Must Have WordPress Plugins For Your WooCommerce Web Store

Before anything else, we have to make sure that you set up your Woocommerce Affiliate Software the right way. Having set your WooCommerce Web Store up and running, your next step must be on the efficient management of workflows and functionalities that helps run your store efficiently. This is where plugins play a most important role in helping make you life easier. Plugins are small software applications that can be installed on your WordPress WooCommerce Website that performs specific functions. The following are the list of must have plugins that enables you to manage and automate functions that are required for the smooth functioning of your online store.

Referral/Partner Program Plugins

You can get more traffic and sell more by setting up an affiliate program or referral program for your WooCommerce. A referral program for your WooCommerce will allow you to pay your partners a commission or reward for all the sales they send. Easily set this up using the following plugin for Woocommerce and WordPress affiliate platform.

OSI Affiliate Software

OSI Affiliate Software will easily integrate with your WooCommerce and allow you to easily set up a partner program. Simply follow the integration instructions provided and you will have a referral program for your WooCommerce within 20 minutes. Learn more and see how OSI Affiliate Software will help grow your WooCommerce store.

Plugins For Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

SEO is one of the first and the foremost important plugin that you must integrate your WooCommerce web store with. With innumerable competitors already thriving in the market, with hundreds others foraying into the business everyday, as a beginner the only and the easiest way to establish your presence online, especially on search engine rankings is through SEO. WordPress platform has some of the best SEO plugins that could be easily integrated with a few clicks.

All In SEO Pack:

All In SEO Pack is one of the oldest, trusted and most used SEO plugin on the WordPress platform. Its features include, 1. Easy on-page optimization implementation such as Meta title, description and keywords. 2. Google Analytics integration 3. Setting up Robots.txt 4. Optimize page URLs 5. Google Authorship integration.

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Yoast:

Yoast is the most comprehensive and easy to use SEO plugin on the WordPress platform. The best part is Yoast is one of the few plugins that gets readily integrated with WooCommerce websites. It’s Features Include, 1. Perform on page optimization with a WYSIWYG editor. 2. Twitter product cards and Facebook OpenGraph integration. 3. Navigational breadcrumbs settings. 4. Google Analytics integration.

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Google XML Sitemaps:

Sitemaps are nothing but simple computer readable XML files, that lists the pages that your eCommerce website consists of. Sitemaps are so important because search engines like Google uses sitemaps to crawl webpages and index them on their search database. Google XML Sitemaps is an easy to use plugin that helps you create the XML Sitemap file required for the website.

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Seopressor:

Seopressor is a WordPress SEO plugin for those who care so about precision and attention to detail. 1. The real time keyword and on page optimization score helps you to optimize a web page until your goal is achieved. The score actually keeps you on check, so that you don’t over or under optimize a page. 2. Automatic smart interlinking of closely related posts that helps increase engagement and hence decrease bounce rate.

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Social Share Plugins:

Having setup all the necessary plugins for SEO, the next step in marketing your WooCommerce website is easily promoting it on social media. The following plugins helps automatic social sharing on multiple platforms quiet easy.

AddThis:

AddThis is one of the most comprehensive WordPress plugins for social sharing. Its features includes, 1. Easy, one click sharing to multiple social platforms. 2. Social sharing numbers (total shares) 3. Customizable social share buttons. 4. Follow tools, like customizable buttons and sidebar widgets. 5. Recommended related content widget below each and every post. Image-5

ShareThis:

ShareThis is one of the oldest and most commonly used social share plugin for WordPress. Its main features apart from providing customizable social share buttons include, 1. Social analytics that reports that helps you to measure the engagement level of the page. 2. ShareThis is also a first of a kind social advertisement platform, which helps you to run campaign and audience specific advertisements.

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Shareaholic:

Shareaholic is a worthy alternative to both AddThis and ShareThis if you are cost conscious. It has all the essential features that includes, 1. Social share buttons 2. Social Analytics 3. Related posts widgets.

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Plugins For Email Marketing:

Even though SEO, online advertising and social media takes a chunk of time, money and workforce when it comes to eCommerce digital marketing, the one channel that is always evergreen and produces results in almost all forms of product niches is the Email Marketing. The following are the most important WordPress plugins that helps in Email Marketing

Popup Plugins:

Popup plugins on your eCommerce website helps you to, 1. Enable your customers to subscribe for your newsletters for future offers. 2. Enable your customers to perform conversion specific actions like downloading eBook, whitepapers and playing a video.

Hybrid-Connect:

Hybrid-Connect is an easy to use subscription pop-up plugin that could be easily integrated on your website. Its features includes, 1. Create customizable popup subscription forms. 2. A/B testing of forms that helps you fix on the most converting forms.

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Optinmonster:

Optinmonster is a worthy alternative to Hybrid-Connect if you are looking for a simple and easy to use plugin. Apart from the helping you build and integrate popup subscription forms, Optinmonster also helps you with, 1. Smart User Targeting, that lets you target your popups intelligently to visitors from certain geography, repeated/frequent visitors and product category specific popups.

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 Contact Form7:

Contact Form 7 is the byword for web forms for WordPress maintenance websites. Contact forms are so crucial for eCommerce websites because they act as a first point of contact for your customers to engage with you. The important features of Contact Form 7 includes, 1. Simple to build and highly customizable forms. 2. Flexible integration anywhere on the site with easy to use markup codes. 3. Multilingual support 4. Integration with the top email marketing platforms.

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MailChimp:

MailChimp is an Email Marketing platform that helps you manage and run email campaigns to your customers. If you are using MailChimp then integrating MailChimp with your WooCommerce store is so easy with the help of this plugin. Its Features includes, 1. Easy to use and highly customizable email subscription forms. 2. Beautifully designed forms with A/B testing functionality. 3. Easily integrate with your MailChimp account with API.

AWeber:

AWeber is an alternative to MailChimp for running email-marketing campaigns. Aweber’s WordPress widget helps you to, 1. Create simple, easy to use and highly customizable email subscription forms. 2. Allow you to integrate with other third party email marketing platforms like MailChimp and CampaignMonitor.

WP-Polls

As a B2C business you’d always want to find the pulse of your customers. Creating Polls with objective questions is one of the easiest and time-tested ways to get feedback from your customers. WP-Polls is a plugin that lets you create custom polls for your WooCommerce websites, its features includes, 1. Easy to use interface to create custom polls. 2. Intuitive and flexible settings that lets you control the design, data reporting and even the duration for which the poll should run.

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Google Analyticator:

Having setup your WooCommerce Store, you’ll now have to measure and keep a tab on the growth of your store. For those who wanted to setup and manage Google Analytics, Google Analyticator is the one plugin you need to install. Its features include, 1. Easily integrate Google Analytics code on to your WooCommerce store. 2. Ability to view the most important web analytics metrics like the traffic, top referrers, and top pages on a custom dashboard.

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Flyzoo Live Chat:

Integrating Live Chat on your WooCommerce web store helps you to turn all your visitors into prospective customers by readily engaging with them during the buying process. Flyzoo is one such Live Chat application that can easily integrated on your store with a plugin. Its Features includes, 1. Capturing both online and offline messages. 2. Customizable Live Chat widgets. 3. Chat analytics. 4. Multiple chat operator support.

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WPSmushit:

Search engines consider page-loading time as a quality criterion in ranking a page. Since images take most of the time in the total page load time and since almost all eCommerce websites are image heavy, it makes more sense to optimize images for their sizes. WPSmushit plugin helps you to, 1. Compress JPEG images without losing details. 2. Stripping meta data from JPEGs 3. Stripping unused colors from indexed images.

W3Total Cache:

In continuing your endeavor to further optimize your pages on your WooCommerce web store, W3Total Cache helps you to, 1. Enable caching on web browsers that greatly reduces page load time on subsequent page visits. 2. Compress the size of the pages by Minifying code. 3. Optimizing web page components rendering during loading. 4. Easy integration of website with Content Delivery Networks (CDN’s) that helps improve page load time. 5. Minify JavaScript, HTML and CSS 6. Helps in at least 10 times more efficient page load times. Tools that helps check page speed before and after optimization are, 1. Google Page Speed Checker 2. Yslow

Albacross:

Albacross is the world’s first free B2B Lead Generation Network that helps you monitor and identify your website visitors. This plugin simplifies the process of integrating the Albacross tracking code with your WordPress website. With Albacross’ key features you would be able to:

  • Find out which companies and potential customers are visiting your website and how to contact them.
  • Get deep insights as to which pages your visitors are most interested in and how they interact with your website.
  • Get access to the contact details of decision makers at companies interested in your business.

Conclusion:

One of the most important reason why WordPress as a Content Management Platform has gained an immense and an indomitable popularity is because of the availability and support of wide range of plugins for almost all web based functionalities. The above-mentioned must have plugins will sure help you to run your WooCommerce store more efficiently than ever. If we have missed any plugin that might add value to the list, do let us know on the comments section. If you still have time, you should also look into having a wordpress affiliate software.

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9 Response to "Must Have WordPress Plugins For Your WooCommerce Web Store"

  1. Comment From Larry Mills

    The SEO tools are great and provide me with my own tools for optimizing my site. I really do not have to rely on anyone else.



  2. Comment From Danny Rawlings

    Optimizing page URLs has been a good tactic for quite some time and will continue to be a good thing to do.



  3. Comment From Amy Lawson

    I never realized how large my graphic files and logo files were until I used WPSmushit. This is a great tool for optimizing your web site images. Site load times can make a difference when it comes to search engine rankings.



  4. Comment From Stacy Thomas

    I never realized there were so many plugins available for my Woocommerce store. I have a lot of homework to do now. Thanks guys.



  5. Comment From Harry Woddard

    The live chat plugin is a great tool for any ecommerce store. It really helps conversions because people can quickly ask questions before they make a purchase.



  6. Comment From Teddy Samson

    The good thing about Woocommerce is that they have so many plugins available that add additional functionality to your store. These tools can really help to optimize your online store over all.



  7. Comment From Laurie Majors

    One of the coolest tools is the Google page speed checker. I never realized how slow my site loaded until I checked using the checker. A slow loading site can really effect your overall search engine rankings.



  8. Comment From lalit vohra

    which platform are you using for your blog ? I am having some issues with wordpress can you suggest an alternative ?



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