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Using these WordPress plugins can make your blog more interactive, sticky to keep visitors coming back for more and used by novices and power bloggers alike. Not all of these plugins need to be used on a single blog, depending on the focus of your site.

Where there are multiple options to perform a single task, I like to spread them out across several blogs to see which ones work best, or fit the look and feel of that site. I use every one of these plugins on various sites, except the eCommerce plugins. Those will come later as those sites are built. The ones listed are the best I found and tested in the WordPress Plugin category. Since this was originally posted on Feb 14, 2009, the list has continued to grow. Read the rest of this entry »

Interlinking your blog can be the key to getting more people to read more of your posts, but it is time consuming and tedious to do it by hand. SEO Smart Links does this for you automatically when you tell it what words or phrases to link to what URLs. It also allows you to set “nofollow” and “open in window” commands for the links.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. It also lets you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Once you upload and activate SEO Smart Links, go into the settings and select your options. You will see a box to put your list of words and phrases that you want linked. You can combine multiple words and phrases on one line so they all lead to the same destination.

Adding the links is easy. Here is an example entry: word1,word2,phrase1,URL
For best results, avoid putting spaces before and after the words and URLs. If you already use the sh-autolink plugin, which only replaces single words, deactivate it and use SEO Smart Links exclusively.

I am very happy with this plugin, since adding, editing and removing links is so easy. Many others are posting their comments and getting help from both the author and other users by placing comments on the SEO Smart Links blog.