Month: April 2008

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Top WordPress Plugins

If you’re using WordPress for your blogging platform, you’ll want to check out my top WordPress plugins at Blog-World Watch today.

Find out which plugins we recommend for installation of all new blogs. Get the links to the plugins and review them for your blog.

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My Top WordPress Plug-Ins

Here is a list of my favorite WordPress plug-ins and why I like them so much:

Add Meta Tags Automatically
If you’ve been adding meta tags manually now this plug-in pickups up your first few sentences and title and automatically adds them as meta tags to your post. As long as your first sentence is keyword dense and on topic, you’ll find this plug-in a real time saver.

Add RSS
You may need to search on WordPress for this plug-in by Dan Cameron, but it adds the feed sensing code in the top template of your blog.

Google Sitemap Generator
This is another great automatic plug-in that does the work for you keeping Google up-to-date on all of your posts.

Social Bookmark Creator
Automatically add the links you want to the various social bookmarking sites with just a few clicks for configuration.

Database Backup Tool
This makes saving your blog posts easy with either a scheduled and emailed backup or server backup of your blog posts.

These are just a few of the top WordPress plug-ins that we routinely recommend for installation on WordPress blogs. If you swear by others, let me know by leaving a comment with a link to the plug-in that you like.

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Designing Your Website For Google

I just picked up this article from the Google search blog and wanted to pass it along to you. In the post, Google staff talks about what key elements of website make a site perfect for good placement on Google and I could not agree more.

Top things for Google:

  1. Focus on people
  2. Have a fast download time for your website
  3. Have a simple design
  4. Keep both beginners and experts informed and entertained
  5. Be innovative
  6. Design for a global audience – not everyone has super huge screen monitors and is an English speaking native.
  7. Plan ahead for future business and new technology
  8. Have a neat design but don’t distract from your content
  9. Make sure people can trust you have integrity in all you do
  10. Be human and real

But don’t just think that Google loves this type of design, all viewers and reader will benefit from website that take this simple approach. If you think about it, the list of 10, in my own words, will make your site engaging, informational, trustworthy, and build authority. Now that’s the true way to top organic placement not just on Google but on all search engines!