Now that your website is up and running, make it more appealing by using plugins to help you reach your goals.
What are plugins?
These are similar to apps that you normally use on your mobile phones that can take your website from good to great!
Here are some of the best plugins you can use on your WordPress site.
1. Akismet
Spam comments have been giving you a headache. You must install Akismet. It checks the comments on each page you have on your site to see if they’re spam or not. Upon installing Akismet, you will never have to worry about spending time deleting those unnecessary comments on your website created by unknown people.
2. Yoast Seo
Do you really want your website to rank on Google? The Yoast SEO plugin will help you remember the little things you forget and improve your articles by suggesting proper keywords, meta descriptions, meta titles, and slugs. There are three different colors that will appear on your dashboard when using this plugin: red means your article needs improvement, orange means it’s okay or fair enough, and green means you’re good to go, publish your work, and spread the word.
3. Hummingbird
Google wants your site to load within two seconds. Hummingbird will scan your site and provide you with a list of the things you need to fix, and with just a few simple clicks, you can easily remove those errors that make your site load slowly. Hummingbird is great for non-technical people for easy optimization of your site.
4. Google Analytics
The Google Analytics plugin in WordPress allows website owners to track and analyze visitor behavior on their sites. With features such as real-time visitor tracking and comprehensive reports on traffic sources and visitor behavior, the plugin provides valuable insights to optimize website performance and improve audience engagement. By using Google Analytics in WordPress, website owners can make informed decisions to improve their online presence.
5. Google XML Sitemaps
One of the must-have plugins in WordPress is the Yoast SEO plugin. if you’ve been posting articles for a year or months now, this plugin will help you index your page to search engines, meaning when the readers search for your target keywords, one of the results that can be found in Google, Yahoo, and Bing is the article you uploaded to your website.
Google’s XML sitemap helps those search engines determine if your site is relevant to the needs of those readers.
6. BackWPup
Installing this plugin is like hiring your own web developer anytime you need it. This will back up all the files you have on your site, you can even make a schedule whenever you want to save and keep your files especially when migrating or doing some tweaks on the web design.
If you don’t take action to back up your site then, you are taking a big risk!
We hope you find our article very useful when planning to choose plugins to be installed to your website. More tips are coming your way!
