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5 WordPress Plugins for July

Posted by blackwater • 7/09/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: akismet, commentluv, dofollow, Marketing, plugin, promotion, SEO, social bookmarking, social networking, wordpress

www.blackwaterblog.com/2009/07/09/5-wordpress-plugins-for-july/

A new month, a new set of WordPress plugins that add nice features to your WP blog.

1. Sociable – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable/

This plugin adds social bookmarking and networking image/links to your posts, which allows your visitors and readers to submit them to their favorite one. Gives you a nice list of ~100 social bookmarking sites.

2. Broken Link Checker – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/

I found this plugin the other day, and I must say it’s a must have. It will scan your ENTIRE blog detecting every single outgoing link and will put them in a work queue which will test them to see if they are broken or not, and then alert you to broken links/images and redirect URLs. It’s a great way to clean up your blog of links that lead to dead sites.

3. All in One SEO Pack – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

A must have plugin for any blog that wants to excel in the search engines. It will automatically rewrite your meta description and keywords fitting each post giving you the best SEO gains. The best and most downloaded plugin for WordPress to date.

4. CommentLuv – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commentluv/

A great way to give back to your readers, by allowing the ability for a commenters recent post to appear under their comment. I’ve been using this plugin for awhile now, and I’m proud to support it. You can signup on the official site at www.commentluv.com/ to get even more great features. This plugin is suggested to use with the DoFollow plugin for even more luv.

5. Akismet – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/

Packaged with the default WordPress core files, this plugin serves as protection against the thousands of bots and people that like to spam comments on blogs on the internet. It will cross check a persons comment against their database to determine if it’s spam or not, and will automatically place detected spam into your Spam comments section where you can review each comment to make sure it’s really spam. The accuracy rate is pretty good, as of right now I am getting a 95.67% accuracy rate for my Akismet.

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7/09/09

PetLvr

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1. 7/09/09
  
  blackwater
  
  Thanks for the post, but I kindly ask that you don't attempt to hijack my thread with your own self promo link.
2. 7/09/09
  
  PetLvr
  
  hijack your thread? that's funny ..
  
  akismet comes bundled with wordpress since version 1.5a - years ago .
  
  Also, I couldn't have possibly hijack your post because you posted 100% repeat of what is on your blog - aka - spamming according to the TOS (didn't you see that "Read Me First" post at the top of the thread?
  
  Shameless promotion yes - but foster discussion too and you will have a good thread and discussion - and not look too whiney like you just did.
3. 7/09/09
  
  blackwater
  
  Some users choose to delete Akismet until they really need it. And auto installations of WordPress through services such as Fantastico don't come with Akismet (last I checked).
  
  I did foster discussion, I got you to post, along with timethief and SecTechno. Timethief even commented on each plugin that was mentioned.
  
  And I don't believe I was whiney, since I "kindly" asked you not to hijack with your own site link in my thread which got removed by the community any (and my post still stands, though if they choose to delete it, so be it I won't get mad).
7/09/09

timethief

When it comes to plugins I am a minimalist.
(1) I use sharethis for social bookmarking. My readers don't appear to belong to 100 different social bookmarking sites. I can see from my stats which ones they use and sharethis covers the ones that are used. That being said I notice that my readers rarely ever use the social bookmarking icons at all sharethis.com/publishers/getbutton/

(2) I use an external online broken links checker rather than running a plugin. validator.w3.org/checklink

(3) I use the All in One SEO Pack plugin and recommend it to others.

(4) I am not part of the do-follow movement. I have the commentluv plugin but I have deactivated it. I observed that using it created an influx of comments, however, many were from opportunists and I grew tired of moderating them and deleting them. I watched an imbalance between outbound and inbound links take place and watched the PageRank falling and then I deactivated it.

(5) Akismet is a good spam filter plugin but so is Defensio. I have used both and I prefer Defensio defensio.com/

(6) I believe that all wordpress bloggers ought to consider using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

(7) I also use the wordpress stats plugin wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/ along with sitemeter.

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1. 7/09/09
  
  blackwater
  
  Thanks for the reply. For the stats, the only real stats that I look at is Google Analytics, but mainly Awstats through my cPanel.
  
  #6: Definitely, especially get the XML plugin if you plan to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools and/or other places.
2. 7/09/09
  
  timethief
3. 7/09/09
  
  blackwater
  
  Right, I learn something new everyday.
4. 7/09/09
  
  timethief
7/09/09

SecTechno

Thanks , very usefull

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1. 7/09/09
  
  blackwater
  
  You're welcome.
7/10/09

JP2112

Re: All in One SEO Pack, there's another SEO plugin called "Platinum SEO Pack" which is supposed to be more comprehensive. I'm going to try it when I have some free time.

techblissonline.com/platinum-seo-pack/

That W3C link is gold, TT, got any others?

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9/13/09

janggleng

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