Best WordPress Plugins for bloggers, SEO, traffic

Most of top blogs are running on php and that too on wordpress. The Striking things that put WordPress in different league from other blogging software available today is the fact that it’s open source, that’s benefit make wordpress most favorable for webmasters and bloggers. Before wordpress come in market, if you don’t know how to make website or blog , coding  knowledge of website development like asp, html or php in particular then you can’t think of having a blog or website, for that you need to pay high amount to web developers. But today because of being open source wordpress community has come to rescue with wordpress plugins. That allows to add-on additional functionality to make most out of your blog. From the time it released was a big success it’s getting bigger every day passing. Authors from different part of the globe ready to help you with plugins they develop and through forums. These entire factors attract the potential dedicated bloggers.

If you’re looking for wordpress themes for your blog you can find one as per your blog need.

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My Favorite List of Best wordpress plugins to drive more traffic to your Blog

-SEO-

• All in One SEO Pack -  Useful for beginner to start the SEO of their blog ,Only plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites it also Generates META tags automatically.

-Admin-

• Google XML Sitemaps - This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

• Global Translator - Global Translator automatically translates your blog in the 48 different languages. Work with Google XML sitemap plugin.

• WP-DBManager – Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up and optimizing of database.

• WordPress Backup – Backup the upload directory (images), current theme directory, and plugins directory to a zip file. Backup files are available for download and optionally emailed to a specified email. WP- DBManager is recommended for WordPress Backup plugin for optimal use.

• MobilePress – Optimize your wordpress blog for mobile phones. MobilePress is SEO enabled and detects Google, Yahoo and MSN mobile search bots. These mobile search engine bots will see the mobile version of your blog and get your mobile site indexed in the mobile search results.

• WordPress Popular Posts – WordPress Popular Posts is a sidebar widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog , You can include a thumbnail of your posts.

• WP-o-Matic – WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.

• NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Good for the blogger looking to make photo blog.

• Subscribe to Comments – Allow reader to receive email notification when post is update with new comments.

• The Attached Image – Most of themes don’t provide the option of thumbnail of image in the post. Using this plugin you can show the image of your choice from the post on index page in excerpt mode.

-Video-

• All-in-One Video Pack – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more.

-e-Commerce-

• WP e-Commerce – Plugin allow you to make online shop on your wordpress blog. Its easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, or fees online.

-Related Posts-

• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin -Its gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.

-Download Manager-

• WordPress Download Monitor – Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links. Manage from the WordPress dashboard.

-Share And Shave-

• AddToAny – Share/Bookmark/Email Button – Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites.

• SexyBookmarks – Tts cool stylish share button make your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

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