Following is a list of 15 top WordPress plugins that any serious affiliate marketing blogger (who hates messing with WordPress code) should have installed in their word press blog.
You are welcomed to add to this list of the:
Top WordPress Plugins
Part of the reason being that there are hundreds of helpful people who have devoted their time designing WordPress plugins. It’s because of such plugins that have made Word press blogging platform so powerful on the web.
I will continue to update, remove or add to the list of the best WordPress plugins that I’m personally using on my blog and find to be very useful to any internet affiliate marketer while at the same time keeping to only a slim list of 15.
Search Engine Optimization top word press plugins
1.) Google XML Sitemap Generator.
This plugin will create a sitemap for all your post and pages on your blog. The site map generated is compatible with all the other search engines. Using this plugin will make it easier for the search engines to easily index your blog posts and articles.
2.) All in One SEO Pack.
The plugin helps you to optimize your blog posts for the search engines. It enables you to insert keywords, description and title tags into your post. It also gives you the power to avoid duplicate content in your archives and category by making us of it’s no index option.
3.) Permalink Migration Plugin.
Useful plugins that becomes handy when you change your blog permalink structure. It will enable you to change your blog link structure to a better optimized structure and avoid the pain associated with the manual process of redoing all your internal link structure.
It also returns a 301 permanent redirect for in pointing links therefore avoiding the wrath of the search engines.
Administrator Top WordPress Plugins
4.) Akismet.
Your number one friend. Once you download and install the plugin you will need a WordPress.com API key to enable you to activate this plugin. The key is free, all you have to do is register.
This plugin will check all the comments that your visitors submit against Akismet web service and see if they look like spam. When you log in to your admin control panel, head to comments to review your spam list. I can assure you that you will be grateful for having this intelligent plugin.
5.) Back up wordpress.
I felt ashamed to call my host and request for their back up after my wordpress customization project corrupted my wordpress blog. The good and bad news was that my host had a backup saved, but unfortunately it was one week old. I lost 5 post all of them already indexed, one with an in-pointing link. It could have been worse.
Simply ignore to back up your wordpress at your own peril. Anything can happen. Things do happen.
6.) Google Analyticator.
The plugin enables you to put your Google Analytics’ UID code. You have the option to let the plugin insert the code on your blog footer in order not to interfere with your page load up time.
This will then enable you to track and analyze your blog.
7.) FeedBurner FeedSmith.
Enables you to merge your wordpress custom blog feed with Feedburner. Also enables you to direct your traffic to feedburner for statistic and tracking purposes.
Affiliate Marketing Top Worpress Plugins
8.) MaxBlogPress Favicon.
Make your blog stand out from the rest.
Won’t it be nice for your blog to appear more obvious to your visitors.
MaxBlogPress Favicon plugin can help you to differentiate your blog from the rest.
9.) MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget.
The plugin displays the latest deal of the day from DealDotCom.
It’s a passive way for any internet market to earn lifetime commissions from sale generated from click through links displayed by this plugin.
User-Friendly Top Worpress Plugins
10.) Related Posts.
The plugin returns a list of posts related or based on the keywords used on the current post in view. Can help increase page view or bounce rate.
11.) Subscribe to comments.
This plugin can help you increase your repeat visitors.
It helps your site visitors to subscribe to comments and are notified anytime a new comment is added to that post.
12.) CformsII – contact form.
An easy way to let and enable your site visitors to leave feedback for the blog administrator. For the web savvy, this is a higly flexible and customizable plugin in that you can use to have the role, look and feel you like
Web 2.0 Top WordPress Plugins
13.) Sociable.
The plugin enable you to add links to social bookmarking sites on the web automatically to your blog posts. You have the option of customizing how many of such links you want to appear on you posts.
14.) Wp-Cache.
This plugin will be your savior on your lucky day. It can help you survive a sudden bust of traffic.
15.) Gravator.
The plugin will help give a human face to your blog. Your site visitors can submit their picture and when they comment, their photo appears alongside.
Let me point out there are also other hundreds of useful plugins out there that you can use to enhance your wordpress capabilities and features. But be careful what you choose to install on your blog
As you very well know;
For each WordPress plugin that you install understand that it’s going to need some attention. You will need to keep pace of all the updates as they become available. And I can tell you it’s not fun. Care should therefore be taken to only choose those plugins that you deem beneficial to your blog and audience and just keep to a minimal.
Something tells me I missed something.
Please feel free to add to the list of WordPress plugin below. Please stick to those suggestion that you feel should have made to our list of the top wordpress plugins that any affiliate marketer should not do without.