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!