6 Great Plugins Your Blog Needs

Eric Miltsch — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:30:27 +0000

Is your blog firing on all cylinders?

Here’s 6 WordPress plugins you should have in your toolbox to ensure maximum performance.

Getting your blog retweeted is great. So why not make it even easier for your readers to do so. Don’t rely on just the tweet stream; let your blog visitors become a distribution channel as well.

High Anxiety

You’ll quickly see how may times your story has been retweeted with the built in counter. Quickly adjust its placement, icon size and the name of the twitter profile being retweeted. That’s my TweetMeme button at the beginning of this post. Go ahead. Click it.

Google XML Sitemaps Control ipod

Within a couple of clicks your Google compliant XML-Sitemap is complete. Notify ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO once you create or edit a page. The search engines like it when you notify them of current content changes; keeping them happy with your new XML sitemap coundn’t be easier.

SEO Friendly Images Dead Silence divx

Give your images the correct ALT and TITLE attributes per your custom settings. Your posts will also be W3C/xHTML valid; doing so helps with a key element of the search engine optimization process. This plugin provides a description of your images and also helps when users search for specific images.

SEO Slugs

This plugin helps your SEO efforts by eliminating unnecessary words such as ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from within your post slugs. Simply install and let it do the rest.

Sociable

Another great tool to get your posts linked to social bookmarking sites and in your RSS feed. One of the better tools with 99 different social sites to choose from.

All In One SEO Pack

The best one stop shop in the blogosphere for effecting your blog’s titles, descriptions and keywords.

Affect your blog post titles by including your most specific key word phrases. Create specific, descriptive descriptions to help provide even more information to search engine users when you’re found in the results. Accurate descriptions help drive qualified visitors interested in your content by providing them with a quick detailed overview of the post they’re about to click on. Control specific keywords, within the keyword text box and select auto-detected keywords and/or add your own custom KW’s.

Which other plugins are you using to improve your blog’s performance?

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6 Great Plugins Your Blog Needs