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Excerpt: As standard on blogs you will see that many offer a “suggested reading” or “other posts you may like” function at the bottom of the current post.  This is to encourage visitors to stay on your site while at the same time offering them something else that may be of interest. There are loads of plugins that do this and of course the merits can be argued on each one depending on what you want and aim to achieve. YARPP One of the most popular is YARPP or Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. This gives you extensive control over the display of…

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Excerpt: Gravityforms was a recently released plugin for wordpress that is under the premium license. It might be different from other plugins because it has a cost involved but it is WORTH EVERY PENNY.  Its so damn good I’m recommending it as an essential purchase and am affiliated with the developers. (Just to be clear). The forms on your site are one of the most important aspects, and lets be honest this is a no brainer. So don’t be tight. There are a few other forms available (if you are to cheap to buy this) and the best is probably CForms II Wordpress Plugin though…

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Excerpt: I love this Google XML Sitemap generator plugin and so does Google. To clarify (in case you don’t know) a sitemap is a single page on your site that is purposely set up for search engines to read and scan (spider) very quickly and realise what posts and pages you have (content) on your site.  If you have Google webmaster tools (get a gmail or google account and follow the instructions there) there you can submit the sitemap once you create it on the blog. Activate the plugin and then check the settings.  They look complicated but really they are not, just…