Thread: Best Wordpress Plugins

I was wondering what everyones favorite wordpress plugins and why if possible. I'm setting up a new site and just curious.....

Mine are:

Easy Privacy Policy - Cuz it's simple and google loves privacy policy
Google Analytics - Nice to see stats right in the dashboard
Kb robots - google loves robots
link checker - pretty sweet and lets you know if you have any broken links
XML - Sitemap - cuz it's quick to notify the search engines about your new pages
G-Lock opt in -cuz i can't afford aweber yet heh
Platinum Seo - cuz i hear it's better than all in one
Server Buddy - Cuz it checks your server for slow downs and leaks

Those are mine, i'm not an expert it's just some i have read about, none of those are blackhat....You have any good ones to share?

Nice, here are mine-

cbnet Ping Optimizer - Prevents blog from being tagged as ping spammer
Contact Form 7 - A nice simple contact form
Easy Privacy Policy - Google loves privacy policy
Google XML Sitemaps - Some more google love
Page Link To - Allows for external links in Pages
Sociable - Gotta have social buttons
Google Analytics - For stats
Wordpress Database backup - pretty obvious
WP Super Cache - Gotta have your site load fast
jQuery lazy load - Loads images when visible in browser, again gotta improve load times.(for sites with lots of images)
WP-Optimize - Cleans up your wordpress blog database(essential if you have limited web space)

and thats it LOL

Here's a tip for WP Privacy Policy.

1. Install and activate it.
2. Go to the Privacy Policy page
3. Copy everything to the clipboard
4. Delete the plugin and create a page called Privacy-Policy
5. Paste everything into that and place it in your footer

Now you have a Privacy Policy but no wasted memory on a plugin you don't need. Simples!

Good call xpandemic on the sociable can't forget the socials and that's a good tip I gotta use flip flop

Pretty impressive getting a site to rank 3 with 1 backlink, do they pay for that google listing? or was it just really low traffic?

WPRobot - Can't live without it for my adsense sites...
MBP Affiliate Ninja - Best Aff plugin hands down
SEO Booster Pro - PRetty cool SEO Plugin
Sexy Share - Because its sexy !
BackupBuddy - Best Tool Ever for Backups and Cloning sites

Some of my favourites....
HeadSpace2 - Meta-data manager on steroids, allowing complete control over all SEO needs such as keywords/tags, titles, description, stylesheets, and many many other goodies.
Plugin Central - v. cool - Automatically installs WordPress plugins by name and URL. Provides automatic update of multiple plugins.
WP Security Scan - does security scan of your wp installation.
W3 Total Cache - Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser, page, object and database caching as well as minify and content delivery network (CDN) to WordPress.
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator - lets you generate fully customised sitemap.
My Page Order - drag and drop order of pages.
Robots Meta - add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.
SEO Slugs - Removes common words like 'a', 'the', 'in' from post slugs to improve SEO.

Best plugin to install first is Plugin Central. Why do you ask? It allows you to install all your list of plugins at once and not have to do it individually.
You install plugin central and then have a list of plugins and you can install them in 30 seconds flat. Great for creating niche sites fast.
Also install Secure Wordpress to protect your site.
All in one seo - only seo plugin for using with thesis theme.
Contact form 7 - contact form.

btw..DaJimFish did a really good write-up a while back on WP - there's a list of some really good plugin there too http://www.blackhatteam.com/f131/wp-setting-up-for-guaranteed-success-30749.html

There is a few more links than 1. Pages are linked together and a high page ranking link coming from the better business bureau. You don't always need a lot of links to your site to get it ranked high in the search engines. You need high ranking authority sites ranking to your site to get it to a higher position. Most people spend all the time getting low ranking links to your site. Get .edu, .gov, and sites like newspapers, cnn or news sites linking to your site will get you ranked faster.

Yes they pay for a maintenance package. The maintenance package is $50 a month. That includes 1 hour worth of service and 10 backlinks built for site. When I build a site it is normally 3 months before I start doing seo on it. The marketing package that I sell for small businesses that have less than 10 employees is $150 down and first month of $150 and a commitment of 6 months for $150 a month or 12 months for $150 a month.

This includes a 3 page site which includes a home page, about page, services or products page. Then we throw in a contact page and a privacy policy page. So we are building value with them. In total you are getting a 5 page website for the price of a 3 page site.

We will build one video put on youtube, tubemogul and a few other sites talking about your business. The video is a walk through of their business. It is created with animoto using pictures of their business. We start with the keyword jump to the website address then picture of the outside of the business, then we show the business owner smiling, and a few pictures of the inside. So that they feel like they have already been to the business when they come to the business. Normally place video on youtube and embed the video on about page or product and services page.

This package also includes our basic seo package which will get you ranked on page 1 for your most searched for keyword. Normally a local keyword "city name business type". We will build backlinks to the site and place it in 3 directories. Yelp, google places and merchant circle.

This is our best selling package. If you need more info feel free to pm me.