For the curiosity of why the hell am i writing Wordpress review in my Blogger post, I owned Wordpress Hosted site.
It has been seven days ever since the launch of my other blog on paid server. And for seven days, there is no day without getting my hands dirty with CSS and Plugins. For your information, my other blog is powered with Wordpress.org and you can view my wordpress powered blog here
For Word Press beginner like me, the most important thing is getting the blog running as soon as possible. Since the blog is originally hosted with Blogger, I have only minor problem in starting up because my blog is ‘content ready’ I just need to export it to Wordpress.
Unlike Blogger, Wordpress is very simple to setup and SEO friendly. With Blogger, some tweak in HTML needed to optimize the visibility of our blog in search engine ranking. For example, adding Favicon to Blogger blog require you to engage with your HTML codes and Pinging (the service to notify search engine about our new content)is done manually. Simply saying, Wordpress is automatic and it is all about plugins. The only thing you need to ‘study’ is your cPanel and Hosting.
So, listed, are the 7 recommended plugins for Wordpress beginner. Best of all, 6 of the listed plugins is FREE!
Basically, after you post new piece of writing in your blog, you need to notify a few amount of services to crawl and index your site. I used to manually ping my blogger posts with pingates, but with Wordpress your blog will do it for you and save few minutes of your time. This encourages search engines and different blog directories/services to index your updated blog properly.
Favicon is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. This application is blogger most used tweak to replace the typical Blogger orange icon. With this plugins you just need to install it within your Wordpress terminal and you are good to go.
Plugin that formulate your blog post link short and optimizes it for search engine. The plugin makes it easier for you by already including a lot of unnecessary words by default. SEO Post Link will automatically filter out all these keywords from your post link retaining only the good keywords for which you actually want to rank for. Get instant traffic from search engine with keywords recognition ability.
4) OPTIN FORM ADDER (FOR EASY EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION)
Add optin subscription forms into your WordPress blog in minutes without knowing HTML and Javascript. Grow your traffic and boost your income many times over with a subscriber optin form on your blog.
If you are tired of the plain-looking form your mailing list provider gives you, just use Optin Form Adder. The best reason why you need to install this plugins is that, you can style your form in any way you want.
5) STRIPE-ADS
A cool “stripe” appears at the very top of your blog. Splendid Wordpress add-ons to make announcement or highlight event. The ad itself is simple, easy to use, and you can have multiple ads rotating according to your needs. Special note at the top of your blog!
This plugin is useful for:
• Draw attention to a certain post or page on your blog for example a contest page, your services or a poll.
• Show your disclaimers or Terms of Service (TOS)
• Display an announcement or important news
• Welcome new users and ask them to subscribe to your RSS feed (by displaying the ad for the first 3 visits or a particular user)
• And some creative thinking required.
Easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes. Assume that your blog had only 4 ad space but you want to have 10 banners in. Then there is no need to try changing your theme to fit all 10 of them. You can easily rotate the 10 of them in the allocated zone with this plugin.
7) TRAFFIC TIPS
Recommended reading of how to get tons of Traffic, just like Problogger and Yaro Starak did! I initiate this traffic formula with Maxblogpress and found it useful and comprehensive guide for a Wordpress beginner. This is a paid product and damn I just bought it!
If you really want to be a successful blogger, this traffic formula is a must have item for you. You can also get it with special discount this Christmas here only for blogger. http://bulknetwork.net/recommends/christmasdeal/
So, that is it. Hope you enjoy the plugins and have a nice blogging. If you have any recommended plugins for Wordpress beginner, kindly share it here. Because sharing is caring.
