Content marketing is an integral part of any WordPress based website. It’s an effective strategy used by various brands to make their business and its values reachable to their audience. No matter, whether you maintain a regular blog, write articles, use social media or does anything that is related to it, then chances are pretty good that at some point you would need WordPress content marketing plugins to make your blogging website better, competitive and promoting.

As blogging and WordPress go hand in hand, their partnership is enhanced with a rich set of plugins that help you improve the effectiveness of content marketers. These plugins will not only save you time but also ensure that the content is fully optimized.

1. Edit Flow

Edit Flow is a versatile plugin that will help you manage editorial workflow in the most effective manner. It gives you an organized content editorial calendar to improve the content efficiency. It also allows you to assign custom post status, manage editorial content and a lot more.

2. Wordpress SEO by Yoast

WordPress SEO by Yoast is a popular plugin that helps you optimize your content to take your website at the top of the Google searches. The plugin features a page analyst tool which is a great way to increase content optimization not only for the search engines but also for the users.

3. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 has come up with some fantastic features which are helpful in perfecting the visitors form within your website. The plugin helps you create impressive forms which are convenient for your users to fill and get in touch with your website.

4. Google XML Sitemaps Plugin

This is an ideal plugin for those who don’t want to get involved into a daunting coding process. The plugin creates an XML sitemap which will help all the leading search engines to index your content and make it more visible.

5. Optimizely

Optimizely is a dynamic plugin that helps you give your content a highest level of engagement and an impressive number of shares. It features an eye-catching user interface and gives you an easier way to perform A/B testing.

6. Scribe

Designed by keeping the needs of content marketers in mind, Scribe is a solid plugin which comes with an ability to perform in-depth search to identify the opportunities existing in content marketing. The plugin evaluates your content and check if the writing style and tone is in tune with the website.

7. Flare

Flare is a great plugin that works once your content has been published. It improves the content sharing across various platforms and allows us to build community of fans of your website and its content.

8. Contextly

This plugin is an ideal choice for creating a feature that helps you suggest some other content or related recommendations to your visitors. This is a great method of making your readers stick around your website and keep them engaged with other writing pieces you’ve written for them.

9. MyCurator

MyCurator helps you find out some interesting content on the web and thus encourages you to write more content. It gives you add a bookmarklet to quickly find out engaging content on the Internet and take them as an inspiration to write good content.

10. OptinMonster

OptinMoster is a high-performing plugin that helps you convert your website visitors into subscribers and customers. It is a great way of designing professional looking forms without getting involved into the painful coding process.

11. Yet Another Related Post Plugin (YARPP)

YARPP is all about engaging your customers within your website by showing them related posts as soon as they finish reading the previous one.

12. Floating Social Bar

Speed is a key metric used to rank your website. Many social media button loads too many scripts, ultimately hampering the speed of the website. Floating Social Bar provides a solution by showing just a mock of social media button with a real count until the user hover mouse over it to proceed for sharing. 

13. Smush.it

Smush.it is an ideal choice for improving the speed of your website and thus make your content available as fast as possible. It compresses your images into smaller sizes without sacrificing the quality.

14. Comments Evolved

Comment Evolved (formerly known as Google+ Comments) is a useful plugin that enables you make the comment section seamless with the help of tabs.

Conclusion

The above mentioned are some of the plugins that will help you give a boost to your digital marketing efforts. So, which plugin do you think is just perfect for you?

Author Bio:

Edward Jones is a web developer cum professional blogger. Currently, he is working with OSSMedia Ltd.- A WordPress Plugin Development Services. He holds an impressive amount of expertise in major CMS platforms including Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and Magento. You can go through his write-ups for gathering a greater insight into the popular CMSs available today.