Supercharge Your Home Business Blog With These 15 Must-Have Blog Plugins

If you are a home business owner, with a MLM blog, then your primary focus is to generate leads and prospects for your home business. After all, one of the primary reasons for having a home based business blog is to build your network marketing list of prospects via internet lead generation. What if your MLM blog is not generating the kind of leads you are hoping for? After setting up your home business blog, learning how to generate leads online is one of the first steps to your online MLM success. Wouldn't your business be in a better position if you could turn all your MLM blog visitors into leads and prospects? It is possible to enhance your MLM blog, hence improve your lead generation and conversion, and therefore potentially give you more leads and prospects for your home business. Enhancing the capabilities of your network marketing blog Below, I will give you a listing and explanation, of plugins that will help improve your blog, and potentially improve your MLM lead generation efforts. How valuable an asset would your home business blog be if it allowed you to generate more leads and prospects, for the same amount of effort? How do you think your business would look? Worrying about leads and prospects for your network marketing business is not something that would be on your mind anymore. My top pick of wordpress blog plugins to supercharge your MLM business blog 1. Akismet The internet is full of people trawling around, looking to leave spam comments all over. This handy little plugin takes care of that problem for you. When you have a rnhighly-trafficked and valuable home business blog, spam will undoubtedly follow you. If unchecked, spam leaves an unprofessional look on your MLM blog. Picture a blog talking about online network marketing lead generation, and you have comments linked to viagra and other such drugs. Akismet is a must-have. A spam-free blog is less likely to repel readers. 2. Google XML Sitemaps plugin This plugin generates an XML sitemap of your entire site, and automatically submits it to the search engines. This is important, as Google uses the XML sitemap to get a view of all the pages and posts on your site. Effectively, this means that your pages and posts are indexed within the major search engines. Since your pages and posts are already indexed, if your content is optimized, then you will get more visitors. 3. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator plugin With this plugin, an html sitemap of your entire site is created for you automatically. With this plugin, users are given links to allow them to navigate all the pages and posts within your MLM site. If your content is very good, a network marketing home business prospect or lead can stay on your site for longer. This sitemap generator can be customized to your desire, and so you can determine what pages and posts appear. 4. W3 total cache Use of this plugin can help speed up your home business blog by massive amounts. As one of the factors in determining your site rankings, Google places importance on page load times. rnGoogle loves a fast-loading blog, and your MLM blog readers will appreciate the site speed too. We’ve all visited sites and blogs which take a very long time to load......how long did it take before you left that site? rnWhen W3 total cache is used in conjunction with Amazon S3 and CDN (Content Distribution Network) services, your blog will load with unbelievable speed. rnIf your MLM blog loads quickly, your readers are likely to stay longer and read your articles and posts. You of course have to have very good quality content on your MLM blog. 5. Sexy Bookmarks With this plugin, readers can easily share your content. Through use of this plugin, you give your blog readers a multitude of social media platforms from which to share your content. You do not have to use all the social media options, but through this plugin, you allow your readers to share your content with their friends on their social media real estate. rnThis is good as it helps you attract more visitors and hence generate more home based business leads from your visitors’ friends on their social media profiles. 6. SEO All-In-One plugin All-In-One SEO plugin is handy for your crucial on-page Search Engine Optimization, unless you have installed the Thesis theme. rnWhen you can rank very high in the search engines results pages, for relevant terms within your niche, you can get to attract the best MLM leads. When you take care of the on-page search engine optimization factors of your articles and posts, you are more likely to rank well on the search engines for your relevant search terms. When you rank well in the search engines, a lot more prospects will find your content, and visit your home business blog, and your chances of generating network marketing leads are thus greatly improved. rnThesis theme comes with this as standard, so if you have thesis, you have no need for SEO All-In-One-Pack. Thesis will handle a lot of your on-page search engine rnoptimization factors for you. 7. SEOPressor plugin Having the SEOPressor plugin is like working beside a top search engine optimization expert as you are writing your posts and articles. rnThis plugin helps you by advising you on what to do with your target keywords:

1. This plugin tells you the most optimal place to put your main search term
2. SEOPressor tells you if you keyword density is too high or too low
3. SEOPressor will put your main keyword in bold, italics, and it will underline it; this is very imporatnt from a search engine optimization perspective.

rnTo achieve greater rankings for your main keyword, you either have to know your SEO very well and hope for the best, or get SEOPressor and get good rankings for your keywords. Attracting more visitors when you have high rankings for your search terms is thus achievable, and you also get to generate more leads for your MLM business. 8. Yoast Breadcrumbs plugin Yoast Breadcrumbs gives blog readers a trail, so they know where in the heirarchy of your MLM blog, they are. rnThis plugin also allows the search engines to get a view of your blog heirarchy, which is always a good thing. Overall, this helps you with your search engine rankings. 9. FB Like plugin The FB Like plugin lets your readers like your blog post, and this filters through to their Facebook profile. Guess who sees the link to your blog post.....your reader’s Facebook friends and contacts; this is good visibility for you and your network marketing blog. rnSEOPressor can also help well-established home business blogs, by giving you hints and advice on how to improve your rankings for your particular keyword terms for each of your articles or pages. 10. FB Share Button plugin This is the traditional, recognizable plugin with the Facebook background. If one of your MLM blog readers uses this plugin to share your content on their Facebook profile, their comment, together with a link back to your blog article is posted on their Facebook profile, making it available to all their contacts. This way, you can potentially attract more visitors to your MLM blog. This gets you more home business leads, assuming of course your network marketing blog content is good enough. 11. Thank me later plugin With this plugin, you can interact with your home business blog commenters, by sending them an email after they comment on your blog post. You can use this to connect with your commenters on a deeper level, or remind them to connect with you on the social media profiles, or subscribe to your feed. It adds that human friendly element to you. Network Marketing is about building relationships, so this plugin is handy to have. 12. Google Analyticator plugin This plugin displays Google analytics data within your network marketing blog. With this plugin, you can view useful metrics concerning your network marketing blog:

1. It shows you where your MLM blog visitors come from
2. This plugin lets you see the keywords that readers have used to get to your home business blog
3. This plugin allows you to see which pages on your MLM blog are more popular than others

Information obtained from Google analytics helps you improve your MLM blog by optimizing your blog content, based on what your visitors seem to like. When you know which content your home business prospects and visitors seem to like, you can optimize your blog content to target more of the relevant keywords. 13. Tweetmeme retweet plugin This plugin allows your network marketing blog readers to share your content on twitter with their twitter followers, without leaving your blog. This plugin includes a live counter, showing the number of times your blog post has been retweeted. The counter also gives social proof to new blog readers; this tells them that it must be a good article. 14. Statpress Using Statpress, you can easily check which are the preferred posts by your blog visitors, in real-time. It also allows spying of your blog visitors in real-time. Use of this plugin allows you to differentiate between the spiders and the human visitors. 15. Popup Domination plugin Any home business owner with some online presence will undoubtedly be intereseted in generating leads for their home business. rnThis plugin allows you to generate leads for your home business. Looking around the internet, you will probably have noticed that the top marketers use nice popup rnwebforms to capture leads for their businesses. That’s Popup Domination in action. rnUsing this plugin saves you the hassle of having to design your popup web form. rnPopup Domination integrates with the major autoresponder services and allows you to create beautiful popup webforms. rnMore leads and subscribers potentially gives you more sales and more downline team members; having Popup Domination will definitely help your home business. There are thousands of other plugins out there that will enhance your blog greatly. Are you using any of these plugins to supercharge your home business blog and help you generate more leads for your business?