Top Five WordPress Plugins
WordPress Plug Ins are extremely useful, especially when you are trying to make money off of your blog. They can bring in readers and traffic, help you with your blog's search engine optimization, and even keep track of your stats so that you know who is visiting your blog and which keyword strand they used to wind up there. Here are the top five WordPress Plug Ins that you need to activate and use on your blog:
Top Five WordPress Plugins
1) WordPress SEO - Yoast
This plug in helps you create Meta information for every post. All that you need to enter is your headline (which should, ideally, match the headline of your post), a short 165-character or less meta description that summarizes what your post is about, and several strings of keyword phrases (or single keywords) that relate to your post. After you publish the post, this plug in works overtime to make sure that people can find your post through the search engines.
2) Google Analytics for Wordpress
Keep track of your traffic quickly and easily with the help of this plug in. Whether you want to know what people searched on to find your blog, where they came from, which writers or authors they were targeting, and whether or not there are any 404 errors on your site. Basically, this plug in is designed to help you analyze your traffic in just about any way, shape or form.
3) Ultimate No-Follow
If your blog does a lot of linking to external sites that you'd rather no-follow, this WordPress plugin makes adding the rel="nofollow" tag. In addition to the links within your page it also allows you to no-follow menu links as well.
4) Similar Posts
This plug in comes in handy when you want to publicize other posts on your blog. Instead of having to come up with a list of similar articles on your own, Similar Posts uses keyword phrases to automatically generate a list when you hit the "publish" button. You will save time (and therefore money) and your readers will be able to hone in on other posts on your site that are just like the one that they read and enjoyed. Keeping your readers happy is one great way to keep traffic coming back.
5) Broken Links
If you're familiar with Google SEO you'll know that user experience is a huge element. Running a website is time consuming and many people don't have the time to search your website for internal or external broken links. The Broken Links plugin will notify you of broken links on your website to easily clean them up.
