It’s natural to assume WordPress is only for blogs and nothing else. Well, it’s possible to use to WordPress not only for your blog, but also your website. WordPress, as you may or may know, is what is called a Content Management System (CMS) which offers great flexibility with applications, etc. It can be customized in many different ways thanks to the many plugins that exist, so you can use them to make your site have many functions. Here are some of the very best plugins you may want to use for IM.
WordPress is a great platform to build websites and has loads of useful plugins.
ShareThis makes it easy for anybody to share your various pages and posts with the different social bookmarking sites. What it does is at the end of your pages, or posts, it will place a link box. When site visitors hover over it or click on it they are provided with a customizable list of different social networking and bookmarking sites that they can submit your site to. This allows them to share your site and business on sites like Digg, Reddit, Facebook and even chatting platforms like AOL Instant Messenger. Then they’ll be able to tell others about whatever they like about your website.
A standard plugin for SEO is the All in One SEO Pack, and it’s highly recommended. Basically it helps your blog be properly configured for ‘on page’ SEO factors so you don’t have to mess with it. So anytime you update your site, you’ll tell it what you’re doing and it updates all the appropriate on page SEO information. It will help you avoid duplicate content penalties by the search engines.
You can just specify certain pages for ‘noindex’ and you’ll be fine. Precise optimization of your website for the search engines is important and will only help you to succeed in business.
You can add a touch of personalization to your site with the WP Greet Box Plug-in. If people come from certain websites, that you specify, they’ll hear your personal greeting message. You’ll configure it to say something like, “Welcome Twitter user!”, if they come to your site from Twitter. You can customize these messages however you like. It will encourage your visitors to feel welcomed and appreciated for visiting. Hopefully it will encourage your visitors to bookmark your site on your behalf. Plugins add tremendous flexibility to an already versatile CMS platform which is what WordPress is. Anyone can use it because there is absolutely no charge at all for any of it. So you can do whatever you want and customize it however you want, it will always be free to do. From here you can customize it however you like with themes, plug-ins and tweaks to your code. It’s great for beginners because there’s no need for previous experience, or programming skills, or web design skills, etc.