Trying to choose the best wordpress plugins for your business in 2019?
When it comes to WordPress plugins for businesses, specific plugins and resources can empower you to grow your online business faster, while helping you work more efficiently. Over the next couple weeks we’ll share our 2019 “master pick” of the must-have WordPress plugins for business sites.
This week: the ten most basic plugins needed for EVERY website, plus a couple bonus resources to enhance your business.
Make it Easier for Customers to Connect With You: Contact
A contact form is essential to every website as it makes it simple for your guests to connect with you. WPForms, “The Most Beginner Friendly WordPress Contact Form Plugin in the Market,” is easy to understand and configure, and is a great contact form plugin for WordPress.
This drag and drop builder lets you make many types of forms: contact, email membership, order, and payment types. It also enables you to quickly create surveys, polls, and other needed forms.
WPForms enables you to make custom user registration forms and login pages, and it links with all marketing and payment options.
There’s a free WPForms Lite version, as well as a Pro version.
If you’re having issues with your WordPress website not sending out emails, you and your users might not see any notifications. It might be your host; most don’t have their servers properly configured. This free plugin fixes that issue.
Who hasn’t heard of Google? G Suite has “everything you need in one package.”
With the ability to connect, create, access, and control, this set of web applications such as email, documents, spreadsheets, and storage helps you save on licenses and enables you to use your domain’s email address in the familiar interface of Gmail.
Surprisingly affordable, G Suite pricing plans begin at $6 per user per month. .
Make it Easier for Customers to Find You: SEO
As the owner of a business website build with WordPress, you know how important SEO is so that clients and customers can find you. And while WordPress is great for SEO just as is, there is a lot more that can be done to ensure those visitors don’t have to search for you for too long.
Yoast SEO to the rescue. It gives an all-inclusive solution for your published content, ensuring the Search Engines are able to figure out what each page is about and offering suggestions for improvement. It updates frequently, keeping up with the changing algorithms of Search Engines and increasing the chances of your website being found.
Here’s a link to the free version of Yoast SEO, and the premium version.
This free plugin lets you easily add social sharing buttons to your business site – whether you’re a beginner or a developer. And, it displays the total share counts, which adds authority to your website. This all can enhance your SEO.
The plugin can be found here.
Do you want to boost your digital marketing efforts? This powerful tool is a must-have. It helps you boost your SEO strategies, as well as understand competitors’ traffic sources to more easily outrank them.
SEM Rush’s website has the complete info about this robust marketing tool.
Make it Easier for You: Basic Website Maintenance
In addition to great hosting, a security plugin should be a priority with your website. Sucuri monitors and protects from just about every type of attack. And, it’s free!
Information can be found at on Sucuri’s website, and it can be downloaded for free here.
The best-known backup plugin out there, UpdraftPlus lets you schedule backups and store them in remote locations instead of on your website’s server. That way, they’re always safe and available in case your server is compromised.
It is also extremely easy to restore a website from a backup.
You can download the free version here, and both the free and premium versions can be found here.
The speed with which your website loads can affect your visitors’ experience, and is a ranking factor in Google’s algorithms. “Recognized as the most powerful caching plugin by WordPress experts,” this caching plugin is easy to configure and offers many options for configuring it.
The plugin is a paid one only; you can view pricing and features on WP Rocket’s website.
This under construction/maintenance mode plugin lets you create visually stunning coming soon or landing pages, enabling you to continue to collect leads and increase your followers by integrating your email list and social media – even when your entire website isn’t available.
Complete information and pricing options can be found here.
