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JOE DYSART TURBO-CHARGING YOUR BLOG: 10 ESSENTIAL FREE PLUG-INS FOR FASTENER DISTRIBUTORS from page 28
•Good Reviews for WordPress (https://wordpress.
org/plugins/good-reviews-wp). Word-of-mouth kudos are
one of the most powerful ways to promote your compan
and y blog. This plug-in makes its simple for your blog
visitors to write reviews testimonials about your blog,
which can be displayed in your posts and elsewhere
on your site. You’ll also be able to add photos of each
reviewer next to a review, implement a 5-star or numbered
rating system and add a link to the reviewer’s Web site to
add greater credibility.
Reviews can by shown singly, in a category, or
simply displayed all in one location.
(Rating: 4.9 out of 5).
•WP-Optimize (https://
wordpress.org/plugins/wp-optimize).
Ensuring your Wordpress blog runs
as quickly as possible is not simply
good business for your fastener
distributorship -- it will help your
blog pop-up higher in search engine
returns. “Google values the user
experience and doesn’t want a
user to be inconvenienced by slow
page loads,” Tennant says. “Your
goal should be to score at least a
75 or higher without compromising
features you desire to have on your
site.”
WP-Optimize makes your site
run faster by regularly cleaning up
and optimizing your Wordpress
database, including the auto-removal of spam and the
cleaning of post trash. (Rating: 4.9 out of 5).
•WP Fastest Cache (https://wordpress.org/plugins/
wp-fastest-cache). Cache optimization of your Wordpress
site also helps ensure that your site runs as fast as
possible. But unlike WP-Optimize, this plug-in is specially
designed to keep your site running its fastest when the
site is being visited by a number of people simultaneously.
(Rating: 4.8 out of 5).
•WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam (https://wordpress.
org/plugins/wp-spamshield). This is a powerful ally against
that scourge of the earth -- spammers across the world
ABOVE: ADDTOANY SHARE BUTTONS OFFER PRE-MADE
BUTTONS THAT LINK TO SOCIAL NETWORKS LIKE FACEBOOK.
BELOW: WORDPRESS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR
BLOG AND WEB SITE AUTHORING PROGRAMS, IS A FREE,
OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE.
BELOW: YOASTSEO HELPS EVEN NOVICE OPTIMIZE THEIR
BLOGS FOR GOOGLE AND OTHER SEARCH ENGINES.
who post unwanted advertising and comments on blogs
and other Web properties. The plug-in goes after all sorts
of spam -- comment spam, trackback spam, contact form
spam and registration spam.
Unlike other anti-spam plug-ins, which force your
visitors to endure challenge questions or other obstacles
before comment, WP-SpamShield works silently in
background. The plug-in also guarantees ‘zero false
positives.’ Essentially, if a real human triggers the plug-in,
the poster is given immediate feedback by the plug-in on
how to alter a post to ensure it’s not perceived as spam.
(Rating: 4.8 out of 5).
•UpdraftPlus Backup and
Restoration (https://wordpress.
org/plugins/updraftplus). IT security
pros often wanly observe that the
only people who truly appreciate
backing-up their data are those
who’ve lost everything in a system
crash.
Don’t let it happen to your
fastener distributorship. Instead,
use this plug-in to back-up into
various cloud services, including
Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive,
Rackspace Cloud, DreamObjects,
FTP, Openstack Swift, UpdraftPlus
Vault and email. With UpdraftPlus,
can restore with a single click. Plus,
you can also backup automatically
on a repeating schedule. (Rating:
4.8 out of 5).
•Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall
(https://wordpress.org/plugins/gotmls) “WordPress is
a fantastic Content Management System, but it too
has vulnerabilities that diligent hackers look to exploit,”
Tennant says.
With this plug-in, you’ll be able to better counter
hackers by running a complete scan to automatically
remove known security threats and backdoor scripts.
Plus, you’ll be able to continually update the plug-in to
guard against new malware that surfaces on the Web.
(Rating 4.9 out fo 5).
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