Spice Up Your Blog With This FREE WordPress Plug In

If you own or managing a wordpress blog and it gets alots of traffic. The next thing you need to do is spice it up a little bit via installing and configuring some wordpress plug in.

Below are my collections that I personally use to transform my own blog into more social media and search engine friendly. Don’t worry the following plug in is absolutey FREE and just need a little bit of exploring.

1. TweetMeMe Button – A handy button that allows your blog readers to retweet your post and share it with their followers. A great tool for making your post popular all over the internet and social media sites, plus you can see how many people that retweets your post.

Features;

• Live count of tweets from Twitter
• Allows you to change the source which you retweet, E.g. “RT @yourname “
• Easily installation and customisation
• Quicker loading times for the buttons
• Better integration, allowing custom titles, hashtags and URL shortner
• Removes the default “RT @tweetmeme”
• Ability to control the length of the tweets (through the new spaces parameter)
• Integrates with WordPress MU

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/

2. Tweet This – TweetMeMe plug in won’t work unless you install this one. Can automatically tweet new and scheduled blog posts. This plugin fetches a shortened URL from a URL shortening service of your choice for each of your blog posts’ permalinks server-side, then displays a link to Twitter for each post, with an optional icon (twelve choices).

This is done automatically for each post as needed, but the each shortened URL is cached (as a custom field in the postmeta table) to keep load times fast. The cached records are updated or deleted as needed when you edit a post’s permalink, delete a post, change your site’s permalink structure, or change URL services.

Download the see the full documentation of the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-this/

3. Facebook Share Button – The Facebook Share (new) button easily allows your blog to be shared. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been shared throughout Facebook.

Functionality

• New – Facebook Share button which shows the number of times your post has been shared on Facebook. Integrates the ability to share your post with one click.

Integration

• AUTOMATIC: Position it Before, After, Before/After on post or page. Also, works with your RSS feeds.
• SHORT CODE:You can also place the shortcode [fbshare] anywhere in your post or page. It will automatically render with the post or page. [Does not require access to the code. Just place while writing post or page]
• MANUAL: Manually position it anywhere in the code. if (function_exists(‘fbshare_manual’)) echo fbshare_manual(); [Good for developers]

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-share-new/

4. Facebook Like Button – From my experience along with other bloggers, it needs some sort of tweaking before this button works in your blog. But its worth the effort since when this button successfully installed, your blog readers will have a chance to “like” every one of your posts and share it with their friends, talking about “FREE traffic”.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-like-button In case you are having trouble installing the plug in. Go to http://blog.ahmedgeek.com/facebook-like-button-for-wordpress-v4 Its the official website of the developer of that plug in, You can watch ahmed’s video tutorial plus you can also ask questions.

5. All In One SEO Pack - This Plug in allows you to manipulate your homepage meta title, desciption and keywords. This means you can fully optimize your bog’s homepage via this tool. The title tag and description that you put here will be the one who will be picked  and indexed  by search engine bots/spiders.

Some features:

• Support for Custom Post Types
• Advanced Canonical URLs
• Fine tune Page Navigational Links
• Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
• ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
• Nonce Security
• Support for CMS-style WordPress installations
• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs
• For beginners, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
• For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

6. Share This Button – ShareThis plugin is a sharing widget that allows users to share your content through email, 50+ social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, and through text message and AIM. This very neat because its such a small button and won’t annoy your blog readers.

Recen Feature Updates;

• The widget is now 80% lighter for the fastest sharing out there!
• Users can log in with Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo! accounts
• Saves recently shared to contacts
• Users can now search for their favorite services
• ShareThis recommends other hot content on your site

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/

7. Comment Luv – This plugin will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit.

It has been found to increase comments and the community spirit for the thousands of blogs that have installed it. With a simple install you will immediately start to find new and interesting blog posts, tweets and diggs from your own blog and community.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/commentluv/

8. Copyrighted Post – Adds copyright notice in the end of each post of your blog. Install this plug in if you want your readers to know that you fully own the content of your blog.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-copyrighted-post/

9. WP PageNavi – Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site. If you want to customize the page navigation option on your blog, then this plug in will be handy.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/

10. WP Cumulus – allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page .

If you want to view a LIVE sample check out the sidebar of this blog. You can see there the WP Cumulus in action.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/

11. Featured Content Gallery - creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.

NOTE: This plug is NOT working in ALL wordpress themes. From my experience I make this work for a select wp themes only like Genesis theme, I never make this work here on my blog (because of some theme conflict) . But if you want to see a live demo of this plug in go to Cure Pimples Quick blog. I manage that blog and make the plug in work there.

Download the plug in here; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-content-gallery/

12. CodeBanter OPTIN – This easy to use autoresponder plugin helps you add either a GetResponse or Aweber Optin Box to your WordPress sidebar or inside any post.

Installation is easy and can be used with or without widgets. The “Form Extraction Box” make setup quick and painless by allowing you to paste in your autoresponder generated code, the Extraction Box will then automatically extract the neccessary data to be used.

This plug in is ideal if you are planning to build your LIST via using your own wordpress blog.

Preview;

NOTE: The developer of the plug in requires you to fill up an opt in form before you can download the plug in for future updates.

Download the plug in here; http://www.codebanter.com/projects/download.php

13. OptinPop – There’s no denying popup windows have been around for almost as long as the Internet. When misused visitors don’t like them, when used correctly they flat out work!

The biggest problem up until now is it’s always been difficult to get popup windows to work correctly with WordPress blogs.

What OptinPop gives you is the ability to leverage the huge popularity of blogs into massive subscriber lists. Nothing can block your message – It’s utterly unstoppable by any popup blocker or website browser…

Features;

• Add any content to your popup window: Just type in the url of the page you’d like to show.

• Create popup windows on exit: Turn your exit traffic into red hot subscribers.

• Create popup windows on entry: When people arrive at your blog give them a free subscription.

• Add a timed delay: Give people a few seconds to read your blog before getting their subscription.

• Choose the position of your popup window: Center works best but you can also position your popup at the very top of your blog

• Lightbox effect: Use the lightbox background shading effect for immediate attention and focus.

Download the plug in here ; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/optinpop-unblockable-popup-windows/

That is all my latest and most use wordpress plug in that spice up most of my blogs. I hope you learn something from this post and I’m eager to see your blog spiced up via this excellent plug ins.

I also want you to check out this post; WP Plug In You Can Use to Make Money in Your Blog

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