Searching for the best wordpress plugins for your website can be hard, since there are literally thousands of them out there. Before adding any wordpress plugins to your site you need to know what you are looking for. If you don’t know what your looking for, you may end up spending way too much time browsing plugins that don’t meet your needs or are just too unrelevant to your site. In this post, I have included a list of the basis, most useful plugins that I use for my sites. You will see that I give an explanation of what they are and how they are useful. If you can not figure out which plugins touse for your site, you should consider using these same ones that I talk about, since they are basic and would be a good addition to any website.
All in One SEO Pack (By Michael Torbert)
The All In One SEO Pack provides you the ability to enter in all of your main SEO marketing for your website within a one step process. This is fantastic because this saves you a lot of time and effort in your site creation. When installed, this plugin is (I believe) the most powerful plugin to use on your site in order to achieve number one rankings. I highly sugggest you use it yourself.
TinyMCE Advanced (By Andrew Ozz)
If you have used WordPress for any length of time, you know that it’s limited.. as far as posting custom items, articles, videos, etc.. Many people have a desire to do more with their posts to spice things up a bit to make everything look a bit more professional looking. I have found that with the TinyMCE Advanced plugin you are able to do just that. When this plugin is installed, it allows you to drag and drop mutliple options to your “kitchen” area when your posting to your site. Some of the extra features that you can use from TinyMCE Advanced are items such as a table function, used to create efffective tables with borders; font family, which enables you to choose from a variety of different fonts that the normal kitchen in wordpress does not have; and also page breaks, and much more.
Google XML Sitemaps (By Arne Brachhold)
Advanced internet marketers know a lot about the basic aspects Google’s spiders like to see when they crawl your site for the first time, or everytime for that matter. One of the best things you can do for your site is to add a sitemap. With the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, you are able to very easily place a sitemap onto your site in a manner that Google will be pleased with when its’ spiders crawl your site every so often. Sitemaps are how Google knows exactly what your site is all about without looking too hard.
Ultimate Google Analytics (By Wilfred van der Deijl)
Tracking your sites traffic progress, and overall web statistics is vital when you are an internet marketer trying to make a living online. Without doing this critical step, you will never know what progress your making and what steps you need to take next to thrust yourself into the right direction. You can do just that with the Ultimate Google Analytics plugin. All you need to do is place your Google Analytics code into this plugin and it transfers all data right over to your Analytics account with no mess. Easy to track, and easy to progress… business just got better!
Pretty Links Lite Version (By Caseproof)
If you are an Affiliate Marketer online, you know that with many things, you need to be taking on a professional appearance when your customers look at your site, and even your LINKS! Yes, your permalink structure makes a big difference in conversions with your affiliate sales. This plugin allows you to replace your ugly affiliate link with a very acceptable permalink structure link that comes from your own website. This looks great to your visitors and you will get more conversions, as it appears that you are not out to intentionally sell them anything.
