Every client has a different approach to how they want their site to flow (functionality), how they want it to look (the style) and everyone wants to be on the search engines’ first page (SEO). Back in the day, coding and html were about the only way you could successfully create a site that looked customized. Today, with sites like WordPress, Joomla, Blogger and countless other platforms, the average user can feel empowered to create a foundation for what they want and then bring on a Virtual Assistant to “fine tune” the overall project.
As virtual assistant’s with clients who dream of having the ultimate marketing tools for their business, it’s our job to find the most highly effective, sought after methods that propel our clients websites/blogs up the search engine totem pole and onto the screens of their prospective customers. Doing this takes a little bit of creativity and a lot of research. Today, I’d like to share some of the best plugins used in the business today to create SEO, Functionality and Design on any blog while branding your clients overall image online.
All in One SEO Pack
Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engine Optimization (your ranking on search engines). This plugin optimizes your titles for search engines, generates META tags automatically, avoids duplicate content found on WordPress blogs and for beginners, it works out-of-the-box.
Disqus Comment System
Disqus, is a service and tool for web comments. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive. The plugin integrates using API and by syncing with WordPress allows for threaded comments, filtered spam settings, notifications, reply by email, and subscribe and RSS options.
Share and Follow
This plugin gives links to the most prominent Social Networking sites for sharing and following in many different formats (widgets/shortcode/template tag/auto added). Includes: Print, Browser Bookmark and Email buttons, widget to manage Follow & share actions, shortcode version for inside post or page for sharing, Icons come in 5 different sizes and can be displayed as Icon, Icon + Text or Text only. Plus much more!
PS Auto Sitemap
“PS Auto Sitemap” is a plugin that automatically generates a site map page from your WordPress site.
Page Links To
Lets you make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress post or page. This is helpful when you are creating linkwheel sites and want to direct back to your main site.
Announcement and Vertical Scroll News
This plugin will create a vertical scroll news or Announcement or flash News for your word press site, we can embed this in site sidebar.
Contact Form Plugin
There are countless contact forms that can be created for your contacts page. This allows the user to submit their email, without emailing you directly. It cuts down on spam and sifting through bad emails. Just search: Contact Form on WP plugins site and you’ll have options that suit your needs.
Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.
WP Responder
With WP Responder you can create email newsletters, follow up auto responders and provide subscription to blog via e-mail.
My Recent YouTube Widget
Do you host a YouTube Channel? Many clients like to have a “How To Video” on their YouTube channel and have it posted immediately to their website. You can use this plugin to add to your sidebar so that it automatically updates and embeds the most recent YouTube videos for any specific user.
Now that you have some new tools and insight as to how they can improve your website and blog, get blogging! It’s the best way to create new content for your site and for those search engines!