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Are you not happy with the loading time of your WordPress Blog? Do you think it’s time to reduce the bandwidth usage of your blog without affecting its performance? Do you want to provide a much better experience to your visitors? Then, please keep on reading because this article would cover the 12 WordPress Plugins that will help you to enhance the performance of your blog.

1. WP-DBManager: – This is one of the Plugins that will save you whenever the database of your blog is destroyed or becomes corrupt. WP-DBManager allows you to optimize, repair and backup your database with one click. You can also automatically schedule backup of your databases and can configure it to email. To download this Plugin click here.

2. WP Security Scan: – This Plugin will scan your WordPress blog for all kinds of security vulnerabilities on your blog and will save your site from all kind of hackers. To download this Plugin click here.

3. WP Super Cache: – This Plugin will improve the performance of your blog by generating static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After creation of static html files, your web server will show light static files instead of heavy PHP files. This Plugin will speed up the performance of your blog and saves a lot of your bandwidth. To download this Plugin click here.

4. WP Minify: – This is another blog performance optimization Plugin which will compress CSS files and the  JavaScript code of your blog by removing the redundant code which will improve your page load time and save bandwidth. To download this Plugin click here.

5. Redirection: – This Plugin will help you to manage 301 redirections and to keep track of 404 errors on your blog. You can use this Plugin to add 301 redirects to any post when its URL changes or on pages with identical content but different URL extensions like index.php and without it. You can also use to Plugin when you are migrating posts from one blog to another. To download this Plugin click here.

6. Broken Link Checker: – This Plugin once activated will monitor your blog for broken links and will notify you by showing a message on your blog dashboard if found. The time this Plugin will take to parse all your posts depends on the size of your site. To download this Plugin click here.

7. WP-Ban: – This Plugin will help you to ban an IP address, IP range, Specific Host name, referral URL with one click.  You can also show a custom message to people whenever somebody from your banned list tries to access your blog. To download this Plugin click here.

8. One Click Plugin Updater: – As the name says, this Plugin will allow you to install or update any new Plugin and theme with one click and save you lots of time. To download this Plugin click here.

9. Google XML Sitemaps: – This Plugin will create XML sitemaps for search engines so that the spiders can easily find the posts on your blog. In addition to that, this Plugin will also notify search engines every time you create a new post on your blog so that your post can indexed by search engines quickly. To download this Plugin click here.

10. Theme Test Drive: – This Plugin will allow you to test any new theme on your blog at the backend and your visitors in time will see the old theme of your blog only without noticing any difference on your blog. To download this Plugin click here.

11. SEO Friendly Images: – This Plugin will automatically add the Alt and Title attributes to images, if they don’t have those attributes already. In addition to that, this Plugin will make the post W3C/xHTML valid as well. To download this Plugin click here.

12. Platinum SEO Pack: – If you are already using All-in-One SEO Plugin then you should try this Plugin for sure. This Plugin provides much more features than All-in-One SEO. This Plugin will automatically generate Meta data for your posts, manage redirects, and insert canonical tags on pages with duplicate content and a lot more. To download this Plugin click here.

This article is written by Raz Barr. He is a Web Designer at Go-gulf, a web design company in Beirut that provides high quality website development and logo designing services in various areas of Middle-East.

Guest post by Srikanth
Looking for Facebook WordPress Plugins? Facebook is one the biggest social networking sites and most of the users update their account regularly and it is a good medium to share stuff with friends. So installing a Facebook plug-in to your WordPress blog enables your users to easily share the posts. Herein are 6 cool WordPress plugins for Facebook.

Facebook Wordpress Plugins

1. Add to Facebook
Once you install this plugin on your WordPress blog, you can see a footer link at the bottom of each blog post. By clicking on this link, user can add the current post to their Facebook mini-Feed. You can choose either a text link “Share on Facebook” or a Facebook button or both can be displayed at the bottom of the post. By clicking on the link, the user can sign in to the Facebook account it he is not already logged in and the post will be automatically added to his Mini-Feed.

2. Facebook Comments
This plug-in will import all the comments that are written on Facebook to your blog to the exact post such that you can see all the comments that are been made for a particular post directly in your WordPress blog. By this way you will not miss a single comment made on your post and it automatically updates the comments. (Edit: Plugin is not working for some people and pending update by author)

3. Facebook Dashboard Widget
This WordPress plug-in for Facebook allows you to see all the updates from your friends and allows you to know what your friends are doing. This is a  dashboard widget that allows you to go side by side with your friends on Facebook and your WordPress blog. Using this widget you can know the updates from your Facebook friends even if the Facebook site is blocked.

4. WP-FBConnect
This plug-in will add Facebook functionality to your WordPress blog using the Facebook Connect APIs. You have to link WordPress and your Facebook account, and once they are linked you need not have to sign in again. You can publish the comments on your blog through the newsfeed and Facebook avatars will be displayed in the comments field.

5. Gigya
All the features in this plugins are fully configurable by the WordPress administration panel. By installing this plug-in to your WordPress blog, you can have a secure signup and login for users in your site. You can update your states on various social networking sites at once and also invite all your friends on various networks to visit and join in your blog site.

6. Facebook Photos plug-in
This plug-in allows you to add photos to the posts directly from the Facebook. All that you have to do is install and activate the plug-in and link your Facebook account with the WordPress blog. After that when you edit a new post in WordPress, a new Facebook icon in the add media section will be present – by clicking on the icon you can see the photos that you have uploaded to your Facebook account. You can then insert the photos to the post as small, medium and large size and can also align the image position.

Guest blogger Srikanth writes on Tech Inspiration blog about tips, gadgets, and technology. You can also write a guest article and share your favorite tools.

If you have a website and you’re looking to increase your PageRank, Search Engine Rank, Traffic and ultimately sales or sign-ups then getting backlinks is a necessary evil. There are several ways you can go about accomplishing this task.

1. Submit your site to Directories

Submitting your site to directories takes a lot of manual effort, many people simply don’t have the time or want to put forth the effort. The following list provide high-quality backlinks, as you can see with PR numbers next to each respective directory this can have a positive impact on your website. There are literally thousands of directories but we have provided a list of some of the best free directories out there.

FREE:
http://www.dmoz.org 9
http://www.lii.org/pub/htdocs/home.htm 8
http://www.femina.com 7
http://www.gogreece.com 7
http://www.sacentral.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm 7
http://www.worldhot.com/ 7
http://www.123india.com/ 7
http://www.elib.org/ 7
http://www.ezilon.com/ 6
http://www.epooch.com/ 6
http://www.christiansunite.com/ 6
http://www.toronto1.biz/ 6
http://www.canadianeh.com 6
http://www.aardvark.co.za 6
http://www.nzs.com/ 6
http://www.aigam.com 6
http://jayde.com/ 4

PAID:
Yahoo.com
Botw.org
Uncoverthenet.com
Ezilon.com
Goguides.com
Skaffe.com
Gimpsy.com

2. Social Bookmarking Sites
Social networking sites provide quality backlinks, but have the advantage in the fact that they will send direct traffic to your site. We receive substantial traffic from several of the sites below. Many bloggers will bookmark their site url to these social networking sites only once, while other will send every single post. Sending every post will definitely improve your post’s search engine rankings, but many people are too lazy to do so. Yes it is very time consuming. Look into seo software products that can help automate this task for you.

http://del.icio.us/ 8
http://www.digg.com/ 8
http://www.blinklist.com/ 6
http://ma.gnolia.com/ 7
http://www.furl.net/ 8
http://www.diigo.com/ 6
http://www.complore.com/ 5
http://www.tallstreet.com/ 0
http://gamingtags.com/ 3
http://indiagram.com/index.php 5
http://www.goesby.com/ 4
http://teachershare.org/openig/ 4
http://www.chaamp.com/ 1
http://www.a1-webmarks.com/ 0
http://www.tektag.com/ 0
http://www.bookmark.it/ 0
http://www.wirefan.com/ 4
http://www.linkatopia.com/ 4
http://www.optimiz.us/ 0
http://www.web20toolbar.com/ 0

3. Link Exchange

Negotiate a link exchange directly with other webmasters and bloggers. You should limit your exchange links with other sites in your niche, and bloggers should add each other’s link to your respective blogrolls. Backlinks from similar, revelant topic sites are more powerful then backlinks from non-related sites. There has been talk of Google penalties for websites building long pages of exchanged links so don’t build anything that resembles a link farm. Keep in low in quantity and high in quality.

4. Buy Links

Many people will sell you a link on their high PR website, and while this can improve your rankings Google is known to apply the Google Slap for any website caught buying links so we will not recommend this option. This does not apply to buying legitimate advertising space.
5. Forum Signatures

Place your keyword as the anchor text to your websites in your forum signature. Every time you post on a forum, you will have a new backlink. If you do this then you should focus on forum topics that are similar to your website’s.

6. Blog Commenting on related blogs

Commenting on blogs is a popular way to obtain very high quality, one-way, relevant links. This course of action is highly recommended, but we suggest you only take the time to leave meaningful comments that add value to the conversation. Believe me, there is nothing worse than leaving 10-15 comments just have them deleted by the moderator because you left “Hey, great article. Thanks!” and a backlink to your website. Take the time to read the article and leave a comment that adds to the conversation and you will be rewarded with a high-quality backlink.

7. Automation

Let’s face it, you’re busy. You’re working a day job and you’re spending long hard nights building out your website, handling paperwork, dealing with correspondence, and customers. What successful WebCEO has time to do their own marketing? Well if you just had a little help. We’ve combined the perfect software suite to automate everything above. Learn more about Automated Seo Software.

Like i’ve said in one of my previous hub, commenting on do follow blogs  can boost your search engine rankings really fast if you can find quality blogs related to your niche.

Finding Do Follow Blogs with high pagerank can be a really difficult task so i am sure this list will be helpful for many of you but remember i compiled this list for you to get a easy backlink while comment on a blog not to spam the crap out of these blogs,spamming can turn these blogs into nofollow and all your effort is wasted.

All blogs are pagerank 6 and are 100% DoFollow at the time i posted this hub.

1. Pocoo
2. Grokdotcom
3. Links
4. Greens
5. Sirpi
6. FilipinoLibrarian
7. CurryBet
8. NewCritics
9. CarlGalloway
10. MoFuse
11. SocialTimes
12. EarthEasy
13. WeblogToolsCollection
14. BusinessFinanceMag
15. JustinTadlock
16. LendingClub
17. TheMallBlog
18. HurryUpHarry
19. UncommonPhotographers
20. BrazenCareerist
21. Pintini French
    
22. MarlenesCorner French
23. Frederic-Rolin French

I have compiled this list few weeks ago and today i have rechecked to make sure that all blogs are do follow.

Please remember the purpose of this kind of lists,to get an actual link back to your site every time you make a comment and not to spam the crap out of these blogs.I am sure that most of you guys have a blog or website and you deal with spammers every day,don’t be one of them!

Do Follow blogs can be easily turn into nofollow and all your backlinks from that source will be useless.

Updated Today January 12 2010

1. Cisco PR7 PR8
   
2. Grokdotcom PR6
3. Links PR6 PR5
   
4. Greens PR6 PR5
   
5. Sirpi PR6
6. Sufehmi PR6 PR5 Indonesian+English
7. CurryBet PR6
8. NewCritics PR6 PR5
   
9. CarlGalloway PR6
10. MoFuse PR6
11. SocialTimes PR6
12. EarthEasy PR6
13. WeblogToolsCollection PR6
14. BusinessFinanceMag PR6
15. JustinTadlock PR6
16. LendingClub PR6 PR5
    
17. TheMallBlog PR6
18. HurryUpHarry PR6
19. UncommonPhotographers PR6 PR5
    
20. BrazenCareerist PR6
21. Pintini PR6 French
22. MarlenesCorner PR6 French
23. Frederic-Rolin PR6 PR5 French
24. VrPlumber PR5
25. Knrn PR5
26. SeoByTheSea PR5
27. Rumahabi PR5 PR4
    
28. BuzzMarketingWithBlogs PR5
29. ByteSizeCSS PR5
30. AstrumFutura PR5
31. RickyJordan PR5
32. NashuaTelegraph PR5
33. CanadiensEnEurope PR5 PR4
    
34. TimWindsor PR5
35. WPCult PR5 PR4
    
36. MouthPieceSports PR5
37. DmbcLLC PR5
38. DearDrMOZ PR5 PR4
    
39. GravityCube PR5
40. JustAddWater PR5
41. RebeccaWalker PR5 PR4
    
42. IncSub PR5
43. ScienceThatMatters PR5
44. ElleeSeymour PR5
45. Larholm PR5 PR4
    
46. Aimee PR5
47. PitchInvasion PR5
48. TheVirtualHandShake PR5
49. SteveRenner PR5 PR4
    
50. JankoAtWarpSpeed PR5 PR6
    
51. AlemSys PR5 PR4
    
52. Seolutions PR5
53. Rumahabi PR5 PR4
    
54. HenseiDemocracy PR4
55. PolyGEEK PR4 PR6
    
56. Kid666 PR4
57. Blueverse PR4
58. Kthread PR4 PR5
    
59. BarryWise PR4
60. RandomHacks PR4
61. MarketingResults PR4 PR3
    
62. StomperBlog PR4
63. ThesisThemeHQ PR4
64. MiddleZoneMusings PR4
65. WordpressMax PR4
66. HowToWakeUpEarly PR4
67. LillieAmmann PR4
68. CommunitySpark PR4 PR5
    
69. MarketingBlagger PR4 PR3
    
70. Snoo PR4 PR5
    
71. Kikolani PR4
72. TechJaws PR4
73. ExtremeJohn PR4PR3
74. Wnagele PR4
75. Poobah PR4
76. BlueHatSeo PR4
77. GrowSmartMaine PR4
78. ThisClassicalLife PR4
79. CostPerNews PR4
80. EdenDevelopment PR4
81. CreativityUnleashed PR4 PR1
    
82. PqInternet PR4 PR3
    
83. LinguisticsZone PR4
84. MoviesAtMidnight PR4 PR3
    
85. WorkAtHomeMomRevolution PR4 PR3
    
86. DesignAdaptations PR4 PR3
    
87. Selberg PR4
88. DrownRadio PR4
89. OMGPittsburgh PR4
90. ScrapScene PR4
91. MommyKnows PR4 PR3
92. MovieBlog PR4 PR3
    
93. LeoFogarty PR4
94. LifeInTheRough PR4
95. ExclusiveExecutiveResumes PR4
96. PHPCafe PR4
    
97. DaneMorgan PR3 PR4
    
98. BlogU PR3
99. PopcornNinja PR3 PR2
    
100. AlohaTeam PR3
101. TycoonBlogger PR3 PR2
     
102. WassupBlog PR3
103. Freyer PR3 PR2
     
104. DotComMogul PR3 PR1
     
105. RadPixels PR3
106. PositiveVibesSeo PR3 PR4
     
107. BlogJer PR3 PR2
     
108. Asimkins PR3 PR1
     
109. Pinksy PR3 PR2
     
110. Ruski PR3 PR5
     
111. ItsFrugalBeingGreen PR3
112. Isuman PR3
113. PotPolitics PR3
114. DannyDouglass PR3
     
115. Zabadani PR3
116. xLevel PR3
117. GathAdams PR3 PR2
118. FiberDreams PR3
119. Inkatel PR3
120. WebDirectory PR3
121. PowerDosh PR3
122. SlightlyMordant PR3
123. WallpaperStop PR3 PR4
124. GenerallyThinking PR3
     
125. DevilsLab PR2 PR3
126. Reminiscing MOM PR1

If you need more do follow blogs do a search at SeoTrafficGuide, a really nice do follow search engine.