Top 10 Best WordPress Plugins of 2011

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Nowadays, WordPress is probably the most popular, complete, and easy to use weblog software in the world. The fact is that almost everyone having a blog today is powered by WordPress. WordPress has got to be one of the easiest blog platforms to operate for the simple reason of having thousands of plugins available to make your job easier. In this article, I will be reviewing the top 10 best SEO plugins for WordPress.

All In One SEO Pack Plugin

This is by far the most popular SEO plugin for wordpress. If you do not have it, then you should definitely get it ASAP. Every blog should have this plugin because like the name says, it’s a all-in-one plugin. This plugin is 100% free and it could easily help you improve your blog’s SEO and increase your traffic. This plugin covers every single aspect that you need to do for your on-page optimization. This includes Title tag, Meta Description tag, Canonical tag, Meta Keywords tag, Duplicate Content, and more.

For more information or to download the All In One SEO Pack, click here

YARPP Plugin

Recommending related articles to your users is very important. You could do so by placing anchor texts in your content linking to other articles, or you could provide a list at the bottom of your articles saying “Related Articles” or “Other Articles”. Doing this can easily decrease your bounce rate because a user that doesn’t find what he is looking for might go on and click on a related article.

The YARPP plugin is amazing if you decide to put a list of related articles. The secret of this plugin is that its algorithm is so advanced that it could detect which articles are highly relevant to one another. Once it found all the related articles, it displays them in the RSS feed.

For more information or to download the YARPP plugin, click here

Google Analytics For WordPress Plugin

This plugin is amazing because it allows you to monitor the traffic of your blog very easily. Something very cool about it is that it provides metadata. This means that you can see which author’s articles are viewed the most, which category gets viewed the most, and more. It also gives you a tracking of the page views and it can also give you an insight about how your readers browse your blog. It pretty much has the same function and options as the regular Google Analytics only for your blog.

For more information or to download the Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin, click here

Akismet Plugin

All blog owners have a problem in common, huge amount of spam comments get posted on their articles. Monitoring manually all of the spam comments is highly time consuming. This is where the Akismet plugin comes into play. It helps you detect almost every single spam comment that gets posted on your blog. It tests every comment against the Akismet web service and lets you review them in your blog’s “Comments” section in your admin panel.

For more information or to download the Akismet plugin, click here

WP-DBManager Plugin

WordPress is known to have so many amazing features, but these features can create a huge mess in your blog’s database especially if you’ve been an active blogger for many years. You will start noticing your website’s speed significantly decrease. The more articles you will publish, the slower your blog will become. The WP-DBManager plugin allows you to repair, backup, delete, restore, analyze, and optimize your blog’s database. With this plugin, you may also schedule the optimization, backing up, and repairing of your website. However, it is important that you have some kind of knowledge on databases, if you do not know anything about databases do not use this plugin.

For more information or to download the WP-DBManager plugin, click here

ShareThis Plugin

We all know that social bookmarking is very important for SEO. ShareThis is probably the most known social media plugin. It is actually used by more than 1 million websites. It is easily installed and allows your blog readers to share your articles and content through many social networks. The biggest advantage of this plugin is that you may customize the theme of the button to give a style to your blog.

Here are a few social networks this plugin has: Digg, Facebook, Delicious, GoogleBuzz, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and more.

For more information or to download the ShareThis plugin, click here

List Eruption Plugin

A good way to increase you email marketing lists is to offer high quality content for free. This content should be offered to your users in the form of articles, e-books etc. In order to make the most out of your campaign, you must obviously write a very useful E-book but you must also have the appropriate software that will help you secure your PDFs, gather up all the email addresses and give incentives to your blog’s subscribers.

A good software that does everything stated above is the List Eruption plugin. This plugin is the combination of a social media promotion tool and a referral management system. This plugin allows you to create landing pages of your campaign, integrate it with the email provider of your choice, monitor your subscribers, and it gives incentives to your users to share your campaign with their family and friends.

For more information or to download the List Eruption plugin, click here

WP-PostRatings Plugin

Ratings is very important in a blog because it makes the user feel as if he is part of a community and he is helpful to the blog. It also gives you valuable feedback about your blog and you could figure out what they like and don’t like about your blog. It has many variations and different styles of ratings. The plugin keeps a detailed history of the ratings and uses ajax to avoid the page to refresh.

For more information or to download the WP-PostRatings plugin, click here

Google XML Sitemaps Plugin

A lot of people worry about how to submit or generate sitemaps. We all know how important XML sitemaps are in order to improve the indexation and structure of your website. A very good plugin for that is the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. It automatically creates an XML sitemap every time you release a new article on your blog and automatically execute the submission of your sitemap to Google & Bing.

For more information or to download the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, click here

Advertising Manager Plugin

Do you need to manage all the advertising sections on your website ? Then this plugin is definitely for you ! This plugin helps you manage your Google Adsense ads on your blog. It allows you to create  ad limitations by category, tags, author, etc. Another great feature this plugin has is that it recognizes the most important ad networks.

Here are some of networks it recognizes: Google Adsense, Yahoo!PN, Adpinion, Chitika, OpenX, WidgetBucks, Adify, Adroll, and many more.

For more information or to download the Advertising Manager plugin, click here

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