Having a wordpress site allows a great deal of functionality on a site, especially with so many great wordpress plugins that expand what a site can do. I’ve discovered some great plugins that have helped my site traffic grow, my ad revenues increase, and also allow me to stop spambots from attacking. I love these plugins, in my opinion these are some of the best wordpress plugins:
Increase Traffic
nRelate offers a great way to increase internet traffic loyalty. Someone visits your site organically from a search engine because your site has information they want. nRelate offers a pictorial of related posts to help your reader find more of what they want. This great wordpress plugin also keeps them on your site- easy website traffic optimization and potentially increased earnings. It’s a win-win, and offers the benefit of lower bounce rates too.
tbk Social Float helps you make use of the great benefits of social media with a social sharing tool designed to be noticed by web page visitors and very easy to use. You can pick which social media share icons to display so your most popular posts can be found by others- a fabulously easy way for integrating social media into your site and getting more traffic.
Decrease Spam
G.A.S.P. aka Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin is the best wordpress plugin for stopping spam (in addition to askismet). The little check box under your comment field that requires commenters to identify themselves as NOT spam can help stop spam bots and general spamming drastically.
WP-Ban is a terrific IP ban plugin that will block IP addresses from repeat spammers as well as any unsavory search term results that land on your site from accessing your site in the future. Once you delete the spam or find the shady search term, add the IP you want to block into this plugin. This is a great plugin for moms who features photos of their children on their site.
Increase Revenue
AdSense Injection is the best adsense plugin I’ve found after trying out many. It allows you to make money with adsense in a way that doesn’t interfere with your overall blog because you can specify the adsense ad sizes, locations, and type of ad to maximize adsense revenue without annoying visitors. My favorite site placement is adsense in post on older posts only, so there are no Google ads on my homepage or sidebar. It features an image rotator so that advertisements are in different locations on each page load, decreasing ad blindness.
I use nrelate and I love it! I also use WP-Ban and it has come in useful MANY times.
That nRelate one is new to me — I’ll have to check it out!
Thanks! I love getting feedback on plugins.
Love nrelate and WP-Ban and Ad injection!
Thank you! I have noticed the GASP plugin on other blogs and have been wondering what is was!
You are one smart cookie! I’m going to add WP-ban!
Oh I am so happy to hear about Adsense Injection – I like being able to have the option of putting them in old posts only!
I don’t use any of these but they all sound great! Off to check them out, thanks!
Thanks. I don’t use any of these 🙁 Will have to check them out.
Great suggestions! I hosted a bloggy playdate last night and we were discussing pedophiles on the internet – I’m just slightly paranoid now.
These are some great suggestions. I discovered G.A.S.P a few weeks ago and love it!
Sounds like great plugins. i’m hoping to switch to WordPress soon and will come back to read more.
thanks!
Thank for your sharing. I will try about what you describe to get more traffics to my blog. I hope to get success.
Thanks for the info !
that nrelate is quite good !
thanks for the sharing.
i’ve installed nrelate to my blog…
wait for the result…
thanks again.
Great post. I use nRelate as well and really like it. It allows new readers to find older posts of interest.
I’m going to check out adsense injector. Looks like a great solution to my ad issues.
For spam, I use Akismet. It does a great job. I’ve never had a spam comment post to my site. If it’s not sure it cues it for moderation. All four posts held for moderation were spam so it does a really good job.
This is a great article. I constently search for the best plugin I can use on our blog/site – it’s nice to gain a perspective from a real blogger and not those networking / internet marketing sites. Thanks!