As we search for the next awesome home business ideas on how to get more RSS subscribers or how to get repeat visitors, truth be told, you may not need to look further than your own business blog.
Here are just 10 of the best WordPress Plugins that can do almost anything that you can imagine. Yes, converting readers into your most loyal subscribers may seem to take much more than a mere wordpress plugin. But in this competitive world of our blogosphere, with many emerging potential bloggers trying to follow the paths of John Chow, Yaro and Darren Rowse, it may need a little more effort than you think. It could well be that simple yet clever plugin you found, to win you yet another subscriber. Hopefully I can give you a headstart here.
Your blog readers want information fast….
Search Everything A new reader comes to your blog for the sole purpose of finding something he has queried in the search engine. Whether he succeeds to find this information on your blog is one thing, how he eventually found it is another. The good or bad experience while locating this piece of information will decide if this visitor will ever become your repeat visitor to your blog. Your default search utility that you have on your home business blog lets the reader perform searches only on your posts. This plugin written by Dan Cameron, however gives your visitors more search options by allowing them to search pages, attachments, comments, and custom fields.
Getting readers engaged in current conversations….
Subscribe to Comments This plugin allows visitors who comment on your blog, an opportunity to subscribe to e-mail notifications of subsequent comments. Written by Mark Jaquith, the plugin also allows your visitors to unsubscribe from specific posts, block all notifications, and change their e-mail addresses.
Saying thanks to new readers to your home business blog….
Comment Relish Here is a simple WordPress plugin written by Justin Shattuck to send an e-mail message to new readers who commented on your blog for the first time. It’s more of a “thank-you for coming” kind of message that readers may appreciate and hopefully subscribe to your business blog too (if you’re lucky) using the RSS link found in the email.
Value your blog visitors’ comment….
Edit Comments TX Michael Woehrer’s plugin gives your visitors a 30 minute time frame to edit any comments before they leave your blog. Readers will appreciate having the chance to make fine corrections.
Good communication leads to better call to actions….
Contact Form The golden rule of thumb is that you must be contactable at all times and reply to any of your readers or subscribers’ questions. It may well be a sale, an ad purchase or any business opportunity which may be time sensitive. Having a contact form on your blog serves this purpose and secures that deal.
Readers remember little things on your home business blog….
Bookmark Me I like to think that there are many people who still bookmark pages that they like at social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio.us, Twitter, Technorati, StumbleUpon. Well help them help you when you let them subscribe your pages with this Plugin.
Blog visitors’ favorite plugins for building backlinks….
Commentluv I’ve known some serious bloggers who are pretty addicted to blog commenting and working to get “top commentator” spot at all their favorite blogs is like a job that needs to be completed – daily. Here is another condition they look out for – it must have commentluv on their blogs. Honestly you are going to benefit from such people like me these bloggers when you install Commentluv by Andy Bailey. DoFollow This dofollow plugin for WordPress lets you remove the nofollow attribute from your comments. There has been a lot of discussion on the merits of nofollow vs dofollow, but personally I think If someone takes the time to offer a unique, well thought-out comment to a topic on your blog, then they deserve a backlink for their efforts. Even if someone tells me it is depleting my link juice on my pages. Just side-tracking a little, I’ve always given out freely more link love than I can ever remember. Just taking a look at this post The Easiest Way To Get Backlinks Starts Here, and you will see my point I’m making here.
Readers’ Appreciation- a little pampering does wonders….
WP-Print/ WP-Email Readers who are less technically savvy and who communicate a lot on email will definitely love these plugins. WP E-mail lets you send the entire post or page to yourself, or to someone else. WP Print displays a nicely formatted, printable version of your post. Good for tutorials or reading on the move. Bonus Plugin: Broker Link Checker How many of these WordPress plugins do you have on your blog. Only those that are good for the reader experience. If you have a good one to share I’d love to hear from you too.
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November 22, 2008 at 6:15 pm
How about Lucy’s Linky Love plugin?
http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/lucias-linky-love-a-dofollow-plugin-to-foil-human-comment-spammers/
This only allows dofollow after a particular user has posted several times… that way encouraging greater participation and discouraging the hit and runners
November 22, 2008 at 7:44 pm
@Andy @ Do Follow 001: Hi Andy, yes I’ve heard of this plugin and it’s also a good one. Thanks for your suggestion. See you around.
-Peter
Passive Income Ideas
November 23, 2008 at 12:05 am
Hi Peter,
Great list of word press plugins. Having your users interact easily will hopefully have them return for more action.
Your blog is really coming along, well done,
Jason
November 23, 2008 at 1:18 am
@Success University Review: Hey Jason, it’s good to see you here. Glad you like it. My blog is good only when readers like you visit it and say nice things like this, eh!. See you around.
-Peter
Passive Income
November 23, 2008 at 1:17 am
Hi Peter, I notice that the Tag Cloud plug works very well. I have quite a few of the same or versions of the plugins you mention in your post. One that I may think of installing is the ‘contact form’.
I reckon, seeing how we both did a post on plugins almost simultaneously, that we must think alike, wouldn’t you say Peter?
Sires last blog post..Plugins Make WordPress So Versatile
November 23, 2008 at 1:59 am
Great stuff here, Peter. I’ve wanting to install the last 2 plugins but never really got my ass up to fix it and thanks for the gentle reminder.
Oh It’s still a great puzzle why Comment Relish doesn’t work for me…;( It keeps sending email for every comment. I took it off long ago. Can anyone enlighten me here?
Yan
November 23, 2008 at 9:29 am
Building relationships with your blog visitors is the new “Web 2.0″ way of blogging.
Going Dofollow on my blogs has greatly increased the number of visitors to my blogs and the number of people leaving comments. Of course you have to monitor the short “nice blog dude” type of comments and reward only those leaving good comments.
I also like KeywordLuv, it allows visitors who comment to use their name and keywords in their comment Name (title).
Mike of Dofollow Blog Lists last blog post..Askimet and Blog Comment Spam
November 23, 2008 at 12:21 pm
@Mike of Dofollow Blog List: Thanks Mike for dropping by and yes I’ve used KeywordLuv too and that’s a good plugin too. I intend to install on this blog soon. See you around.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas
November 23, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Great list Peter, plugins can add a great deal to your blog.
Alan
Alan Thomass last blog post..Five Great Ways To Make Your Site Search Engine Friendly
November 23, 2008 at 6:51 pm
@Alan Thomas: Hi Alan, yes I simply love WP as there are many intelligent people out there tinkering with scripts as we speak.It just makes WP platform much more interesting to use isn’t it.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas
November 23, 2008 at 7:07 pm
GREAT LIST! I was looking for the comment relish, thanks for that! Good job Peter on the KW optimization and internal link building on this post
November 23, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I just stumbled this one!
JR @ Internet Marketing Strategiess last blog post..New Google Search Based Keyword Tool – Optimize Your Pages
November 23, 2008 at 7:22 pm
@JR @ Internet Marketing Strategies: Hi JR, it’s good to see you here. If you installed it let me know if you encountered the same problem as Yan.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas
November 23, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I wondered what plugin was giving the ability to edit comments
Calebs last blog post..ClickBank TopSites Review
November 23, 2008 at 7:43 pm
@Caleb: I installed ‘Edit Comments TX’ but somehow didn’t get it to work. If you’ve done it, do let me know if there is anything I might have missed.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas and Opportunities
November 23, 2008 at 7:20 pm
By the way in answer to your question, my blog is do-follow, but I let my readers know that they can use their keywords in the link, like Real Name @ Keywords, often times you see do-follow blogs but they only allow real names, who wants to rank for their real name?
I think that keyword do-follow is a great way to appreciate my commenters and has brought lots of good traffic. There is a plug in for that too it’s the Keyword Luv at: http://www.scratch99.com/wordpress-plugin-keywordluv/.
As far as losing link juice, I don’t believe that and I have not seen any evidence of it!
JR @ Internet Marketing Strategiess last blog post..New Google Search Based Keyword Tool – Optimize Your Pages
November 23, 2008 at 7:36 pm
@JR @ Internet Marketing Strategies: JR, I agree with you on this one”
…often times you see do-follow blogs but they only allow real names, who wants to rank for their real name? ..”. I’ve encountered such blogs too and I get really puzzled, assuming any spams are taken care of by Akismet and your comment moderation.
Thanks for the link on KeywordLuv. I intend to install this plugin.
-Peter
Work From Home Internet
November 23, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Comment Relish was WIDELY HATED for a long time when it was first introduced. I don’t know how people feel now, which is why I haven’t installed it yet.
The others ae very cool though.
Dennis Edells last blog post..2 NEW BLOGS Unveiled! FINALLY!!
November 23, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Hi Peter, thanks for the list of plug-ins. I’m always looking to improve my blog. You have one of the best looking blogs I have seen, keep up the good work. Tim Stokes
November 23, 2008 at 11:18 pm
CommentLuv is pretty popular amongst those that like to leave comments on blogs.
Susans last blog post..WordPress Theme 3
November 24, 2008 at 1:12 am
@Dennis Edell: Oh really, I didn’t know that ‘cos I received many such emails whenever I commented on new blogs.
@Affiliate Earning: Tim, thanks for dropping by. I just came from your blog and you have a beautiful blog too.I know what you mean when you say you are always improving your blog. Like my theme is relatively new too.
@Susan: Yes Susan, I simply love commentluv plugin. It’s a prerequisite for backlink building. Just visited your blog. You have a splendid range of WP themes.
Peter
Work From Home Ideas
November 24, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I use half of these, and the only one I’m not using that I may consider is the one that gives people a chance to edit their comments. I hate receiving email from blogs I’ve just commented on; just clutters up my email.
Mitchs last blog post..Book Writing Series Part Four – Telling A Story
November 25, 2008 at 3:38 pm
does this mean you don’t like CommentRelish
November 24, 2008 at 9:57 pm
By the way, Peter, it seems that your blog is loading slowly, and it might be related to Widget Bucks, since it seems it didn’t complete loading, even now.
Mitchs last blog post..Javascript Can Wreck Havoc With Blogs
November 24, 2008 at 10:31 pm
@Mitch: Thanks Mitch for telling me. I’ve had the Widget Bucks removed.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas
November 24, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hi Peter,
You have listed very great informations here. I’m still learning more on blog and don’t have much experience as you do. I really like your blog.
Thanks
Kha
Way to Work From Home Blog
November 25, 2008 at 6:41 pm
@Kha Ton: Kha, good to see you here again. WE all are learning not just you so welcome back to this community. Feel free to visit other blogs to learn more too. Some of the blogs I’ve seen are really awesome. See you around.
-Peter
Work From Home Internet
November 25, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hey Peter: I went through drama trying to install the EditComments TX too,but finally got it to work. The Re-Editing for this is found in 4 steps here…
…But I had to make a change or two:
*1) In step2 I delted what he sadi,but put his recoded code after the [div id="comment-box"][/div] tags just before a [?php endif; ?] tag.
*2) I decideds to NOT do step4 at all!
And this is what worked for me after constant trials and error…the guy who made this code really needs to clean it up.
Calebs last blog post..ClickBank TopSites Review
November 25, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I left a cooment earlier today concerning the EdiComments plugin install,but don’t see it?
I wanted to add that I did do step#4 and everything’s fine.
Calebs last blog post..2 More Reasons For CB TopSites
November 25, 2008 at 7:02 pm
@Caleb:I actually tried installing it but stopped since it didn’t seem to work. I ought to now go back to try it again since you provided more information here. It’s a little complex though.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas
November 26, 2008 at 1:49 am
The Comment Relish sounds interesting and a great idea. Too many bloggers out there pay lip service to “inviting comments” but in fact make one feel unwelcome. They seem to only like computer geeks making comments. A thankyou message is a good idea.
I must say Peter that you make everyone feel welcome to your blog.
Dave
December 1, 2008 at 1:28 am
Aww sorry to be late in commenting here. DoFollow and commentluv must have been the greatest partner ever. Attracts comments like bee is to honey.
Ben Peis last blog post..Making Money With Residual Affiliate Income Opportunities
December 1, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Peter,
Thanks for the list. I just added the DoFollow plug-in in hopes to get more readers commenting on my blog.
Steve Gittos last blog post..Improve Your Search Engine Rankings – 3 ways (Part 3)
December 1, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Nice review of plugins which should be installed on a blog before it would go in public. Many of users are not technical so I shall suggest “do follow” and “keyword luv” icons should be placed at visible place.
December 1, 2008 at 8:23 pm
@Dave’s Affiliate Marketing: Hey Dave, have you been away recently. Sent you an email to you at least a week ago but got no response.
@Ben Pei: You’re right DoFollow and Commentluv compliment each other very well. They are like….hmmm husband and wife?
@Steve Gitto: Thanks for dropping by. Yes most definitely and more backlinks resulting too. But consider installing Commentluv too.
@Ebook Rob: Making them more visible, that’s a good idea, considering that at times people come for short visits and this might attract them to stay a little longer.
-Peter
Work From Home Ideas
December 2, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Great list. I downloaded 4 of the plugins because you are absolutely right. Plus, with the link luv of dofollow, it creates a lot more commenting. People like blogs that are active.
December 2, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I run about 5 blogs, and I have been trying to find ways to get more people to actively participate. Eventually I would like to go forum, but it is notoriously hard to get them started.
December 2, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I really wish that I hadnt just found out about link luv. I have seen it on your blog for only 3 minutes and am already trying to be luved. I can see why it is addicting
December 2, 2008 at 6:30 pm
@david wolf: Hi David, thanks for dropping in. Commentluv is one of my favorites. Glad you liked these plugins.
-Peter
Work At Home Ideas
December 4, 2008 at 8:58 am
Adding video to your blog also makes for a “sticky” browsing experience so i thought I’d let you know about Kaltura’s All in One Video Pack for WordPress blogs. This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists, sidebar showing all recent videos posted and video comments and much more. Check it out and download it here: http://corp.kaltura.com/wordpress_video_plugin?general&campaign=wordpress-comments. Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4
December 4, 2008 at 11:01 am
@Roni: Sounds interesting. The only concern I might have is that videos tend to slow down the blog loading up. I might try it out on my new blog just to see how good it is.
-Peter
Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities
December 9, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Thanks for the list Peter. Lot’s of good plugins here. I use some of them on my various blogs. A few of them I didn’t know about so I will check into them.
~Trent
How to Make Money Online
Trent Brownriggs last blog post..Work at Home Blog for Sale
January 9, 2009 at 9:56 am
Nice post. Just discovered this blog – new to me in 2009 – so I’ll be coming back for more useful comment. Happy new year to all
January 25, 2009 at 8:01 am
Thanks for the heads up on th broken link plugin. I have already found a few broken links for one of my blogs.
January 25, 2009 at 9:57 am
@Peter@Latter: Hi Peter, thanks for dropping by and yes broken links plugin is one of my favorite too.
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Peter
Online Business Opportunities
January 28, 2009 at 4:41 am
Edit Comments TX is a great one. I like to comment on other people’s blogs and I can’t remember how many times I pressed that ‘submit’ button and saw that I’ve made some stupid typo right away. Most blogs, however, don’t have any editing options and most don’t have a preview, so in the end your typo stays there for all times. Just awful!
I’m installing Edit Comments TX to my blog and I hope more people will do the same.
January 28, 2009 at 10:16 am
@Alvin @ Atomic Blogging: Thanks for dropping by. I ran into some problem installing it and conveniently forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder, I shall install it soon.
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Peter
Work At Home Ideas
February 7, 2009 at 9:45 pm
H Peter,
This plugin its the one I where telling you about that allow us the readers to subscribe to your post comments
“Subscribe to Comments”
It seems you are not using it, am I right?
February 7, 2009 at 10:04 pm
@Marketing Business Review: Yes Luis I know. There seems to be a conflict with this and the SezWho Threaded Comments plugin I’m using. I’m trying to re-install it again.
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Peter
Work At Home Blog
February 8, 2009 at 4:15 am
Hi Peter,
I am using sezwho too, and seems I dont have conflict with that. What I have found is that my loading has increase since I had installed sezwho. I dont know if it worth to have installed, I am thinking in get rid of it.
What did you think about this sezwho? Did you still think has some benefits?
March 8, 2009 at 5:20 am
Sezwho is very similar to DISQUS and I don’t have both. I am really worried about comment spam and spammers because they always have pretty good ways to spoil a blog. Anyways, I think nobody can survive without all of those plugins.
March 9, 2009 at 11:44 am
@ed hardy:Don’t you have Akismet for your spam comment control? It works well for me.
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Peter
March 17, 2009 at 5:17 am
Hi Peter,
some useful plugins for my install on the atmmultimedia blog.
Thanks for sharing.
March 23, 2009 at 4:25 pm
This is a well written blog and it contains great list of wordpress plugins.
March 24, 2009 at 4:12 am
Thank you, I really need to know this especially at this time. Hopefully I will be able to make more money from the help of you
March 26, 2009 at 2:25 am
Contact form plugin is the thing which I have been looking for many days. I am really needing that at the moment because there are many users or commenter who send me email in my hosting email which they find on homepage of my site. I think this option should be available on all blogs because we have to contact admins too often. I have almost all other plugins in some or another way. Thanks for your good post.
April 9, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Now this is a post I really enjoyed reading! I will definitely check out some of these plugins. I sometimes wonder though if having the commentluv and dofollow installed is really going to take away link juice from your site…. I mean, seeing the direction Google is going it could well be a good thing for your site in Google's eyes because your blog will become even more interactive and you are providing real benefits for your visitors. What do you think?
April 9, 2009 at 7:35 pm
@James: Don't we all love good plugins.
April 9, 2009 at 7:36 pm
@peter: Thanks!
April 9, 2009 at 7:38 pm
@ Zula@tiffany replica:Contact form is a must have for every blog. It has helped me so much in my readers' communication with me.
April 9, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@Petra Weiss: Commentluv and dofollow plugins have helped me get so many comments and they work together for you. In fact together with Top Commentator's plugin. There are many bloggers who only comment on blogs who have them. I'm one of them. So you can see how important they've become.
April 17, 2009 at 11:02 am
I’m thinking about adding CommentLuv to my site but have heard it can be a strain on your database. KeywordLuv seems to be a “lighter” application so I may try that one first.
April 17, 2009 at 8:42 pm
@Irene: I was using CommentLuv until I recently installed Disqus which for the moment is not compatible to it. But I didn't feel any strain on my database and quite loved it.Thanks for dropping by. Appreciated.
May 3, 2009 at 2:41 am
I so agree with you. We've been using all 10 plug-ins and they are great. However, none are a great as the keyword luv and comment luv.
May 28, 2009 at 3:46 am
Thanks for sharing You can watch all the videos online at.and this very usefull for the information.
May 29, 2009 at 11:52 pm
The only problem with KeywordLuv and CommentLuv is that they tend to attract more spammers. But I guess that it's simply part of the grand skim of things.
June 16, 2009 at 4:56 am
its wonderful blog. i really like it.i will visit here regularly.
July 29, 2009 at 7:37 am
Thanks for the useful post, and debate in the comments. There are pros and cons to KeywordLuv and CommentLuv. For me, CommentLuv has a slight advantage as it provides a deep-link to a blog post, as well as a general link to the homepage. Assuming you have keywords in your post-titles, you get the best of both.
September 6, 2009 at 8:54 pm
CommentLuv is really a thing I must lerarn about.
February 27, 2010 at 2:46 am
Peter, is that “tip me” blogroll in your sidebar a WP plugin also? If so, how can I get it? Also, if it is, I would have put this in the top 10 list. FInally, if such a plugin does not exist…whoever develops this plugin will get lots of backlinks hint hint…
February 28, 2010 at 8:29 am
@Michael Erik: Hi Michael: Oh that's not a WP plugin. It's Scratchback developed by Jim Kukral and is an online “tipping” system. It allows you, the blogger, to accept tips and “give back” links* or images* in return on your blog or website. Eg when people tip $5 on my blog they get to put their website url or anything they promote. But the links are no-follow.
April 19, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Creating back links from commenting is a great tool. The best way to find these are to go an use googles operator for example: In the google search box enter the following: intext:”powered by wordpress” AND “KeywordLuv” OR “CommentLuv” this will pull out all blogs that provide the plugin and to filter out non blogs we incorporate the “powered by wordpress”
July 1, 2010 at 4:15 am
Commenluv is interesting, and I have difficulties understanding why not everyone is using it. If you have a good “product” then more people will go and use you comment section, which in turn will create lots more traffic.
July 1, 2010 at 9:15 am
Commenluv is interesting, and I have difficulties understanding why not everyone is using it. If you have a good “product” then more people will go and use you comment section, which in turn will create lots more traffic.
August 10, 2010 at 10:01 am
such a plugin does not exist…whoever develops this plugin will get lots of backlinks hint hint
February 2, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Many thanks for compiling a great list. I’ve used WP-Print and WP-Email to make recipes versatile for my subscribers. I’d like to try a few of your suggestions as well.