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With almost 14,000 wordpress plugins to choose from it can certainly take some time to seperate the wheat from the chaff, here is our guide to 6 plugins that should form a base to any wordpress installation.

Google XML Sitemaps

A simple plugin which does exactly what it says on the tin, it creates XML Sitemaps on the fly every time you create a new page. It will even tell all the major search engines you have added new pages and instruct it them to reread the sitemap as soon as you have added new content.

Akismet

Comes as default with all wordpress installations, and is an essential additional automatically removing spam comments from your blog. To use this plugin you will need to register with akismet.com and get a registration ID. It’s completely free for personal use and does a fantastic job at combating spam.

Redirection

Another essential wordpress plugin for those who have migrated their site from another CMS to wordpress. It monitors all pages and looks out for 404 errors allowing you to create a redirect to the new location. A great plugin to ensure your visitors aren’t being sent to pages which don’t exist and an essential plugin if your website has been moved from another CMS or location. Check out the Urban Giraffe blog for more details on this plugin.

WordPress Database Backup

A great tool that is incredibly simple, but just works. Enter your email address and receive scheduled backups of your complete wordpress database (including the tables used by other plugins) These can be delivered via email, or saved to your server whenever you specify. Visit Austin Matzkos blog for full details of this excellent plugin.

Adrotate

A comprehensive Ad Management system for your blog. Just create an ad using the simple interface and place it anywhere on your blog. It even tracks clicks and impressions and is a great way to manage multiple ads on your blog. Visit the official Adrotate site for full details.

All in One SEO Pack

Michael Torbert’s all All in One SEO Pack is an essential core to any successful wordpress site, a free version is available from the WordPress.org plugins directory or you can pay just $39 for the professional version which includes a stack of additional features and is advertisment free. If you need flexible and easy to manage SEO on your wordpress blog, this plugin is essential.

This morning I decided to take a look at the WordPress SEO plugin SEOPressor. I am not a big fan of spending money on anything for wordpress, especially with the amount of free plugins you can get for WordPress now, but after spending half an hour searching the web for reviews on SEOPressor it became clear that this product really did seem to work and was already giving people some good results.

I am not going to go into great detail here as it’s way too early to do a proper review until I have seen some proper results, but thought it worth sharing initial thoughts on the product.

SEOPressor adds a scoring system to the left hand site of your posts and pages as you write them offering some handy advise on what you can do to improve the SEO score of each page. For example it gives you recommendations on Keyword Densities, H1 Tag Usage and Image Alt Tags. It also does a fair amount of adjustments to your page automatically (all of which is configurable in the settings screen) such as highlighting or underlining important keywords and adding ALT tags to images.

SEOPressor Recommendations Screen

Also features in SEOPressor is a summary screen which demonstrates each and every post and page along with it’s SEO score and a list of suggestion to help you get it to 100% – the optimum SEO score.

Currently SEOPressor is priced at $47 for a single site or $97 for unlimited sites which is a fairly reasonable price. It also comes with the usual 100% no questions asked money back guarantee if you are unhappy in any way with the product.

You can read more about SEOPressor on the official website here