Top 9 “Free” Wordpress Plugins To Help You Dominate Search & Social Media

In addition to the standard must have plugins for you wordpress blog, here are some plugins that you may consider worth having. They simply rock.

This list will keep changing, so please to do keep checking this blog.

Smart YouTube: Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed. The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. Want your video to be shown in full in your RSS feed then consider this plugin.

Keyword Statistics: This SEO plugin checks the content of posts/pages for the keyword density (single/phrases) while writing and is automatically setting the META-tags. Think how best you can use this on your Autoblog?

WP-UserOnline: Enable you to display how many users are online on your Wordpress blog with detailed statistics. This is amazing if you want to turn your blog into a membership site going forward or build a tight sense of community feeling around it.

Simple Facebook Connect: Connecting Facebook to Wordpress is somewhat difficult. Many plugins exist to do this, but they are overly complicated, or have security problems, or just plain don’t do the things you want them to do. Simple Facebook Connect makes it easy for your site to use Facebook Connect, in a wholly modular way.

Contact Form 7:It allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. It allows you to flexibly design the form and mail. You can manage multiple contact forms as well. In addition, it supports many features including AJAX submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, file uploading, etc.

CommentLuv
Reward your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts.Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, with CommentLuv for Wordpress and Wordpress MU you can give something back to your community straight away by including a titled link for their last blog post or tweet on the end of their comment.

Digg Digg:All-in-One social vote buttons – Digg, Reddit, dDone, Yahoo Buzz, TweetMeme(twitter), fbshare(facebook), Polladium, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Post comments, Google Buzz, Designbump, Designfloat, WebBlend and BlogEngage. Want some serious traffic? this plugin can give you some hits.

WP-Cumulus
WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page