Top Wordpress plugins Matt Cutts recommends to your blog

Recently in the WordCamp 2007, Matt Cutts talked about making your wordpress blog Search Engine friendly and the importance of practising White hat SEO. He had released his powerpoint presentation file too, in which he recommends some must have power plugins for Wordpress. Some of them are the ones he is using currently while some  are those that he’s considering to use in the future. All these plugins are SEO friednly ones, that help you avoid duplicate content and climb your way up the SERPs. Here, I’m providing you all those wordpress plugins that Matt Cutts recommended with the links to the websites where you can find them.
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Plugins Mr.Cutts uses currently – Strongly recommended.

• Akismet – For spam protection
• Math Comment – For spam protection. This one asks for the 3+2 question before you comment on his blog.
• Google Analytics plugin – Adds Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog for tracking.
• Feedburner feed replacement
• Democracy  – For adding a poll to your sidebar.
• SEO title tag plugin - Makes SEo friendly titles
• WP – Cache plugin – Makes your blog faster and responsive.

Plugins Mr.Cutts is considering to use in future

• Brian’s threaded comments – Where you can reply to comments.
• Comment Karma – Where users can rate other user’s comments
• Highlight author – Where an authors comment will be seen highlighted.
• WWW redirect – Allows you to set various url redirect options and thereby control how users access your blog.
• Permalink redirect – This plugin replies with a 301 redirect to urls that’s different from what is requested on archives (or direct entries).
• Related posts – Shows links to related posts from your blog

I suggest that you use all the plugins he recommends, they’re all hand picked by the Google man himself !

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