Congratulation on installing your WordPress Blog! If you haven’t done so yet, go here and setup your own. Then come back here and get ideas for must have WordPress Plugins and Add them to your blog.

Note: If you are running the newest version of WordPress, then you should no problem installing them. They make it so easy now that it’s silly. Please note though that not all plugins will work for your blog. For some weired reason, some plug just screw things up.

Some can be down right bad for your blog so please choose wisely. It will also depends on the theme that you pick for your baby. You may choose a three column, two column, right column, left column and so on. You can even pick a transulator ready theme that displays a few flags on your blog as well.

I don’t fuss alot about these themes, and you shouldn’t but it adds a nice touch to the blogs and gives the visitor, if they speak that language, to read your blog in the represented country.

Remember to just pick a theme that you like and also works with what you are trying to do. Without further ramblings from me, here are my top ten recommended WordPress Plugins.

Number 1. All in One SEO
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
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Some features:
Canonical URLs
Fine tune Page Navigational Links
Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
Nonce Security
Support … By Michael Torbert.

Number 2 – Quick Adsense
Quick Adsense offers a quicker & flexible way to insert Google Adsense or any Ads code into a blog post.

Number 3 – Google XLM Site Map
This is a must plugin for any blog.

Number 4 – WP-VideoTube Plug-In
I called this the WP-Youtube plug-in the video… my bad. This is a very simple to use “Auto Blog” plug-in that pulls in relevant YouTube videos. A potentially nice way to increase “stickiness” to your site.

Number 5 – ReviewAZON Plug-In – This is simply the BEST plug-in for integrating the Amazon Affiliate Program within your blog. Have a look at some of the demo sites here.

Number 6 – Add This Plug-in – Help your visitor promote your site! The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows your users to bookmark your site easily with over 45 popular services, and to share it with friends via email. Our button is small, unobtrusive, quick to load and recognized all over the web.
Sign up for an AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content: which services they’re using for sharin… By The AddThis Team.

Number 7 – Zemanta Zemanta recommends content while you write your post. It helps you enhance it with images, videos, links, and SEO optimized tags. It’s blogging on steroids!
Zemanta brings you:
Links: Wikipedia, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon, CrunchBase, MusicBrainz, Snooth wines, Wikinvest
Videos: YouTube, 5min
Images: Getty, Flickr, Wikipedia
Widgets: Google Maps, Last.fm, Slideshare, Wikinvest
Articles: Majo… By Zemanta Ltd..

Number 8 – MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer – Even the latest version of WordPress (ver. 2.7) has this problem.
Do you know your WordPress blog pings unnecessarily every time you edit a post? Think how many times you click on “Save and Continue Editing” or “Save” button. Your blog will ping unnecessarily that many times you click on those buttons.
Save your blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin.
After you insta… By MaxBlogPress.

Number 9 – Gigya Toolbar - Increase traffic and revenues. The Gigya Toolbar increases your blog’s traffic and provides an opprtunity to make extra revenues:
Get return traffic when users share and tweet from the toolbar.
Supports 80 social destinations including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Yahoo.
FREE and takes only 2 minutes to add to any site.
The toolbar does not affect page load time! It loads only after the page has finished loading.
Get paid f… By Gigya.

Number 10 – Amazon Showcase WordPress Plugin – Amazon Showcase is a WordPress Plugin for showcasing items from Amazon. Simply enter the ASIN/ISBN numbers of any products and optionally enter an Associate ID for earning commissions. The product image will be displayed with a link to the product detail page on Amazon.com. More advanced users can have full control over the way the products are displayed. Showcases can be used as widgets, placed i… By Aaron Forgue.

Now this is my top ten and there are more. There are so much more plug in that it probably take a whole day to list them all. Keep in mind now that not all plug ins are good for your blog. Only use what works with and for your blog.

As you get more acquainted with your new blog, you can add more plug ins as you like. I hope this was of some help to you. Now go and make some money with your blog Today!