I put together a list of my top favorite WordPress Plugins to crush it online (meaning kick some serious butt!). If you don’t have a WordPress site yet, I HIGHLY recommend getting in touch with me asap as you are missing out on tons of traffic and new business! You can schedule a time to chat here.
My Favorite WordPress Plugins:
Akismet – Check comments again spam and other robots you don’t want polluting your website. By:Automattic
Aweber Comment Optin – With this plugin, you now have the ability to add a simple checkbox and message to the end of your comment forms to allow your users to subscribe to a Aweber list when commenting. By: Thomas Griffin
Broken Link Checker – Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. By: Janis Elsts
Cool Author Box – Adds a author box to the top or bottom of posts and pages displaying the author name (linking to other posts by the same author), author website and author Gravatar in a cool and unusual layout. By:Morten Rand-Hendricksen
Contact Form 7 – Perfect for your Contact Us page and other ‘form’ options. By: Takayuki Miyoshi
Facebook Meta Tags – This plugin adds appropriate meta tags for facebook share. No Setting required. By: Matt Say
Facebook Social Plugins – Easily integrate Facebook’s social features on your blog. By: Olivier Lussier.
Google Analytics Dashboard – Google Analytics graph integration. By: Carson McDonald
Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking. By: Joost de Valk
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. By: Arne Brachhold
Online Backup for WordPress – Online Backup for WordPress allows you to easily backup your WordPress site with encryption to email, download or free 100 MB secure online storage. By: Jason Woods @ Backup Technology
Pretty Link Lite – Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website! By: Casproof
SEO Friendly Images – Just what it says! Make your images friendly with search engines and bring greater results to your blog when it comes to SEO! By: Vladimir Prelovac
SEO Facebook Comments – This plugin will insert a Facebook Comment Form, Open Graph Tags and ALSO insert all Facebook Comments into your WordPress Database for better SEO. By: Fabio Zaffani
Tweet, Like, Google +1 and Share – Most simple social share icons. 99% of your any blog post is share by these Social share icons. By Sudipto Pratap Mahato
WordPress SEO – One of the best SEO Plugins I’ve seen in a long time that can be used on all themes of WordPress, free or paid. By:Joost de Valk