7 Must Have WordPress Plugins for your Blog
Most bloggers are using the self-hosted WordPress.org blogging platform as a means to build their money making blog site. Today we will discuss 7 must have WordPress plugins for your blog that will increase your success rate for making money online with a blog.
BackupWordPress – this plugin is very important, if you don’t use a backup service within your hosting account. BackupWordPress will allow you to schedule a backup of your blog content, images and pages on a regular basis to ensure you won’t lose any of your precious content.
WordPress SEO by Yoast – this plugin is real popular among the money making bloggers because it is one plugin that does so many things. WordPress SEO by Yoast helps with SEO by giving you a green, yellow or red light to help you maintain the highest SEO per blog post possible. In addition you can easily access your Google Analytics from this plugin settings area.
W3 Total Cache – this is WordPress plugin is designed to help reduce download time which assists in ensuring your servers don’t bog down. If you are pulling too many resources from a shared hosting account service, the host company may pull down your blog until you rectify the situation. A cache plugin like W3 Total Cache will help your blog run quicker.
Akismet – this WordPress plugin assists to keep spam comments down. Using an akismet key you can easily install and setup this plugin to help monitor spam comments as a means to keep bad links and malware off your blog.
Google XML Sitemaps – submitting your blog to search engines will increase your traffic and so in comes this WordPress plugin, Google XML Sitemaps that will easily build your sitemap and allow you to ping search engines that your blog exists in just a few quick clicks of your keypad.
Contact Form 7 – most bloggers need to have a contact us page as a means for advertising, review and other requests that will ensure you can gain more revenue in blogging. Contact Form 7 is an easy to setup and use form that you can place using a short code within the contact us page of your blog.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – this WordPress plugin will place related posts within your blog under the current blog post a reader is viewing. This is a fantastic way to keep your bounce rate lower as a means to keep readers on your blog a bit longer.
The key to using WordPress plugins is to not overload your blog with plugins, use the bare minimum such as the plugins listed above as a means to cover all bases; traffic stats, SEO, spam comments and ease of access for users to contact you. If you use the above 7 must have WordPress plugins for your blog as a basic starting point to maximize your blog traffic then you will be one step closer to reaching your goals in making money online blogging.
What is your must have plugin?
Some great plugins advice and tips to help modify your blog 🙂
Amazing Collection.
I would like to share one best WordPress plugin for a blog, and it is a Blog Designer. This plugin will help you to modify your blog layout or single page layouts. It is the best solution for websites to attract more visitors to your blog or website.
It’s very nice to read these tips. They will surely help me to improve my blog. Eagerly waiting for upcoming posts. Keep up the good work.
I use most of these ones. Thanks for the list 🙂 it’s good to read and check if there is something i’m missing out on.
I use all of these plug ins! They are definitely must haves for wordpress!
This is super helpful! WordPress plugins are so practicable and there are so many to choose from. Good to know which ones are the best!
What a good list and I love this, I bet many bloggers would love this too
Im still with blogger but have been considering moving over to WordPress for a while, you have more editing options and SEO options.
These are all amazing and helpful plugins! I believe that I use them all!
I love this list! I am using most of them now. I don’t have too many installed and I try to stay away from doing so.
I need to try and go through a lot of mine and delete what I don’t need that’s for sure.
Great list! I love wordpress plugins but avoid to install too many, because they could slow down my sites.
It is scary how quickly they can slow down your website isn’t it 🙁
Thank you for sharing this list. I am planning on starting a blog soon and this is really helpful 🙂
I haven’t use wordpress but I know it’s good. Maybe someday, I’ll give it a try.
Great list! I use most of these with Seo by Yoast being my favorite and a must.
So many awesome plug ins! I almost wish I had a WordPress site because I want yoast so bad!!!!
Great list of plug-in we all need as bloggers. I use many but I definitely need to get the BackUp one like ASAP!
These are really very helpful tips….I have just installed Yoast and so far am liking it
Among your list, I only have SEO Yoast installed. I have to check the rest of them. Thanks for the tips!
I have all of these installed on my blog. They are really helpful and a must have!
Awesome list of plugins! I will definitely need to update my plugin list after this… Thanks for sharing this!
This is so helpful! I’ve been looking for guidance with this, so thank you 🙂
These are great tips for bloggers, especially for those who are just starting. I’d been using Yoast for quite sometime, I replaced my All in One SEO plugin with it as I found it very easy to use.
Awesome list! I have all of these except a cache plugin. No matter which one I try, they ALL seem to give me issues. I need to hire someone I suppose and have them look at it for me.
I’ve only heard of and use two of those! I feel like I’m missing out on something now, haha!
Okay, I’ve been blogging for just over a year now and I don’t have some of these plugins’ that I’ll definitely be adding this weekend for sure! thank you for the info : ) You’re awesome !
I really hope they help you out in the long term 🙂
This is a great list of plug ins. I actually use many of them myself. I’ll have to look at a few others as I’m not familiar with all of these.
I hope they help you 🙂 it is amazing how useful plugins can be, I’m not sure how I managed on blogger without them.
so far i used to love yoast! gonna check out other plug ins!
Yoast is really good, its such a help with SEO for sure.
That Yoast SEO plugin is amazing. Been using it for a while and I absolutely love it!
It is fab isn’t it – I don’t know what I would do without it these days.
My technical skills is very limited so Word Press is a bit complex for me lol. I know I am missing on some great plugins but I’d stick to a simple platform.
It isn’t as hard as it seems at first 😉 but I can understand why some people decide not to use it.
This is quite helpful. I have most of these plugins, but their are a couple, Contact 7 and Google site Map, I will definitely be checking into.
I really hope they help you out with your blog 🙂
this is very helpful! very perfect for me since i am about to start a new wordpress blog site! i love it! thanks for posting this!
Ohh how exciting good luck with your new website 🙂
I have heard of these plugins before, however, I can be technologically challenged at times so I hire someone to take care of this stuff. I’m passing on the link to her and ask her if I need these on my blogs (or maybe I already have it!)
To be honest I sometimes wonder about doing that myself and should anything awful happen I definitely do!
There are so many plugins these days and it can get quite confusing, to be honest. It’s good to have lists like this so that I can check which ones are working great for other bloggers.
It really can be and there is so many that do the same thing and it’s like which one is the best!
These are very very necessary. Would have to save this list and keep for later
I really needed to read this. Although I have been blogging for a awhile now, I have not installed any plugins. I need to do this!
Good luck with your first step into plugins! Security, anti spam and SEO are a must to start with 🙂
Yes, yes and yes for SEO Yoast! I find its pretty user-friendly in itself but I love all of the tutorials that are available out there.
It is fab isn’t it – I would know so much less without it!
I have all of these plug ins but the Google XML Sitemaps. When I installed it, WordPress sent up a red flag. They said it was incompatible with Yoast as they both basically only do the same thing? I uninstalled it to be on the safe side.
Yes if you have the sitemaps set up on Yoast it would probably cause some issues, it depends where you want to run your sitemaps via 🙂
This is a great list. I’m glad I have all these plugins. They make blogging easier.
It is amazing how much they can help your blogging experience isn’t it.
These are the very helpful tips. Yoast plugin is essential for SEO and listings.
It is amazing how easy to use it is as well I think, you don’t need to know anything really about SEO to get your head around it.
I totally agree, it is definitely a blogger go to that app.
I need the first one for sure! I just edited code and broke my site. I tried to update with GoDaddy’s back up and the back up didn’t have the best update. I’m going to check out that contact form too.
Oh no! What a nightmare for you, I’ve had issues and had to rely on backups before and it’s so worrying.
I approve this list for sure, I use just about all of these. I will look into the cache plugin and I just added the Google XML Sitemaps. Those were the only two I didn’t have. Thanks for sharing.
No problem at all 🙂 glad to have helped.
Yay for this article! THANK YOU! I just started on WordPress (coming from Blogger) last month. I have been searching out plug in’s here and there when I have the time. I have a few of these already but I am totally checking out the ones I do not yet have. I really appreciate this!
Aww you are totally welcome, and welcome to the world of wordpress I hope you like it!
Great suggestions! I definitely could not live without my Askimet, that’s for sure!
It is great isn’t it – I’ve been having a LOT of spam of late and thankfully it has caught most of it.
YOAST is something I cannot blog without. It’s been a big help with keeping my SEO in order. I love it.
I do love YOAST as well, it is so simple to use and really lays out how to work with your SEO easily.
Wordfence is my favorite. It keeps all those hackers away.
Most definitely it’s good to have a good security that doesn’t cost a fortune.