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episode 65: My 13 Must-Use WP Plugins for More Traffic, Revenue and/or Save Time
Sponsored by Ezoic
Show Notes:
1. AdInserter Plugin
What does it do?
It manages display ad placement sitewide.
Actually, you can insert anything sitewide with it including shortcodes.
Cost: Free with premium version.
2. Elementor Pro
What does it do?
Creates nice-looking content. It’s a page builder.
I only use it for custom archive pages (tag and category pages) and landing pages.
You can bolt custom archive pages to the archive URLs (i.e. /tag/your-tag-name
Cost: Free with premium version.
3. OptinMonster
What does it do?
Provides opt in forms for your site to build an email list.
It’s costly, but it works flawlessly
Every type of form imaginable: Welcome mat, exit pop, regular pop, ribbons, sidebar, in-content, bottom, etc.
Total placement control.
TIP: If not building an email list, the exit pop is a great way to send visitors to other content.
4. Grow by Mediavine
What does it do?
Displays share buttons on your site.
Very easy to use. Formerly Social Pug. Now owned by Mediavine. You do not need to be in the Mediavine network to use it.
Plenty of display options including Pinterest hover button.
Simple, free and it works.
Free and paid versions.
5. AMZImage
What does it do?
Inserts Amazon product images in your post via Amazon API.
Can insert fairly large product images.
Automatically linked to the product with your affiliate link.
Add captions to the images (if you want).
Very fast and easy to use.
Free and paid versions.
6. Mammoth Docx. Converter
What does it do?
Imports Docx. into WordPress visual editor and strips out all the bad code while retaining formatting in the document.
It’s free.
Huge time-saver.
NOTE: you’ll need to rename the images because they end up with generic file name and will be the same across all posts which is a nightmare.
7. Q2W3 Fixed Widget
What does it do?
Makes it super easy to create a sticky widget (aka floating or fixed).
Great for creating a sticky sidebar ad.
NOTE: Do not do this with AdSense ads. You must use an ad network like Ezoic.
Free
8. Shortpixel Image Optimizer
What does it do?
Optimizes your images as you upload them into WordPress.
Can bulk optimize existing images.
Optional: Convert to WebP format.
Huge time saver and speeds up the loading time for images.
You pay for the number of images you optimize. It’s very reasonably priced.
9. Table of Contents Plus
What does it do?
Creates a clickable table of contents.
Place via automatic placement or via shortcode [toc]
Can customize the design.
Free
10. Thirsty Affiliates
What does it do?
Creates affiliate links so you can control the affiliate link code sitewide.
Huge time-saver.
Example: If you promote X product and then X product changes its affiliate code on you, instead of changing the code in 20 blogs posts, you simply change it once in the Thirsty Affiliates dashboard.
11. ManageWP
What does it do?
Automatically updates plugins, themes and WP version.
You can schedule the updates - I schedule it for once per week.
It’s free. However, there are paid options such as daily updates.
12. Yoast SEO
What does it do?
Makes it possible to customize your page SEO title and meta description.
Schema Markup for your site and articles.
Sitemap.
Control whether archive pages are indexed or not indexed in Google.
Cost: Free with paid upgrade version.
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