To be successful as a blogger, you definitely need a helping hand with some of the best free WordPress plugins which can help you leverage your efforts. Whilst it’s absolutely true that getting Google traffic is as easy as ABC, it certainly cannot harm your cause to leverage your efforts with the best free WordPress plugins out there.
Before installing WordPress and useful plugins though, be sure to find the best web hosting services possible to ensure a good experience throughout the process.
Here are the best WordPress plugins I fully recommend. These are free plugins which you can install directly from the WordPress plugins repository by simply searching for the title of the plugin (which I’ve listed below). There is no guarantee that every plugin listed here is compatible with your theme.
#1 WordPress SEO
This plugin has now surpassed All In One SEO as the only true All In One SEO solution for WordPress. This plugin is developed by a highly respected plugin developer called Joost De Valk who runs a blog called Yoast.com. Because you have this plugin, there is no need for you to use any other sitemap plugin such as Google Sitemaps or HTML sitemaps.
You can also enter the meta values for Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Tools. This just helps you to keep the installations tidy with the meta values available to you without having to recall HTML files from your server.
Yoast are now developing advanced modules which plugin to the original WordPress SEO plugin for video marketing and local marketing so watch this space!
#2 Akismet
This plugin which now comes as part of the standard core WordPress installation filters your comments and deposits comments that are likely to be spam based upon some conditional criteria. You definitely don’t want your blog to become a target for spam. You do however need to keep an eye on this filter as it could hold valid comments in the spam queue because it picked up on some keywords it considered as spam. You want to encourage as many comments on your blog as possible, so don’t annoy your readership by allowing them to believe you haven’t accepted their comment.
#3 W3 Total Cache
Step aside WP Super Cache, there’s a new (and improved) kid on the block. This plugin can massively boost the performance of your site. Since Google now takes into account the speed that your pages load to determine relevancy for its users, it would be a great idea for you (or the WordPress Gods you hire) to focus on speeding up your blog. Don’t allow it to be slow and painful to browse.
This plugin enables your images and more resource intensive media to be hosted using a content delivery network such as Amazon S3. This enables the media to be loaded within the browser faster since it is served from a powerful infrastructure, unless of course you’re the guys at Google or Yahoo.
#4 Google Analytics for WordPress
Another all in one Google Analytics solution developed by Joost De Valk. This enables you to exclude certain types of visitors from your stats. For example, you may have guest bloggers that log in to your WordPress dashboard and you wouldn’t want these visits to your site to be displayed.
Check out Google Analytics for WordPress here
#5 cbnet Ping Optimizer
Pinging is one of the great features of blogs as pinging gives search engines notification that your blog has new content to crawl. By pinging the search engines, you’re requesting them to crawl your content and index it. Gone are the days of waiting several months for your content to be indexed when GoogleBot was finally sent out to crawl a static website.
A good and frequently updated blog is indexed daily and often even more. Ping Optimizer prevents your blog from pinging the search engines every time you make an update.
If you persistently ping the search engines for every minor update such as a spelling mistake, then you’ll become a ping spammer in the eyes of Google which Google will hold against your blog.
Check out cbnet Ping Optimizer here
#6 Broken Link Checker
This plugin does scheduled scans throughout your site to ensure that broken links aren’t being left all over your site. Your site will not be looked upon favourably by the search engines for having broken links as broken links affect the user experience of the visitor. Google is all about improving the user experience for visitors so rewards websites that give a positive user experience and conversely penalises websites that give a poor user experience.
Keep an eye on broken links and fix them as soon as you see them. You should also use the Webmaster tools provided by Google, Yahoo and Bing to check your site regularly. They give you valuable clues as to how you can improve your site in the eyes of the all important search engines.
If you use the premium WordPress plugin called ‘Digi Link Doctor’, you don’t really need this plugin.
Check out Broken Link Checker here
#7 Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer
If you’re involved in affiliate marketing as an Amazon associate, then you’ll definitely want this plugin. It redirects the browser that clicked the link to the Amazon website which is in their locale.
For example, if a UK visitor clicks the link, the user will be directed to Amazon.co.uk rather than Amazon.com. This will improve conversions since people are immediately put off buying things from abroad due to delivery times, currency conversions, etc.
Check out Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer here
#8 My Page Order
If you routinely change the hierarchical structure of your WordPress pages, this plugin may well be your saviour. Ordinarily, WordPress is clunky to change the page order and setting parent/child relationships between pages. My Page Order uses an AJAX style interface to drag and drop pages around, or left/right to move further up/down the structure.
The screen capture below shows the interface for the arrangement of pages for the first module of Turbo Traffic Explosion which forms a part of The Profit Share Membership site.
#9 Newsletter Sign Up
This plugin enables you to gather email list subscribers as your visitors comment on your blog. This can be set up to thank the person for visiting and commenting on your blog, showing appreciation of their visit and presenting (soft sell) an offer that changes the relationship of your visitor into a subscriber. Use this plugin if you want to build your email opt in list with a service such as Aweber.
Check out Newsletter Sign-Up here
#10 FD Feedburner Plugin
An often overlooked setup for many bloggers is configuring their RSS feeds. RSS feeds are a massively important part of any blogger’s setup since you can build a list of RSS subscribers that browse your content using their favourite RSS software.
A great online tool for browsing RSS feeds is Google Reader. If you prefer to read RSS feeds with desktop software, then FeedDemon is a great choice.
Check out FD Feedburner Plugin here
#11 ReplyMe
Your commentators are potential customers and they need to be told when you have left a response to their comments.
This plugin is a simple plugin which simply emails the commentator, lets them know their response and invites them back to respond again. You can also configure the email to present an offer to the commentator.
This can be used as an alternative to ‘Newsletter Sign-Up’ if you think that ‘Newsletter Sign-Up’ is too aggressive or pushy for your liking.
#12 Custom Tiny MCE & Tiny MCE Advanced
These plugins extend the functionality of the standard WordPress WYSIWYG editor. The default editor is a little restricting compared to what you’re used to with Microsoft Word or iWork.
These plugins contain a batch of plugins that you may wish to install depending on the functionality that you want for your blog.
Check out Custom Tiny MCE & Tiny MCE Advanced plugins here
#13 Duplicate Post
This is a neat little utility plugin that can just make your life so much easier when blogging, especially when you want to copy posts or pages that you previously used and make the next post or page inherit the properties of the previous one.
This plugin saved me hours of time when I built the backend membership to this site.
#14 CommentLuv
This is for those of you that are sticking with the default WordPress comments system. Since May 2010, which was when this blog started, I have tested the Facebook comments system and the Disqus comments system and returned to the default WordPress comments system. You can customise the comments system to look completely like your own, manage it from within WordPress and extend the functionality by using a series of plugins.
One such plugin is called CommentLuv which incentivises the potential commenter to leave a comment as it displays the last post that they made on their blog. If you can get a good volume of traffic to your post, then a commenter could benefit from receiving clickthroughs if they are thoughtful enought to add value to the original post, so that other readers think, “oh, that’s interesting. I’ll have a look to see what they do and have to say.”
#15 NoFollow Free
This next plugin can be debated all day with different SEO experts saying different things. Some will say don’t use it and keep all the link juice for your own blog and others will say use it, be generous and follow the natural pattern of the web. This plugin gives the blogger the choice of when to give dofollow links to their commentators.
All bloggers want to build a community on their blog but don’t want people just stopping by sniping for comments without providing any value to the blog and the blog’s readership.
This plugin gives you the choice to select how many comments the commentator must make before they are awarded with continuous dofollow links from the blog. This choice can help you to build a community, reward commentators for participation and protect your blog from backlink snipers for worthless comments.
#16 Landing Sites
Increasing the number of pages per visit is an important goal for any blogger. A blogger always wants their visitor to click around their site and benefit from more of their content.
For this to be possible, links that are relevant to the visitor must be presented to them at the point where they’re asking themselves where they should go next. If a visitor arrives at your blog using a search engine, then the pages that are suggested to the visitor should be related to the search terms that was used.
Landing sites is a plugin which does just that. It changes the related posts information based upon the search terms that were used to arrive at your site.
#17 SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links automatically links keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog which improves the internal linking structure of your blog which Google loves. Furthermore, SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs.
You can use SEO Smart links to set nofollow attributes to external pages and open the links within a new window.
Check out SEO Smart Links here
#18 SEO Power
This plugin keeps track of keywords that were used by visitors arriving at your site via search engines and adds those keywords as tags to the post where the visitor landed. The tags form the secondary keywords for a post and essentially the plugin sees an inbound visitor from a certain keyword as a vote for that keyword for that particular post.
The tag will only be created if the keyword exist in the content or the title to ensure that only relevant tags are created. The beauty of this plugin is it works entirely in the background ensuring you get better results from your secondary keywords for your blog posts. More traffic anyone?
#19 StatPress
StatPress is a comprehensive statistics package that tells you detailed information about visits to your page by both search engine spiders and human visitors alike. It gives details of browsers, locations and all sorts of other good stuff. Some of this is not included within Google Analytics.
#20 Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu
This one tidies up the default menu in WordPress to give a slicker looking drop down menu across to the top of your WordPress admin panel.
Check out Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu here
#21 Optimize DB
Geek alert! Data accumulated over time exists in a series of MySQL database tables on your server. These can become bloated over time and occasionally need to be optimised to speed up your blog. Blogs with faster speeds are rewarded by Google with a higher results in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).
#22 WP-DB-Backup
The pretty dull but totally necessary side of configuring plugins. This plugin could save you should the worst happen. You can set the plugin to backup the database tables within your WordPress installation and send you all the necessary files as a ZIP file to your email inbox on a scheduled basis.
Conclusion
Wow, looking back over that list, it’s clear to see the sort of leverage of effort that can be achieved through blogging.
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Wow, great list Wayne, I’ll definitely be checking out the Pretty Link and I love the viral aspects of the Facebook Comments system. I wouldn’t blog without All-In-One SEO pack or Google XML sitemaps plugins. Isn’t wordpress great! I am just starting to use WP for my optin squeeze pages and sales pages too now! I would like my picture in my blog sidebar though – is there a plugin you suggest for adding photos to the sidebar?
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Hey man,
Thanks for stopping by.
Pretty links is a cool plugin to track your links – worth the upgrade price of $37 if you can afford it too.
Although you can use them outside of your blog, I would limit their use to within your blog. Use a PHP redirect for your affiliate links for other places.
If you’re looking to use WordPress for squeeze pages, there are a few decent options.
If you can afford the investment, Optimize Press is worth looking at, or the next level to that is Easy Video Player 2.
I wouldn’t use a plugin to do that personally. I would create an image the size you want it so it neatly fits in the sidebar, then host the image on Amazon S3 (loads faster from there), then use the standard HTML widget and insert the HTML code for insertion of images.
If you can avoid plugins for these sorts of things, then do so.
Thanks,
Wayne
Nice list. Thanks for sharing. Using Askimet and StatPress already. Both work well. Have tweeted this post to my followers. Ray
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Hey man,
Great to hear you’re using those two. They’re pretty much mandatory plugins.
Thanks for stopping by. :)
Hi Wayne! Yes I have purchased both Pretty Link Pro today and also Optimize Press – these two resources are awesome value for money! Thanks for recommendation. I am just about to try out Jeff Johnson’s Free Traffic Getting SEO plugin and the 404 SEO plugin. I liked your Law of Manifestation video so much I have made a post about it on my blog! Great stuff :)
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Hey man,
That’s cool. Pleased you’re liking the plugin. The Jeff Johnson plugin will immediately give you better traffic results.
Pretty Link Pro is a sound investment for good click tracking from your blog. I’d limit usage to within your blog though and go for a PHP redirect with tracking solution from viral products and email.
Free Traffic Getting SEO Plugin is composed of different plug-ins joined together and is making you think you have higher ranking.
However, you are just helping Jeff Johnson rank his sites because his websites are embedded in the coded plug-in.
What a genius way to boost up rankings. In reality, you can get all the component plug-ins for free.
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Yes, aware it is just a bundle of other plugins.
Nowadays I prefer the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast and have better options for social sharing too.
However, for someone wanting a fast track way to get some plugins to increase their web presence, still a good option.
Surprised not to see the Growmap Spambot Plugin on here
It’s reduced my spam to 1% of what it was.
Thanks for this list!
Peace,
Mazarine
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Hi,
Thanks for that. I’ve never heard of this plugin. Does it run instead of or as well as Akismet?
Thanks,
Wayne
Thanks Wayne Lambert
I am always looking for an interested in useful WordPress plugins for my blog. I am going to check out W3 Total Cache
Please do check out W3 Total Cache. It can be intimidating at first and there is definitely a steep learning curve with it.
It does speed up your blog significantly though which is looked at very favourably with Google.
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Thank you for listing so many great plugins. I am going to try the Supercache plugin out and maybe a couple others. I use Thesis so I’m pretty set as far as SEO goes. Thanks Wayne.
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W3 Total Cache is awesome. Speeds up the blog significantly. The only challenge I have with speed with my blog are the pages with video content on which I’ll be working on.
I wouldn’t be so sure that your theme has everything taken care of in terms of SEO. I know the interface for Thesis well (like I do many of the premium WordPress themes). It doesn’t really do all the things that WordPress SEO does.
WordPress SEO saves you from having plugins for sitemaps, video sitemaps, breadcrumbs and a whole load of other stuff.
It is being improved all the time and in my opinion, WordPress SEO should be a premium plugin and Joost De Valk should charge a fair fee for it. I would happily pay $197 for that plugin knowing what I know about it.
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Just the thing that I need! Thanks for the links Wayne. I could sure use this for my work.
http://www.searchforblogging.com/blogging/use-commentluv-search-engine-to-build-backlinks.html
Hi Mike,
I haven’t seen you here before. Welcome to my blog.
Glad I can help with the links to some great useful plugins.
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Hi Wayne,
Yes Im new here. Just trying to find some useful plugins for my job. You are doing quite a great job helping others so thank you so much. :)
My Blog: best online trading
Hey bud,
Great post… This was a great list of effective plugins. You really sparked an interest with seo power plugin. I will download that plugin. Thanks for giving great value.
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No worries J.R. welcome to my blog. :-)
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Yoast is brilliant, eh? Just got that last week, from a Triberr tribesman whose in with me. Optimizing, seeing results in the first 48 hrs. was a joy!!!
And you – welcome to SKYPE me for blog promo ideas.
Happy to help,
SauL
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Hi Saul,
My Skype ID is wayne.a.lambert
Please contact and suggest several alternative times around the clock when you can do a short call.
Yoast is awesome. One of the best things you can do with existing content is go through it, keyword research around it and optimize for it. You’ll gain a ton of traffic – I know I did! ;-)
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Nice post, Thank you for the info. Going to try some of these plugin’s out.
Hi Mike,
Welcome to my blog.
Go ahead and test some of these plugins. You’re bound to enjoy some of them.
Some of them can become redundant if you have some of the top premium WordPress plugins on your blog.
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Ok, so im a little behind in the world of plugins it seems. I use about 25% of those listed above with the addition of SEOpressor coming soon (although this is a paid plugin).
I like the idea of SEO smart links as ive seen this feature on many sites and presumed it to be a manual process. Im sure in some cases it is but not in most.
Thanks again for a thorough schooling on wordpress plugins Wayne.
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Hi Ruby,
I would also suggest WordPress SEO and SEO Smart Links to partner with SEO Pressor.
If you do choose SEO Pressor, then please check out my Best Internet Marketing Tools page (link at bottom of this comment).
If you purchase SEO Pressor through my affiliate link, I’ll offer you a complete product showing you how to get a tonne of traffic to your site and give you an SEO tutorial on Skype.
I get over 2,000 visits from Google alone on this blog. That doesn’t even account for all the social traffic and direct traffic I get neither.
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Wayne im so sorry I bought it last night. If I had known you had an affiliate link I would have happily purchased via it. Real shame.
Anyway, I have installed the plugin on a number of my blogs and so far it is doing wonders for my posts. I would recommend buying it to anyone that runs a number of blogs and needs easy advice with optimising your posts. Don’t make the same mistake I did, help Wayne out by purchasing via his affiliate link and maybe he will offer you the same help.
I also installed the SEO smart links plugin, really useful also.
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Hey Ruby,
No worries at all. The offer still stands though if and when you’re ready to invest in the next tool for your business.
Simply go to the Best Internet Marketing Tools page and follow the instructions at the bottom of the page. :-)
Hope you enjoy SEO Pressor. It certainly helps you to train your mind to include the key parts to remember when doing on page SEO.
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That’s some list. I have read that the more plug-ins you have the slower your blog loads. I see that you have included W3 Total Cache.
I added that recently but when I ran my site through http://gtmetrix.com I was surprised they said it was slow!
I notice you say there is a steep learning curve with W3 Total Cache. Is it a matter of testing out number of settings?
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Hi Sandy,
Good to see you back. :-)
No, don’t just test different configuration settings. When I set it up in the first instance, I used this article:
http://zemalf.com/1443/w3-total-cache/
You might need to use a few articles from the same site, but just work logically through them.
If you’re still not techy enough for it, hire someone from Fiverr to go through those instructions and do it for you.
Also, check a few help tips I’ve written in another article on my site. The link is below. ;-)
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Thanks for that Wayne. I should have thought to look for instructions for it. I followed most of what it said in the article and tested my site again. It’s even slower now!
I wonder how accurate these test sites are?
And on another subject I am not sure why my Keyword luv does not seem to be working.
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Hi Sandy,
Check out http://tools.pingdom.com/ to assess your site speed.
If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog and W3 Total Cache is not speeding up your site, there must be something wrong.
Are you talking about KeywordLuv on my site, or KeywordLuv on your site?
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Must be mine. Although I have entered my keywords it says No Posts Were Found at the end of my comment.
I have changed my theme and I am checking on compatibility.
Sandy
Hi Sandy,
I’m not sure why it is not picking up on your posts. I trust you leave the checkbox for CommentLuv checked at the bottom when you leave a comment.
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Neat list you have here, everything sounds useful for me. But since i’m a newbie in the world web design my focus is always on the speed of the site upload, so definitely the W3 Total Cache is a all go-go to me. I just have one question, are you using all this plugins on your page?and please be honest about it,,thanks!
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Hi Ron,
Welcome to my blog. :-)
I have had a count up and I use 14 out of 22 listed plugins.
The reason I don’t use the other 8 is because I have lots of PREMIUM plugins on my blog which does the functions of the other listed FREE plugins, so I simply do not need those.
This post is called ‘Best Free WordPress Plugins’ though, so I cannot put paid plugins on that list.
The only exception is that I’ve replaced Akismet with Growmap AntiSpam Bot Plugin with trackback validation. That’s also a free plugin.
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ohh I see..Ummm if you don’t mind can you point out those 8 that your not using? it could be really informational on my part to know those stuffs. Basically I don’t have much plugins yet on my wordpress site due to I’m still on the process of designing it, but you know i just wanna know the plugins that i should you to have on my site secured and everything. Thanks for the reply Wayne, i really appreciate it.
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Hi Ron,
Your blog may be slightly different to mine. What works on my blog may not work on yours, so don’t be too concerned with getting every plugin that I use.
Some of the formatting, style and functionality achieved on my blog is through the theme too.
That said, the 8 plugins that I do not use any more (currently) are:
* Akismet: I replaced this with Growmap AntiSpambot Plugin and Trackback validation)
* Broken Link Checker: I replaced this with Digi Link Doctor (paid plugin)
* Newsletter Signup: I replaced this with WP Subscribers (paid plugin)
* Landing Sites: I replaced this functionality with that in my theme, which is one of the WooThemes called Canvas (paid theme).
* SEO Smart Links: I replaced this one with the premium edition (paid) which gives me more options and more advanced linking between posts.
* Ozh’ Drop Down Menu: I replaced this with the default menu when WordPress 3.2 came out with its new interface.
* Optimize DB: I deleted this once I understood I could achieve the same thing from within my hosting cPanel environment. This is beyond the scope of a beginner though.
* WP-DB-Backup: I replaced this when I changed my hosting provider to Westhost as it enables me to have snapshot backups created on autopilot every 6 hours, so I no longer need to remember to do this.
I hope that helps. :)
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There’s some real good ones here I’ve never even heard of but very interesting functionality, such as ‘Landing Sites.’ That sort’ve thing just makes sense!
One I had a great deal of success with was WP Greet Box. Your mileage may vary, but combining that plugin, with a blog focused on pictures is a recipe for success, with massive amounts of StumbleUpon traffic.
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Hi Thomas,
Thanks for sharing. I have seen WP Greet Box. Will have to investigate the use of that one.
If you’ve got some good results from Stumble Upon, are you interested in doing a mastermind session on Skype to discuss some winning traffic strategies?
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Nothing mastermind about it. ;-) And certainly nothing incredibly vast in scope or overly complicated.
Basically, the first part was lucking on to an exact match domain using basic keyword/niche analytics tools. Nothing major but enough to know people were searching for the topic and a little traffic could be expected with low competition.
MY success was due to the blog content – it was pictures. Clean and professional looking pages with the WP Greet Box plugin right on top of the pic, inviting users to like, or stumble, or digg – based on which network they’re coming to you from. This makes it incredibly easy for them to just click ya and forget about it – and by doing so bringing you more traffic, plenty of those who will also see a good/funny/interesting/amazing picture and click that they like/stumble/digg/tweet it.
I did find that SU traffic did not convert the best, but I didn’t experiment with it for too long before the client took it over. But the traffic flow is huge for picture sites utilizing StumbleUpon and the right placement of a ‘like/stumble’ widget.
So there’s that strategy, I suppose. Picture gallery on WordPress + StumbleUpon and WP Greet Box. Add contents and let cook.
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Wow, that’s pretty incredible stuff. Remember that the readers are not necessarily at your level of experience.
You should consider writing a guest post on here. I think you’ll be able to contribute some great content and I help to promote it perpetually too.
What do you think?
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Okay, I will have some time available next week where all I’ll be doing is typing on the internet anyway, so I’ll do up a few proposals or ideas if not just a couple I think would be interesting. I’ll try and do that in the next couple of days so we can bounce some ideas back and forth first.
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Cool, thanks Thomas. I’m sure my readers will like what you have to say. You can lay out a simple strategy well by just using the comments.
Take a look at the link which says ‘Guest Blogging’ at the top of the page so you understand what is required.
Thanks.
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Great for me that I found your Blog… I just started with my own Blog, can I reference to this post? I want to write something on similiar topic!
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Hi Jenny,
Welcome to my blog.
Do feel free to promote your new blog using the link below. ;-)
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Hi wayne. back again already. A great post and a great blog. Have to confess, my first visit was just to grab a link (sorry). I guess that this is real proof that providing valuable information works wonders as I am now hooked. Particularly liked the article on mindset. I have always said that the forums are packed with people blaming products and scammers for their failings. Mindset and realistic expectations are so important in this business and your post explains this perfectly.
See you again real soon!
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Hi Steve,
Once again, this was caught in the spam filter. I would try removing the brackets in your name.
Type ‘Steve Hippel@Sussex SEO’ into the name field instead.
Don’t worry. Commenting for link building is a very popular and simple method of link building. However, the power with the method is getting the search engines to notice the links using a tool ling Pingfarm to ping all your links.
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I am not really familiar with Akismet and how it works for wordpress.
Wayne, Excellent list once again and I am learning many things at profitsjhare and I presume that I will learn and earn while going through the valuable information here. I actually use a limited number of plugins to my blog as I have been told that too many plugins can siginificantly reduce the download speed. Is it right?
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Hi Lalit,
Yes, too many plugins can affect the speed of your blog.
You can increase the speed of your blog with a few of the tips I talk about here. ;)
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Hey, thanks for this post, now I know where to find free WordPress plugins. See you again real soon!
Useful list but you didn`t included All in one SEO,
and replaced it with WordPress SEO. Do you think wordpress SEO is better then All in one SEO.
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you mention several SEO plugins.
Will using more than one cause a conflict?
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WordPress SEO and SEO Smart Links all work very nicely together. I use them myself.
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Lots of great plug-ins here Wayne. Thank you! I’m just new in this kind of field so I’m choosing what kind of plugins is the best thing to use. So now I’m confuse what I’m going to use. LOL! can you you give me some ideas? there strengths and weakness. Thanks for advance! :)
I am using SEO Power & yeah it certainly has some great power.
Thanks for a great share.
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Hey thanks for putting this all together. I’m kinda new with wordpress. I shifted from using Joomla to WordPress because I heard it is more search engine friendly. These plugins are indeed useful.
Thanks for sharing!
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I just love KeywordLuv – it makes the life much more easier and I always prefer blogs with it when I work with seo. Of course commenting gives advantages to both sides. The commented site gets the dynamic and richer content and the commenting site gets the keyword popularity and sometimes link juice. Google has recently (last year) changed the nofollow rule. Now you lose link juice even if using nofollow. The only difference is that the target site doesn’t get it. It just dissapear (at least google says it).
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Totally agree with your compilation, these WordPress Plugins are worth using. Some of them are new to me, but don’t you think instead of cBNet Ping Optimizer, we should use Pubshub WordPress plugin and Back Link Checker(although I’m using) but is a resource hungry creature.
Awesome post Wayne, commentluv is a great plugin to encourage people to comment and to get them coming back to your blog to comment more, thanks for the informative post!
Analytics from Google is a great plugin to install.
That’s some list. I have read that the more plug-ins you have the slower your blog loads. I see that you have included W3 Total Cache.
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I have been using All In One SEO, but love to check out WordPress SEO too.
You have listed out many WP plugins that I haven’t tried out yet.
Thanks for the list. It’s very helpful!
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Great list, thanks for sharing. I’m currently using TinyMCE, Akimest and Duplicate Post. They are one of the best plugins :)
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List of all free wordpress plugins is nice and it help to blogger make its blog more attractive and informative.
Indeed the best list and best of all of them is Comment Luv.
SEO Power and Backup is Important as well. Great list Wayne and keep sharing the Good stuff.
Great list…I still use AIO SEO for optimizing and I see that you have others listed. Guess I’m wondering what the benefits are vs. what I use.
Also Open Web Analytics (OWA) is awesome for stats/traffic analysis.
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Thanks for this. In your opinion are there downsides to having lots of plugins? And how many would you say is too many (if there is such a thing)?
I was actually searching for free plugins I could use when your site popped up in a google search. IThe plugins you have selected and written about are all good in their own rights and they do the job they claim to do.
I was using Yoast previously without applying all that the plugin was capable of doing. Thanks to your article, I have been able to use all the features.
Regards,
Nnamdi.
Thank you for listing so many great plugins. I am going to try the Supercache plugin out and maybe a couple others.
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Thanks for these new resources.
It’s my first time to encounter about NoFollow Free.
and it looks cool. I love that plugin.
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Thanks for the following you shared. I love WordPress SEO but I also want to try broken link checker.
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Thanks for sharing these plugins you have done a lot of efforts to search these plugins.
I have used w3 total cache plugin in my website findia. in and it is working fine.
These are very useful and important plugins to make a good site and thanks for sharing all the stuffs here. This post give a lot of help to those who are just a newbies in the wordpress.
I love Amazon but wasn’t aware about #7 Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer. And now that I know, I will surely try to test it.
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Nice effort , one question here.
Does SEO Power conflicts with All in one SEO or Yoast Plugin?
No. They work well together. I use them both on my blog.
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Hey Wayne
Thanks for sharing these free Word Press plugins. The SEO for Word Press is really a great thing to have. After going through your list, I will try for some more too.
I got an info that Google is penalizing blogs using auto tagging after the penguin update. Is it true? So is it ok to use SEP Power which automatically tags the post?
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This will help in my sites….
Google analytic is the best for me. I would go for it.
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I have several Amazon Niche sites so I need to definitely install the Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer. This could help bring in some more money and I like making money.
Thanks! I’m glad I found your list.
- Rick
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I also love Genesis Social Profiles Menu. This plugin adds a style sheet for social profile icons for the WordPress custom menu – recommended for the use with Genesis Framework child themes.
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I simply wasn’t aware of any of these until i stumbled here! Thanks for the great info.
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Hi Wayne . Thanks for sharing these free Word Press plugins . I had little awareness about most of the plugins mentioned by you . Indeed a salutary share .
Wayne that;s a nice list and unlike many other such post there are many new plugins which I’m unaware of….
Specially I liked Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer which is out of box
WordPress Plugins work as the super charger for a blog. With the help of some plugins your website flies. In fact choosing best WordPress plugins gives you an edge over others.
such a nice list you have mentioned above. It will help to all the beginners and professionals too. Thank you so much.
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Does SEO Power conflicts with All in one SEO or Yoast Plugin?
Thanks before
I like your list but i have a problem with Askimet. In germany we have strict laws and if you use askimet on a business site you can get legal problems.
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Yes, indeed. Softwares, plug-ins and applications are very important to an SEO. By the way, a webinar is a good stuff to look whenever you want to know more about these things. Choose the best Online Webinar Host that you know so that you can ensure a very well said presentation.
Hi thanks for a good list i think SEO Smart Links is one of my faves as google has madw it clear that is what it is looking for
Glad you put the Yoast plugin at the front of the pack, even before I opened your blog post that was the first thing I thought of! well done, I love everything the Yoast guys do.
Great list of useful Plugins! Thank you. As a new blogger, I’m always on the hunt for ways to blog better :)
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wow amazing list of free wp plugins, thanks !
This is a good collection of plugins. Please suggest a good plugin that allows me to sell products via my website and integrate paypal to my site Bloggers Joy.
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Hi Nitesh,
Wishlist Member is the plugin you’re after.
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All plugins are very good. But this list is too big, if all installed , the website may not afford the heavy load. you’re not supposed to install ALL of them. Many offer duplicate functionality anyway. The point is to use this list to find the best plugins suitable to your site.
Thanks for the wounderful list of wordpress plugins,but i liked most the Yoast seo plugin….
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Thank you, the plugins I needed were all here in one place!
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You have some really good ideas in this article. I am glad I read this. I agree with much of what you state in this article. Your information is thought-provoking, interesting and well-written. Thank you.
I am using Most of the above plugins,i will try other plugins as well which i have not tried yet .
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Thank you for the listing, its really contained such a good informative, am happy to share this post.
Thank you for sharing. This article is simply very helpful
to both starters and experts. Keep posting!
I would like to add that article marketing is Great for getting Fast FREE Traffic.
I’m sorry I didn’t use this method before. Now that I know it is great.
I hardly recommend trying writing articles…It’s Good for Your Business
Great information! I came across CommentLuv a few weeks ago and I uploaded it to my site. Only problem, I was using Facebook Comments and now my facebook comments are showing in my Admin pannel but not on my site. Is there a way to export those Facebook comments into CommentLuv? Or are they lost?
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Also, is CommentLuv only customizable with the Premium version? I like the way this comment form is set up but I am unsure how to set it up on my site.
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Thank you for listing so many great plugins. I am going to try the Supercache plugin out and maybe a couple others. I use Thesis so I’m pretty set as far as SEO goes. Thanks Wayne.
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Good and informative website I’ll will pass the url of your website to my friends and family
This is the best collection of wordpress plugin . thanks Wayne for sharing…………..:)
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much more awesome plugins!!article is so impressive thank you for posting it!!
Hey Wayne,these are really must know wordpress plugins to be known about.It was really of great use reading this post and thanks for sharing..
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very informative post a will pass this for sure to my family and friends!!
keep up the good work and I’ll be back again soon!
I´d really enjoyed the reading of your listing and I will bookmark your site for coming back.
Especially the “SEO smart links” Plugin is what I´ve been seaching for a long time to build my internal linkstructure.
Thank´s – and keep on!
M.J.
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I think that these are not important but essential plugins to have.Thanks most of the Plugins were in my wordpress….
great website very informative I’ll sure pas this on to my relatives!
really awesome plugins .. it is really helpful and i am new to your website your website looks awesome
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Hi Wayne:
I really enjoyed the post that you discussed on Best free wordpress plugins. Really helped me get more fantastic information! You think you could make a webinar about this subject for extending the knowledge to anyone? I would really love that!
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