Top 10 WordPress Plugins by Monty
I don’t know about others, but according to me.. these are the TOP 10 WordPress Plugins that a blogger needs 🙂
1) Akismet
To stop the daily increasing spam and to keep your blog neat and clean. A spam blocker is needed and Akismet is a perfect plugin to stop spam and non relevant comments on your blog 🙂
2) Sociable
To allow your readers bookmark their favorite social bookmarking site! This also helps you get huge back links 😉
3) WP Super Cache
Have alot of readers and not enough server resources? Or are you on a shared web hosting and your host does not allow you to host big sites.. This plugin will help you decrease the server load by almost 50-60%!
4) Yet Another Related Post Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site
5) Register Plus
Enhance your Registration Page. Allow users to set their password, setup invite code and track sign ups.
6) Top Commentators Widget
Just like a blogroll.. allow your visitors add a backlink in your Top Comments Widget by commenting on your blog! What do they get? They get a backlink to their site on every page as long as they are top commentators of your blog 😉
7) CommentLuv
Pass a bit of luv onto your commenters by providing a titled link to their last blog post. This plugin attempts to parse the feed of the comment author by visiting their site and looking for their feed while they type their comment and appends it once they submit.
8) Recent Comments
This plugin shows excerpts of the latest comments and/or trackbacks in your sidebar. The benefit about this plugin is that it allows your regular commentors get backlinks on Search Engines 😉
9) Subscribe Remind
With the Subscribe-Remind plugin, some text will automatically be placed at the end of each of your posts inviting your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.
10) Comment Approval Notification
The Comment Approval Notification plugin will send an email to the comment author when you approve their comment.
This was according to me, but I’m sure there might be way more plugins to increase your readers and make your blog better 🙂
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Tagging your articles
Tagging plays an important role in blogging. If there were no tags, blogs wouldn’t have been listed that fast on search engines.
How does tagging help?
When an article is tagged it gets a virtual identity on search engines which helps them list your articles. If you tag a horse as a donkey on your blog, its displayed when you search for a “horse” on Google. Google or any other search engine virtually identifies images/articles. So, tagging your images and articles helps Search Engines to virtually identify your articles and images. It also helps you increase your in links on google 😉
<— Here is a funny example which inspired me to write this article, lol
How do you get your tags in an article?
Tagging isn’t easy, nor is it so difficult that it can’t be done 😉 I’m using a WordPress Auto Tagger to tag all the articles posted so that Sensonize gets huge inlinks on Google + Traffic from search engines 🙂 Auto Taggers might make your blog look ugly but if your lazy like me, you can use it 😀 Download Auto Tagger
Tips:
– Make sure you add ATLEAST 5 tags per article
– Add the title of the article as a tag
– Each tag should be atleast 5 characters
– Tag the images (alt=”your tag”)
– Use accurate tags
– Tag more to get more in links 😉
– Adding a sentence as a tag is always the best!
