6 Essential Plugins For Your Small Business WordPress Site
Posted by shaun in Blogging,Online Marketing,Website Design | March 5, 2013
If you have been looking for a Content Management System for your business website then we would wholeheartedly recommend WordPress, it’s what we use to power our websites. WordPress is one of the most powerful, easy to use and most used content management systems available and is a fantastic tool for any small business. It comes at the extremely low price of FREE too which is a bonus.
One of the things that makes WordPress so great is the community of developers around the platform who produce plugins to enhance the functionality of the system. Though WordPress is fantastic on it’s own we believe there are a number of plugins that any small business should install to improve their setup.
Here are our must have WordPress plugins (all of which are free):
WordPress SEO by Yoast
The WordPress SEO plugin is the very first plugin we always install on client sites. This plugin makes it extremely easy to ensure your post/page’s are well optimised for target keywords. It will allow you to optimise titles, images, meta tags, your XML sitemap and more. Any small business website should have this free plugin installed.
Akismet
Akismet comes pre-installed with your WordPress installation, you just need to get a key to activate it (which is a simple process). If your website is going to be operating a blog then at some stage it will come under attack from spam comments, Akismet does a brilliant job of filtering out those comments for you.
Contact Form 7
Any business website needs a method for allowing customers to make contact, usually via a contact form that can filter out spam. Contact Form 7 is a very customisable plugin that allows you to build a contact form and place it anywhere on your website, ideal for a small business website.
Sharebar
If you have a blog on your business website then you will want to make it easy for people to share your blog posts on social media sites. Sharebar installs a fully customisable bar on your blog which allows people to share your content across a variety of social networks at the click of a button.
WpTouch
WpTouch is a really useful plugin that automatically creates a mobile friendly version of your WordPress website. It’s not as ideal as having a purpose designed mobile site but it does the job of making your site accessible to mobile visitors.
ViperBar
Viperbar is a very handy plugin that adds a bar to the top of your website with a mailing list signup form. The bar is completely customisable including colours and text and it is a very nice way to encourage visitors to sign up to your mailing list.
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Shaun is the owner of Van Zant Media and, subsequently, The Accountant Marketer. Can be contacted at [email protected]. Check me out on Google+
You need to have Yoast Plugin for SEO
And a couple of the security plugins.