Are you looking to get more traffic on your WordPress powered blog or website? Or do you just want to increase your website speed? We’ve gathered the best WordPress plugins that will help you accomplish this goal. And the best of all, they are completely free to use! So why don’t you take a look at the compilation we’ve build.

1. W3 Total Cache – This is one of the best WordPress plugins that will increase your websites speed. It will load all your pages a lot faster and it will save static versions of your pages. It requires a lot less CPU usage when you are using this plugin.




2. Akismet – This plugin is very important when you own a website where it is possible to comment on pages or blog post. Akismet is standard installed in WordPress, but you will need to activate it by signing up and requesting an API Key on the website. Akismet is a plugin that will stop 99% of all spam on your blog or website.




3. Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin – When you aren’t listed very well in Google it is most likely that you are missing some SEO settings. It can be very frustrating when you are doing your best to make a website but you don’t get any visitors at all. This plugin will make it possible to improve the SEO of your website by adding General SEO settings, but also page analysis, advanced SEO and Social media.




4. WPTouch – When your theme isn’t supporting mobile devices it can be very hard to view your website on such a device. WPTouch creates a mobile version of your website instantly on installation. There are a lot of settings that can be changed and it is very helpful for all your mobile visitors.




5. WPLike2Get – When you own a blog or website where users download your files it is very important that you go viral and let more users download your content. With this free plugin you can do just that. It will lock certain content in your posts that will be unlocked when a user likes, tweets, follows or +1′s you. This way you can make your own website go viral in no-time!




6. AddThis – With Addthis you can promote all of your pages and posts on Social media. This plugin will add share buttons above and below all of your posts that will make it possible for readers of your website to share your page on Facebook, Twitter and over 330 other social networks.




7. WP DB backup – With this plugin it is possible to create an instant backup of your WordPress database. This way you will never lose content again when a random error occurs and deletes content. When this occurs you can simply enter your database and import the downloaded .sql file.




8. Facebook comments for WordPress – Who doesn’t own a Facebook account nowadays? With this simple plugin you can remove the original comments section and replace it with a Facebook comments section. This way users don’t need to make an account and less spam will occur on your website, commenting is also a lot quicker and it is a great way of promoting since it will update the commenters wall that he commented on your website.




9. Contact form 7 – When your theme doesn’t have a contact form template it can be hard to let users and visitors get in touch with you. When using Contact form 7 you can simply create a form and include it in a post or page. This will let users fill in the form so it will be much easier to get in touch with you.




10. Adsense Manager – When you want to earn money with your website using advertisements and you have an active Adsense account this is a great plugin. It will let you easily add and edit advertisements from Google Adsense on your websites.

Cas van Dongen

Founder of DesignersBlog.net
Cas is a 18 year old Graphic and Interactive Designer from The Netherlands. He started with Webdesign when he was only 11 years old and is now studying Graphic and Interactive Design on a school in Breda, The Netherlands.

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