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10 WordPress Plugins You Can’t Miss

 

The Best Wordpress Plugins

When it comes to using Wordpress, nothing beats plugins. They make our lives easier by doing the things we don’t want to. They add features that aren’t included in Wordpress and overall make our blogs (and lives) better.

I decided it was time to share some of the best Wordpress plugins I have been using here on Life of Justin. Some of you may already be using a lot of these but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to mention them.

So check them out and give them a try:

1. All In One SEO Pack

By far the most important plugin I have. It does everything you need for great on-page search engine optimization. Now only does it let you change your title tags, but it also lets you customize the keywords and description for each post and page you create. There are a bunch of plugins that do this, but I have never found one better than this one.

2. Wordpress Related Posts

Trying to increase your pageviews and keep readers longer? This tool will make that happen. This very simple but effective plugin will list a few related posts at the bottom of your single post pages. It works by looking at the tags that you apply to each of your posts. You can see it in action at the bottom of this post. Very cool!

3. Subscribe To Comments

Another great tool for getting readers back to your blog is the subscribe to comments plugin. It places a small check box below your comment form and gives your readers the option to be notified of new comments. It works very well, especially when a post has a lot of comments and discussion going on.

4. Podcasting

The podcasting plugin is something I just started using a week ago. Now I am using it to run my podcast, Digital Nomad Radio. It adds a podcasting feature to Wordpress that makes it really simple to upload MP3 files, create a podcast feed, and embed a player in any of your posts. It’s really simple!

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Promote Your Blog On Twitter

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If you are taking Twitter just an online social networking site, then think again! Twitter can be the best marketing tool if you know how to do things properly. Specially promoting a blog on Twitter can help the popularity and traffic of your blog in a positive manner. Recently a Geek author wrote an excellent ebook called ‘A Geek’s Guide to Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter‘. This is free to download, but a must download.twitter_logo

Twitter can be used as a powerful tool to promote your blog. This 48 page ebook tells all those possible methods to promote your blog on twitter. In general we leave our updates or follow other people’s updates on twitter but this excellent ebook tells how to utilize twitter as the one of your blog’s excellent marketing tool. It’s all about letting people know about the existance of your site and then the contents of your site.