Having the best plugins to assist you to smash your blogging goals, keep your readers coming back for more, and sharing your content is essential! Thinktank Media are big fans of wordpress as it’s clean, simple and easy to use.
I have been searching high and low for the best plugins for this blog and by golly, at last……. I have my trusties. So soak these up and save the many hours of work I have spent plugging into the net!
Got your straw…start slurping!!!
Akismet
A must have for any wordpress blog. Its anti-spam blogging armour blocks the weaseliest little spammers!
Google analytics
Get Google to track all your pages with this neat little plugin. Google Analytics provides you with highly advanced website tracking and management information.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress
Feedburner
Staying in close contact with your readers is a must! Feedburner is your blog promotion machine. Install this plugin to automatically feed your posts to your subscribers and more!
All in One SEO Pack
This nifty little pack optimizes your WordPress blog for search engines by automatically optimizing your titles and META tags.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/
Google XML Sitemaps
Generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
Tweetmeme
I love this plugin! Make it easy for your readers to share your posts on twitter by adding Tweetmeme. It also shows how many people have RTed the post making you look pretty popular!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/
Twitter tools
Pull your tweets into your blog with Twitter Tools. You can also create new tweets on blog posts and from within your WordPress site.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
Facebook Connect Community
Pop this little gem on your blog to encourage users to sign in from their facebook accounts. It supports comments to be sent to the users news feed, which can bring you some tasty viral traffic.
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect
Share This
An easy way for readers to share your blog with their social networks and bookmarking sites. They can also send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/
Digg Digg
Adds Digg, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz buttons with counters for your readers to easily vote for your posts from your page. Great for organic SEO!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/digg-digg/
cforms II
A neat little plugin that makes it easy for readers to contact you with their questions regarding your services, blog posts and more.
http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/
Well, these are our top 11 wordpress plugins…full yet! 
There are heaps more yet these ones are great to power your blog up! If there are any of your favs that I have not mentioned then please share share!
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These are great plug-ins. While I have most of them, there are a few gems I didn’t know about. I think the best plug-in is: Akismet. It has saved me lots of headaches. Thanks.
Hey Sammy, Now all this I am sure is very valuable info but I hate to admit that I don’t know what u mean by plug ins
R they simply app’s u upload??
Thanks a million Albert, always great to get feedback and thanks for taking the time to comment! So many people seem to read and leave! Jeanette, a plugin is a third party application that hooks into the main application. So for example, the main application here is wordpress (as that is the site I am running the blog on) and the third application (plugin) is for example, the share this plugin that you can see just above the comments section. In a nutshell plugins give the blog more functionality and character! Hope this helps.
Thanks Sam – just got four hours back on my life from the research you saved me this week!