4 WordPress Plugins You Should Try Today
Written by Harsh Agrawal in WordPress - Print This Post
This is a guest post by Harsh Agrawal, who is a young Entrepreneur who writes at Shoutmeloud and provide Blogspot to WordPress migration service.
One of the WordPress power is it’s numerous plugins and it helps a lot in increasing your blog productivity. Though if we will have a look at WordPress plugin directory we will feel like lost in big directory of WordPress plugins.
One thing very true about WordPress is it’s memory hogging and one way by which we can keep our WordPress blog optimized for speed and performance is by using some cache plugin and limiting the number of plugins. I have already shared about 4 useful WordPress SEO plugins in one of my earlier guest post. In this post I will be writing about 4 WordPress plugins which are under-rated but are very useful :
This is one of my favorite plugin these days. Watermark reloaded helps you to quickly add watermark to your images. This is very useful if you use lots of images on your blog and content-thieves copy them on their blog. Specially if you add interesting images into your blog post, this will help you a lot to drive direct traffic.
This is one of my favorite plugin to get free Backlink. RSS footer plugin add a link back to your blogpost and Blog in your RSS feeds. This is very useful for get a backlink from Auto-RSS blog. I have few popular blogs whose content is copied by many such auto-feed blogs. To make most out of such blogs, I add link back to my new websites also in the settings of RSS-Footer plugin and this helps in getting free back-link from such blogs.
Internal-linking your blog post is very useful for any blog to increase their ranking. Earlier I used to search via my blog search box to find appropriate article to internal link my old post into new post. WordPress Insight plugin will help you to quickly interlink from your edit post page. Check this video to understand how this plugin works:
To increase comment we have lots of plugins like comment luv WordPress plugin, Top commentator plugin and so on. Though one simple way to increase comment is by replying to all comments on your blog. This is more like greeting your readers. Sometime you miss replying to comments made on your old posts and this time this plugin comes in very handy. This plugin will let you quickly reply to all un-replied comments from dashboard.
Check this video to understand how My-Comment manager plugin works:
Do let us know any more WordPress plugin which you use and you find it to be very useful for every blog. If you like this article, don’t forget to tweet or share this post.
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Really good stuff!
Getting Harsh to post on your blog is an Achievement in itself. Congrats Pradeep!
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Thanks Rohit for your comment. Glad you liked it.
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Good to see you guest blogging on other blogs
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I never tried WordPress Insight Plugin but I will give a try now…
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Vishal I’m sure you will like it. It will help you to lower down your bounce rate. Do let us your feedback after using it. You can see here how my bounce rate dropped after using it:
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will definately give a try to comment manager plugin.. thanks for sharing such a nice info.
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Thanks for your comment Pradhyuman. Do let me know if you face any issue with My comment manager plugin.
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Out of these, I use RSS Footer only. It is definitely a must have for every blogger. I will take a look at other plugins too.
Another plugin that I think every blogger must have is Apture for WordPress. Apture discovers images, videos and other related content and can embed it in posts. However, what I like the best is Apture Magic bar. It appears when a reader scrolls the page below first half and has FB, Twitter and mail sharing icons on it. Also, its interactive search is a very handy feature. Overall, it is a great way to hold readers on blog for long time.
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Thanks Ishan for the info about Apture plugin. Never heard about it before and will give it a shot. Meanwhile do try Watermark reloaded plugin…
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From SEO prospective, Insight Plugin is best for all blogger because it saves our time. I like this Plugin.
Yup it is!
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Thanks for your comment Genite and that’s very true and another advantage is that will lower down your bounce rate.
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I agree with Genite the Insight plugin looks good for SEO and use your internal linking to improve Google rankings.
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Yup and more over this plugin add anchor text based on Word which you select to interlink.
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Insight Plugin is a very good plugin which can ease a lot of work. Thanks! And you have achieved a remarkable bounce rate. Congrats Harsh!
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Thanks Ashfame. Yah somehow bounce rate is doing good with 27%. The major issue is holding it at the same rate. I believe I should stick more to dedicated niche to sustain this bounce rate.
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awesome stuff.. looking for the watermark plugin for a long time.. This one is going to be useful for me..
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Rajesh this plugin is going to be very useful. Though remember it will watermark images which you will upload after installing this plugin.
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I have tried the 4th plugin already… and i m not using it that much…
now i will be trying watermark plugin.. sounds interesting
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Also try RSS footer plugin Chethan. You will like it..
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Hey dude i have come across your blogs and posts many times, i guess yours is the best site(blog) of our country…….. and this post which you have shared here was really useful n great…keep up your good work mate….
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Thanks Techsputter for kind word. Really appreciate it…!!
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WordPress Insight plugin ,,,,,,,,, could you tell me more precisely about this plugin ,,,hoping to get your reply soon mate,,,,,,,,,
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Tech Watch the above given video and it will explain everything. Do let me know if that doesn’t make your query clear.
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I love the Watermark Reloaded plugin! I had no idea something like that existed. This is going to be great on a few sites of mine that have images in every post.
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Josiah though it will not add watermark to old post.
but it’s very useful for the images which you will add from now on.
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WordPress Insight plugin sounds really really awesome.
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Just installed RSS Footer and Insights Plugin. These 2 are very useful
Thanks for the Heads Up
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MY comment manager would be great for bloggers who want to interact with their visitors
I am going to give a try to watermark plugin, really need it
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Insights Was Useful
I like the insights plugin – good ahre. I shall try it – anything to reduce bounce rates,
Second video – the music was much lounder that the guy spekaing in the first one – be careful – it can blows your ears off!
Andrew
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I like all plugins except comment manager..bcoz i have intensedebate plugin…
Nice to see you here Harsh….
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I'll be trying the comment manager. I don't currently miss comments, but it comes close sometimes.
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Nice once again You did It.. I actually don’t use WordPress but I do work with tons of people who do so I will be passing this on to them!
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Love the watermark plugin…working on a clients photography site and this is a nice addition. She will think I am brilliant. Thanks!
Yah Sheila you are right. For such blogs which use lots of photographs this plugin will be very useful.
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you are express 4 wordpress plugins very & describable . thanx
Great,, thank you very much for this info,,, i can make my work more easier and faster with this,,, thanks
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Those are some excellent plugins, i have heard about the rss footer, that can come handy if too many people are using your rss feeds, haven’t even heard about the comment manager and the insight plugins, thanks for sharing, will give it all a try soon,
Sieve do give me your feedback after using it… Will love to know if these plugin helped you in any ways…
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I don’t like wordpress mainly because it is too limiting. I’d rather have full control of my site, rather then rely on wordpress and it’s plugins.
Mobile Phones Wondering on what basis you saying this. In my opinion if you are a coder, you don’t even need to rely on any plugins. And WordPress is scalable to any extent…
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yea thanks harsh for the post i think i need to give it a shot lol!
Samuel wondering what’s that lol for?? :-0
Anyways give try to few plugins mentioned above and I’m sure you might love few of them…
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I really like the insight Plugin. It works really awesome…
Thanks for the Post Harsh.
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Thanks Dev for your comment. Hope you will make good use of this plugin .
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Cool guest post, thanks both Harsh and Pradeep.
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Thanks Anish for your comment.
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I need to say “Thanks” to Harsh!
never head of “WordPress Insight plugin”, very useful … will try it for sure … Watermark reloaded plugin is also good but lacks few features …. Anyways gr8 list …
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I like the idea of responding to all comments. I will try that plugin.
All the plugins listed here are really useful.
Its great to see Harsh Agrawal posting here on HBB
Its a big achievement for you Pradeep.
Keep doing the great work…
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Among all i love Rss footer, very much useful to me.. ! thanks for sharing.
i’ve also developped some wp plugins but your plug ins are simply great.
Great work Harsh.Really appreciatable.The plugIns which you have described are awesome and very useful for the learners.Thanks for sharing such a beautiful information.Keep it up and all the best for your future.!!
need to try comment manager.
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There is lots of good plugin for WordPress blog if you check the WordPress plugin directory, I have stop looking at the WordPress plugin directory after my active plugin have cross 13. The more you look at the plugin directory, the most you continue finding useful plugins…
some really cool plugins! i’ll be using 3 of them right away infact!
infact 4th one too :p
I am going to try water mark reloaded plugin. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Harsh
I will surely use My Comment Manager
WHICH IS THE BEST PLUGIN FOR THREADED COMMENTS, IS THREADED AVAILABLE IN WORD PRESS BY DEFAULT
Yep, go to Discussion Settings | Other comment settings
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[Procedure applies to WP 3.1.2]