If you’re a blogger you must be aware of the impact of SEO on your marketing plan. WordPress SEO is a
free wordpress plugin
that reminds you of the things you need to take care of to optimize
your post for search engines. Be it a focus keyword, alt attributes to
images, keyword density, keyword containing headers and a lot more,
WordPress SEO takes care of it all.
An important aspect of a website is it’s loading time. When I say
important I mean for crawlers and humans alike. Who does not like a
zippy loading website? When a new visitor turns up on your website; the
loading time leaves a first impression on him. You would want that to be
awesome, right? W3 Total Cache is a wordpress plugin that takes care of
all the caching requirements of your website to ensure it loads fast as
a horse for your visitors.
Almost every blogger uses images
in the articles. If you’re not you better start it. Images grab the
attention of readers, develop interest in reading and represent the
essence of the article from a look. There’s a catch though. Images tend
to be heavy to load and can become a prime reason for slow website
loading. Even W3 Total Cache will not be of much help with this. So the
solution is either you compress your images before you upload them or
you start using WP Smush.it plugin.
WP Smush.it plugin is developed by Yahoo. It compresses images on
your blog without loosing on quality. The end result is an excellent
reader experience with a lightning fast website.
Do you take backups of your website regularly? Is it way too boring
to do it manually every day? I bet it is. BackWPup is a wordpress
plugin that not only takes the backup for your website, but also can
send the same to your dropbox or email. Set the date and time when you
want your backup taken and it will do the rest for you. No more wasting
time on backups, instead use it to create compelling content for your
readers.
Security of your website is of prime importance for every blogger. If
all of your hard- work is destroyed by some mischievous hacker it feels
like hell doesn’t it? Well, Better WP security plugin guides you with
the precautions you need to take for avoiding such a calamity. It is
simple to use and a one time setup will give you peace for a lifetime.
Seen those ‘Related posts’ or ‘You might also like’ thumbnails on
different websites? Well they do have a knack for increasing user
engagement. Out of the plenty wordpress plugins available the Related
Posts plugin by Zemanta is simple and zippy to use.
Wish to place neat and fluid social sharing buttons on your blog?
Flare will serve your purpose just right. You can customize where to
place your social media
sharing buttons, what type of buttons you need, sticky bar if needed
etc. Apart from that it displays a total count of shares (Flares as they
call it) besides the buttons. They even track the share activity on
your buttons.
Heard of bit.ly, goo.gl or tinyurl? What these services do is they
convert long url’s to shorter ones. The same job can be accomplished
using pretty links free wordpress plugin. This plugin converts any link
to the format “yourdomainname.com/????” where “????” can be any text you
wish. Another advantage of such conversion is when you use affiliate
links. Not only does this hide your affiliate link, it even encourages
users to click the link. Again it preserves the pagerank juice within
your website.
If you are into blogging sincerely you will reach a point when you wish to earn money by
displaying banner ads on your website. This is when you will need a
wordpress plugin called Simple Ads Manager. Its very easy to create and
manage banners and banner groups using this plugin. You can select the
location of the banners using simple drag and drop of widgets. It
doesn’t get any easier than this.
Last but not the least, WP Touch is a wordpress plugin helps you
create an elegant mobile version of your website. A light, neat and
professional mobile website is a 2 minutes job with WP touch plugin.
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