If you have spent any time trying to put together your own website you have probably heard of Wordpress. So many people who blog consider Wordpress to be the best Content Management System available. But really it’s for everyone – anyone can use it as they see fit. On the contrary, Wordpress can be used for any type of website that you want!

Internet marketers can use it on their weblogs or sales sites. It’s even used as a straight squeeze page, or landing page, and other marketing applications. It’s extremely easy to customize, plus the choice for themes is stupidly immense – millions. Whatever you want your site to do or function as, you can use plugins to accomplish that. Here are a couple Wordpress plugins that can help you in your internet marketing businesses.

Before we delve into some of the great plugins for Wordpress though remember to be selective, don’t clutter your site with too many features and options.  I have worked with many sites which have in fact stunted their development by using an inappropriate plug in.  Keep an eye on how they all function, I once had a plugin which delivered the addresses of a new UK proxy every day so internet marketers could check UK search results, little did I know that the site that this plug in connected to was extremely slow and had coding errors.  The result – my page load time shot through the roof especially worrying as it’s one of the variables that the search engines take into account.  Removing that plug in caused my site to speed up and my rankings increase, having said that there are some wonderful plugins that really are beneficial. 

No IM marketer, or blog owner for that matter, should be without the FD Feedburner plugin. Feedburner is powerful, and this plugin will let translate your existing blog feed right into a Feedburner feed. People can subscribe to your RSS feed, and that way they’ll save a little time because it’s not necessary to go to your site. With RSS your readers will be alerted whenever you update your site. So it’s nice because with an RSS subscription it’s fast and easy to read new content, etc. The deal about Feedburner is it’s a format that almost any reader is able to read. If you’re an affiliate marketer, you can use the fabulous plugin – GoCodes by Wordpress. GoCodes simply gives you control with how your affiliate links are displayed, plus it will shorten those mile long affiliate urls for you. This will only help you protect your affiliate urls because they will be encoded. Online shoppers are experienced these days. They can tell what coded urls for affiliates are like, and for whatever reason they sometimes delete or bypass them. GoCodes will put an end to that.

The WP Greet Box Plug-in is a great way to personalize your site for your viewers. It’s just a personal greet message that visitors hear when they come from certain sites to yours. The message will insert the name of the website they’re coming from and welcome them as a ‘website’ user. It’s all customizable, so you just decide how you want it. It’s just a way to help make visitors feel appreciated for following a link to your site. An additional bonus is that people may feel compelled to do some social bookmarking of your site.

Wordpress is a fantastic content management system. It is being used for a wide number of applications such as squeeze pages, landing pages, video blogs, and more. As you know by now, it can be customized and its functions altered with plugins. Of course for online business, you want sites that you can do those things with. Wordpress may be the answer to your problems.

So armed with a wordpress blog, a handful of professional plugins and a successful link building campaign your site can soon be delivering you some serious traffic, good luck.