10 Must Have Plugins for your WordPress Blogs

If you are blogging to promote yourself or your business; there are three trends that you need to keep mind namely your blog speed, Your Blog SEO and Social Sharing Signals for your blog. In the recent times, Google is paying special attention to these trends. It’s not only Google, but web users are also moving away from blogs that are taking too much time to load to such blogs which loads instantly and have good number of shares on popular social media networks.

Since you are blogging on WordPress, now the question arise how you will improve your blog speed, make it more search engine friendly and at the same time provide easy social media sharing options to your blog readers. The obvious answer is plugins. Yes, there are some plugins that you need to install on your blog and click some boxes and you are done with most of things.

So here is the list of 10 must have plugins for WordPress blogs:

SEO Smart Links

WP Smart Links

SEO Smart Link plugin can help you with interlinking of your blog contents. Using this plugin, you can send targeted traffic, backlinks and much needed page rank juice to the targeted pages of your blog. SEO Smart Links can be a real help in building lots of high quality internal links for your blog pages.

Download SEO Smart Links

Easy WP SEO

Easy WP SEO is a premium SEO plugin for WordPress blogs. And it is one of most recommended plugin for WordPress blogs when it comes about making your blog more search engine friendly. This premium plugin will help you in doing all on-page activities on your blog with perfection.

Download Easy WP SEO

WP Smush.it

wp smush.it

This plugin is really handy when it comes about improving the performance or speed of a WordPress blog. This plugin used to reduce the size of images added in your WordPress blog pages and posts automatically in the background while you are working on some important tasks.

Download WP Smush.it

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is another plugin to improve the speed of your WordPress blog. It is a page caching plugin that will convert dynamic PHP files into Static HTML pages. Your server will start serving these small sizes HTML files to your blog readers for their requests and you will not need to process those heavy PHP files.

Download WP Super Cache

Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps is a SEO plugin for WordPress blogs which can create XML files for your blog automatically. This plugin will be really helpful for those bloggers who don’t have any idea about how XML Sitemaps are generated and are looking at fool proof method to index their blog contents in search engines especially Google.

Download GoogleXML Sitemaps

Broken Link Checker

Would you like to own a blog that contain too many broken links? No web user would love to go to a website or blog that has too many broken links; even search engines hate such blogs. To keep your blog free from broken links problems, you should use a broken link checker plugin which will automatically find all suspicious links in your blog and can be fixed easily with the help of broken link checker plugin.

Download Broken Link Cheker

Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

Sexy Bookmarks

Sexy Bookmarks is one of most prominent plugin available in WordPress Plugins directory when we talk about adding different kind of social media sharing icons and links on our WordPress blogs. This plugin will help you in adding icons for most popular social media networks on your blog pages and posts. Presence of Sexy Bookmarks icons will motivate your blog readers to share stories of their interest from your blog on social media websites where they are actively participating. This will result in more social media shares for your blog content and will help your blog perform better on search engines.

Download Sexy Bookmarks Plugin

Delicious Bookmark Button

Delicious Bookmark button is another plugin for showing social sharing icons and buttons on your blog. After installing this plugin, you can show Delicious Save button or badge on your blog posts and pages. Best thing about this plugin is that it’s coming with real time counter of votes that are made on a story of your blog. So presence of this plugin will inform you about how many times this story has already been shared on Delicious social bookmarking network.

Download Delicious Bookmark Plugin

TweetMeme Button

TweetMeme Retweet button is another plugin like Delicious Bookmark button which is coming with real time counter of votes done against a page or post from your blog on Twitter. This plugin is so useful that lots of popular blogs like Techcrunch.com, PerezHilton.com, Break.com, CNET.com, Wired and Time Magazine etc. are using it. Recently they started supporting official Twitter Tweet buttons as well.

Download TweetMeme Button

With this it comes to this special guest post mentioning list of plugins that you must install on your blog if you want to drive lots of traffic to your blog from search engines and at the same time build a strong presence for you or your business in social networks. IT would be interesting to know which plugins you are using on your WordPress plugin and would you be interested in sharing some plugins, without whom we cannot survive, share all of your thoughts and concerns in the comment section.

About the Author

Anil Agarwal blogs about lots of free and premium WordPress plugins like keyword winner plugin, Easy WP SEO, WP Answers etc. on his BloggersPassion.com.

http://www.worldtvpc.com/ Debra Terrell

I think broken link check looks like a great tool for a newbie, non technical person!

I should have known about this before, it could have really helped my sites a lot!
http://wpthemesdaily.com/ WP Themes Daily

Great plugins I have used Google XML sitemap and SEO Smart links. Despite being free, these two plugins are awesome
Fabrizio

Great post Anil, some of these I use myself and swear by, the broken link checker is a GREAT must have plugin I agree.
http://www.iblog4money.net Samantha Wright

Very useful list of plugins, I prefer the WordPress SEO by Yoast however for SEO plugin, but the rest here are very good ones thanks.
http://www.topseosoftwarereviews.net Abhijit

Hi Anil,

This is a great list of some essential word press plugin. ” WP Smush.it” that is new to me and I will try this on my blog for sure. Instead of Easy WP SEO I use SEOPressor plugin and that is working fine for me till now.

Have a nice day brother..
Abhijit
- http://bloggerspassion.com Anil Agarwal
  
  I have got some experience on both of these plugins. No doubt both are good plugin for SEO. But if you ask me which is the best I would say it is Easy WP SEO. If you haven’t given it a try, I would highly recommend you.
http://www.rancorinfotech.com Aasma

Hi Anil,

This is really important post for all wordpress lovers, as these plugins can make their life easy and that’s why wordpress is so popular. You can easily find plugin for almost every requirement.
http://www.seoallrounder.com/ saad naeem @ seoallrounder

great post , I am using plugins 5 out of them but will check the other ones soon.
http://trucklicense.net/ Mike Jones

I think broken link check looks like a great tool for a newbie, non technical person!
I should have known about this before, it could have really helped my sites a lot!
http://michelle-childs.com Michelle Childs

Thanks for the post. I’m a newbie blogger so this is very helpful. Someone made the comment to me that too many plugins can slow down your site, so am I cautious about adding too many. What do you think?
- http://www.magnet4marketing.net Fabrizio Van Marciano
  
  Hi Michelle, thanks for stopping by. Yes to a degree having too many plugins can slow down your site, but also depends on the type of plugin. Well coded and regularly updated plugins are always recommended. Some folks believe that having no more than about 10 plugins is perfect, I use around 20. What is the point of having a WordPress site and use plugins if you’re going to be limited? lol.
http://www.kukuchku.com Pooja Arora

Hey that’s really good post, I am already using 5 to 6 plugins out of this on my blog.

10 Absolutely Must Have Plugins for WordPress Blogs