Internet Marketing Tools – 5 Great WordPress Plugins You Must Have

Optimizing your WordPress site is a never ending process. Plugins are like small pieces of a puzzle used to create a perfect environment for your visitors and customers. We will share the top 5 plugins we use, because plugins are important internet marketing tools in your online arsenal.

Akismet Plugin

What would be the point of having comments below your posts if they were full of spam?

Akismet is an excellent plugin for guarding your comments section. It evaluates the entries and whenever a comment rings the spam alert, it’s instantly moved to the spam folder.

The cool thing about Akismet is that you can check the spam folder whenever you like and prevent comments or trackbacks you consider acceptable from being deleted for good.

Digg Digg Plugin

Social media are like bread and butter these days. Contrary to its name, the Digg Digg plugin allows you to add not only  a Digg button, but pretty much any social button you like, such as:

• Facebook
• Reddit
• Sphinn
• Delicious
• … you name it.

You can also manage the position of each button, whether it floats on the left or it’s displayed below your content… it’s your choice.

Related Posts Plugin

Loyal visitors of Darthopia are already more than informed about the significance of PR and backlinks.

Related Posts Plugin is simply perfect for natural creation of numerous internal backlinks, increasing your PR in the process.

Besides, using this plugin gives you the possibility to  instantly forward your visitor to a similar article and keep his interest for a longer period of time.

W3 Total Cache Plugin

It’s hardly a surprise that plugins should also increase the performance of your site. That’s exactly the job of the W3 Total Cache plugin – it enables you to optimize the user experience on your site with caching.

Among other benefits, we could pick:

• instant second page views (browser caching after the first view)
• improved web serves performance
• reduced page loading time
• at least 10 times overall site performance

(list cited from the official W3 Total Cache Plugin link)

Disqus Plugin

What’s so wrong with the usual WordPress comment system? Well, to be honest, nothing.

But the importance of the Disqus plugin lies in its complexity. It uses a concept of the Open ID – you’re able to merge multiple logins to one account and use it everywhere.

By installing the Disqus system, you’re showing your visitors that you want them to feel comfortable on your site.

True, it’s a small thing, but combining a large number of small things can create an impressive result.

More And More Plugins…

Keep in mind that these 5 are by no means everything WordPress has to offer. Finding the proper plugins can make a huge difference in the end, perhaps you’ll get inspired by this short list of other useful plugins:

• Google XML Sitemaps
• KB Robots
• Sexy Bookmarks
• All in One SEO Pack
• Contact Form 7

Consider plugins as an important internet marketing tool. It would be folly to ignore so many advantages and upgrades plugins can offer.

Thank you for reading!