WordPress is undoubtedly an exceptional tool for developing any businesses online presence.
With WordPress you can start off small and gradually grow your site into anything you want! All with relative ease too..
There are 1000’s of useful plugins made available by the WordPress community, all which will enhance your site in some way, shape or form. But rather than give you a meaningless list of unrelated plugins we have put together 5 of the very best WordPress plugins guaranteed to help any business grow.
It could mean growing your online presence, growing your marketing list or your social following.
Top 5 essential WordPress plugins to help your business grow:
Hello Bar – Grow your subscriber list overnight
Plugin link: Visit Hello Bar website to download your customized plugin
Company site: https://www.hellobar.com
Hello bar is a simple plugin with one objective: to grow your subscriber list, or online sales and despite its simplicity; it does an incredible job of it, the wiggle adds a nice touch too!
- Start by adding your business colors & your choice of message.
- Choose a goal for your bar: Drive traffic, Collect emails, drive social engagement, or just make an announcement.
- Install the plugin and your hello bar will start showing across your site
On the surface hello bar is a small strip that sits at the top of your web page. It directs visitors where you want them or makes an announcement, but behind the scenes it’s a whole lot more:
- Show multiple bars (up to 10 on the free plan)
- Behavior activated content
- A/B testing
- Conversion results
- Choose between bar, slide-out, page takeover, center screen pop-up.
Overall Hello Bar is simple but at the same time extremely powerful. It’s perfect if you want a way to generate more leads or sales from your website.
You can use the plugin free (limited visibility to 1 in 10 visits) or go for Pro at $12 per month for more features.
Just remember you must create an account to download your bespoke plugin.
Instapage – Laser targeted landing pages, made easy
Plugin link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/instapage
Company site: http://www.instapage.com
Instapage is a landing page creation tool enabling you to quickly create high-converting sales pages to add to your WordPress site.
The tool uses a drag & drop editor which is a significant appeal to most of its users. Pages can be created from 100s of unique templates or from scratch with no programming knowledge needed!
The best feature is perhaps the ability to integrate opt-in forms with popular email providers such as Constant Contact, Mail Chimp & Get Response.
Prices start at free for 1 landing page and max 100 visitors per month then $29 per month for unlimited landing pages and 5000 visits.
In my opinion every website should have at least one landing page, why not give Instapage a try, it’s free anyway.
Wp Socializer – Grow your social following
Plugin link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-socializer/
Company site: http://www.aakashweb.com
If you are looking for ways to grow your social following (and let’s be honest, who isn’t!) WP-Socializer is the perfect plugin to suit your needs.
Every website should have some form of social sharing; this plugin provides a number of stress-free options to suit every need:
- Firstly choose what social sites you want to add
- Decide how you want your icons to display: horizontally, vertically, floating, or static.
- Decide where you want your social buttons to go: Pages, Posts, at the top of the page, in the sidebar or at the bottom of a page.
- Add your Facebook or Google+ page in your sidebar with widgets
WP Socializer is an excellent tool to increase your social media presence & grow your social activity. Give it a try!
WordPress SEO by Yoast – Grow your search engine ranking
Plugin link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
Company site: https://yoast.com
Generally named as one of the most popular & most useful WordPress plugins, SEO by Yoast is packed full of helpful tools to help you grow your search rankings.
SEO by Yoast allows you to:
- Optimize each of your pages & posts for higher rankings
- Optimize your site for social sharing (using Open Graph tags)
- View real time analysis with actionable page by page suggestions to improve the SEO of each page or post.
- Create sitemaps to help search engines find content on your site (WordPress SEO also notifies Google & Bing of these sitemaps for you!)
What makes WordPress SEO so great is the ability to use it whether you are a complete SEO novice or a seasoned pro. It covers most of what any small business owner would want to do with SEO, it’s packed full of helpful utilities & offers valuable suggestions. What’s more it even includes a tour of plugin to get you started!
Ninja pop ups– Grow your mailing list
Plugin link: http://codecanyon.net/item/ninja-popups-for-wordpress/3476479
Company site: http://codecanyon.net/user/arscode
If you are not capturing your site visitors & turning them into business prospects you are missing a big opportunity.
A plugin like Ninja Popups is the most effective means of building a mailing list using your Wordpress Plugins.
The plugin works by displaying a highly compelling call to action which appears as an overlay above your exiting web pages.
Your popup can be used to:
- Display on entry or exit of your website
- Display on your homepage, selected pages or posts
- Show video, social connectivity or email opt-in
- Lock content on a page (unlock with a social follow, or email opt in)
The aim of the plugin is to capture a visitor’s email & add it to your mailing list, whether it’s Get Response, IContact, Constant Contact, Mail Chimp & more. If it’s social follows you want, you can add social integration too.
Whatever a visitor is doing on your website an opt in pop up is guaranteed to get their attention. Ninja Popups is a very powerful plugin offering everything you could want.
- Easy installation
- Sample pop-ups (just edit the content)
- Mobile support
- A/B testing
Why not give it a go? It costs just $20 for a one off fee, and has already received rave reviews..
What are your favorite WordPress plugins? Which could you not be without? Let us know in the comments below..