10 Very Useful WordPress Plugins

Wordpress is a great platform for bloggers specially. It provides them power and flexibility while blogging. But there are many bloggers out there missing lot of wordpress plugins. In this article I have tried my best to compile a list of some very useful wordpress plugins. I am sure if you are not very new to wordpress then you would be addicted to most of these plugins but it has some very useful additions for sure.  

1. Social Metrics

Social Metrics is a Social Media Monitoring tool for your WordPress blog. You can use it to track your blog performance on popular social networking websites and services. Simply install the plugin and you can start monitoring your blog’s social media metrics. This plugin is superb for every blogger looking to monitor his posts stats on admin dashboard. I recommend it for every blogger, whether you are having a themes blogs or a magazine website it will help you much.  

2. SEO by Yoast

Are you looking for Best WP SEO plugin? Then SEO by Yoast is best choice. It has various very useful and unique features, and automatically analyze the SEO quality of an article as well as guide you to write SEO article.  It features Page analysis, Technical WordPress SEO and many other unique features. It is used by most of top bloggers and I am personally very satisfied with it.  

3. Broken Links Checker

Broken Link Checker is must have plugin for every blogger out there. As name depicts, it analyze links and notify you about broken links to keep visitors happy at your site.  It has also many other features like different view of broken fields in posts ( Optional ) etc.  

4. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Are you looking for a related posts plugin for your WordPress blog. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is fantastic to choose among niche. It has better customizable Algorithm, related posts in feeds and many other features. It shows related posts with thumbnails.  

5. Dig Dig Floating Share

[caption id="attachment_194" align="aligncenter" width="618"] This is wordpress plugin for floating sharing buttons.[/caption] Are you looking for maximum tweets and sharings for your post? Then Digg Digg is for you. It comes in various styles, either you can make them floating on left or right or might place them in post ( Above or Below ).  

6. Simple Reach Slide

Simple Reach Slide shows recommended post via a slide at below of each post. It engages more visitors to and decrease bounce rate of website.  

7. Hello Bar

Hello Bar is call to action wordpress plugin. This is best out there and used by many famous bloggers around the world. You can show important notifications, announcements or something very important on it.

8. Google Analyticator

This plugin integrate WordPress analytics to your WordPress dashboard. It shows your website traffic as well as link download statistics right from your blog dashboard.  

9.Google XML Sitemaps

To get more traffic, it is necessary to get your site completely by google search engine. This plugin do the job for you, it add XML to your WordPress blog. I recommend to use it if you are not having any other XML sitemap on your blog.

10. Akismet

I don't think I need to mention it because you must be knowing it already. But still I mentioned it for those very few who don't know it. Akismet is comment spam checker, and must use WordPress plugin for every WordPress user. It is available for free for personal use.   These plugins are not for some specific niche but for every blogger out there. If you know some other plugins like that, please mention them in comment.