Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category
January 18th, 2009 | 
Author: I have been asked a few times about what wordpress plugins I have been using for my blog challenge. Here are a list of them and the reason why I use them.
All-In-One-SEO-Pack
This plugin is superb at handling all the boring on page SEO stuff that we all usually forget to do and thankfully it does a great job of it to. It will look after:
- Optimising your titles
- Generates all your Meta tags automatically
- Ensures that you don’t suffer the duplicate content problems traditional with wordpress by only allowing one copy of content to be visible to the search engines.
This plugin really is a time saver and well worth adding to your blogs and best of all it’s free! For more info look here.
Google XML Sitemap plugin
Adding a google sitemap and opening a google webmaster account is a great way of getting your blogs indexed by google and the best plugin available for generating those sitemaps is the google XML sitemaps plugin. You can read more about it here.
Conveythis Translation Plugin
This is a great plugin for getting extra traffic from all around the world. Rather than have your blog published just in English and alienating most of the world, this plugin gives your blog the ability to be displayed in the language of choice of your readers. I have defintely seen an upsurge in traffic from using this plugin. Read more about it here. EDIT: I have just found an even better translator plugin here..
Google Analytics For WordPress
A very simple but useful plugin for adding google analytics to your blog quickly and easily and without the need to copy and paste code into your files. Just setup an analytics account for your blog and enter the identifier number into the plugin and away you go. Read more about it here.
Caffeinated Content for WordPress
This isn’t free but it is a fantastic plugin for adding content to your blogs. I am not advocating using this plugin for all your content but in addition to. Caffeineted Content basically uses Yahoo answers and various other sources as a way of generating content for your blog.
In essence you enter in your target keywords and this plugin will bring back all the content and images you need for your blog for the next 5 years or so! However as with everything, there is a right way to use it and a wrong way. The wrong way to use this plugin is to just publish all the results it gives you without batting an eyelid.
The right way to use this plugin is to use the content it retrieves for you as the source for your articles. In other words, it retrieves the content for you and you rewrite basically what it gives you. It is also an excellent way of researching your niche for new ideas, definetly a great time saver. There are other functions provided like re-writing the content it pulls in. I am yet to be impressed by any automatic article rewriter and this one is no different. Read more about it here.
Max Banner Ads
This is a change of opinion from me, I used to use a plugin called Adsense Manager for looking after my adsense blocks because it was the best of the bunch, or so I thought..
I recently came across a plugin called Max Banner Ads which really is very simple to use and has some other handy features like telling you how many impressions have occured and CTR as well.It just simplifies the whole process of adding adsense blocks and other banner ads to your blog. I am currently adding revisions to my cash cow guide to adsense wealth in which I recommended the adsense manager plugin and changing it to this one. The revised copy will be free to all who have previously purchased it.
Very generously, it is free to use but they do ask that you write a review of the plugin on your blog although it isn’t a neccesity. Read more about it here.
That about covers it for now..
