Dan: Today, on Blog Success Journal, the top 10 Wordpress plugins that every successful site really needs to have. Number one, W3 total cash, like what? That sounds all tacky. This is a plugin that really, really, really improves the speed of your Wordpress site.
Jenn: Really?
Dan: Really. Okay and if you’re just starting your blog on a $5.00 or $7.00 a month, we’re posting thing and you’re like speed who cares. No, you know what—
Jenn: Google cares.
Dan: Google cares. Google actually knows how long it takes for your visitors to download every page then what it has to take for them to download every page, speed matters a lot. This thing can reduce your time by 50% easily. Now, searching definitely care every second matters. Also, if one day you start getting lots of traffic all of the sudden your site can still go down to a crow unless it’s optimized to something like this, absolutely run this.
Now, we try the other application plugins like WP cash, WP Super Cash and by far — Cash is our favorite.
Jenn: Okay, number two.
Dan: Number two.
Jenn: Google XML Sitemaps.
Dan: That sounds all tacky.
Jenn: That’s very tacky and it is tacky but it’s okay. But here’s the jest of it okay. Everytime you upload a new close to your site, you want the search engines to know about it and this plugin allows that to happen.
Dan: Just auto pings and maybe time you would make content of things.
Jenn: Yeah, you upload something, it tells them. It’s really that simple.
Dan: Just install it and don’t worry about how it works.
Jenn: Number three, C forms are gravity forms, you’re like, “What?” Forms, you want people to be able to contact you and you don’t want your email to be out there in the Ether for everyone to have unless you want to get 500 spam mails a day. Okay so, implement a simple easy to use contact form and it allows you to know kind of why people are coming in.
Dan: Yeah, yeah absolutely. Just keep it simple and install it. Yeah, comments, discuss the name of the comment’s platform they would really, really like. Now, Wordpress does come with built-in comments but it’s sort of a clunky and awkward comments implementation. It’s not very social. We looked at all the other major competitors, the really social comment plugins like—the Instant Debate and by far Disqus have been our favorite. We didn’t know we’re trying to go until we try on all of them at first.
Now, what’s really cool that Disqus actually holds its service so they actually deliver from their servers a lot of the content for it and it gives you really pretty comment box at the bottom of every posts. Now, it also shows that this is so totally neat. Anyway, it’s cool. If somebody tweets for every articles and as your site get girls and more people, well it actually shows you underneath the comments all the tweets that link back these articles to, reactions and gigs and whatever other reactions, very, very cool.
Jenn: Yeah and whether they use that one or not, you definitely want comments.
Dan: Yeah.
Jenn: Akismet, this is a great plugin that comes with Wordpress that cashes your comments and track backs, is that what that said?
Dan: Yeah. Well, it catches all the spam. You get so much spam normally and anytime you get a form for something important, you get spam.
Jenn: Spam, that was the word I couldn’t read. I was like, “What is this thing doing up?” Sorry, can you tell me it’s not tacky.
Dan: Okay, but you know what, something you don’t actually need Akismet. You’re not going to be using it if you’re using Disqus Comments. Actually, you don’t need it for track backs but whatever.
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