Top 10 Plug-in For Your Wordpress Blog

The best way to make the most of your blog is to produce high quality content and have the right plugins to get you to where you want to be. Lets explore the Top 10 plugins that you should install on your WordPress blog.

Yoast SEO

What – Yoast is a complete SEO tool that comes with features such as Post Title and meta description templates, RSS enhancements, Permalink clean up and many more.

Why – This is crucial for your website because you need to rank high in the search engines to get found and be seen by your target audience So the better you optimize your blog, the more visibility you will receive from the search engines.

YouAPPi Content Recommendation Plugin

What – When you’re reading through a blog about your favorite sports team or financial advice this plugin adds app recommendations at the bottom of the post that are relevant to the content on the page and to the individual engaged user.

Why – The importance of this plugin is that not only will your readers be more interested in downloading the apps suggested because they are relevant to the topic they’re reading about but it puts a little money in your pocket because YouAPPi pays publishers per download of apps.

W3 Total Cache

What – The focus of this plugin is to be your WPO or WordPress Performance Optimization tool. It helps with your user experience and the speed of your page.

Why – Because people aren’t going to stick around your blog very long if your page doesn’t load in a timely manner and the user experience is poor.

Vault Press

What – Every site needs a security system and a way to keep things backed up. That’s what Valut Press does.

Why – As a blogger you want to be able to sleep well at night knowing your amazing blog isn’t being messed with. Here’s some other security plugins for WordPress, right from the Blogging Pro blog.

Digg Digg

What – Digg Digg works hand in hand with buffer to be an all in one social spreading plugin. It allows you to display all your buttons in one place.

Why – You don’t want people to just read your latest post and say: “that was cool” and then forget about it. You need to remind them to share it on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. so they share it with their friends.

Disqus

What – Disqus is a community of communities that helps you build your community of active readers who are interested in your content. At the end of the day, this helps create stronger engagement with your readers.

Why – Well there’s not much of a point in having a blog if you aren’t trying to share content that people are going to be interested in reading.

Akismet

What – Are you tired of comment spam? Then you need to get the plugin called Akismet. I know that sounds like a lame infomercial but that’s exactly what it does and it’s awesome so deal with it!

Why – People aren’t going to take your blog seriously if you’re allowing every spammy junk comment on your site. Keep it together man. It will be appreciated.

Gravity Forms

What – Well you want to include an sweet contact form into your blog but it’s way too much work to figure it out yourself so you install gravity forms and it takes care of that for you.

Why – Because you’re interested in what your readers think you should improve or have to say about your material you’re putting out. Also you want a way to be contacted by advertisers and guest posters who want to be included on your blog as well.

Facebook Subscribe

What – This allows people to like you on Facebook so they are subscribed to whatever cool stuff you post on your FB page.

Why – People want to feel and be connected. What better way than to let them connect with you on Facebook and be your “Friend”? I can’t think of a better way, can you?

Backup Buddy

What – This excellent plugin allows you to do three crucial things. Backs up all your info, restores your site if it gets hacked or broken in any way, and moves it to a new domain if you change your domain name.

Why – You never know when you’re going to need any of these features but it helps with your piece of mind knowing you have that capability whenever it comes up.

Hope it helps all of you!!