Best WordPress Plugins To Use on Your Website in 2010

In 2010, more than ever, WordPress is on the rise! Millions of people are using this wonderful CMS this year to build their personal or business blog/website. Why are so many people still choosing WordPress? Simply because it is extremely user-friendly, powerful, flexible, SEO-friendly and constantly being updated by the open-source community. Here is a list of the most useful WordPress plugins to have on your website for 2010:

Simple Facebook Connect – This plugin is a jewel! It created a perfect marriage between your site and your Facebook Account/Fan Page or Group. It lets you even merge the connections, so users can connect and post in your blog using their Facebook Login. It even gives you the option to add that very cute and popular “Facebook Like” button to your posts or pages. Simply Amazing Plugin!

Akismet – This plugin is installed by default, but it is not activated by default! Most people actually forget to activate it and are later very frustrated with the tons of spammy comments they get on a daily basis. Activate this plugin and enjoy a spam-free (or almost!) life. It’s really that simple!

WP Super Cache – This plugin is very useful in the sense that it makes your pages load much faster by storing a static HTML version of each page. Also, this plugin can save you from the trouble you could get with your Host if they deem that your blog/site is using too many resources and slowing down all their other clients on the shared account.

All-In-One SEO -this is still one of the best SEO Plugins out there. Lets you modify page titles, menu titles, meta descriptions and meta keywords for every page and every post. This is a great plugin to install if you want to make sure that every page/post has the appropriate description and keywords associated with it.

Sociable – this is probably one of the best plugins to integrate the “Social Sharing” functionality to your articles. It handles every possible social bookmarking platform you can think of. It lets you choose which one you want to integrate and how you want them displayed.

Google XML Sitemaps – a MUST! This has been (and still is)  the best Sitemap plugin for WordPress. It lets you choose what you want the Search Bots to index, and what frequency you want them to index it. It also updates and pings search engines every time you make a change to your pages/posts.

SEO Smart Links – This plugin can link your keywords to related comments, posts, pages, and categories within your site automatically. This makes less prominent pages or older content more relevant and crawlable for search engines, and keeps site visitors interested.

Follow Me – The Follow Me plugin lets you add a widget to your page to display links to all your social media profiles in one, easy-to-access eye-catchy button or window.

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Happy Blogging!