We get a lot of emool’s from people asking what kind of plugins we use. (not really actually, but we feel it makes us sound important!) After replying to them one at a time, We came up with the genius idea to write a post about the top seven we use and publicly publish them. Sure saves us a lot of time which we can use thinking up more crap to write about. We will list these in order of importance:

1. Google SiteMaps - Get noticed by Google because in your near blogging future, your statistics will probably acknowledge these guys as your biggest traffic driver.

2. Google Analytics - Have a look what Google recorded about your site and use the information to tweak things like your landing pages to perfection.

3. FeedSmith - You’d like to know at a certain point how many people are interested in what you have to say by signing up to your RSS feed. Not only does Feedburner keep track of them, it will also allow you to make some personal modifications to your RSS page, like adding your site’s header for branding purposes.

4. Akismet - Only the greatest blog spamblocker know to cowkind. If you like your spam because noone else emails you, we suggest you do not install this.

5. Smart Update Pinger - You wrote a great post and are now constantly hitting refresh in your browser to see how many visitors have read it yet. Install this plugin and people will be notified through the authorities that you’ve posted something new for them to chew on.

6. Wp-Contactform III - We know it sounds crazy, but readers appreciate this anonymous way of declaring their love for you. After all it is a bit embarrassing having to do it in the comments.

7. Enforce WWW Preference - Those guys from Google aren’t the sharpest tool in the shed and can easily mistake your blog for two blogs because one address has www and the other one doesn’t. So two blogs for the price of one is great isn’t it? Sure, if you’re willing to cut in half your amount of inbound links ergo pagerank between the two.

There, those are the seven plugins we use and find the most important of all. The rest are all cosmetic, for monetizing or fun. If you would ask us what the coolest plugin is we are using, why not have a look at it yourself? It’s on display right below this sentence, click away and have a bull ball!