This site runs on WordPress. I am very fond of this platform. In this post I share my 11 essential WordPress plugin with you.

1. Akismet

Spam is annoying. When my blog was online 2 days there were already Chinese spam bots along. Akismet is a standard plugin for WordPress. The anti-spam service is managed by the team behind WordPress. There are also variants for example Drupal. Akismet Plugin has so far been 100% successful on all sites.

2. All in one SEO pack

This plugin allows the site to be found more times by Google. It regulates the meta description and titles of pages. Furthermore, it helps you to keep moderate the received comments and make them nofollow. Read the rest of this entry

When you installed WordPress for the very first time you may have noticed one of the default plug-ins known as Akismet. This plug-in is a handy tool that helps block spam from being posted as comments to your blog. In fact, it was one of the first such spam tools ever developed for WordPress. The only question is whether or not you should bother with it for your site.

Before answering that question let’s discuss how the plug-in actually works. Akismet blocks spam automatically using the collective effort of all the websites that have it installed. For example, let’s just say there were 1000 sites using the plug-in. Akismet would keep track of all the comments left on those various sites and track pingbacks. Using analysis of the collected data it determines what is most likely to be spam and what is probably legitimate. Those that appear to be spam get quarantined rather than ending up on your blog.

One of the things that make Akismet so effective is the fact that it gets stronger with every piece of data that’s added to the collection. In theory, the more WordPress sites using the plug-in the stronger its protection becomes. Akismet is pretty strong, but it’s not perfect. Read the rest of this entry

Once a visitor starts liking your posts they would surely like to read other related articles written by you. It is always good for a site to have a plugin that makes it easier for the visitors to find some related entries. This will increase the visitors and at the same time there would be an increase in page views as well. One such plugin that automatically lists other related posts written on your site is Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. This plugin will list the links of related posts below the article and the visitors will be able to have a look at other interesting articles written by you. This plugin is so efficient that many bloggers refer it as one of the best related posts plugin available for WordPress.

There are many related post plugins available these days. Yet Another Related Post Plugin is a contextual related posts plugin that automatically reviews the contents written on your site and lists the links of related posts based on the contents/categories of each article. If the visitor likes your post then they would surely have a look at the links under the label “Related Posts.” Read the rest of this entry

If you are someone that works hard on keeping a blog up-to-date with new content for little reward, whether it is by way of traffic or social sharing, you may want to take a look at CommentLuv Premium. This WordPress plugin is the upgraded version of the original CommentLuv by Andy Baily and is designed to encourage comments, social sharing and just general interaction on your blog.

So is it worth having?

If you operate a blog of any kind that is struggling to get views, CommentLuv is definitely worth having. It is an 8-in-1 plugin with a vast array of features that can seriously give your blog more bite. Having a popular blog obviously involves a little bit of search engine optimization and some social media marketing – this plugin provides both. Read the rest of this entry

Sharing is one of the best ways for promoting your WordPress blog entries on social networking sites and other bookmarking places over the internet. There are several plugins which are available that integrates a WordPress blog with various social networking websites. Sociable Plugin is one of the most popular plugins available which places small icons known as chicklets on posts or pages of your WordPress blog. As we all know social media is important and as bloggers we put a lot of effort into social media marketing to be successful. This plugin makes social networking look simple and easy.

The moment a reader reads your posts and wants to share a particular section of your website they have the option to directly share at a social bookmarking site of their choice. It is a very handy tool wherein the readers by using this have the option to return to the particular blog anytime they want to. The plugin offers you to share links at popular sites such as Facebook, Google plus, Twitter, Fark, Spurl, Newsvine, and many others. Read the rest of this entry

It is no doubt a good idea to use dynamic keyword insertion in your web pages instead of adding keywords to each of your pages manually. This requirement becomes unavoidable when you are working on a relatively bigger website, like a huge eCommerce store or some other large knowledge base website.

Adding keywords is a mandatory step in any SEO campaign and should be done properly if we want to see fruitful results from search engines. Otherwise we will just end up having a huge website with no traffic at all. Keywords are what tell search engines whether to rank a particular web page for any query or not. They make your website more relevant to search queries, and therefore make your website attract as much traffic as possible from search engines. Read the rest of this entry

The rough nature of Android phone, especially when iPhone is here is making the users feel like changing something in it. No doubt that Android has some most exciting features when compared to the other smart phones. You can use Android any way you want to, enjoying it fully. But even after so many great features, it doesn’t have the same great looks. The manufacturers send these devices as a customized look. The user can add more to the looks in it thanks to the developers. There are so many launchers, themes, widgets, and mob etc available online but the handling can be troublesome for the non-technical users. And the worst part comes when they search for information on it but the right guidelines are lacking. Read the rest of this entry

We are in 2012, and we can literally feel that almost every offline business is trying to come online to sell their services and products. But not all of them are successful in making sales and earning substantial revenue from their websites. This article will tell you one of the major mistakes that most of the companies make, that normally result in no or poor result.

Almost every SEO professional uses Google AdWords keyword tool to search for relevant and profitable keywords. They believe that since the software is developed by Google itself, therefore its data is authentic and accurate. We have seen many quality websites gone un-noticed and dropped out of web sphere, and the biggest reason for their failure was the terrible keywords research that was done through Google`s own AdWords keyword tool. Read the rest of this entry

In this article I am going to talk about how SEO can benefit your online business. SEO is by far the most cost effective approach to reach out for your targeted market. Many businesses are using it now, and daily thousands of offline businesses come online, and implement SEO to make the most of this extra-ordinary marketing channel. Ingnoring SEO today will have a huge impact tomorrow. Here is why. Read the rest of this entry

RSS is a common term we hear every day. As bloggers and website owners we always hear about rss feed and often times talk about the importance of it. The question I have is how many of us actually know what is an rss feed and how to use it. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or some times as “Rich Site Summary”. In simple terms what it means is RSS feed is a form of web feed designed to provide content summaries of news, blogs, forums or website content. Dan Libby of Netscape.com played a major role in the development of RSS in its early days. Dan Libby produced a new version, RSS 0.91 back in July 1999. RSS has many different versions available today. Read the rest of this entry