Top Blog Plugins
December 5, 2008 by admin
Filed under General Blogging
In order to make your blog more interactive and dynamic, not to mention rank better in the search engines and gain additional exposure from within social groups and communities, there are a handful of blog plugins and modules that will improve your blog, and encourage visitors to return.
Here are a few of the top WordPress plugins available:
Akismet
http://akismet.com/
A spam filter that checks comments posted to your blog against the Akismet database to endusre that they are not spam related. Will also check trackbacks for spam as well.
Google Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a Google compliant site map for your blog which helps in search engine optimization and ranking.
Ultimate Tag Warrior
A plugin designed to offer the ability to add keyword tags to pages, posts and categories. Great for SEO.
WP Contact Form
Provides a support form for your blog visitors to be able to contact you directly without displaying your email address.
Related Posts Plugin
Keep your visitors on your site longer by showcasing relevant topics relating to the original content they were reviewing. You can customize this plugin to display a specific number of related posts, however you can not choose specific posts to show within this plugin, at this time.
WP Cache
Helps speed up your WordPress based blog by caching pages and storing them in a static file.
You can browse through a wide variety of additional plugins from the WordPress website itself, by visiting:
