11 essential plugins for your blog

Essential plugins for your blog and WordPress tips for newbies

Those who are quite new to blogging or just planning to start a Blog may need to make sure that you are having all the plugins and widgets ready in your blogging platform. Most of these (Almost all) are available under GPL license.

List of Plugins

Social Book marking

This helps your readers to share the article with their friends

All in one SEO

This helps to create a title , description and keywords for each of your post.

Featured Post.

This Plugin displays the popular posts and help you to get more page views

FeedBurner

RSS Readers are increasing , so this is yet another way to popularize your blog. This plugin will take care of all Feed related tasks.
(you need to sign up with some feed providers ex: feedburner from google)

Google XML Sitemap

Site maps helps robots to navigate thru your site and index it faster.

StatPress

Statitics is all about understanding your visitors , trend , load etc. This is yet another feedback of my blog.

Twitter Updater

All by activities in by blogsphere will be automatically  published in by twitter , This gives me few visitors.

Ultimate Google Analystics

This plugin helps you to insert your google analystics code in each page which is required by google to track your activities. Another option for your statistics

WassUp

Are you still greedy about your stat , then have it !!

YARPP

This Plugin helps in providing related posts at the end of your posts , on your side bars and on your RSS Feeds too. This will help you very much in getting more page views.Also keeps your visitors sticky to your blog for more time.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it.

I am all set, now what ??

In case of disaster , we need to have an option to re-start our blog in a minimum amount of time. We ill discuss about backup  and restore options in next session. Stay tuned !!!
Meanwhile drop your comments and questions.

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