If you are using wordpress for your social blog, then you must know how important correct set of plugin is for your blog. Here are some of the plugins that I use frequently and can be very useful for your blog also. There are lot of options but I have selected first 11 in my list for you.

1. My favorite best eleven plugins for wordpress
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2. W3 Total Cache
• A must must have plugin for your blog. It speeds
up your blog 3-4 folds by doing caching,
compressing pages using gzip before serving to
browser. As you also may be aware that one part
of search engine algorithm is that how fast your
site is.
• Plugin page:
http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-
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3. WP Socializer
• If you are not having social links on your
blog, you are missing it all. Each like on
facebook and tweet on Twitter will bring in
extra visitors for you. Ensure you have a
good social bar next to your post. One of
the many such plugins is WP Socializer.
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• Plugin Page: http://www.aakashweb.com/
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4. AdSense Targeting
• If you are planning to show ads on your
blog, it is important you are showing right
ads. Adsense targeting will insert
keywords in your page so that right ads
starts showing up.
• Plugin page:
http://wasistlos.waldemarstoffel.com/plugins-fu
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5. Akismet
• It is important to get more and more
comments and visitors and at the same
time it is very very important to keep
spammers away from your blog. Akismet
will do just that for you. It keeps your
comments neat and clean.
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• Plugin page: http://akismet.com/
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6. All in One Webmaster
• It lets you keep your webmaster keys at
one single place. It also let you keep
alexa, analytics and other keys at one
single place. Very nice plugin
• Plugin page:
http://icrunched.co/all-in-one-webmaster/
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7. AVH First Defense Against
Spam
• It protects your blogs from known
attackers and gives you ability to block
certain IPs based on spam and ham
concept.
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• Plugin page:
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-
plugins/
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8. Google XML Sitemaps v3 for
qTranslate
• It generates your blog XML file and
crawlers to crawl your blog. Very important
plugin for your blog as it helps you appear
in search engines quickly.
Plugin
page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
google-xml-sitemaps-v3-for-qtranslate/
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9. Captcha
• Provides security for user registration,
posting etc. Users are presented with a
captcha only after that they can go to next
step.
Plugin
page: http://bestwebsoft.com/plugin/
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10. Quick Adsense
• Quick Adsense lets you insert your ad
codes in the blog easily, efficiently and
quickly. With this you can forget about ad
placement and focus more on content.
Plugin page: http://quicksense.net/
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11. SEO Ultimate
• It does everything in terms of SEO for your
blog. A complete package for SEO of your
site. Just install and you will be showing
up in search engines in no time. A must
have.
Plugin
page: http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/
wordpress-seo/
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12. Social Connect
• Social connect let your visitors sign into
your blog using their facebook, google,
wordpresss id etc. It makes it more
convenient for users to register and in
return increase your visitor retention.
Plugin
page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
social-connect
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