There are hundreds of thousands of WordPress plugins out there so it’s no wonder why time after time we get the question “Which wordpress plugins are the best for small businesses?” time and again. So to help you out, we’ve outlined our top 5 favorite wordpress plugins for small businesses below.
WP Touch
Need a quick, cost-effective and professional way to make your website mobile-friendly? Look no further than the WP Touch plugin for WordPress. When users load your website on mobile devices, your website automatically loads the WP Touch plugin and displays a mobile-friendly theme.
From the WordPress Repository:
“WPtouch is a mobile plugin for WordPress that automatically adds a simple and elegant mobile theme for mobile visitors to your WordPress website. Recommended by Google, it will instantly enable a mobile-friendly version of your website that passes the Google Mobile test, and ensure your SEO rankings do not drop due to not having a mobile-friendly website. For more information about using WPtouch to achieve Google mobile-friendly status, please read our comprehensive mobile-friendly guide.
The administration panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to your mobile visitors, without modifying a single bit of code. Your regular desktop theme is left intact, and will continue to show for your non-mobile visitors.”
SEO Ultimate
Managing on-page search engine optimization (seo) inside the wordpress dashboard is a HUGE benefit to any small business. You don’t have to mess with html code and many of the features are automated which saves time and ultimately, money.
From the WordPress Repository:
“This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over meta titles & descriptions, open graph, auto-linking, rich-snippets, 404 monitoring and much more!
SEO Ultimate is a powerful All-in-One SEO plugin, available for WordPress bloggers. Take control of your on-page SEO with user-friendly settings and tools for optimizing your titles, meta data, robots tags, canonicalization, autolinks, post slugs, social media markup and much more.”:
HubSpot for WordPress
While the plugin is fairly new, it’s one of the more useful tools we’ve found. If you use HubSpot’s marketing/sales automation software and aren’t using this plugin, you’re missing out. You can even use the plugin during a HubSpot trial which is pretty neat.
From the WordPress Repository:
HubSpot’s WordPress plugin allows existing HubSpot customers and trial users to integrate their existing WordPress blogs and websites with HubSpot.
- Easily insert the HubSpot tracking script into your WordPress site
- Track page and blog post analytics in HubSpot
- View your HubSpot stats and HubSpot dashboard right within WordPress
- Automatically publish new blog posts to social media accounts via HubSpot
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