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Top WordPress Plugins Suggestions

July 14, 2022   Web Hosting   No comments

One of the most popular tools for hosting a blog is WordPress, an open-source project that is freely available for the downloading. There are at least a thousand tutorials available around the ‘net for how to set up a WordPress blog, configuring a theme, uploading it to your own hosting account, and all the rest. I am not going to re-cover that ground; it has been done more than enough. This article is more about what you can do to improve your site and enhance it for visitors — and for the search engines.

The good news is that there are any number of tools to help you improve the behavior of your website. WordPress is now such a popular framework for creating websites in general and blogs in particular, that an entire industry has grown up to create plugins for WordPress; using the top WordPress plugins can really enhance the utilization of WordPress. You should find all sorts of tools, from free plugins like HeadSpace2, All-in-One SEO, and Google XML Sitemaps to premium plugins like SEOPressor or My SEO Status.

Here is a short list of the best plugins you should investigate:

  • SEOPressor – automates and simplifies on-site SEO; premium (i.e. paid) plugin

  • Platinum SEO Pack – simplifies some aspects of on-site SEO; free plugin

  • Google XML Sitemap – auto-generates XML formatted sitemap to speed up search engine indexing; free plugin

  • Google Video Sitemap – auto-generates XML sitemap of all videos on your site; free plugin

  • Google Image Sitemap – auto-generates XML sitemap of all images on your site; free plugin

  • All-in-One SEO Pack – similar to Platinum SEO, but with a few less features; free plugin

  • Automatic SEO Links – automatic on-site keyword-based crosslinking; free plugin

  • HeadSpace2 – similar to Platinum or All-in-One, a lot of people swear by this one; free plugin

  • Akismet – automatically blocks comment spam; free and now built-in to WordPress

  • s2Member Pro – implements membership functionality; premium plugin, but an excellent free version is available

  • PHPurchase – run an eCommerce site within your blog; premium plugin

Always remember, though: put good content on your site that will provide real value for your visitors. All the bells and whistles in the world are useless if you aren’t giving your visitors value when they come to the site. Remember to treat your visitors well, and you will get your fair share of traffic; social bookmarking is a powerful tool that you leverage naturally when you have happy readers.

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Top WordPress Plugins Suggestions

July 12, 2022   Web Hosting   No comments

One of the most popular tools for hosting a blog is WordPress, an open-source project that is freely available for the downloading. There are at least a thousand tutorials available around the ‘net for how to set up a WordPress blog, configuring a theme, uploading it to your own hosting account, and all the rest. I am not going to re-cover that ground; it has been done more than enough. This article is more about what you can do to improve your site and enhance it for visitors — and for the search engines.

The good news is that there are any number of tools to help you improve the behavior of your website. WordPress is now such a popular framework for creating websites in general and blogs in particular, that an entire industry has grown up to create plugins for WordPress; using the top WordPress plugins can really enhance the utilization of WordPress. You should find all sorts of tools, from free plugins like HeadSpace2, All-in-One SEO, and Google XML Sitemaps to premium plugins like SEOPressor or My SEO Status.

Here is a short list of the best plugins you should investigate:

  • SEOPressor – automates and simplifies on-site SEO; premium (i.e. paid) plugin

  • Platinum SEO Pack – simplifies some aspects of on-site SEO; free plugin

  • Google XML Sitemap – auto-generates XML formatted sitemap to speed up search engine indexing; free plugin

  • Google Video Sitemap – auto-generates XML sitemap of all videos on your site; free plugin

  • Google Image Sitemap – auto-generates XML sitemap of all images on your site; free plugin

  • All-in-One SEO Pack – similar to Platinum SEO, but with a few less features; free plugin

  • Automatic SEO Links – automatic on-site keyword-based crosslinking; free plugin

  • HeadSpace2 – similar to Platinum or All-in-One, a lot of people swear by this one; free plugin

  • Akismet – automatically blocks comment spam; free and now built-in to WordPress

  • s2Member Pro – implements membership functionality; premium plugin, but an excellent free version is available

  • PHPurchase – run an eCommerce site within your blog; premium plugin

Always remember, though: put good content on your site that will provide real value for your visitors. All the bells and whistles in the world are useless if you aren’t giving your visitors value when they come to the site. Remember to treat your visitors well, and you will get your fair share of traffic; social bookmarking is a powerful tool that you leverage naturally when you have happy readers.

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3 of the best SEO plugins for WordPress that your blog shouldn't be without

August 16, 2021   Search Engine Optimization   No comments

There are so many SEO plugins for WordPress, some better than others of course, some don’t do all that much but below are 3 great plugins that I have been using that would be incredibly useful on any WordPress Site.
SEO Ultimate – I think this great plugin deserves more recognition than it’s gotten up till now. I have never seen a plugin with such a massive array of features, this does everything that All In One SEO, also throws in the same functionality found within SEO Smart Links and a number of other plugins it is essentially the swiss army knife of WordPress plugins. Some examples of its additional features include; code inserter (for use with adding Google Analytics, Adsense section targeting etc) Webmaster verification assistant, Link Mask Generator, Robots.txt editor and you can even export your SEO Ultimate settings to a file so you can import later or use on another blog if you need to, along with support for importing post meta data from the All In One SEO plugin – and there is more, simply a must have for your blog.

SEO friendly images – It seems like a lot of people will focus more on the off page SEO rather than on page, which itself plays a huge roll in drawing traffic to your site from search engines. Out of all of the on page factors, image ALT & TITLE tags seems to be one of the most underused. This great plugin will automatically update all images with ALT and TITLE tags, the plugin will even add these tags to images that do not have them according to the options you have selected.

Google XML Sitemaps – This is a very useful WordPress plugin, it will create an XML sitemap for your site that will allow it to be indexed better by the major search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com. Search engines crawlers will be able to use it to see the full structure of your site and notify them whenever any new content is added.

XML sitemaps are very useful as they allow search engines to index pages that are not linked to your site that you wish to be indexed. It tells them the last modified date of pages, how frequently a page is updated so the crawlers know when to check back for new content or updated content and it will allow you to indicate the priority of particular pages within your site.

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