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WordPress plug-ins are versatile tools which can be used to enhance your blog or website. There are thousands of plug-ins to choose from and more are added daily. You can use plug-ins to track visitors, to add contact forms, for images and videos and so much more. Below you will find a list of 10 top WordPress Plugins and a brief description of what each plug-in can do for your blog or website.

All-in-one SEO- http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/
This plug-in will help streamline your SEO on your blogs and give you on-page ranking factors to make sure that you are maximizing your blog or site to reach the highest ranking and to generate more traffic to your blog. This plug-in will automatically optimize your titles for search engines and automatically generates META tags.

Database Backup- http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/
This plug-in will allow you to create backups of your main WordPress tables and any other tables you want to save in the same database. This is a versatile plug-in to insure that your data will be available in case your site or computer would crash.

Related Posts-http://wasabi.pbwiki.com/Related%20Entries
This plug-in will allow you to output a series of common or related entries or posts based on specifically chosen keywords. With this plug-in you can store specific keywords in a custom field and instead of using the post title the keywords will be used to find related posts.

Share This- http://sharethis.com/publisher?type=wpplugin
This plug-in allows for an easy way for visitors to post your site content to other social networking sites or for them to send a link through an email or from sites such as MySpace or Facebook. This is a simple and effective way to gain more visibility and to increase your visitors and your page ranking.

Subscribe to Comments- http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
This plug-in allows a person who wants to post a comment on your blog the option of having an email notification sent to them when there are further comments posted on your blog. This is a nice feature to have because it keeps the reader involved; without the person having to keep checking your blog to see if there are additional comments.

WordPress Paginate Plugin-http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2005/01/23/wppaginate-for-wp-15/
This plug-in allows you to group and number your posts which helps in organizing them in categories and topics. This plug-in has the ability to be customized according to your needs and the amount of pages you are working with.

Digg This- http://www.aviransplace.com/index.php/digg-this-wordpress-plugin/
This plug-in will detect incoming links from the website digg.com and will automatically display a link back to the source of the digg post.

Lightbox 2- http://www.4mj.it/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress/
This plug-in is used to make it possible to overlay images on a page by using JavaScript powered pop-ups.

RSS Signature- http://www.smackfoo.com/plugins/sig2feed/
This plug-in allows you to add a custom tag, signature or copyright message to a WordPress generated RSS feed. The only limitation is that the tag, signature or message has to be able to be displayed in a RSS feed.