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[Dereck Arreguin Company: Numis Network Contribution Level: 3]

OK guys... here they are!

TOP 10:
1. All in One SEO Pack – Simple and easy to use to increase the SEO for your blog.
2. DamnSexyBookmarks – Allows others to share your posts on all sorts of additional bookmarking sites.
3. Exclude Pages from Navigation – Allows you to hide pages.
4. Google Analytics for WordPress – Adds Google Analytics to your blog with additional tracking.
5. Google XML Sitemaps – Allows search engines to better index your blog.
6. Simple Facebook Share Button – Allows readers to share your post on their Facebook wall.
7. Subscribe To Comments – Allows readers that comment to respond to an entry they post.
8. TweetMeme Retweet Button – Allows others to share your posts on twitter.
9. W3 Total Cache – Allows faster performance for your blog. Improves the experience for your viewers.
10. WordPress.com Stats – Allows you to track the views, post /page views, referrers and clicks on your blog.

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-Dereck
P.S. Feel free to add your thoughts or suggestions.

[willie robertson Company: Global Virtual Opportunities Contribution Level: 3]

Hi Dereck,

Thanks for the tips.

Willie

[Cenay Nailor Company: Nussentials Contribution Level: 2]

That's a pretty good list. I differ on a couple tho, and have a few to add. For example, instead of All in one SEO, I prefer Headspace2 since it is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks, but it offers more. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more. Need to know more about how to use it? Check out the eight videos I have created to show how to get the most out of Headspace2.

I also really like Max Ping Optimizer. Getting found by Google, Yahoo and MSN requires you to let them know every time you post new content. But edit the post more than once, and you run the risk of pissing them off and being accused of *ping spamming*. Yuk.

With this plugin installed and set properly, you can throttle back the pings to once per hour, or once per day, or even once per week. (Tho why you would only ping once a week I can not imagine). This plugin allows you to correct Wordpress’ built in *bug* of pinging when ever anything changes.

Another favorite of mine is Psychic Search. This plugin allows you to figure out what your visitors are looking for on your blog, and not finding! Once installed, this plugin tracks every search done on your blog, and lists all searches that yield no results. Want to impress them with your psychic ability? Try posting a new post that exactly matches what they just looked for yesterday.

And in the category of SEO tools, get SEO Post Link. Automatically make your post link (URL) short and more SEO friendly by removing unnecessary words from the post slug. You can adjust your settings, add words to be removed automatically and establish a limit on the page slug length. This is great for building SEO optimized URL’s.

I have the 18 plugins I can't live without posted on my blog. I invite you to read the entire list. I also have the links to all the plugins there as well. Your comments on plugins you prefer and why, is also invited.

[Arun Verma Company: Talk Fusion Global Contribution Level: 1]

These are all the basic plugins that every blog should have... but now a daysmany new techie try to play hacker you must secure ur wordpress blog by adding security plugins along with ur basics

[Holly Powell Company: Magnetic Sponsoring Contribution Level: 2]

Just to add a few more to the list.

I see folks exporting their data which is a good thing.
But you should also be backing up your databases. For that I use WordPress Database Backup by Austin Matzko

I also use cbnet favicon--for fast fav icons to my blog url and page

Easy Privacy Policy--if you're selling stuff or have affiliate links

And I also use Dagon Design Sitemap Generator for a great html sitemap

I like SEO Pressor--this however is a paid plugin--but wouldn't be without it

And last but certainly not least--I like the page links to plugin--where I can add an external link to my tabs

[Jake McGreg Greg Contribution Level: 1]

Perfect list you got there. How about Akismet on your list?

[Cenay Nailor Company: Nussentials Contribution Level: 2]

Oh yeah, Akismet is on my list... check out the original blog post at 18 Wordpress Plugins To Ensure Web Success

I also did a post just on Akismet and stopping the spam madness.

[Lewis Smile Contribution Level: 1]

Now that google takes website speed into account, and all visitors hate slow sites, I recommend SmushIt plugin.

It's built to use the yahoo www.smushit.com engine to squeeze all file size possible out of your images without losing any quality. It can make a huge difference on most of the images I upload into my posts, and it's all automatic once you've installed and activated the plugin.

- Lewis