There is a vast choice of WordPress plugins out there for your WordPress Blogging platform but which ones do you choose from to streamline, drive more traffic and to monetize your Money Making or Online Marketing blogs.

What is a plugin?A plugin (extension) consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application like a web browser or an email client to provide a certain, usually very specific, function which happens on demand. Here are some of the main reasons Applications support plugins:

  • to enable third-party developers to create capabilities to extend an application
  • to support features yet unforeseen
  • to reduce the size of an application
  • to separate source code from an application because of incompatible software licenses.

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine, in the WordPress directory you can find, download, rate, and comment on all the best plugins.

Top 10 Essential WordPress Plugins

#1 Akismet

You will find that Akismet is one of the pre bundled plugins that come standard with the WordPress Package when you set it up for the very first time. This is considered one of the most important plugins as Akismet is an anti-spam plugin to help combat those spammy comments that you get on a regular basis on your blog. Akismet requires a WordPress.com API Key to enable it.

#2 All in One SEO Pack

If you are looking for great search Engine results then you need to implement the All in One SEO Pack which does the following: Automatically optimizes your titles, Generates META tags automatically, You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want, You can fine-tune everything. This plugin will give your blog the necessary search engine exposure that it deserves.

#3 Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps plugin works together with the All in One SEO Pack, to generate a Sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by all the major searches like: Google, Yahoo, Live and MSN. Site maps basically tell search engines how, when and what to index your site. I would suggest loading both the All in One SEO Pack and the Google XML Sitemaps plugins to get the best results for search engine submissions.

#4 Global Translator

The Global Translator plugin automatically translates your blog into 41 different languages that you can select from a list and you have a choice of 4 translation engines that you can use: Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Prompt, and Free Translations. This is a very powerful plugin as it can give your blog exposure and more traffic from other countries and your blog posts will be submitted to international search engines.
As the All in One SEO Pack works in conjunction with Google XML Sitemaps so does the Global Translator plugin work in conjunction with Google XML Sitemaps.

#5 FD Feedburner Plugin

This FD Feedburner plugin redirects all your feeds to a FeedBurner Feed; this allows all your feeds to be read from one source which is from your FeedBurner Account. To activate the feed plugin you will need to assign your FeedBurner URL within the Plugin. If you would like to setup a FeedBurner account you can go to the FeedBurner website where it is free to join up.

This is the first section to the Top 10 WordPress Plugins for your Money Making Blogs. I have listed the first 5 most essential plugins to get your blog off the ground which will help you drive more traffic to your blog by streamlining the search engine submissions through the use of these 5 WordPress Plugins.

Don’t miss the second section that will list the remanding 5 plugins designed to help monetize your blog.

Top 10 WordPress plugins for your blog continued

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