If you are serious in your blog world using WordPress, then here are some of the plugin that you must have in order to help you to manage your blog better, optimize it for search engine, and also have a better interaction with you reader.
After few months of dealing with wordpress, I had try out more then 100 different plugin for different purpose and finally settle down with the few of them as the following.
Here are some of the Plugin that currently using for my blog:
SEO
- DDSitemapGen
- WP Page Number(Download)
- Platinum SEO
- SEO Friendly Images (Download)
- SEO Smart Links(Download)
- Share/Save Buttons
- WP Super Cache
- Google XML-Sitemap(Download)
- Yet Another Related Post Plugin (Download)
Reader interaction
Blog administration
- Akismet
- Broken Links Remover(Download)
- StatPress
- Plugin Central (Download)
- WP-DB-Backup (Download)