List of Must Installed Wordpress Plugins for the Good Seo and Better Website Rankings Posted by Stranger on 2:34 AM Digg it Bookmark it Stumble it Email to friend

In this article, i will tell you about the Wordpress Plugins that are most useful and more important for any Wordpress Admin, So i suggest users to check the list of of Must Installed Wordpress Plugins.

I am planning to launch my wordpress blog very soon and now a days i do research about new and useful Wordpress plugins.
So the below list is personally used by me and i recommend these plugins on all of your wordpress sites.


As Wordpress keeps getting better and adds new features with new releases, i would like to keep updating this post frequently. If you have any recommendations on top of the plugins mentioned below, do shout out in comments. I will be happy to include them in the list, if i believe that they do suit the “must-have” criteria.

1.) Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
If you do not have Akismet installed on your blog, you would be flooded with several spam comments on a daily basis.
In order to use Akismet, you will be required to enter a Wordpress.com API key. Getting a Wordpress.com API key is fairly simple. Simply, navigate toWordpress.com and create yourself a Wordpressaccount to get your API key.
Click here to install Akismet on your Wordpress blog.

2.) Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps generates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. Having a sitemap for your website is one step forward to being Search Engine friendly.
Every time you create a new article or update an existing article, the plugin will generate a new entry in the sitemap.xml file and update the last modified time. Search engines like Google can then query the sitemap to find out the entries modified since they last crawled your website.
Click here to install Google XML Sitemaps on your Wordpress installation. Once you have downloaded the zip archive, extract all files into your wp-content/plugins/ directory. Then go into yourWordPress administration page, click on Plugins and activate it. After that you will have a new menu point called “Sitemap” under the “Options” menu. You can alter the default change frequencies, filename and other options there. Click once on “Rebuild Sitemap” to create your sitemap the first time.

3.) Platinum SEO Pack

Platinum SEO Pack takes care of all your SEO needs. With this specific plugin, you can easily override any title and also set any META tags and description. Platinum SEO Pack is easy to install for beginners.
Click here to download and install Platinum SEO Pack for your Wordpress installation.

4.) Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

YARPP is an excellent plugin for introducing your readers to other relevant content from your blog. Simply download the archive, unpack it and upload it into the wp-content/plugins/ directory. Next, from the admin console, activate the plugin and configure it. You can chose to show the number of related posts.
Click here to download and install YARPP for yourWordpress installation.

5.) Feedburner FeedSmith

This plugin detects all ways to access your originalWordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. Once you have installed this plugin all the feeds to your main content (and optionally for your comments) will be forwarded to your Feedburner feed for delivery.{ i.e. feeds athttp://mywebsite.com/feed orhttp://mywebsite.com/wp-rss2.php, wheremywebsite.com is the name of your wordpresswebsite or blog. }
With regards to configuring the plugin, all you need to have handy is your feedburner feed address.
Click here to download and install Feedburner FeedSmith for your Wordpress installation.

6.) WP Super Cache

Wordpress stores the text that you type in as articles into the database and everytime a user asks for a particular article, it builds the page by fetching the text out of the database, images from the specific folders. This is a pretty expensive process as everytime a database query is required and in times when the load is heavy, this can cause your servers to go down on their knees and beg for their lives.
WP Super Cache is a pretty neat caching plugin which generates static html files for a Wordpress based blog / website. Once it generates an HTML file, it serves the HTML file as the response instead of making expensive database queries, thus keeping your server relatively free. As an admin, you can configure the TTL (Time to Live) i.e. time for which the pages should be cached. My recommendation would be to keep the value of TTL as high as 10 days if you do not modify your articles frequently. If you do modify your articles frequently, you can keep a lower value. You can even configure the plugin to “not deliver” pages out of cache for “logged in users”.
Click here to download and install WP Super Cache for your Wordpress installation.

The above 6 Plugins are in good and i am using them for each and every new site of my clients.
I know there are so many useful plugins and the list will never ends.
So i suggest you to provide me the list of othter useful Wordpress Plugins and you can share the names to our readers..