10 Most Useful Google Plugins for WordPress

Written by Tomas Laurinavičius on Saturday, October 17th in Blogging / WordPress / 35 Comments

WordPress is a great and most popular blogging platform for it possibility to extend functions with plugins. WordPress Plugins make blogging easier for all of us who have chosen WordPress as our content management system. This time we want to present you 10 Most Useful Google Plugins for Wordpress. Google is best known as a search engine and Internet giant, but this time we will check what Google can offer for WordPress users. This post lists the most useful Wordpress plugins related to Google starting from XML Sitemaps and ending with FeedBurner subscribers counter.

We also are using some of listed plugins like Google XML Sitemaps, Google Analyticator or FeedBurnerCount.

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1. Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

2. Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator easily adds Google Analytics tracking support to a WordPress-powered blog. Google Analyticator also comes with an easily customizable widget that can be used to display specific information that is gathered by Google Analytics using the Google Analytics API.

3. Google Analytics for WordPress

Google Analytics for WordPress

This plugin adds the possibility to tag and segment all outgoing links, so you can see whether a click came from a comment or an article. It also adds the possibility to track just the domain, instead of the complete link, so you get a better view of how much traffic you’re sending where.

4. Google Website Optimizer for WordPress

Google Website Optimizer for WordPress

This simple plugin lets you optimize your landing pages (as posts or pages) using the Google Website Optimizer without needing to edit the HTML code of the theme.

5. Google Doc Embedder

Google Doc Embedder

Google Doc Embedder will allow you to embed a PDF, PowerPoint (PPT), or TIFF file directly into your page or post, not requiring the user to have Adobe Reader, PowerPoint, or other software installed to view the contents.

6. Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

7. XML Google Maps

XML Google Maps

This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog.

8. Google AJAX Translation

Google AJAX Translation

The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog. A “Translate” button can be added to the bottom or top of posts, pages, and/or comments.

9. Google Custom Search Plugin

Google Custom Search Plugin

The default search engine that ships with WordPress is not the best search engine and bloggers every where should make the switch to WordPress Google Custom Search plugin. This plugin is a drop in replacement and works with minimum hassle.

10. FeedBurnerCount

FeedBurnerCount

A well-optimized and reliable plugin that connects to the FeedBurner Awareness API to retrieve your readers count, that you can print out in plain text.

What do you think about these plugins? Do you use anyone from this list?  Might we haven’t listed your favorite Google related plugin? Share your thoughts in comments.

Written by Tomas Laurinavičius

Tomas is a young blogger from Lithuania. He's interested in webdesign, photoshop and wordpress. Follow Tomas on Twitter @tomaslau.

35 Responses to “10 Most Useful Google Plugins for WordPress”

  1. Delighted Surfers 18 October 2009 at 10:20 Permalink

    Amazing!.. I fallow plugins and was not aware of Google Analyticator & Google AJAX Translation.. YOU ROCK!

  2. Vikas Ghodke 18 October 2009 at 11:16 Permalink

    Thanks for the list thomas

  3. Webmaster Forum 18 October 2009 at 12:05 Permalink

    I have these plugins running on my blog and would advice all bloggers to install these plugins. Very useful list of plugins. Thanks for sharing.

    Dave

  4. GetBrowser 18 October 2009 at 14:29 Permalink

    Thanks for your sharing.

  5. Travis 18 October 2009 at 16:20 Permalink

    I wish WP did a better job of listing the most popular (or highest rated) plugins. Thanks much to blog list like this.

  6. Chris 18 October 2009 at 18:28 Permalink

    I would love to learn more info about the website optimizer at number 4.

  7. Inside the Webb 18 October 2009 at 18:55 Permalink

    These are great, definitely going to need to implement a few of these on my Wordpress blog!

  8. Brands-and-Jingles 18 October 2009 at 19:04 Permalink

    Thanks a lot for sharing. Google Doc Embedder is something we were looking for ages. Cheers!

  9. designfollow 18 October 2009 at 20:03 Permalink

    thanks for this creat article.

  10. favSHARE 18 October 2009 at 23:42 Permalink

    This article has been shared on favSHARE.net. Go and vote it!

  11. MyMarketer 19 October 2009 at 00:33 Permalink

    I was aware of the customized google plugin search (http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=006835583451239722573:15duy8wtjos), but I didn’t know they made it into a plugin for your plugin search—brilliant.

  12. jesusguevarautomotriz 19 October 2009 at 01:33 Permalink

    Google Custom Search Plugin
    # Last Updated: 2008-12-19 —–!!!!??????
    # Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher
    # Compatible up to: 2.7 ——!!!!!????

    ¿Run with wp 2.8?

  13. Torben Rick 19 October 2009 at 08:44 Permalink

    Great stuff :-) Thanks

    Torben Rick

    torbenrick.eu

  14. Tomas Laurinavičius 19 October 2009 at 10:24 Permalink

    @jesusguevarautomotriz I don’t tested this plugin. If you can test it with WordPress 2.8 and share your notices.

  15. Q Ball, The 800lb Gorilla 19 October 2009 at 11:49 Permalink

    I fully recommend The Google Integration Toolkit that integrates Google services (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc.) with any Wordpress blog. Google XML Sitemaps is tremendously fantastic as well.

  16. Grafiker 19 October 2009 at 12:40 Permalink

    Great Post. Thank you very much. Really good collection. very usefull. but why use 2 analytics plugins?

  17. Paul Myatt 19 October 2009 at 13:03 Permalink

    Don’t forget the “Use Google Libraries” plugin to help speed-up and ease the load on your server:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/use-google-libraries/

  18. Tomas Laurinavičius 19 October 2009 at 13:16 Permalink

    @Grafiker 2 Analytics Plugins because both have advantages and disadvantages.

  19. Heather Moore 19 October 2009 at 14:07 Permalink

    Got most of these plugins, but haven’t got Google Custom Search. Going to install that now :D

  20. Svetainu kurimas 19 October 2009 at 14:28 Permalink

    Wow this is useful. Thanks.

  21. Greg 19 October 2009 at 20:21 Permalink

    Thanks for the List some of these I already use but the ones I didn’t know about are an added bonus. Thanks for the Info!

  22. Amber Weinberg 19 October 2009 at 20:38 Permalink

    Was not aware of Google Analytics for Wordpress…will def implement, thanks!

  23. clippingimages 19 October 2009 at 21:35 Permalink

    These google plugins definitely very useful. Most of them i added with my wordpress. Thanks for sharing this awesome post. :)

  24. Najoh 20 October 2009 at 10:58 Permalink

    I would add XSAL to this list (Xev SEO Auto-Linker).

  25. Polprav 22 October 2009 at 23:32 Permalink

    Hello from Russia!
    Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

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