Yes everyone has their own list of favorite list of WordPress plugins. Some work for some, some not useful for others.
This is a dynamic list that features the most common WordPress plugins we use when installing and tweaking out the blog platform for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes.
WordPress SEO plugin power list
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Major flaws in WordPress's pinging system can get your blog banned and make it lose precious traffic.
Ultimate Plugins
Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger replaces the standard Wordpress build-in ping functionality and makes many improvements to it.
Social Bookmarking for WordPress
Social bookmarking website plugins. Those cool little icons on your site to others can bookmark your cool content
Google Analytics Plugin
Simple plugin for Google Analytics
Google Analytics for WordPress
Add Google Analytics code to your blog and start tracking! This plugin also has a few extra features where you can also monitor clicks made on Adsense and more. May attach javascript on outgoing links
WP-Ban for trying to prevent to spam suckers!
Get rid of those pesky spammer with this WordPress plugin. Ban IP addresses, block of IPs, referrers and more. Once you've banned them, you can display a custom message or even redirect them somewhere else, like an affiliate website.
runPHP for running PHP in your WordPress Blog
Want to execute and run PHP in your WordPress blog? This plugin is it! Tested on version 2.5 and it works great! Display date, feeds or data from your database.
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
For all SEO optimizers, this plugin creates a XML-sitemap of your WordPress blog.
Wordpress SEO Plugin
Must have!!! Anyone wanting to optimize their blog needs this plugin. Control your title, keyword and description tags with this plugin. Also create no-index for sections of your blog like the archive, tags and category sections.
