This blog runs on WordPress and therefore uses WordPress Plugins too. If your blog runs on WordPress, some of the plugins I will be listing below would be of great benefit to you just like they are of great benefit to this blog. I won’t advise that you use all.

Adman
Plugin for inserting ads right in the middle of posts.

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put < ?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.

All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.

Auto-hyperlink URLs
Automatically hyperlink text URLs and email addresses that appear in plaintext in post content and comments.

FeedBurner FeedSmith
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

GoCodes
Create shortcut URLs to anywhere on the internet, right from your WordPress Admin. When upgrading, be sure to read the upgrade notes.

Google Custom Search Plugin
Integrate Google Custom Search into WordPress

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.

HeadMeta
This plugin allows you to add and tags to the of your posts or pages based on post custom fields. Use keys named “head_meta” and “head_link”. Also, if you have a custom field named “keyword” or “keywords”, it will automatically generate a standard tag, which some search engines will use for indexing. Likewise for a key of ‘description’ generating a standard description meta tag.

Optimize DB
Let’s you optimize your WordPress database tables with one click. Click optimize on the right to start optimizing!

Random Posts widget
Display Random Posts Widget. Based on Random categories with random posts by Mike Stickel.

Robots Meta
This plugin allows you to add all the appropriate robots meta tags to your pages and feeds, disable unused archives and nofollow unnecessary links.

Search Engine Keywords Plugin
A plugin that you can use to correlate the key used to find your page on the search engines to

Secure WordPress
Little basics for secure your WordPress-installation.

SEO SearchTerms Tagging 2
The purpose of this plugin is to strengthen our On Page SEO by adding new internal linking to the blog post using the most popular keywords used by search engine visitors to find the blog post from a search engine ( incoming search terms ).

SEO Slugs
Removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve SEO.

SEO Smart Links
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. (Brian Edition)

Thank Me Later
Automatically send a ‘thank you’ e-mail to those who comment on your blog. This plugin engages the visitor by reminding them to check back for responses or new blog posts. The plugin is highly configurable with multiple messages, variable delay and restrictions.

WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools ? Backup to get started.

WordPress Popular Posts
Showcases your most popular posts to your visitors on your blog’s sidebar. Use WordPress Popular Posts as a widget or place it anywhere on your theme using < ?php wpp_get_mostpopular(); ?>

WP-PostViews
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. Modified by David Potter to include options for when and where to display view counts.

WP-Stats
Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

These are some of the plugins we use. Do you use similar plugins? Or are there some other plugins you want to recommended to us? We would be glad to read from you.

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