To master your craft, it’s important to have good tools. R.W. over at NewsNotion recently posted this great article revealing what he thinks the best wordpress plugins for your money-making blog are. I think I was running them all except for the twitter one, which I am TOTALLY GOING TO INSTALL RIGHT NOW.
There are a ton of these lists out there, but for my money making blog, these are the five wordpress plugins I would not want to do without!
1) CommentLuv – Plugin to show a link to the last post from the commenters blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.
2) Dofollow – Disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments.
3) Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, Bing, and YAHOO.
4) WP to Twitter – Updates Twitter when you create a new blog post or add to your blogroll using Cli.gs. With a Cli.gs API key, creates a clig in your Cli.gs account with the name of your post as the title.
5) FeedBurner FeedSmith – Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Very useful post. Right now I’m using Dofollow and so far, it’s doing great with my blog. I’ll go try the others you listed here.
September 15th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I use Joomla for my blogging and designing needs (not trying to raise a CMS issue of what is best) but does anybody have good plugins for Joomla that will help also??
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September 15th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
CommentLuv works best for my blog. I like it in the sense that it makes your blog interactive by showing a link to the last post from the commenters. Great job by the CommentLuv there.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I’m using twitter now and didn’t know about it can be linked brom a blogsite using this plugin. Kudos! Now I know.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Dofollow is the coolest! Been using it for quite some time now.
September 19th, 2009 at 6:46 am
You really made this right by placing commentluv first.
thanks for this,
-Nhoel of http://keywordspeak.com
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September 20th, 2009 at 1:50 am
And i thought that i had all the plugin’s i needed already installed. I think the first two are going to be added to my blog very soon, i think it makes it more inviting for people to post, as it gives more benefits then just a link people may click.
Thanks
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September 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Tried using the WP to Twitter plugin. Interconnecting platforms. That’s the coolest plugin I’ve used so far.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I don’t know If I said it already but …Cool site, love the info. I do a lot of research online on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read..
-Bill-Bartmann
September 25th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Mmm ok. More plugins. The DoFollow plugin SOUNDS like a good idea, but I’m wondering if it’s ethical (so to speak) for me to use given that I do like to nofollow links in my pages. What’s the benefit of DoFollowing? Are there any benefits to taking out my nofollows?
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September 26th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I don’t really understand your ethical concern, but in terms of reasons why you might want to consider making your blog dofollow:
1. It encourages quality people to leave quality comments.
2. It rewards quality commenters for their participation.
3. It improves search engine performance (if you follow a sensible comment policy).
4. It helps you grow your RSS subscriptions and builds a better blog community.
5. It facilitates the purpose of linking, instead of crippling it with “No Follow”.
September 26th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Hello
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Marco
September 27th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Link Love is a good one! I love this too.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Yeah! Definitely cool tool. I’m using this too!
October 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Excellent choice of WP plugins. Keep ‘em up.
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October 4th, 2009 at 6:52 am
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October 21st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Use all these great plugins also use the all in one seo a must have plugin and of course askimet
cheers mick
November 13th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
as always informative and a great read. thanks.
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for your post, I found it very interesting. Trying to wrap my head around it it’s mind boggling.
December 29th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I use commentluv as well as keyword luv. Both are great. I find it interesting that many of the people who commented on this post that these are “great plug ins” do not use them. They are missing the boat.
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January 17th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Thanks fir this very informative article. With your list, I have four of them already installed. I will try to install the DOFOLLOW plugin and try to observe the benefits it could bring.Cheers!
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