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WordPress is a unique publishing program with a focus on usability, web standards and aesthetics. A plug-in is a search engine optimization (SEO) tool to improve each post individually in a blog and to manage the whole blog optimization in general.

A WordPress plug-in is a special software item that helps you to build on the functionality, presence and features of your blog. The best thing about the plug-ins is that they are useful in adding all the features and functions to your blog without you having to do any coding. You will be able to make your blog look entirely presentable and powerful even if you are not a web designer.

WordPress has made blogging very simple. You can have an endless supply of plug-ins for free. You just need to download them. Installing plug-ins is not a tough task. WordPress offers very easy ways of adding plug-ins to your blog. From the `Administration Panels’ on WordPress, you have to click on the `Plug-in’ tab. Once you have uploaded your selected plug-in to the directory, you can activate it from the `Plugins Management’ page and you are done. You can go about doing this in two ways. You can search, install and activate in the `Add New’ menu or you can get and expand zip files, upload to your server and activate. WordPress plug-in developers have made the process easy.

You can add any WordPress plug-in to your non-WordPress.com.blog. If you run your own WordPress blog for business or for personal reasons, there are a few elementary WordPress plug-ins that you have to install for basic search engine optimization (SEO) and functionality purpose. They are:

• `All-in-one-SEO-pack’
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Copyright
• Akismet

These are the basic minimum plug-ins you require so that your blog gets indexed by Google and other search engines. The `Akismet’ will save you from unnecessary problems and additional work as it blocks all spam comments and the `Copyright’ plug-in makes sure that your really simple syndication (RSS) feeds have the copyright information.

Blogs, in general, are not very search engine friendly. In order for your blog not to be ranked very low, the simplest method of getting SEO mileage is to use plug-ins. It also helps if you have a WordPress blog.  If you have WordPress, you will be fortunate because you do not need to know JavaScript, CSS, PHP or even basic HTML knowledge. By using the right plug-ins, you can easily create a perfect blog.