Like most plugins, WordPress plugins are also designed to increase the affectivity and functionality of your WordPress blog. With the New Year 2013 just around the corner here is a list of few plugins that might be taking your blogs to climb new heights in every aspect. There are a wide range of plugins available for a price and some are for free as well.
1. WORDPRESS SEO by Yoast
Better and safer SEO is very essential to be visible in the search engines. Moreover proper SEO can lead to the desired level of traffic. The new algorithm designed by the most popular search engines will be terminating sites or pages with any kind of malpractices in the SEO front.
WordPress SEO by Yoast seems to be best in business till now when it comes to on-page SEO solution. The plugin is designed and developed by Joost De Valk, who is also a WordPress consultant and developer.
Finding related keyword, Snippet Preview, SEO Score, Social integration and page analysis are some of the top features of this plugin. The settings feature can also make the WordPress theme SEO friendly as well.
The clincher is that this plugin comes absolutely free of cost.
2. W3 Total Cache
Studies show that 40% users wait a little more than 10 seconds for the page to load, before leaving to find a faster loading site.
W3 Total Cache is a smart plugin that ensures that your homepage loads in a fraction of a second, and also prevents your site from crashing. Faster loading sites are a key to repeat visits and building loyal following.
3. SEOPressor
This can be rated as one of the best premium plugin for WordPress SEO for 2013.
The main features include keyword density, on-page SEO score. Title tag optimization and image optimization features are also present. The plugin can actually take care of all professional SEO needs for the WordPress blog and take care of higher search engine ranking.
4. WordPress Database Backup
It a nightmare for all site owners to find contents of the page damaged beyond repair or erased contents. This can be very de-motivating and depressing also, and possibly inhuman task to set up the site with its contents and data once again.
WordPress Database backup can be an answer to all those worries. It stores away the settings, contents and every aspect of your site safely. In case of any damage to the site, you can have your site up and running real fast with all previous content, setting, theme and plugin as well.
5. Digg Digg
This is a very powerful plugin and important one as well. This plugin makes it easy for you and your users to share the website through a variety of social networking websites. They include Google+, Facebook, Twitter and a lot more.
Knowing how these social networking sites can increase traffic to your website and the rest, it is a must for your site in 2013.
6. Security NINJA
Security Ninja is as fast as a Ninja, and it performs more than 25 security checks within minutes. It can also check for brute-force attacks.
It is one of the most useful tools or plugin that you may consider as a must have for 2013. With the increased number of hacking of WordPress blogs in the recent times, use this plugin to protect your site from hacking attempts, and security vulnerability.
7. ALO EasyMail Newsletter
This is one of the most favorite plugin of WordPress developers. It is one of the best in this genre as well. This plugin is a home to some of the best email marketing tools. The plugin helps you save a lot of time and energy as it handles all aspects of email marketing on its own. Customizing appearance and integrating the application with Ajax widget are some of the added advantages of this plugin.
Conclusion
The list for WordPress plugin is never ending. More importantly the list goes on increasing and with new and added features making them desirable to embed or plugin in ones site. Plugin that will help rearrange your Google Adsense to make some extra money, or plugins to make user comments more interactive, they are all there. Almost all kind of plugins are all there that you can think of.
It is very important to decide on your needs and requisites before you choose your plugin. Also read the description and check out the price if any before installing. Checking for a free version can also save you a few bucks.
