Best WordPress Plugins

You might have the best content out there, but without crossing all of your T’s and dotting your I’s, your message won’t reach your readers in an effective way – and you might lose credibility. As I often preach, without credibility and the trust of your readers, it is unlikely that your blog will reach success.

I’ve found three little plugins that can help keep you in check while writing up content. We all make silly mistakes while writing – I know I definitely do – and I consider these tools to be the “booby-traps” of my WordPress site. They help make sure that my content is top notch, and I don’t cut any corners.

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Over the last year or so, the number of Twitter plugins has increased at an exponential rate. There are about a billion different ways to display your tweets, your friends’ tweets, your enemies’ tweets, your parent’s tweets… in your sidebar. You can post to Twitter from 95 different places in your WordPress dashboard, and your posts will automatically post to Twitter if you simply breathe on your computer… Twitter has officially become part of blogging.

In no way is this a negative thing, though! However, writing you a list of plugins that might as well just come packaged with the next release of WordPress would be useless to you – well, maybe not useless, but a topic for another post, another day.

Here, I want to discuss the forefront of Twitter integration. These plugins have taken interaction and integration to the next level and have really utilized Twitter in new ways that can only help the success of your blog. They increase socialization, increase promotion, and everything in between. I hope you appreciate them as much as I do.

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Many people are unaware of the importance of newsletters on blogs. Offering your readers an opportunity to receive additional content from you not only gives the idea of exclusivity (which is appealing for readers interested in a particular subject), but it also gives you more opportunities to promote your endeavors. You can add additional advertising opportunities via newsletter subscriptions, and having a mailing list that has opted-in to receiving your communications is a marketing goldmine.

There are four major players in the mass mailing game: SendBlaster, MailChimp, Constant Contact, and AWeber. They are widely used and, because of their popularity, have created WordPress plugins allowing you to utilize their service in the most personal way possible.

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Amazon, as far as affiliate programs go, has one of the most easy-to-use interfaces I’ve seen from a direct affiliate. They offer so many different ways to incorporate their products into your blog posts, sidebar, pages… It’s quite impressive.

That means, of course, that there are tons of developers trying to best Amazon’s attempts by creating some innovative and effective plugins for WordPress that make integration and optimization even easier.

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a powerful skill to master when it comes to maximizing your blog’s visibility and Page Rank power. By installing plugins like the ones we’ve listed below, you can ensure (with very little effort on your part) that your blog or website is maximizing its visibility in the search engine circuit.

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