If you are blogging for business, you might be interested in what your rivals are blogging about today. Running a blog has become an inherent part of business marketing and serving the customers in the Internet.

For what to start with, there are quite a lot of ways to set up a free blog in the Internet. You can choose from BlogSpot.com, Blogger.com, or WordPress.com. All of these are good options for groups and individuals. However, they may not be the ideal options for businesses targeted to attract new clients over the long term. But if you feel serious about running a blog for business, it is recommended to use WordPress, which comes in two versions: a free hosted blog (WordPress.com) and blog hosted on your own site (WordPress.org). If you are very serious, you’d better opt for the latter, as even a Google's liaison on SEO info does not use Google's own blogging platform Blogger.com, but the WordPress.org instead!

Why the WordPress is so popular is because it’s an open source, and therefore it has a countless number of the high-powered plugins available. Plugins are actually features able to add a great variety of functionality, administrative and display options to your blog.

The most important of must-have plugins for your WordPress website include those below:

WordPress Automatic Upgrade
As WordPress updates seem to be never-ending, this plugin will follow you through a wizard making it very easy to update your WordPress and cope with file and database backups.

WP-Mail-SMTP
This plugin makes sure your emails will get through to your customers, and not to the “junk mailbox”.

Akismet
This tool will be your greatest asset in fighting spam. In fact, you will get spam anyway, but Akismet offers an excellent defense, and it ships with each download of the blogging platform. The only thing you need to do is enable it.

All-in-One-SEO-Pack
This tool will help other people to find your blog via search engine optimization. This is more than important for business blog – since you spend time and money to post the relevant content, you should make sure your prospects will be able to find it. All-in-One-SEO-Pack will help you make SEO of your blog as automated and user-friendly as possible.

All of the plugins can be found on the WordPress official website. While visiting it, spend some time to explore some other plugins you might find useful for your business.

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