When you’re setting up a WordPress blog, there are a number of crucial plugins to install, particularly if you have any intention of ranking well in the search engines. In this article, we’ll cover four plugins that every WordPress webmaster (and SEO) should think about installing right from the word “go.”

(1) Google XML sitemaps – A common issue for webmasters is not getting their pages indexed in the search engines. Indeed, the problem stems initially from not getting those pages crawled in the first place. If your webpages aren’t
crawled and indexed, then you can forget about ranking. Google XML sitemaps takes care of a lot of the work for you. Once installed and activated, it will create a site map that helps Googlebot find, crawl and ultimately index all the pages on your domain. This is obviously a crucial step in your SEO campaign

About 5 hour ago I have installed a great plugin, Antispam Bee (can be found in WordPress plugins repository) to test this alternative to Akismet. Not that there was anything wrong with that plugin but I get quite a few questions on FREE alternative for business bloggers and I just had to test.

Results are stunning so far, to say the least:

Guest post by a pro-blogger and WordPress plugin author Nicola Jankovic:

I’ve used a lot of different affiliate marketing methods and find one of them to be the most effective.

Article marketing is cool, except the article directory gets to keep all the ad revenue and they are getting more particular about what articles they accept.

Review sites are OK, but does anyone really trust the reviews they read on those sites anymore? Most people know by now that review sites are just disguised sales pitches and aren’t honest reviews.

This post is by a guest blogger Jake Walker…

Over the last few years I’ve built a lot of blogs, both for clients and my personal network.  Each of my sites utilize different plug-ins depending on what’s required for the sites function.  That being said, there are 8 plug-in’s that go into every site blog I build.  I consider these the ‘don’t leave home without them’ choices of the plug-in world.  In my opinion any blog missing these plug-ins is hindering itself.

Do you get a lot of comment Spam? Are all the measures you take only partially help you reduce the number of Spam Comments that you have to moderate? Surprisingly…

It Could Be Your Own Fault!

I know, I know… you don’t create the spam comments and you are doing your best to protect your blog from them and yet, every morning your Comment Moderation queue is waiting for action.

But lets consider some of the reasons people comment on your blog and how YOU can be at fault for what you consider to be a SPAM!

Love blogging but perhaps feeling like your writing could use some improvement? I feel you, as I’m swimming in the same lake! Would you like to have a grammar / spelling / proofreading on autopilot for your WordPress blog?

Excellent!

Because I know you just answered “Yes” Ok, well maybe you didn’t – I still would LOVE TO SHARE WordPress  plugin I have discovered that acts as my private English Tutor! “After the Deadline” checks your writing and attempts to be smarter than you, when it comes to grammar, in my case it succeeds!