Plug-ins make it easy to get the most out of your WordPress blog. There are various categories of plug-ins that range from SEO plug-ins, to subscription box plug-ins etc. However installing too many plug-ins is not recommended and this is why it’s really important that you stick to the basic set of plug-ins which will work perfectly for most bloggers.
SEO plug-in
The ‘all in one SEO pack’ plug-in is the best wordpress SEO plug-in in the world. This free plug-in is updated on a fairly regular basis and makes it easy for you to optimize your blog for the keywords you are targeting. It also enables you to optimize your blog posts but and other aspects of your blog by simply entering in the terms you want your blog optimized for. There is also new functionality added to this plug-in every now and then which helps to increase the power of this plug-in.
Google XML Sitemaps
Having a site map makes it easy for Google to index your blog. The Google WML Sitemaps plug-in as the name suggest makes it easy to create Google Site maps which are XML compliant. The plug-in is capable of creating sitemaps at a click of a button, the sitemap is also updated in all the major search engines that support sitemaps.
twitMe plug-in
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform which makes it easy for businesses to get the word out about their products and services to millions of people. What the twitMe plug-in essentially does it its tweets your latest posts on your twitter profile for everyone to see. The biggest advantage of doing this is it helps you get lots of targeted traffic to your blog.


