Every blogger who is working to improve their blog MUST have great wordpress plugins to stay on top of the game. Good plugins keep visitors on your blog longer, increase opt-ins, create more repeat visitors, and just lead to more traffic. Here's my list of all 32 plugins that I use!

1. 32 Essential WordPress Plugins To Keep Your Blog Amazing Brought To You By http://Who-Is-Erin-Smith.com

3. THE most basic essential Wordpress plugin

4. Protects your blog from being innodated with SPAM comments

5. SPAM comments can get up to a couple of hundred a day

7. Gives you the option to fill in the fields of a title and description of your post exactly the way you want to have it shown on the search engines

8. Another field is provided to fill in your keywords for the post

10. Internal links are links inside of your post that take your reader to another part of your website

11. Every once in a while one of those links doesn’t work

13. Basically a ping is sent out whenever you update your blog

14. Pings make your content be indexed faster

15. Wordpress is already set up to ping your content when it is created which is one reason why Wordpress sites rank so well

16. However you can still optimize your pings so you don’t look like a spammer every time you update your content

17. This plugin makes it so you don’t look like a spammer and pings more efficiently

18. Here’s a list of ping sites that I use

20. Every time someone comes and comments on your blog, this plugin creates a link back to the commenter’s last blog post

21. This creates more comments for you, which creates a better rank, and gives your commenter a backlink back to their blog

23. With this plugin you can send your commenter anywhere you want on your website

24. A thank you page to encourage them to become a lead

25. Your tools page to let them know what you use and maybe sell something

27. Before this plugin you had to find individual share buttons for each social media you wanted

28. That means one plugin for Facebook, one for Twitter, one for Digg, etc..

29. NOW you only have to use one plugin for ALL your social media share buttons

31. When your commenter posts their comment and realizes they made a mistake they can go back and edit their mistake

33. When you create a page you can either set it as a parent page (shows up in your tabs) or a sub parent page (could be a drop down)

34. Well what about those pages that you don’t want to be a part of the tabs menu or part of a drop down menu?

35. With this plugin you can choose your page be excluded from the navigation bar and now nobody can see it unless they go straight to it

37. This plugin lets you create a form so that your readers can send you an email!

38. And NO you do not have to know a bunch of html code either and there is SPAM protection

40. When you go to Google look up to the left of the http part in your browser

41. Do you see the pic on the right up there?

42. THAT is a favicon

43. It makes your website stand out if someone has a bunch of tabs open

44. PLUS this plugin acts as a gravatar as well (globally recognized avatar)

46. Easiest way to do this is to go to http://feedburner.com and burn your feed (there’s instructions on how to do that on the site)

47. Once you do that you need to redirect your feed to your cool looking feed on feedburner

49. Now you don’t have to log into feedburner.com every time you want to check out your stats

50. This plugin let’s you see your subsciber stats right on the dashboard of your wordpress blog!

52. The kind that all you have to do is click activate and you’re done

53. This plugin makes a XML sitemap of your blog for Google

55. It creates a widget that you can put into your sidebar that will rank your posts against each other to determine the most popular

57. 1 of 2 plugins that I have paid for and was worth ever penny

58. Creates a VERY professional looking form that pops up over your blog when you get a new visitor asking them if they want to get your offer

59. This increases your lead generation a TON!

60. AND it’s extremely cutomizable

62. You are able to cloak a link to a link that looks like your website.

63. For example if you have a big long ugly affiliate link I can turn it into http://whoisErinSmith.com/aweber

65. At the end of every post there is a list of related posts with their title and picture

66. If you have a good title and picture a lot of times your reader will click on it just to see what the post is about

68. If there are a lot of comments that means that you’re probably going to get a lot of emails

70. I can have 50 slides on how to set this plugin up so go and Google some tutorials

72. All you have to do is activate it

74. You choose a keyword that you want to rank for and put it into the SEO Pressor

75. After you write the blog this plugin will give you a score out of 100 as to how well you can rank according to your keyword

76. Then it gives you a list of things you need to improve

78. This turns your permalink into keyword rich links

80. This is just another plugin that pops up that let’s your reader share your content

82. You can customize when you’re going to send it and what you’re going to say

84. With these SEO plugins you’re going to be ranking before you even make a post!

86. After a crazy day of contacting Host Gator I finally got my blog back

88. You don’t know who’s replying to who?

89. This plugin puts all the replies to a comment inside the original comment

91. Digg, Unified Tribe, Viral URL all do this as examples

93. Google Analytics is one of those ways

94. Just create a Google account and copy and paste the code into this plugin

96. Whenever someone comes to your blog it shows you visitor a custom message

97. Wherever they come from it has a custom message

99. If your site takes a long time to load it hurts your rank