Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Popularity Of Blogging And The Assorted Plugins In Blog Sites

By Greg Style


The platform in which your blogsite is run can affect how well it is received by internet surfers. Huge websites like TechCrunch have accepted WordPress as a platform powerful enough to make websites that are easy to use.

It is easy to get started with WordPress. You can customize your blog from scratch or from an existing template that you download free or buy on premium. The idea is to get your blog to look the way you want it to. You only do this by using the plugins available for different purposes.

The following are 5 important WordPress plugins you should have:

One essential plugin that you will need to make your WordPress blog rank high in a search engine is the All in One SEO Plugin. This uses technology that makes use of automated arrangement of keywords and Meta tags.

In many cases, you will be blogging with economic gains in mind. Advertising on your blogsite is a very lucrative business if your site becomes popular. You should use Advertising Manager plugin to be able to insert advertisements on various sections of your website. It even supports Open X ad marketplace.

The Add to Any plugin will help you boost the amount of hits on your blog page. A good way of commanding traffic is by diverting people from big social networking sites to visit your webpage. Friends can email each other your content.

It is annoying for your site visitors to be constantly ambushed by spam from other malicious internet users. Akismet is a plugin that will help the site administrator monitor and block the spam content that is circulating through your website. It is a product of WordPress itself and will install together.

A high quality site map is good to ensure that your webpage visitors are not fumbling their way around to get what they need. Google XML sitemaps will help improve this by linking all the content to an index. This helps Google or any search engine rank your page well.




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