{"id":4382,"date":"2015-10-29T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:46:42","slug":"5-wordpress-plugins-for-small-business-owners-and-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/5-wordpress-plugins-for-small-business-owners-and-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"5 WordPress Plugins for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"normal\">It can be terribly tough to set-up and run a business website. Even if you have some experience as a blogger, you are going to need implement lots of strategies on your site in order to compete in the competitive online world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">Moreover, even if you have all the required knowledge to get up and running with a business website, it still takes a lot of time to create content, regularly publish it on your website, tweak the website design, create products, increase email subscribers, and cater different needs of your website visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">This is when you need some good Plugins to assist you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">There are many content management systems (CMS), but most website owners prefer <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">WordPress<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s free and offers thousands of amazing plugins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">In this post, we are going to list down 6 WordPress plugins that small business owners and bloggers need.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>1. Thrive Leads \/ OptinMonster \/ LeadPages<\/h2>\n<p>For any blogger or business website owner, their email list of targeted subscribers is the most valuable business asset.<\/p>\n<p>Many researches and studies have been done about the profitability of email marketing. It is now proven that email marketing is, by far, the most profitable online marketing method. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingprofs.com\/articles\/2012\/7500\/boost-your-email-marketing-roi-by-focusing-on-three-key-areas\">It brings an average of $40 revenue on $1 spent <\/a>\u2014 making it the highest ROI grosser.<\/p>\n<p>There are many WordPress plugins and services that you can use to capture leads. I recommend using any of the following three options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thrivethemes.com\/leads\/\">Thrive Leads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/optinmonster.com\/\">OptinMonster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadpages.net\/\">LeadPages<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check each of these services and choose the one that fits your requirements and budget accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>2. Akismet<\/h2>\n<p>Akismet is easily the best spam-protection plugin for WordPress. There are many other options, too, but you don\u2019t have to waste your time with any of them. Akismet does the job perfectly!<\/p>\n<p>The best part about Akismet is its automation. It automatically catches most spam comments and move them to the spam comment box. You don\u2019t have to do anything once it is set up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/wordpress\/\">Akismet for WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3. EWWW Image Optimiser<\/h2>\n<p>Almost every blog has images.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a blogger, you should be using more images in your blog posts. According to a recent study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffbullas.com\/2012\/05\/28\/6-powerful-reasons-why-you-should-include-images-in-your-marketing-infographic\/\">blog posts with images get 94% more traffic views than blog posts that don\u2019t have images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the problem with having more images is that they can slow the loading speed of your website.<\/p>\n<p>A slow-loading speed is dangerous. It not only annoys your website visitors, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/seo-101-important-site-speed-2014\/111924\/\">search engines also penalize a website that takes a lot of time to load<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EWWW Image Optimiser is easily the best tool to automatically compress your images and make them web-friendly. It optimises your images and reduces their sizes, without sacrificing or affecting the quality of the images whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ewww-image-optimizer\/\">EWWW Image Optimizer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>4. Contact Form 7<\/h2>\n<p>It does not matter if you are a blogger or a business website owner, you must have a reliable contact form on your website.<\/p>\n<p>You will find plenty of contact forms for WordPress, but <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/contact-form-7\/\">Contact Form 7<\/a> is, by far, the best of the lot.<\/p>\n<p>It is very easy-to-use, beautiful, and extremely reliable. You need it so your blog readers, potential customers, and fans can easily contact you.<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/contact-form-7\/\">Contact Form 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>5. TweetDis<\/h2>\n<p>In today\u2019s competitive content marketing world, you need interactive content on your website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tweetdis.com\/\">TweetDis<\/a> is a fairly simple and easy-to-use WordPress that allows you to add beautiful tweet boxes within your blog posts. It not only reduces the bounce rate your website gets, but adding these tweet boxes also increase user-engagement, credibility, exposure, and social media shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TweetDis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4383\" src=\"https:\/\/improvemysearchranking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TweetDis.png\" alt=\"TweetDis\" width=\"502\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">You can also use <a href=\"http:\/\/coschedule.com\/click-to-tweet\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Click to Tweet by CoSchedule<\/span><\/a> if you prefer that. They basically perform the same function.<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"h.ir3t2t57knyv\"><\/a>Final Words<\/h2>\n<p class=\"normal\">Plugins are good, real good. They increase convenience, speed, and accuracy. Yet, having too many plugins can slow down your website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">So use only the ones you absolutely need and avoid loading your speed with too many unnecessary plugins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\">The 5 WordPress plugins that I\u2019ve mentioned in this post are used by most professional website owners and bloggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be terribly tough to set-up and run a business website. Even if you have some experience as a blogger, you are going to need implement lots of strategies on your site in order to compete in the competitive online world. 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