Nowadays most of the SPAM that a blog receives is being generated by spambots. However, the Captcha plugin will add a distorted text image the user has to identify to allow his/her comment to be accepted. This way you will be better preserved from SPAM. Captcha is easy to use and secure.

Akismet stops the spam messages in your blog comments. Any messages recognized as blog spam get recorded in the Akismet web service and blogs all over the world become immune against it.

All in One SEO Pack helps you optimize your Wordpress blog for Search Engines. With this plugin your posting titles get optimized, META tags are generated automatically, and the fine-tuning of your articles is possible through many additional features.

With Wordpress.com Stats you can track the metrics of your WordPress blog. This plugin provides information about the popularity of your posts and the traffic on your pages. It shows all the important statistics clearly summarized.

Banner manager is an excellent plugin for blogs that run both advertising websites and personal pages. It provides very neat admin capabilities and ability to manage up to 5 banners per page.

With Contact Form 7 you can easily create instant drop in forms for the visitors of your WordPress blog. This way you will be able to stay in touch with them without providing your email address. Your readers can contact you any time and your email remains spam-free.

This Google XML Sitemap plugin optimizes your WordPress blog for Google, Yahoo! & Co. Search Engines. With its help you can create Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap for your blog. With every new post the generated sitemap is beeing updated and search engines with sitemap protocol support get notified. All WordPress generated and custom pages are supported.

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