Top 100 WordPress Plugins

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Table of Contents
Introduction 5
All In One SEO 6
Akismet 7
Google XML Sitemap 8
Google Analytics 9
Simple Facebook Connect 10
Contact Form 7 11
Gravity Forms 12
BackupBuddy 13
Comment Luv 14
Traffic Getting SEO Plugin by Jeff Johnson 15
CBnet Ping Optimizer 16
Flowplayer 17
WordPress backup 18
Digg Digg 19
Easy WP SEO 20
Exclude Pages 21
Audio Player 22
AWeber Web Form Plugin 23
DigitalAccess Pass (DAP) 24
Fast Secure Contact Form 25
Raw HTML 26
Amazon S3 for WordPress 27
Google Analyticator 28
Bulletproof 29
Commentluv Premium 30
HeadSpace2 SEO 31
AddThis 32
Live Blogging 33
ClickBump SEO 34
Digi Auto Links 35
wp-Member 36
Disqus Comment System 37
Duplicate Post 38
Easy Video Player 39
MaxBlog Press Affiliate Ninja 40
W3 Total Cache 41
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InfusionWP 42
Jetpack 43
JWplayer 44
Add To Any 45
List Rank Dashboard Widget 46
Conditional Captcha 47
Antispam Bee 48
Auto Blog Buddy 49
Auto Link Juicer 50
Auto Blogged 51
Automatic WordPress Backup 52
WP Autoresponder and Newsletter Plugin 53
Backlinks Rotator 54
Backup creator 55
WP Super Cache 56
cforms II 57
Chennai Central 58
Clean-contact form 59
Facebook comments for WordPress 60
Date Exclusion SEO 61
Display Buddy 62
Easy AdSense 63
Editorial Calendar 64
Efficient Related Posts 65
EZPZ One Click Backup 66
Feedburner 67
Flash video player 68
Follow Widget 69
Free Traffic Getting SEO 70
Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps 71
XML Google Maps 72
Hana Flash Player 73
Exploit scanner 74
Like 75
Thank Me Later 76
WP Email Capture 77
Clicky 78
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Simple Social 79
SEO Smart Links 80
Sociable 81
Viper’s Video Quicktags 82
AdSense Manager 83
Ad Injection 84
Wptouch 85
Redirection 86
pageMash 87
Simple Social - Sharing Widgets and Icons 88
Social Media Widget 89
WP Security Scan 90
WP Smush.it 91
Newsletter 92
TinyMCE Advanced 93
LinkWithin 94
WordPress Importer 95
SEO Friendly Images 96
Secure WordPress 97
MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate 98
FeedWordPress 99
WP Optimize 100
WP-DBManager 101
Really Simple CAPTCHA 102
WP-Polls 103
Search and Replace 104
Broken Link Checker 105
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Introduction
WordPress is arguably the greatest thing the Internet has seen since the emergence of Google. Intro-
duced in 2003, this free, open source CMS has taken website ownership away from tech-heads and cor-
porations and brought it to the hands of everyday people. It’s fun, customizable and easy to use, making
it appealing to everyone from bored teens to mommy bloggers across the world.
And while WordPress is an awesome thing right out of the box, it’s the open source nature of this PHP
and MySQL-based CMS that give it its greatest strength: truckloads upon truckloads of plugins that
extend its functionality and make it one of the most powerful content management platforms out there.
These plugins provide a wide range of extra features to WordPress, ranging from simple site mainte-
nance, SEO, design enhancement and more.
Today, it’s hard to imagine running a successful WordPress site without using several plugins to make
things easy for you. Some plugins can be downloaded for free, some can be used on a limited trial basis,
while some have to be paid for in order to acquire a license to use. As you may guess, it didn’t take long
for plugins to be made with Internet marketing in mind and today, we have thousands upon thousands of
plugins out there that are ready to help us turn a profit from our WordPress sites.
The only problem with having so many plugins out there is choosing which ones exactly to use. It’s not
very smart to install them all, so I did a survey involving as many Internet marketers as I can reach and I
came up with the Top 100 WordPress plugins for Internet marketers.
This list was ranked using a voting system that measured a plugin’s popularity, usefulness and impact on
Internet marketing processes. The result is a collection of plugin perfection that’s sure to help you gain
that competitive edge to stand out in your niche. Here we go:
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ALL IN ONE SEO
1
Type of plugin: SEO/Site optimizer
Features:
All in One SEO is no stranger among WordPress users because many appreciate the multi-function
purpose it serves in optimizing your site. It has everything to help you populate and optimize those data
fields such as title tags and meta descriptions, keywords and more. It’s user friendly and has always
been a reliable tool in helping people rank for keywords they’re targeting.
Why Internet marketers love it:
A lot of Internet marketers are in the dark when it comes to SEO and the more technical aspects of the
industry, and this plugin is a true godsend for those who don’t want to spend hours and hours trying to
figure out how to best optimize their site from the code level. It’s so easy to use that it works right out of
the box after installing it.
Our recommendation:
This one gets a definite thumbs up in my book. If you aren’t too tech savvyand don’t really have a good
idea how to best optimize your WordPress site, then you definitely need this tool. On the other hand, this
plugin also caters to advanced users since it helps you tweak the finer points of your site and its features
extended functionality with other plugins and themes that you might have installed.
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Akismet
2
Type of plugin: Blogging/Comment moderation
Features:
A very handy plugin, especially if you hate spam – spam comments, that is. Akismet screens any du-
bious comments posted on your blog, allowing you to review them before they go live. With Akismet,
you’re protected from desperate link builders and malicious posters who want to erode what you’ve
worked hard to build.
Why Internet marketers love it:
Spam can become a big issue for your site, especially when it starts to affect the quality of user experi-
ence you provide to your readers. You’ll want to make sure that only real comments from real people
who participate in on-topic discussions get posted. Anything outside of that is either an attack on your
credibility, a troll who pesters your community or a sorry attempt to drain away your site’s link juice.
Akismet helps you stay on top of your marketing game by keeping your blog post pages squeaky clean
and malice-free. Spam can become a big issue for your site, especially when it starts to affect the qual-
ity of user experi- ence you provide to your readers. You’ll want to make sure that only real comments
from real people who participate in on-topic discussions get posted. Anything outside of that is either
an attack on your credibility, a troll who pesters your community or a sorry attempt to drain away your
site’s link juice. Akismet helps you stay on top of your marketing game by keeping your blog post pages
squeaky clean and malice-free.
Our recommendation:
If you don’t want to waste time sifting through all your comments and trying to figure out which ones are
spam and which ones aren’t, then I say go aheadand download it. It has a small requirement of down-
loading the API key from the Akismet website, but other than that it’s pretty easy to install and use once
you have it up.
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Google XML Sitemap
3 4
Type of plugin: Blogging/Comment moderation
Features: Features:
Another plugin to help you optimize the inner workings of your blog, Google XML Sitemap allows you Outside of WordPress, Google Analytics is a name everyone should be familiar with. This particular pl-
to easily generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engine spiders to crawl through your ugin helps integrate the Google Analytics service into your site or blog. All the data that you can get from
web- site and evaluate its content more efficiently. With this plugin, you won’t have to learn XML and do it will be instantly redirected to your blog’s admin panel where you can take a look at the data and decide
an audit of all your pages – the software does all of that for you. In addition, it automates the process of how to best use it for your marketing initiative. All it takes is uploading the plugin and it should take care
letting bots know that you’ve got new content up, so new pages can be ranked and indexed as soon as of installing the proper Javascript codes to integrate the service to your site.
possible.
Why Internet marketers love it:
Why Internet marketers love it: If you’re mad for numbers and traffic data, then there’s no reason to turn this plugin down. Google Ana-
When you’ve got thousands of pages up and running on your WordPress site, trying to organize a de- lytics has always been a reliable source of information to base your marketing campaigns on and im-
cent sitemap for it can be overwhelming. I don’t even want to imagine trying to do this manually. Bottom prove your conversions. Of course, it’s up to you how to interpret this data. In any case, it’s a definitely
line, a task that may take technical expertise, supreme attention to detail and days of hard work can be good way to monitor how well your site is doing and make some smart decisions based on this informa-
done within seconds using a simple plugin and a couple of mouse clicks. tion.
Our recommendation: Our recommendation:
Keeping a dynamic and technically sound sitemap is a synergy to your site’s content and architecture. If Even if you aren’t skilled in data analysis, this is still a good plugin to have since it can easily compile all
you need instant sitemaps that are 100% accurate, there’s no question – this one’s the best out there. the necessary information regarding your site traffic. You can always get someone to take a look at it for
you and give you some recommendations regarding it. This way, you can always have the final word on
what’s best for your site and how you want to act on the data you get out of this service.
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Google XML Sitemap Google Analytics
4
Type of plugin: Blogging/Comment moderation Type of plugin: Analytics/Data and site traffic analysis
Features: Features:
Another plugin to help you optimize the inner workings of your blog, Google XML Sitemap allows you Outside of WordPress, Google Analytics is a name everyone should be familiar with. This particular pl-
to easily generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engine spiders to crawl through your ugin helps integrate the Google Analytics service into your site or blog. All the data that you can get from
web- site and evaluate its content more efficiently. With this plugin, you won’t have to learn XML and do it will be instantly redirected to your blog’s admin panel where you can take a look at the data and decide
an audit of all your pages – the software does all of that for you. In addition, it automates the process of how to best use it for your marketing initiative. All it takes is uploading the plugin and it should take care
letting bots know that you’ve got new content up, so new pages can be ranked and indexed as soon as of installing the proper Javascript codes to integrate the service to your site.
possible.
Why Internet marketers love it:
Why Internet marketers love it: If you’re mad for numbers and traffic data, then there’s no reason to turn this plugin down. Google Ana-
When you’ve got thousands of pages up and running on your WordPress site, trying to organize a de- lytics has always been a reliable source of information to base your marketing campaigns on and im-
cent sitemap for it can be overwhelming. I don’t even want to imagine trying to do this manually. Bottom prove your conversions. Of course, it’s up to you how to interpret this data. In any case, it’s a definitely
line, a task that may take technical expertise, supreme attention to detail and days of hard work can be good way to monitor how well your site is doing and make some smart decisions based on this informa-
done within seconds using a simple plugin and a couple of mouse clicks. tion.
Our recommendation: Our recommendation:
Keeping a dynamic and technically sound sitemap is a synergy to your site’s content and architecture. If Even if you aren’t skilled in data analysis, this is still a good plugin to have since it can easily compile all
you need instant sitemaps that are 100% accurate, there’s no question – this one’s the best out there. the necessary information regarding your site traffic. You can always get someone to take a look at it for
you and give you some recommendations regarding it. This way, you can always have the final word on
what’s best for your site and how you want to act on the data you get out of this service.
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Simple Facebook Connect
5
Type of plugin: Social media
Features:
Simple Facebook Connect creates a framework that integrates various Facebook features into your
blog. It’s a quick way to implement various functionalities into your site without a lot of coding while still
giving you the freedom to customize it exactly the way you like.
Why Internet marketers love it:
Since Internet marketers have realized the role social media has played in today’s industry, many have
been switching to Facebook as an easy platform to deliver their campaign. With such a large network at
their disposal, it’s no wonder why plugins like these have become so popular these days.
Our recommendation:
Instead of bringing your site to Facebook, you can easily bring Facebook to your site instead. The level
of integration this plugin has is simply amazing, since it virtually captures all of the essential features
from Facebook and fuses it seamlessly with your site.
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