Canada’s hockey team won gold in the olymipics for hockey, well I have gold for you in plug-ins here’s a short list of plug-ins I’d recommend for use on any wordpress site, It helps navigation or SEO it allows you to fully change your blog to make it custom to you. They remind visitors to come back and check things out later. All of these will help you admin your blog, and give you more time to market or work at home.

Akismet

This is the best plugin I found to use for comments to prevent that evil spam that plagues use blog owners.

All in One SEO Pack

This one helps with keywords, descriptions, and meta tags. It helps format the title of your pages correctly.

Evermore

Notice how on my main page I don’t have the full post? this allows me to do that with out adding the more tag it does this for me with out any additional work.

FD Feedburner Plugin

I use feed burner to monitor my feeds, this plugin simply points my rss feeds to feedburner, with out me having to modify any thing else.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin does two things, first it builds a sitemap for search engines and it notify’s them when a change is made on my blog such as a new blog post.

Nofollow Case by Case and NFCBC SEO Plugin Add-on

These two actually work together, as well all know site’s linking to yours with the follow tag earn you more link juice. Well this one allows me to choose who’s comments get that juice and who’s don’t. I’m bias not everyone deserves my vote and your comments tell me who to vote for!

SEO Smart Links

This one helps with linking between my site posts, automatically! not only does that but I have a list of affiliates in there that it will link to automatically the based on keywords. It also allows me to choose how many link’s it will include and since I don’t want my blog to look spammy with links I set these values low…

SEO Tag Cloud Widget

This makes my tag cloud widget more readable by spiders, and not the creepy kind of spiders either!

Smart 404

Go head 404 on my blog, I don’t have a normal 404 page. Instead I have a list of posts on my page why? because I want my vistors to be able to navigate my blog! Thanks to this little plug-in if you 404 you still get content!

StatPress Seolution

Tracking is important to every one, I go over tracking links, banners ect. Well why aren’t you tracking your blog? this plug-in allows you to do just that!.

Thank Me Later

Anyone who comments on my blog gets sent a email that reminds them to come visit my blog again, I love my return visitors and you should to.

WP Hide Dashboard

This plug-in makes a simple dashboard view for the registered member of my blog. It allows you to edit your profile and that’s about it.

WP Hide Post

This plug-in allows me to make content for the blog, but make it not visable to the average user, it’s useful for creating thank you or confirmation pages. Or my hidden library of books (released soon to people who are on my list)

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

This plug-in makes suggestions for other posts you might be interested in.

Yoast Breadcrumbs

Navigation is important for both your users and spiders. This one allows a simple navigation on each post page.

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