Many SEO people think they know how to do a proper On-Page optimization but when it comes down to it, it’s one of the hardest and most dedicated areas of the entire process. For me the entire process is fun but on page optimization could be the best part which I enjoy most. For those who are still afraid of search engines.. It’s not rocket science. There are three keys to good SEO: communication, content and back links

There are so many things to consider

1) What is the content speaking about?, What length is the content going to be? Which keywords will I highlight and will they repeat themselves?

Am I going to include an image? Two images? A gallery? Is there a video I can include? Does that even matter?

There are a few things I’ve realized in the past few months one of which is – don’t create too many pages. Many online companies do the mistake of creating several pages to define their company (About, Contact, Advertise, Staff, Shipping, Policy, Terms) etc. Creating all of these pages can heavily affect your on-page SEO and here’s why.

Each one of your pages is sending X amount of links. Perhaps even, XXX amount of links (hundreds). Once you realize that Google ranks pages and not websites your understanding of SEO has gained another level.

Let’s say your page is ranking PageRank #5 and that page is linking internally, to another 200 links (Navigation bar, footer links, sidebar links internal and external, on page links and hypered imagelinks that could also be banners) what you are actually doing is creating a formula

5pr/:200l=0.025

So you’re actually sharing the “Link Juice” with 200 pages, giving each of them a 0.025 PR. Somewhat like this.

Conclusion? Eliminate the pages! Combine, and combine as much as you can.

Take the pages like

About, Contact & Staff and put them together. Take the Terms & Privacy pages and combine them in one page and once you’re done with that don’t forget to redirect (301) all of these pages that you’re about to delete to the page that you will be combining with. And how do you choose which one to keep? Simple: the one that has the higher PR.

Next step. I always say choose your titles wisely. I’ve decided to make things a bit clearer now this is completely based on personal experience on what’s been working for me (September 2010)

X = Random word
Y = Keyword

Titles should look like this: (69 characters max)

X Y X X X X
X X Y X X Y
X Y X Y X X
X Y X X Y X
X Y Y X X X

Titles like this do not work for me: (69 characters max)

Y X X X X X
Y Y X X X X
Y X Y X X X

How to do a proper on-page optimization. First thing’s first. Every article you write, take it easy, take your time and research. I use Google Keyword tool for every article I write. I find the keywords i want to focus on and I never repeat the same keywords within the same paragraph.

Here’s an example of a paragraph I will write

We will focus on the following keywords:

[dog breeder] = 1600 Global Monthly Searches
[dog breeders] = 8,100 Global Monthly Searches
[florida dog breeders] 170 Global Monthly Searches
[texas dog breeders] 140 Global Monthly Searches
[dog breeders uk] 720 Global Monthly Searches
[local dog breeders] 480 Global Monthly Searches
[find a dog breeder] 210 Global Monthly Searches
[boxer puppies for sale] 12,100 Global Monthly Searches

And we’ll construct the article, let’s start with the title
I’m Searching for a Local Dog Breeder in Florida – Help me Find Him (total 68 characters)

Keywords we’ve got there:

Local Dog Breeder, (not breeders), Florida Dog Breeder, Find a Dog Breeder

And through out the article I will repeat certain keywords however I will not repeat the keywords Local Dog Breeder, Florida Dog Breeder, or Find a Dog Breeders. I will repeat the other keywords instead and have a good usage of bold on these keywords. Example of a paragraph:

|– Example Starts for SEO Optimized Content –|

[image goes here, perhaps even centered]

I’m right now in the process of looking for a [B]breeder[/B]. I’ve been searching for a [B]dog breeder[/B] in my area for quite some time now. I’m traveled to [B]Texas[/B] where I found several [B]dog breeders[/B] but I prefer to stay [B]local[/B]. I’m currently in [B]London[/B] area of the [B]UK[/B]. If anyone can help me [B]find a dog breeder[/B] please send me a private message.

Here is a video of the cutest Boxer Puppies for Sale <– this should be a H1 or H2.
http://www.youtube.com/videolink

Here is a great gallery of several puppies I’ve found across the web <– this should be a H2 or H3

– gallery code goes here — <– whatever WordPress code you choose to insert.

|– Example Ends for SEO Optimized Content –|

At the same time, I will also recommend to attach a large photo (not a tiny .gif icon one) and even be friendly with YouTube. Since I know that Google is YouTube, by adding a YouTube video I am actually enhancing the quality of the article itself, by providing video content. This should make the article more popular.

After that, I recommend even commenting on your own articles. (not more then once, since it’s your own IP it’s considered only once). But leaving a comment does two things

A) Enhances the “flaming comments” – in other words, someone will respond to you.
B) Enhances the “popularity” of the article itself.

WordPress acts in a funny way. Since comments are actually being pulled by wp-includes/wp-comments.php and within your Gabfire Theme as a “comment.php” search engines understand that your article has a comment on it, and they reward you for having more comments.

The more comments the article will have the more popular it will rank on search engine. Also the reason I’m recommending to add a good size image is because Google Image search now weights images. The better quality the image is the higher it will rank on Google.com. Now don’t get me wrong you don’t want to insert a 5000×5000 image that weights 3MB. That’s just wrong, it will slow your site down and Google rewards users who manage to have their site weight less then 100KB in HTML (excluding CSS, Scripts) and the faster your site loads the higher it ranks.

I am currently taking small projects to optimize WordPress sites for less then $500. If you are interested in getting your entire site checked and completely optimized feel free to contact me with your budget and expectations and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Last but not least – Remember: SEO is a noun, verb and adjective.

The other day I woke up to a very disturbing email from Google Webmaster team. For the first second I thought it was a spam but I realized, it is not. The email warned me while Google crawled one of my domains it found a malicious code installed on it. I was very surprised but a quick look had me discover it. I went to the homepage of my domain and right click with the mouse, and “viewed source”. The first script on the site was something linking to a russian site “addonrock.ru” obviously, this is nothing I know of. The malware was installed on many default.php and index.php and required a deep cleansing. I had downloaded the entire folder to a local folder where I searched the keyword “addonrock.ru” and found tens of files with that script code installed on it. I’m starting to take heavy caution now and wanted to recommend a good solid plugin that can help you be more safe. WP Secure – it is a plugin that was developed as a benefit to the community for free from the leading Malware and Web vulnerability company – SiteSecurityMonitor.com developed this for their customers initially, and decided to release it to the community.

• removes error-information on login-page
• adds index.php plugin-directory (virtual)
• removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
• removes Really Simple Discovery
• removes Windows Live Writer
• remove core update information for non-admins
• remove plugin-update information for non-admins
• remove theme-update information for non-admins (only WP 2.8 and higher)
• hide wp-version in backend-dashboard for non-admins
• Add string for use WP Scanner
• Block bad queries

Site Security Monitor scans, cleans and protects your website, web server and applications from malware and hacker exploits – and keeps your site secure using advanced SaaS technology. I highly recommend for everyone to run a security check on their site and make sure that you change your database on daily basis if not then weekly. To quickly optimize my database I use WP-Cleanup a plugin that by a single click removes all the unused database including spam comments (which is another way of malware attacking your site). Click to download -

WP Secure

WP Clean up

There are several plugins that I’ve been going with since day one for every WordPress installation I’ve done but their customization could be a bit more painful then you’d think – that’s right. Having SEO plugins is not just installing them and checking your Google Analytics and waiting for results – it takes patience. One of the biggest steps in the ‘SEO Cycle’ is patience, monitoring after all.

I’ve made a collection with a few SEO tips for all WordPress users. Please notice that this takes a bit more then just installation – so web-masters prepare yourself for some hard work :)

My first one on the list is

SEO Title Tag by net-concepts. Title tags is perhaps the most important thing in current web optimization. You should also work very hard on your titles and make sure you include a good juicy keyword and maintaining the 69 characters (note that anything like space, periods, dashes or pipes are considered a character. In my opinion characters like &%$#@ are considered sometimes 5 characters.) This plugin takes a bit of installation and touches HTML and PHP. You will need to re-construct your current “” command inside your header.php or single.php

See instruction below on how to incorporate SEO Title Tag plugin with your post.

Afterwards you will be able to mass edit the title tag for all of your tags, posts, pages, categories.

After the installation of SEO title tag comes another favorite plugin of mine called Headspace2 by urban-giraffe. This plugin can help you auto-edit all of your posts, pages, categories, 404, search results etc but what’s good about this plugin is if you don’t define a title it will not edit it. This is something All In One SEO plugin does not do. When you activate All In One SEO if you check the box where you’d like to “rewrite titles” it will rewrite it for all. For headspace, it’s only what’s defined. That’s a great add-on.

For your site optimization I recommend checking WP-Cleanup made y JortK it’s a simple plugin that helps you manage your MySQL optimization. For example let’s say you’ve installed a plugin last year, set it up and then deactivated it. Most likely the MySQL tables still exist incase you will ever activate the plugin again. These tables grow your MySQL to a monster-size and affect your site speed, it is highly recommended that you will optimize your MySQL and make sure you avoid all unused MySQL data – always. It’s a simple clean up, you check what you want to remove there is no danger involved.

Ok, the next one on my list is Simple Tag it is THE perfect tool for mass editing tags, auto-tagging articles (and avoiding stupid tags) some of it’s really cool functions include auto link tags in post content, type-ahead input tags which could be a bit annoying, related tags, you can define it that it will only tag untagged posts and to tag posts with only pre-existing tags if the keyword is found in full. You can also define that anytime a keyword appears in your post that is an existing tag it will auto-hyperlink it to the tag itself eventually creating a beautiful SEO crawl. It also helps mass editing tags, organizing and even getting rid of unused tags.

Automatic SEO Links – that’s a nice tool to have if you understand the concept of anchor texting. It works pretty much the same way Simple Tags works that when ever a keyword is found and appears as a tag it will auto-link to it’s tag however automatic seo links work in a way that when ever a keyword is found (that you select) it will link to a landing page – which you choose. So, define the anchor text, define the link (no-follow do-follow target_blank etc) and it’s landing page.

Redirection – another plugin from urban-giraffe. Redirection plugin for WordPress is a nice tool to carry as it manages all the 301 redirection and keeps track of your 404 errors. I personally don’t like it because it carries a JS file with it and a heavy database which increases my loading time but overall it’s a good plugin to have, don’t get me wrong it’s only a tiny second loading time that bothers me.

After, the longest search of all to find the best ‘Related Posts’ I’ve always ended up with the same plugin: YARRP.

Although Mitch (@yarpp) is a great man and developed a text tool that is beyond good. It is not attractive enough. And the guides he provides to Display thumbnails for Related posts in WordPress are beyond ridiculously long and more then that -tiring. Because right after you’re done with that guide you realize that now you have to go to each and every single article and add a custom note ‘wp-thumbnail’ and attach a 125×125 url. OK That’s obviously not happening with our blog (2000+ blog entries)? Are you INSANE?

My top best ‘Related Posts’ in WordPress Plugin are:

The crown goes to WP-Thumbie by Blogsdna.com

What does it do? – WP-Thumbie displays a list of Thumbnail related posts for the current post.

1. You can select the number of posts to be display in your content / feed.
2. You can choose to exclude posts from certain categories as well as exclude pages.

Features

• Display Related Posts with thumbnail image automatically in content / feed, no need to edit template files
• Doesn’t use any custom field to generate thumbnail images
• You can manually add code to your template where you want the Wp-thumbie to be displayed
• Exclude posts from categories
• Exclude display of thumbnail related posts on Pages
• Exclude pages in thumbnail related Posts list
• Related posts based on content and post title
• Set Thumbnail image size
• Turn on/off Post excerpt
• Set length of Post excerpt
• Different Styling for displaying thumbnail related posts
• Display Thumbnail related posts in RSS Feeds (Styling issue)

YARPP – ‘Yet Another Related Post – Takes 2nd place for being most clever, (reading both content & tags & titles).

GUIDE: HOW TO FIND THE WORDPRESS PAGE ID / POST ID / CATEGORY ID With WordPress 2.5 being released, the IDs on all admin pages have been removed as it is. For more advanced WordPress Users/ developers those IDs were quite interesting for some plugins or template tags.

In order to perfect your Transcript theme you can simply eliminate useless pages, or pages that you prefer to appear on the Footer instead of the Navigation bar. To do that, you have to find the Page/Post ID/Category ID.

Example of Transcript’s “Exclude Page from Navigation” -

(Transcript is one of the most advanced WordPress Newsletter based Premium WordPress theme that is currently offered in the market).

Method 1 - after you’ve logged into your WordPress dashboard, (http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin). Go to Pages > Edit or Posts > Edit and from the list of Pages/Posts hover over the Page/Post title you want to find the ID of. Every time you hover over, your browser’s status bar will show you a URL ending with a number like this.

This might be a painful process. Method 2 - If you don’t see anything when you hover over, click on the Page link to open edit Page screen. Now, look in your browser’s address bar and you’ll find the URL ending with a number. And that is your Page/Post ID.

Method 3 - what this plugin does is to reveal most removed entry IDs on admin pages, showing the entry IDs, as it was in versions prior to 2.5

Features: Following IDs can be revealed: Posts, Pages, Categories, Links, Media, Users, Comments, Link categories, Tags (WP 2.8 and above) Each ID can be de-/activated seperately, plus you can allow/permit user roles to see the IDs

DOWNLOAD THIS PLUGIN: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…r-wp-admin-25/

If you’ve recently upgraded your WordPress platform blog from 2.8.x to 2.9 you might (and most likely) be experiencing issues and bugs with your website or blog platform. Please note that this post is only treating the Facebook Thumbnail bug.

Let’s begin with a tip for the future,

• Don’t automatically upgrade whenever a new version is available.

Sometimes upgrading may result in plugins that are a bit behind, and deactivate them, cause errors along the site and might even mess up your whole site platform. As far as I know, blippr does not corporate with FCG in WP 2.9.

One of my major problems with upgrading to WordPress 2.9 was the sharing ability, and the thumbnailing of each shared post to Facebook. This resulted in a discussion board under the topic of “BLOG THUMBNAILS NOT SHOWING!” which is why I originally created this blog post, to help you figure this issue out.

If what’s stated in the picture below, happening to you this is the post for you:

Worry not guys, the issue will be solved within a few minutes. Here is the 5 steps you will need to follow to restore your blog from WordPress 2.9 to 2.8 (or downgrade WordPress version) in order to have those thumbnails appear on Facebook Shares / Digg submissions / StumbleUpon submissions – that is until WordPress resolves the WP 2.9 issues.

Download WordPress 2.8

Back up your database MySQL using phpMyAdmin – if this is Chinese to you don’t hesitate to ask me “Hey, Daniel, how the hell do I back up my database?” because I will help you! (Can give detailed support for any WordPress blog hosted on GoDaddy) but if you want quick instructions without screenshots just sign in to your GoDaddy account, click on Hosting>Manage Account>Databases(tab)>MySQL> Under “action” click on that little pencil and then hit “Backup” (The backup process may take up to 2 hours. The file will be available at the time in the folder listed below.)

Now that you’ve done both basics it’s time to open up your FTP client I use Cyberduck it is one of my favorite Mac FTP clients

Follow these careful steps

>Select the files in the WordPress 2.8 folder that you downloaded earlier, and excluding (do not copy) the wp-content and wp-config (if it’s in the folder, most likely it is not but if you’ve got wp-config-sample unselect that one as well) if you don’t follow these steps this will result with you losing your plugins, themes, so remember, don’t copy wp-config, wp-content, wp-config-sample. Once you’ve got that under control – paste them into your FTP root. Note that when you drag those files a message will pop up and will have you overwrite your WordPress 2.9 files, click accept, don’t be afraid. Now that it’s really happening, go make yourself a cup of coffee and know that in just a few minutes your issue will be resolved.

Note: this might take anywhere between 3 to 9 minutes.

If you are running Meebo Bar and still experiencing issues with “Share this page” or “Drag to Share” ability you will have to follow different steps which is, contacting me.

If your website is running any e-mail marketing campaigns consider to switch to MailChimp, free, and much better then any other e-mail marketing service, awesome templates, fonts, and easy service.

If you’ve been on the search for a powerful comment box for your blog/website (like I am  continuously) you might be amazed by what you’re going to find here.

DISQUS pronounced as “discuss” and no, not from the word “Disgusting”. DISQUS is a service and tool for web comment and discussions. DISQUS comment system can be plugged into any website, blog or application. It makes commenting easier, and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

In my previous post “Tweak that comment box” I suggested, and recommended to tweak it up into a Facebook <script> file with a xdreceiver that automatically syncs with your Fan page and as good as that was, while it lasted (2 days) it was not good at all – and you might ask yourself why

1. No comment moderations
2. It sometimes did not load
3. Disencourage non-facebook members to write
4. “Facebook Connect” icon was too small and people did not leave
5. A lot of people do not want to use Facebook connect since Facebook is indeed, an intimate social network.

Also, and should have been the first, it didn’t have the “comment count” on category.php // index.php and in addition to that you never really knew if people left a comment on your site and where they left it. So by now – we agree that Facebook Comment was not the best idea.

Let me express it with a photo:

Here is by far, the best comment box for your WordPress. Say hello to DISQUS.

What is DISQUS? – A comment system and moderation for your website, track and manage your own comment on the web (regardless where you comment) includes a Facebook Connect + Twitter + many many more features that will stun you. The best thing about this plugin is that it syncs with your old WordPress comment, and will automatically migrate them into the DISQUS plugin. And if you need Support, God, they are the best. I was trying to import some 300 comments into the DISQUS comment plugin and failed, I just submitted a question in the forum and not even an hour later, someone replied to me “Can you forward me a copy of your comments export? WP Admin > Tools > Export (all authors)” not one hour later, all my comments appeared on the site – and showed in the category.php comment counter, index.php comment counter, pretty much – everywhere. DISQUS WordPress plugin seamlessly integrates using the DISQUS API and by syncing with the WordPress comments.

DISQUS for WordPress

1. Uses the DISQUS API
2. Comments indexable by search engines (SEO-friendly)
3. Support for importing existing comments
4. Auto-sync (backup) of comments with DISQUS and WordPress

DISQUS Features

1. Threaded comments and replies
2. Notifications and reply by email
3. Subscribe and RSS options
4. Powerful moderation and admin tools
5. Full spam filtering (works with Aksimet)
6. Support for DISQUS community widgets
7. Connected with a large discussion community
8. Increased exposure and readership.

How to import WordPress comments to DISQUS Comment

Yes, it’s that easy.

How does it look in MySQL?

DISQUS also replaces your back end of WordPress Comments, to a fancy layout that will look like this:

More documentation go to http://disqus.com/docs/wordpress

I’m always on the look for a new plugin and if you’re reading this post that means that you’re looking for some interesting ones as well. Here’s a list of the best WordPress Plugins / WP Plugins you were looking for.

Simply click on the Hyperlink to begin your download.

WordPress Toolbar is a unique plugin which will automatically enable a toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog post, similar to stumbleupon and facebook. Often the visitors on your blog clicks one of the outgoing link for more information. However, s/he often forgets to comment back or social bookmark your blog. WordPress toolbar will float on the top of all these outgoing links from your blog post, showing options for either visit back your blog post from where s/he came from, comment back on your blog, social bookmark you blog in one of the famous bookmarking sites and finally an option to leave this toolbar. Support for tinyurl and sociable are added since version 2.1.

This plugin is a result of day to day observations of my wordpress blog stat. I analyzed that 75% of my blog’s visitors were leaving my blog posts by clicking one of the out-going links. I doubt how many of them were coming back to leave a comment or to bookmark/share my blog post on one of the social bookmarking sites. I can say this because, even I too forget to press the browser back button and visit the blog again. Also, when you get 10k+ pageviews and 1 comment, something is wrong!

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. See it live on our other domain Bloginity.

I tend to like this one much better then the other Contact forms that WordPress has offered me since it’s a organic looking form, nothing too fancy.

Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more. Featured Content Gallery home page: FeaturedContentGallery.com.

This I prefer better then NexGEN gallery for WordPress. Although it’s a bit more techy and you might think ” I’m not going to type these codes for every article I want to feature ” you actually get used to it, and it’s a very simple method. If you’re having problems with the installation of Featured Content Gallery they have a great forum support but mark my words before: You need to add a custom field name “articleimg” and specify the URL img you want the gallery to show. Also “featuredtext” for the short excerpt on the image. The rest of the setting are done from the application. In addition, remember that you need at least 5 listed for the Gallery to begin sliding.

See it live here

Google Sitemap Generator (XML) – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. This is a must for every website.

Breadcrumbs Easily add breadcrumbs to your template. If you’re using one of the supported WordPress frameworks, it’s as easy as enabling the plugin and checking the “Try to add automatically box”, if you’re not using one of those, adding it is as simple as adding one line of code to your template. This a must for every website.

RobotsMeta – There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to WordPress pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin.

This plugin makes it very easy to:

• Prevent indexing of your search result pages, while still allowing the search engines to follow the links on them, by adding noindex,follow robots meta tags.
• Disallow indexing of subpages to your homepage, category pages, author pages and tag pages, to prevent duplicate content.
• Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages by adding noindex robots meta tags.
• Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags, allowing you to opt out of DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory descriptions.
• Prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing your feeds by adding a meta tag to their head-section.
• Prevent indexing of just your comment feeds.
• Disable author and date-based archives.
• Prevent attachment pages from ranking in the search results over your articles.
• Enforce a trailing slash on archives.
• Edit your .htaccess and your robots.txt from within WordPress.
• Assign robots meta tags to individual posts & pages.
• Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Tools.
• Add noarchive tags to your blog (Thanks to Henryk Gerlach).

WP SuperCache – If you’re aiming for speed then this is what you need. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

@Reply – This plugin allows you to add Twitter-like @reply links to comments. When clicked, those links insert the author name and a link to the comment you are replying to in the textarea.

Link Juice Keeper – Mmmmm.. As you probably know, incoming links play important role in ranking well in Google and other search engines. Therefore you should assure that every incoming link leads to one of pages on your blog. This may be a challenge, because World Wide Web is dynamic and changes every day.

Shoot me an e-mail if you’re having issues with the installation or would like to suggest that I will add anything here.

There are plugins – and then there are plugins. During the whole of my blogging career I’ve customized a fair amount of plugins, I’ve also cultivated a fair amount of fine head aches that are only found while reading those fine prints of HTML. The core of what I’m trying to say is I did not have that extra £ £ £  to hire a coder. I spent a large part of the day after sundown and before sunrise, impartially trying to figure out why things are not working the way you want them to.

It’s safe to say I had a can of worms in my hand, but I always tried to give it my old college try. I told my father, “I’m now an entrepreneur.” Because I hear that’s what you’re called when don’t have an actual job. I’ve commit oneself to open my own domain where I will tell you exactly why you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on your site. I will go into detail and illustrate what you’re ought to do. I made this short list of the must-have WordPress plugins for every WordPress site. These are the plugins I apply even before setting up a FeedBurner.

Choose the right WP theme.

If I had someone teaching me why it was better to use Flash then HTML when I first started.. I would have rescued approximately a year that’s gone to waste, let’s not even mention the stress and effort spent. There are certain things you must know about choosing the theme. Use organic, anatomical, basic and most of all natural theme. Not the ones that look cool, and slide up and down when you move your scroll bar.

Get these WP plugins.

Sitemap Generator by Dagon Design – Everyone should have this plugin. A site map is a list of pages of web sites accessible to crawlers, spiders, monkeys, or whatever you want to call them. Think about it as your Family Tree. But in this case, it’s your “Family Forest”. (Double click to view image)

Smart 404 – Michael Tyson – You never ever wish to hand your readers a nice 404. Instead of quickly giving up and moving to the next site, this plugin redirects them to the homepage. No matter how cool your 404 image is, or if you think to yourself “Hey, this is will go so viral on SU !!” <- That’s a bold No.
Theme Test Drive – by Vladimir Prelovac – Do you really need a reason why? Here’s a reason: I don’t want to see you test how your new theme might look. (Only logged admins will be able to see the new look, this way, you could tweak and code what ever you want and only when you’re ready – Activate!)

SEO Friendly Images – yet another fabulous plugin by Vladimir Prelovac. If you’re looking to have an entertainment blog, or a fashion blog or actually, any blog with images this will draw you a lot of traffic on the long run. You need to make sure that you do add a description to your images, and do title them for what they are. For example let’s say you’re about to upload a this image below – but it’s titled: n1507600716_8844.jpg don’t leave it like that, that’s just wrong! What you want to do is just the title to “Fat cat” and add a description again, “White cat, fat cat”.

User Locker – Daniel FrużyÅ„ski – Not much into it. This is a brutal way of dealing with site hackers. Simple, 5 times wrong pw and you’re account gets locked.

FeedBurner – You must feed your readers. Must.

Blogroll NoFollow – James Morris – This plugin will help you maintain your Page rank. It adds the nofollow value to the rel attribute of a all blogroll links. If you’re not sure what “nofollow” is, read article here.

Platinum SEO Pack by Rajesh – Certain themes are not fully supported by this plugin which is why I chose to list it last. This plugin is to create homepage title, description, title tags and so on. I’ve had a few issues using this plugin. It resulted by me re-coding it and making it better so if you’re interested let me know and I will instruct you. Make sure that ONLY your header gets the title you chose and not every article you’ve posted.

SEO Title Tag – You don’t really need a plugin for this, you can manual it by choosing custom structure and type %postname% this way, you will get a permalink with the post names, and that will help search engines find your posts as well as title tags.

There are more plugins that I can recommend using like Link Juice Keeper, User Photo. If you’ve got any issues installing any of the plugins, or questions regarding custom coding feel free to shoot me an eMail! and please don’t forget to burn my Feed :)