7 WordPress Plugins Every Business Blog Should Have

Utilizing WordPress plugins for your business blog is a fantastic way to increase traffic. You want your readers to be so impressed with your blog that they keep coming back. WordPress plugins can give your business blog that extra boost it needs to retain and attract readers.

To refresh your memory, WordPress plugins are bits of software that can be uploaded to extend and expand the functionality of your WordPress site. Plugins are excellent ways for individual users to personalize their blogs to their specific needs. We have researched and compiled what we think are some of the best WordPress plugins for business blogs. Having these plugins will help you manage your blog with ease!


1.    DiggDigg
This is one that every business blog should already have, but we included it just in case. Digg Digg creates a floating share bar for your blog, enabling your readers to quickly and easily share the page they are on.

Digg Digg supports all the popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. It also allows  you to customize which buttons you want to include either before or after you post your article.

2.    WP Touch
Make your blog mobile friendly with WP Touch! Mobile friendly sites are extremely important in today’s online world. You have no idea what device your readers will be viewing your blog on, and you want your blog to be optimized for any format.

Immediately after installing this plugin, everyone who visits your business blog will have it formatted to fit the device they are using. WP Touch also includes some great advertising and customization options.
 
3.    W3 Total Cache
If your blog has a lot of images and scripts, then this is a great plugin for you. It helps improve the speed of your site by a lot: up to 10 times faster!

It’s been shown that half a second of longer loading time can lead to 20% less traffic for a website or blog. Make sure that doesn’t happen by adding W3 Total Cache to your WordPress!

4.    Drip
Drip provides you with a simple way to build your email list and automate email marketing. With Drip, you can easily send emails to your prospects, trial users and customers based on their behavior.

Drip also allows you to segment your users and send emails that are highly focused and personalized based on their past interactions with your website or web application.

5.    Akismet
Akismet is the best plugin available to prevent spam on your business blog. The plugin runs all the comments on your blog through its system, checking them to see if they are spam. It then allows you to review the comments it picked up as spam in the Comments admin screen of your blog.

Each comment comes with a status history as well, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.

6.    BackupBuddy
Backing up your blog on a regular basis is essential for any business. Website backups through BackupBuddy are safe, secure, and restorable within a short period of time.

You can create partial or full backups, and these backups include all plugins and databases. If you are too busy to remember to backup your blog, you can schedule regular backups and store them in various locations. BackupBuddy is a comprehensive backup plan that includes many other useful features – you can’t go wrong!

7.    404 Redirected
A broken link is often not thought of as something that can be fixed with plugins, but this is an essential one to have! Broken pages present business and SEO problems for your blog. Potential customers might leave your website immediately when they see a 404 error.

The 404 Redirected plugin shows you all URLs which return 404 errors and allows you to redirect those to actual working pages on your website. This will redirect traffic to the appropriate content while you fix the broken link, therefore eliminating any concerns over losing readers because of an error.


These are the WordPress plugins that we think are the most important for every business blogger to have on their site. What are some of your favorite WordPress plugins? What do you think about our choices? Let us know in the comment section below.