Setting a blog is not complete after you install WordPress and start posting it needs lots of attention and customization and you need not be programming geek to do all this what you have to do is to make sure that you are using the correct set of plug-ins which were available.
This is the one of top downloaded WordPress plug-in than any other plug-ins. It makes your blog Search Engine friendly and provides lots of features like Canonical URLs, Fine tune Page Navigational Links, Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines, Generates META tags automatically
This plug-in 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. Every time 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.
This plug-in generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your web server will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple mark up. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Every blogger is aware how important social bookmarking and networking helps a blog to drive traffic, Sexy bookmarks is one the best plug-in where you can get lots of options to choose among social bookmarking sites and it is highly customizable. Check out other available social media plugins available for wordpress
This plug-in adds a more advanced paging navigation for your WordPress blog.
This plug-in will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit. This makes you able to build a relationship with fellow bloggers.
WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database
Let me know about the other important plug-ins which you feel that I have missed in the list.
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I usually don’t post on Blogs but ya forced me to, great info.. excellent! … I’ll add a backlink and bookmark your site.
Hey, I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog!…..I”ll be checking in on a regularly now….Keep up the good work!
Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google. I have a blog on online stock trading, I’ll bookmark your site.
@ online stock trading thanks for bookmarking…
Good job! Can’t wait to start my own blog.
Super post, Need to mark it on Digg
Thank you
superb tips, i am actually setting up a WP blog for a friend and i find the tips above remarkable. I will go ahead install these plugins…
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@ Sernan I am glad that you like this post
what ? this is all WP is giving us for X-Mas Raj ? no box of chocolates ?
no, but seriously : I have better plugin installs than these , I was expecting Fireworks & PS LOL , but I guess I’ll have to wait till 2025 or something like that for those 
Thank you for the update Raj 
I hope you discover something new & exciting – please let me know when you do ! 
Merry X-mas &
Best wishes to you TechSanta
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I still cant imagine how the plugins will perform if they were released.. no doubt that it will create magic..
WP just gave 2.9 with lots of bugs I think we can expect 2.9.1 with bug fixes as a the christmas gift…
OOps, my bad Raj – thought these were the new WP 2.9 plugins tee heeee
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may i using twitter wisely..
Really helpful plugins. Thanks friend.
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Glad that u like this plugins..
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll add a few of these plugins to my blog soon.
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nice article…thanks.
thanks for the comment.. such kind of comments really make me feel proud..
thanks and let me know further…