3 Must Have Wordpress Plugins

By John Browning

Wordpress plugins are small pieces of code that extend the functionality of wordpress. There are several thousands of wordpress plugins in the wordpress community and news plugins are being created daily by developers and wordpress fans around the world.

Here are the three plugins that I use at most of my blogs/niche websites. Wordpress can also be used a content management system to power niche websites.

Sitemap generator plugin for wordpress

This plugin creates a sitemap for the blog. A sitemap is a web page that lists all the pages and posts of the website/blog. Search engines can index all the pages and posts of your blog by following the links on the sitemap. It also helps in passing "link love" to older posts of your blog. In addition, a sitemap can also be a good means of directing stray visitors (for example: by providing a link on 404 pages to the sitemap).

Some of the features of this plugin include:

• support for multi-level categories and pages
• category/page exclusion
• multiple-page generation with navigation
• permalink support
• choose what to display
• what order to list items in
• show comment counts and/or post dates

The following languages are supported: English, Albanian, Brazilian-Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

All in one SEO pack

This plugin optimizes wordpress for search engines.

Here are the features of all in one SEO pack:

• Page titles: You can adjust the titles of the pages/posts and the homepage. If you include the right keywords in the title tag, your site will obviously perform better in search engines.
• Duplicate content: This plugin makes the categories and archives "no follow", thus avoiding the duplicate content penalty.
• Meta tags: This plugin makes it possible to add meta tags i.e. description and keywords to the posts and pages of your wordpress blog. Though Google doesn't read meta tags, search engines like Yahoo! and Live give prominence to meta tags. So use them!

Sociable

This plugin adds links to social bookmarking sites at the end of posts/pages. Social bookmarking sites allow users to share interesting websites and blogs with other users. Using sociable you can easily increase the number of visitors to your blog. Social bookmarking are not only a good source of direct visitors, but also a good source of back links to your blog.

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