How to Use WordPress For Your Small Business Blog? - Part 4

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As i mentioned before on Part 2 and Part 3 Plugins are files you simply upload to your WordPress’ Plugin folder, and activate within your admin panel. That is all simple. However some Plugins may require somewhat technical setup. Personally I use a lot of Plugins with my blogs. I list the top 10 Plugins that are really important for your blog. You will boost exposure with these Plugins.

1. SEO Title Tag

This Plugin customizes the HTML title tags, and reverses tag order for SEO purposes.

2. Ultimate Tag Warrior

The main purpose is to assign keywords to your page or post, making them easier to search, as well as creating additional pages for the search engines to crawl, thus increasing your visibility.

3. Google Sitemap Generator

Creating an extensible markup language (XML) sitemap for Google, you encourage the crawler to visit all your pages. This page has no meaning for us, but it is very meaningful for Google.

4. Ultimate Tag Google Sitemap Add-On

It adds tag pages created by Ultimate Tag Warrior to your Google Sitemap, thereby adding more pages to be crawled. In other words this Plugin helps to make your Ultimate Tag Warrior and Google Sitemap Generator work together.

5. Related Posts

This one adds links to related posts at the end of each post, which is good to encourage both crawlability and deeper reading within your blog. You can also do this with Ultimate Tag Warrior, by the way.

6. Add Related Posts to Feed

By using this Plugin, you add links to related posts to your RSS feeds, too. Again, the beauty of these Plugins is to encourage deeper navigation, reading, and linking. In the case of RSS feeds, blog search engines and directories — like Technorati, for instance — can more easily find and crawl other pages on your site via your feeds.

7. Popularity Contest

Speaking of encouraging deeper reading, by adding this plugin you also have the ability to track which posts or pages get the most traffic, readership, and return visitors. You can also use it to list them, so people can see the most popular blogs in your blog.

8. Autometa

Meta-tags are pieces of code in the header section of your HTML code, which are readable by some search engines. There are many meta-tag Plugins for WordPress. This Plugin creates meta-tags automatically for you.

9. AdSense Deluxe

With this Plugin, you can easily add Google AdSense ads to every post, page, sidebar, and more. But in spite of its name, the Plugin also allows you to add any code, graphic, or piece of content, in specified blocks, to your blog. Not only ads, but also other HTML codes can be added.

10. Subscribe To Comments One of the most important things you can do to your blog, as mentioned earlier, is to encourage people to return to it as much as possible. This requires in large part the addition of email opt-in forms and RSS feeds.

But this Plugin notifies by email your blog’s commentators of new comments within a thread in which they have participated. By encouraging conversations within your blog, you are also increasing greater keyword density to your posts and pages that are indexed.

There are a lot of other Plugins available in the blogosphere at the moment. I will highlight them time to time, during our search for blogging. If you face with problems when installing above mentioned Plugins, please leave my blog a comment. I would be happy to assist you.

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