitemaps Plugin
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
There can’t be a better explanation than this about this plugin. Google bots or any other search engines bot for that matter love your blog when you have a sitemap featured.
Many of you would be using these plugins on your blogs, if you are not then you might start using it after reading this post. The most important thing that you need to understand is that WordPress is partly famous and popular because of all these plugins and more.
Use them wisely on your WordPress blog and make the best out of it.
WordPress themes and plugins bring out the spirit in your blog.
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Hey, this is Kamal and I operate the NPXP network of websites. I am a blogger as well as a freelancer.
I like the subscribe 2 plugins..
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Ye Sudarshan same here.
It is really a nice way to connect with the Users of your blog.
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Nice one. It would be good if you have added Askimet than Subscribe 2 Plugin to the list, as Security is must.
Well Akismet as you know is a packaged plugin. It comes default so I did not mention about it.
But otherwise Akismet is like a life saver to all the blogs from Spam.
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There are lot more in my llist. Just listing few more here :
1 Akismet
2. Subscribe to comment
3. Google XMl sitemap
4. Wp smush it
5 Super cache
6. Ping optimizer
endless list for me.. Im using almost 30+ plugins
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NPXP is happy to have you here and see you commenting. Thanks for your time Harsh, really appreciate it.
About the topic, I would say more number of plugins is not a good option but when it becomes a requirement then obviously one has no choice.
That’s a good set of plugins that you have mentioned. NPXP is about 6 days old now so you can expect all the awesome plugin review posts that I am gonna come up with.
It’s just my way to say “HELLO” to the blogger’s community, you know what I mean
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Wow ! Nice widgets ! i like sitemap generator !
Thanks for your comment Siddharth. Sitemap generator is quite useful and very much liked by Google in particular.
It helps you index your website fast with Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and more.
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Hey, Kamal Hasa, This is a nice plugins list, I also like to suggest another plugin, SEO Ultimate. This is one is like AIO, but it’s much better then AIO. Try this one.
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Hi Jay, Welcome to NpXp. We are happy to have you here
I haven’t tried any other plugin apart from AIO SEO because it satisfies all my needs. But since you have recommended this plugin to me I shall have a look at that soon.
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