Essential WordPress Plugins for eCommerce


Essential WordPress Plugins for eCommerce

Purchasing a brand New Domain name and downloading WordPress is a big event. Logging into your your new WordPress blog is similar to an Artist with an idea in mind ready to place the first brush strokes on a pristine canvas. A Blank WordPress dashboard is full of possibilities and your content will be the star of your blog always but on this post I want to talk about the players behind the scenes, the workers who are pulling the curtains apart so your production can be seen by the world, I am talking about your WordPress Plugins.
If you were to take a look at all my WordPress site's dashboards side by side, you would notice that no two have exactly the same Plugins and the reason for this is 1) Each theme I select has different recommended plugins 2) I install different plugins according to what I am trying to accomplish with the site, but you can rest assured that I will have the following wonderful plugins installed on all my sites:
  • WordPress No-follow Master - Unless you have your own products sitting in a warehouse somewhere then you are probably selling affiliate products on your site. I never carry any physical inventory of my own so I make good and sure that I install WordPress No-follow Master on all my E-Commerce sites. The reason for this is Search engines consider links as a ranking signal for the linked URL and domain. When you link to an external site such as Amazon or Etsy,  you are passing your link juice to that site.  If you are linking to more sites than the sites linking back to you, then you will start losing authority. By default, WordPress does not allow you to automatically add nofollow to external links. You will have to manually add this to outgoing links to external sites. This is where Wordpress No-Follow Master comes in and converts all your external links to nofollow. There are other plugin options also such as External Links Plugin, that also keeps your site from losing any gusto by making external links nofollow as you choose.
Squirrley SEO - Surely one of the greatest plugins around, Squirrley SEO gives you an entire Search Optimization suite on your WordPress site. People gladly pay 500-1000 per month for the services that Squirrley gives you -Free for 1 site and up to 7 sites for the nominal fee of 19.99 per month. Squirrley will have your sites moving up to the top of the search engines and they can help someone who knows nothing about search engine optimization as well as someone familiar with the process. Squirrley doesn't just optimize your site for the search engines -It knows your site through software intelligence and knows just what keywords to recommend to you for your site to get search engine ranking and bring loads of traffic your way!  For the 19.99 Pro Plan you will get For up to 7 sites: 
  • Unlimited posts to optimize / account / month
  • 100 keyword researches/ account/mo.
  • 100 page / site analyzed by SEO Audit
  • Social Media Analytics - For each post, get a Quick glimpse of how many shares it received on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and others.
  • Unlimited page / site analyzed by Analytics
  • Media presented to you to use for your blog based on the keywords you use
  • World class customer service and much, much more and it should be noted that Squirrley Seo does not clash with other major SEO Plugins, such as Yoast and SEO Ultimate (also fine plugins)

Woocommerce  - If you are going to do E-Commerce then it makes sense to install Woocommerce. A simply amazing plugin that displays products on your website in a beautiful and professional looking manner. Woocommerce is now the most popular eCommerce platform on the web and for good reason:
  • It's Free!
  • It was built for Wordpress
  • It is Mobile Friendly - WooCommerce is designed to ensure your store and products look as good on a desktop computer as they do on your customers mobile phones.
  • Pre-installed payment gateways including Paypal and Major Credit Cards
  • Setting up your store is a snap - Easily customize your woocommerce store to your likes and needs
  • Unlimited possibilities! WooCommerce can handle anything from one product to thousands with effectiveness 
  • Your woocommerce store integrates beautifully with WordPress themes making your products stand out and customers want to buy

  • Simple Share Buttons Adder -  I would never dream of putting a site out there on the internet without a good Social Media Sharing plugin because if nobody is sharing our stuff that can mean two things -they don't like it or there are no buttons available to share it with. There are many solid Social Sharing plugins but Simple Share Buttons adder is the one I favor. Simple share has all the Major Social sites and many that are not so mainstream -but still get traffic!
    Social Share also saves me a bunch of time because, after I make a new post that I want to share, I simply use the buttons on my page and submit in seconds to Digg, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, stumble upon, LinkedIn, Reddit and more!!
Competition online is fierce and, unfortunately, you can have he greatest website in the world but if nobody sees it, you just won't get any sales. These great plugins will give you a solid foundation to get traffic, rise in the search engines, and establish your internet authority.


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