Running your Wordpress blog can feel like a full-time job sometimes. We’ve compiled a list of plugins to help you increase your readers, comments and the interaction among your readership

Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from.

Adsense Deluxe - If you run adsense on your blog, then this is the number one plugin to implement. Adsense Deluxe allows you to automatically insert Google Adsense with ease.

CountPosts - Shows you how many times each post gets visited

Backlinks inbound links counter - Uses MSN to track all your incoming links to your blog.

Related Posts - This plugin will find other blog posts that are related to the current post based on keyword matching. You can then display the related posts at the bottom of each article. This is an excellent way to keep visitors at your site for longer periods of time. Customize this plugin to display as many or as few related posts as you desire.

WP-Cache - An extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests.

Ultimate Tag Warrior - This is the best tag system for WordPress. Ultimate Tag Warrior will help you pick up more traffic from Technorati and adds a number of SEO benefits to your blog.

SEO Title Tag - Title tags are one of the most important on-page factors for search engine optimization. This plugin allows you to optimize your title tag for optimum traffic.

Wordpress Database Backup - Talk about a lifesaver. This plugin comes installed with Wordpress, providing an easy way to backup your Wordpress database. You can download the backup file or have it emailed to the address of your choice.

Popularity Contest A very useful plugin that lets you automatically highlight your best posts to your readers. It keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. It can significantly increase the “stickiness” of your blog and help you convert first time visitors into a regular readers.

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