Every blogger is aware of the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) through which you can get a great amount of organic traffic to your blog, which is not just good in recognition aspect but in monetary perspective aswell.

However, it could be really a pain in a head situation to get good ranking in search engines for newbie bloggers but this plugin solved this situation out. It gives you complete flexibility to optimize your blog for Search Engines.

2. Contact Form 7

It is important for every blogger to maintain a communication path with it’s readers/users, after all users make your blog success or flop so it is really important for you to get in touch with your users. It’s not just about you to get in touch with users but there must be a way for users to contact you.

Contact forms are the best way to get input from users without actually providing them email address. It is more secure and functional.

Contact Form 7 is such an out class plugin which can generate contact or query forms for your blog on the fly. It supports many advance features like File uploads and CAPTCHA. It directly sends you the submitted form to your email address.

3. Akismet

Spams are like the cancer to web industry and unfortunately it is increasing enormously day by day, it is not possible for you to protect your blog from getting into spammers attention but you can protect your blog from Spam comments and trackbacks by using Akismet plugin.

Akismet is actually developed by automatitc, which has developed Wordpress itself that’s why every new wordpress installation comes with akismet plugin. This plugin checks if submitted comments or trackbacks looks like spam, if so then it marks them as SPAM.

4. Google XML Sitemaps

Sitemaps are like a map of your site for search engines, which helps them to understand the structure of your blog/website to crawl them.

Google XML Sitemaps generate sitemap for your blog which search engines use for better crawling and indexing your blog. It also prompts famous search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask about new blog posts whenever it is created.

5. WP Super Cache

Wordpress is developed on PHP and whenever a user visits your blog it generates lots of scripts each time before showing your blog. It can results in crashing your web server if your blog gets lots of visit at a time.

While WP Super Cache generate static html pages for your blog posts so whenever a user visit your blog a static page is served rather than a dynamic scripts which save lot of server usage and protect your blog from getting down in case of traffic spike.

This simple backup plugin allows you to create a backup of your wordpress database, you can also setup schedule backups and can even email them automatically.

2. Wordpress EZ Backup

This one is highly functional plugin which not just backups your Wordpress databse but you can also backup any directory or database on your hosting server. It also supports automatic backup using Cron jobs. Basically it’s not just Wordpress backup plugin but it is a whole server backup utility which runs right from the wordpress platform.

3. Wordpress Backup

Another simple but efficient plugin which can be used to backup Uploads, Themes and Plugins folder of your Wordpress blog. It creates backup files on your server automatically from where you can download it easily. One aspect where it lacks is functionality to backup SQL database.

4. DBC Backup

DBC Backup creates automatic backup of your database file using WP-Cron system and it can also compress your backup files, if your server supports compressions.

5. Remote Database Backup

This plugin is based on WP-DB-Backup plugin and it only supports manual backup which means you must be logged in manually to create backups.