So this page is basically a list of the plugins that I use on my blogs, with a brief summary and link for each one.
the first plugin is to be my own “BlogTactics NoFollow” plugin.
I had this made for me to allow me to easily add the “nofollow” tag to blogroll links as Google gave a couple of myblogs a PR0 and the only reason I could see for them having done so was the blogroll links. A week or so after I added the plugin to those blog the PR came back, so I guess it did the trick! 
Here’s the link for the “No Follow” plugin: -
WordPress Blogroll NoFollow Plugin
and here’s a list of 20 odd other lugins that I use, it’s not a complete list, but these are the plugins that I use most often on all of my blogs, and all except one are free.
They’re all pretty easy to get set up and configured, but assoon as I’ve caught up on my backlog of videos to make I’ll also do some showing how to use each of the plugins, just to make sure you’re getting the most out of them.
So here’s the list: -
1. All-In-One SEO Pack
All-In-One SEO Pack Plugin
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog, By uberdose.
This is a must have plugin as far as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) goes, as it takes care of most of what you need for your blog.
2. Auto-hyperlink Url’s
Auto-hyperlink Urls Plugin
Auto-hyperlink text URLs in post content and comment text to the URL they reference. Does NOT try to hyperlink already hyperlinked URLs. Improves WordPress’s default make_clickable function, along with adding some configuration options, By Scott Reilly.
3. Auto Social Poster [Not Free]
Auto Social Poster Plugin
Bookmarks your posts to a wide range of social bookmarking sites automatically, with randomization built in to reduce footprints and make sure your SB accounts don’t get flagged.
4. Brian’s Threaded Comments
Brians Threaded Comments Plugin
This gives you threaded comments and a “wandering” comment form, By Brian Meidell. You can see it in action in the comments area of this site.
5. Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps Plugin
This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog, By Arne Brachhold. I’ve no idea if this is the best Google Sitemaps plugin, it just happens to be the one I use, the important bit is that you do use one.
6. MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget
DealDotCom Widget Plugin
Show the latest deal of the day from DealDotCom in your blog and earn lifetime commission from the sale, By MaxBlogPress. This is a pretty simple way of monetizing your blog, but only really useful if your blog is in the “make money online” or internet marketing niche. You can see an example in the sidebar on this blog.
7. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Ping Optimizer Plugin
Saves your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer, By MaxBlogPress. A real useful plugin to make sure you’re only pinging valid ping addresses.
8. No Duplicate Comments
No Duplicate Comments Plugin
Prevent visitors from leaving duplicate comments/pingbacks/trackbacks to a post, reducing spam, By Scott Reilly.
9. Permalink Migration
Permalink Migration Plugin
With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website, and even doesn’t hurt your google pagerank, By Dean Lee. This is VERY USEFUL if you have started a blog with the default permalink struture and want to change it to the best permlink structure for SEO purposes - see previous post here - seo friendly wp permalink structure
10. Post Teaser
Post Teaser Plugin
Post Teaser generates a preview or “teaser” of a post for the main, archive and category pages, with a link underneath to go to the full post page. It includes features to generate a word count, image count, and an estimated reading time, By WeyHan Ng.
11. Related Posts
Related Posts Plugin
Returns a list of the related entries based on active/passive keyword matches. By Alexander Malov, Mike Lu & Jon Bourne.
12. Similar Posts
Similar Posts Plugin
Displays a list of posts similar to the current one by comparing the way they use words. By Rob Marsh, SJ.
13. Subscribe to Comments
Subscribe to Comments Plugin
Simple plugin that allows people to subscribe when they make a comment on a post, so that they then receive an email whenever someone else places a follow up comment on the same post. Obviously this is a fantastic way to get people to come back to your blog.
14. Trackback Validator
Trackback Validator Plugin
Eliminates spam trackbacks with surprising accuracy (see website for details). By Dan Sandler and Andres Thomas-Stivalet.
15. TweetMyBlog!
TweetMyBlog Plugin
Updates your twitter account with each new post to your blog. By John Merrick & Soren Jordansen.
16. Unique Articles Wizard
Unique Articles Wizard Plugin
Receive unique articles directly into wordpress - with full control over categories By Dr. Noel Swanson.
This plugin is free, you don’t need to be a full member of UAW to use it, check out the previous post and video to see how to find it -
Automated Blog Posts Free Plugin
17. Weasel’s No HTTP Author
Weasels No HTTP Author Plugin
Checks to see if the author name in your comments contains “HTTP:” to help filter out spam. This only sets the “spam” flag on the comment; Akismet does the dirty work and actually removes and reports the comment. By Andy Moore.
18. What Would Seth Godin Do
What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors to encourage them to sign up as an RSS subscriber, By Richard K Miller.
19. WordPress Database Backup
WordPress Database Backup Plugin
On-demand backup of your WordPress database, By Scott Merrill.
This may not be the best WP backup plugin, it’s simply the one I’ve been using for ages. I believe there is another one that will do backups automatically and email them to you, which sounds more useful…
20. WordPress Stats
WordPress.com Stats Plugin
Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key. By Andy Skelton.
21. WP-Grins
WP-Grins Plugin
A Clickable Smilies hack for WordPress, basically this adds smileys to the post and comments options, which is kinda cool. By Alex King.
22. WP PlugIM
WP PlugIM Plugin
Adds PlugIM button to your WordPress blog posts. By Sudar.
Only really useful if your blog is in the “make money online” or internet marketing niche.
23. WP-SphinnIt
WP-SphinnIt Plugin
Adds SphinnIt button to your WordPress blog posts. By Michelle MacPhearson.
Only really useful if your blog is in the “make money online” or internet marketing niche.
Hope this helps, and don’t forget to popback and check for new ones now and then, or just sign up for the RSS or newsletter to get informed when I add new stuff..
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I can’t seem to figure out how to add adsense to my new blog. I was hoping to get your plugisns and can’t find em either
First of all i wanna say that this is a great post, i downloaded and installed almost all of them, some of them however return into an error on the down page.
To get adsense on your website you should go to the google.com/adsense page, than you can make and customize an add, and than you get the code, you copy paste the code from google, into your WIDGET editor, as txt, just clikc txt and paste it in there. It’s not a plugin. After that you should wait a while, untill google’s crawler found your site, and analyzed your information.
Hi Coration,
using widgets to put adsense on a blog is the simple way to do so, but it does mean that the ads are in your sidebar, not in the post itself.
The purpose of the AdSense Delux plugin is to allow you to easily include AdSense within posts themselves.
cheers,
Matt Garrett
ow that’s nice. So you just click on the topic to comment, and then the ads should show up in the post itself by itself?
Hi Coration,
you can find the videos I’ve done for the different ways of adding AdSense to blogs on the vidoes page here: -
http://blogtactics.com/videos/
Videos 42 to 45 arethe ones to watch.
cheers,
Matt Garrett
Hi there Matt,
Any ETA on getting your plug-in page back up and running? Was looking forwards to downloading your noFollow plugin!!
cheers
Paul
Hi Paul,
I’ve added the nofollow plugin link back above and I’ll try and get the rest of the plugin links added later this week.
cheers,
Matt
Er… Matt,
Nice site and all, but I was led here by Caroline MiddleBrook with a promise of getting the plugin - NoFollow. Cant seem to find it anywhere, so pls where else can I get it?
Thanks in advance,
Daydah
Hi Daydah,
I’ve just added the link for the nofollow plugin back on to the page above for you, apologies!
Matt
argh, bring back the plugins =[
Sorry Chris, I’ve added the nofollow plugin link back on above, and I’ll try and get the rest of this page rebuilt later this week.
cheers,
Matt
The Plugins page is back and updated with a much bigger list!
Matt
Hi Matt
Re No 19, the WordPress Database Backup.
The one that sends backups by email is WP-DB-Backup. I use it on all my blogs.
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/
What I’ve done is set up a Gmail account just for the backups, and I’ve got WP-DB-Backup setup so that it backs up the database daily, direct to the gmail account. Then every few weeks I’ll login to the Gmail account and delete all the emails except those from the past few days.
Phil
Hi Phil,
thanks for the link for the WP-DB-Backup plugin, I’ll go grab a a copy and check it out.
Using a seperate GMail account for the backups to be sent to is also an excellent suggestion!
cheers,
Matt Garrett
Your link for the Auto Social Poster Plugin contains an error.
The URL comes up as: “http://www.mat4com/files/asp.thml” but of course should be:
“http://www.mat4.com/files/asp.thml” (i.e. with a dot between mat and com).
Also my revised attempt at loading with the dot still failed so I tried it ending with /asp.html in case that was also wrong but this didn’t work either, though I can get just http://www.mat.com to work but that takes me to the Mat4.Com : SEO, Internet & Affiliate Marketing Videos page
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(one of your sites, I guess - who’s the yeti in the shades?
Ooops!
Well spotted Paul, and thanks!
I’ve made the corrections so it works now.
and yup, that’s me in the yeti jacket, it’s my ski gear…
Matt