Plugins I’m currently Using

After recently moving to my new theme I thought I'd take a minute and throw out some links for the plugins that currently help the site work.

1. Akismet: If it's good enough for WordPress.com it's good enough for me. Since installing Akismet it's successfully blocked 16, 417 pieces of spam. That's roughly 36 pieces of comment spam for each of my 500ish posts. Good Job Akismet!
2. doFollow: A recent trends among blogs has been the removal of the 'rel="nofollow"' tag from comments. It's a great way to encourage more comments and I'm totally behind it. From here on out if you leave a comment on Bill2me Dot Com you'll get an automatic link back to your site.
3. Feedburner Feed Replacement: This one is one of several givens. It's a great plugin for anyone using Feedburner along with their WordPress blog.
4. Google Sitemaps: The Google Sitemap generator is an absolute must have for anyone who wants to have their site indexed by Google and other search engines.
5. Landing Sites: I started using Landing Sites awhile back and it's absolutely great. The plugin basically sniffs for incoming search engine traffic and then serves up special code for any visitors coming in from them. Once it identifies a Search Engine visitor the plugin serves up a list of posts related to the search engine query. It's great for cutting down bounce rates and pushing users deeper into your site.
6. Script Enabler: If you regularly put Javascript in your posts, like when you're posting videos from sites that require it be served with Javascript, Script Enabler comes to the rescue.
7. Simple Tagging: Wow! This plugin is absolutely fantastic. I'd been using Jerome's Keywords for awhile but it appears abandoned now. Simple Tagging imported all the old keywords and offers added functionality like a "Related Posts" function which lists postsbased on how they're related to keywords in any given post. Absolutely great!!
8. Text Link Ads v2: This is pretty much a must have for anyone who wants to sell text link ads on their site.
9. Via: While I was recently able to move most of my "toolbox" plugin to functions.php this was the exception. Via puts a dialoge on your Write Post page which allows you to create a "via" link in your post meta. You can see them all throughout my site.
10. WordPress Database Plugin: Here's another must have. Every couple days I use this to backup my site and guarantee the database isn't lost.
11. WP-Amazon: I've written about WP-Amazon before. It's one of the best plugins I've found for incorporating Amazon Associate links into your post text quickly and easily. I should warn you that it doesn't appear to work with WordPress 2.1.2 yet,at least not for me.

Thanks to all these plugin authors for their great work. They've made running this site an absolute blast!