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I have been wanting to write this post for a long time, but I wanted to MAKE SURE that I was offering you the top wordpress plugins for internet marketers that I could dig up.
So I spent some time on this post.
It’s just been sitting in my cave of posts that I’ve been researching and working on over the last few … well, it feels like millenia.
I looked at different plug-in reviews and trialed them on my own blog here.
I studied different courses – which I will introduce you to later in this post.
What I found was a lot of someone else’s opinion, was confusing, or was simply not applicable to what we’re doing here as internet marketers.
I Thought of Different Routes
Should I write about the top 5, the top 10, or write about the top SEO plugins, or do I make it a Top “Any Plugin Goes” kind of post?
And that is basically where I decided to leave it.
This is just my overall “Top WordPress Plugins.” I’ve focused on SEO plugins to help you with your optimization, but I’ve also included plugins to improve your overall blog flow, some cool widgets, and anti-spam tools – because as you know – we really should all be focusing on pleasing our readers, and not JUST the search engines. Right?
My Top “Any Plugin Goes” List
I am going to tell you exactly which plugins I have on my WordPress blog, which is a decent list to turbo-boost your WordPress blog, but – in order to get you the entire list, I have to break things into 2 different posts.
Also, you may want to know that if you are running wordpress, and you haven’t added in your own plugin yet, you simply go to your WordPress backoffice, select “Plugins”, then “add new”, and select any of the plugins I have selected here and put it in the “search plugins” window.
When the description comes up for that specific plugin, simply click the “Install” link, and WordPress will automatically download and install the plugin for you.
Anyways, this is just the first half, and they are in no particular order, but I will mention that I wanted to put these SEO turbo-boosted plugins at the beginning.
So here goes…
All In One SEO Pack - This is a MUST HAVE for SEO optimization of your blog posts. The idea is that you want to optimize each post – not just your main blog site. This is because each post will be on a different topic with its own specific title, set of keywords, and meta description, all of which will help each post rank in the search engines individually.
With the All in One SEO, you will be able to edit the title, meta description, and keywords for each individual post – not just your main blog site.
On each individual post you create, there is an area named All in one SEO in the editing window where you can tweak title, keywords and descriptions. The title can only be tweaked here, and this is a very powerful way to optimize your posts and pages.
Headspace 2 – This plugin is All In One SEO Pack on steroids.
Now, that will probably tempt you to want to use it over All In One SEO, BUT I will warn you that is it a bit more difficult to set up – especially some of the intricacies of what you may or may not want it to do.
Not that that should keep you from setting it up. I actually have both All in One SEO Pack AND Headspace 2 running right now. Until I find a reason NOT to have them both running, I will keep them going for now.
Google XML Site Maps – Sitemaps are an easy way for you to inform search engines about pages on your blog. Basically, a Google Sitemap is a file which contains URLs and some additional information for all public pages or documents of your website. Google can read this file and add the defined pages to their index.
In other words – it’s a “map” telling the search engines to come take a look and crawl through the site and to “look at me, look at me!”
Nofollow Blogroll SEO – If you are familiar with SEO, you know that linking out to other sites from every single page of your site (such as a blogroll or internal linking does) can hurt your SEO. You lose too much “link juice.”
It doesn’t really help the sites you’re linking to because search engines don’t place as much value on site-wide links – all the other sites need is one good link from your site.
This plugin will allow you to give “link love” (via a followed link) to sites in your Blogroll from the homepage of your blog, which is most likely the strongest page anyway in terms of SEO link juice.
Simple Tags – Simple Tags plugin is an extended way to improve your tagging – or keywords. Features include suggested tags, mass edit tags, autocompletion, tag cloud widgets, related posts, and related tags.
MyBlogLog – MyBlogLog is actually a widget operated by Yahoo.com. You download the plugin and a widget is created for you.
Just place the widget in your side bar and you can add a community to your blog. Really this is just social networking with a blog.
The widget will show you recent readers to your blog, and then within MyBlogLog, you can view stats on where they come from, what they viewed, and where they went.
Where Does that Leave Things?
Well, that is just the first half of the top WordPress plugins for internet marketers.
Crazy that there is that many huh?
What I think is even more crazy is that there are so many that are built to help you with your SEO for your blog.
That is why I wanted to create this post – to give you as comprehensive and effective list of wordpress plugins as possible. (Click Here to Read the Top WordPress Plugins for Internet Marketers, Part 2 of 2)
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Linus, this is great. I have some of these but not all. Thanks for getting this out of your “cave”, you guys and your caves!!!! LOL
Whatever you want to call it is fine, I am just glad that you brought it out into the light.
Thanks for helping us to be better,
Peace…
Kathy
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Kathy,
You crack me up. You went straight to “man cave” huh? LOL
Keep an eye out for the second of the 2 posts to finish up the list.
God Bless,
Linus
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I have spent many hours trying out new plugins over the past few months and the plugins Linus mentions here are bar-none the best of the best. An absolute must with anyone using a WordPress blog.
I have created a document for easy download about the plugins I recommend, and it includes those mentioned above.
Thanks buddy.!.
btw. I searched for “what rss feed is my blog using” and I found your top 5 reasons to use a WordPress blog post on the first page of Google.
Nice job!
Zack
Download Zack’s WORDPRESS Recommended Plugins
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:16 AM
Zack,
Awesome brother! Glad to see that my efforts are already working on Google.
And thanks for the link to your download. the pingback section is powerful. i recommend that others go check it out as well.
God Bless,
Linus
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Linus,
Thanks for sharing your top 5 seo plugins. I’m currently using all of them except for headspace 2,will look into it.. hope it doesn’t turn into “headache 2″ lol.. keep on rocking……
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:20 AM
No Headaches here so far with Headspace 2.
Make sure you stop by and check out the second half of my top wordpress plugins as this list was only the first half.
God Bless,
Linus
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Thanks for the heads up, good info, looking forward to see what other Blog tips you have.
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Hi Linus,
I nearly did not read this but I am glad I changed my mind.
Look forward to the next part.
thanks again for sharing.
Have fun
Bryan
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:22 AM
Bryan,
Well I’m glad you stopped by to take a peek, and to leave a comment.
The next part is up and posted. Make sure to check it out here: Top WordPress Plugins – Part 2 of 2
God Bless,
Linus
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Hey Linus,
You have a great post of blog information here. I was not aware that most of these tools even existed, much less be using them. Now I have MORE work to do to get these great tools implemented. I can’t wait for the remainder of your list.
Thanks for sharing (again)
To Your Continued Success,
Bill
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Palte,
No pressure at all intended.
I just wanted to reference them so you all could take advantage of them and put them into place on your blog.
BTW, i still see that your blog is climbing the alexa rankings!
God Bless,
Linus
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Hey Linus, nice to see the growth in your alexa. A painful suggestion… but you might want to link the plugin install pages to their titles?
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Sandeep,
You know, I thought about providing links, but I knew that the functionality of WordPress allows you to install each plugin separately.
If you go to “Plugins” and then “add New”, just do a search for the plugin you want, hit enter, and it will find you that plugin.
Then just hit the “Install” link, and wordpress will download and install the plugin for you.
Do you see another reason to have the links provided?
Linus
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Awesome Linus, you are definitely becoming the “blog guru”. I need to add some more of your recommended plugins, that’s for sure.
Thanks for helping all of us be more effective marketers.
~Bert
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:27 AM
Bert,
My pleasure brother!
I know you’re blog is climbing as well. Looking forward to seeing what happens after you add some more of these SEO plugins to your blog.
God Bless,
Bert
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Linus,
Great Post. I did review my plugins and do have the ones listed and active. Some of them I do not have visible on my blog, like Blogroll. If it is not visible is it still working in the background?
John
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 9:29 AM
John,
Then you are on top of the curve my friend! Kudos to you.
As far as blog roll, you need to make the widget active to actually see it AND to have it working. So make sure if you want it to go, that it is working.
But others still are only working in the background – like Headspace 2 or All In One SEO.
God Bless,
Linus
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Hey Linus,
Thanks for the tips. My WordPress site in not quite 7 days old yet, it’s 6 days and about 12 hours old. So as you see your tips came at a good time.
Thanks for your post…
Coach Freddie
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Coach,
How is the blog coming along?
I find it always exciting to see a new blogger and the growth they experience in just the first few months.
Also…i sent you an e-mail asking about the pictures not showing up.
Hope it helps!
God Bless,
Linus
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Hi Linus, thanks for the valuable info. Great to see you in the tribe!
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Jennifer,
Great to hear from you here in the blog.
How are things moving along for you?
Linus
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Hi Linus,
Thanks for the great info. I did not know about the Headspace one so will need to check that out.
~Marcus
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Linus Ruzicka Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Marcus,
Hey brother! Thanks for taking the time to come by and comment.
Yeah…Headspace is a cool little plugin to help with the SEO optimization of your blog.
It seems to be working quite nicely alongside All In One SEO.
BTW – great looking blog there my friend!
God Bless,
Linus
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