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5 Powerful WordPress Plugins for Blogs

WordPress SEO by Yoast

This useful tool allows you to edit your targeted keywords, tags, posts, and
titles to attract more traffic. It also assists you in evaluating how your
content is perceived by the search engines. This plugin incorporates
everything from XML sitemaps and RSS enhancements to page analysis
functionality and breadcrumbs.

Askimet

Askimet is one of the most popular plugins on the Internet. This program
aims to eliminate spam from as many sites as possible. It saves you time by
automatically detecting trackback and comment spam. The best part is that it
comes preinstalled with WordPress.

W3 Total Cache Plugin

This powerful software improves your server performance and reduces the
download times. Bloggers who use this program reported at least 10x
improvement in overall site performance and up to 80 percent bandwidth
savings. W3 Total Cache Plugin helps improve the user experience for your
readers and allows them to view more pages in a shorter period of time.

Show Top Commentators

If you want to encourage your readers to leave comments on your blog and
engage in conversations, start using the Show Top Commentators plugin. This
tool displays the names of the most active commentators in the sidebar. It
also shows the number of comments they have left and provides a link back to
their sites.

Google XML Sitemaps

As its name suggests, this application generates a XML sitemap of your
WordPress blog. The plugin doesn't require PHP skills or file changes. It
also determines the importance of each post based on the number of comments.
Every time you update your website or blog, this program notifies Google,
Ask, Bing, and Yahoo about the changes you have made. Google XML Sitemaps is
available for free so that anyone can use it. This program will help your
blog get indexed quickly by the search engines. It also helps spiders locate
all the pages on the blog.

If you have any questions or comments please contact me.

Regards Gerald

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