As your blogging career continues to progress, you’ll want to ensure you’re positioned with the best advantage available to achieve your blogging and income goals. Â Below is a list of WordPress plugins that will give you a distinct advantage and help to set your blog apart from the competition. Â all of these plugins can be found on WordPress.org or you can search for and install them through your WordPress admin.
DISQUS Comment System
Create a powerful community with the DISQUS Comment System, both on and off your blog. Â This amazing comment system allows your blog readers to comment not only on your blog, but also share their comments on various social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, enabling others to participate in the conversation and bring more readers to your blog. Â This creates discussions around your blog posts outside your blog engaging others and creating a community of interested readers. Â Those who comment can also follow the comment discussion thread, receiving an email alert when another reader responds to their comments. Furthermore, you can display a widget in your sidebar of the most recent comments as well as the most popular posts. Â Comments can also be syndicated in your RSS feed through Feedburner allowing your RSS subscribers to comment on posts as well.
All in One SEO Pack
If you’re not using the Headway Theme or Thesis Theme for WordPress (Highly recommended), which have SEO capabilities built into them, then you should install the All in One SEO Pack plugin to give you more flexibility in optimizing your pages and posts for search engines. Â It allows you to create custom title and description tags as well as meta keywords for each individual page/post.
FD Feedburner Plugin
The FD Feedburner Plugin automatically converts your blogs existing RSS feed links to Google Feedburner feed links and redirects the feed through Feedburner, eliminating the need to manually change your feed links or to conduct any code modifications.  Feedburner provides great enhancements to your RSS feed and allows for greater exposure.
Freebie Images
This is a fantastic stock image plugin from Crestock.com that allows you to easily add free images to your blog posts/pages through simple drag and drop capabilities.
Google Analytics for WordPress
This nifty little plugin allows you to easily add your Google Analytics code to your blog, allowing you to track everything from traffic origination, content viewing and conversion rates, thus enhancing your ability to fine tune your marketing efforts to drive more traffic to your blog.
Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will automatically generate an xml sitemap of your blog making it much easier for search engines to index the content available on your blog.
Pretty Link
Shrink, track and share any URL on the internet from your WordPress blog. Â This plugin is fantastic for masking your affiliate links and branding them with your domain name.
SexyBookmarks
Allow your blog readers to easily share your content with SexyBookmarks, a nice ajax driven bookmarking plugin.
Tweetmeme Retweet Button
Add a retweet icon to your blog posts/pages, making it easy for your readers to retweet and share your content on Twitter. Â This plugin displays a count of the number of times in which the post was tweeted and provides tracking features allowing you to track who is retweeting your posts.
WordPress Related Posts
A great plugin that automatically finds any of your previous blog posts that may relate to a particular topic or post and displays it at the bottom of each post. Â This provides greater exposure of your content to your readers allowing them to find previous content which they may not have known about.
WP Greet Box
A very nice plugin that places a greeting box at the top of each post which identifies from where the visitor came from and displays the appropriate icon along with text asking the reader to subscribe to your RSS feed. Â The text is even customizable allowing you to change what readers see when they land on your blog. Â It’s a great way to gain more subscribers to your blog.
WP TagPiG
Automatically parses through the text of your posts and creates tags in relation to the topic of a particular blog post. Â Tags create additional links for each blog post helping with search engine indexing and ranking. Â Never forget to create a tag again!
Please feel free to add your comments, questions, feedback and any additional WordPress plugins you feel you can’t live without below! Â And don’t forget to subscribe to Powerofmore to receive fresh new content direct to your inbox as soon as it is posted.
To Your Success!
Sean Smith
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