New year celebrations have ended and some plans are still at halt. Plans related to website maintenance and strategies which will drive traffic and conversions this year.

Although it seems like a difficult and exhausting task to accomplish, it cannot be neglected.

Other than strategy, there are certain elements on a website which need performance review.

Plugins are an important part of a website. They offer functionalities which otherwise would require extra efforts and hours of coding, hence saving precious time and efforts.

Due to vast availability of plugins, it is important to review them too.

Let us discuss some of these plugins which are essential for your blogging website and can be used as replacement for your default plugins in 2017.

SEO plugin: SEO plugin is very important for websites which are running on CMS’s. It has preset configurations which helps in determining the relevancy of content, meta tags and other on-page SEO related factors.

Onpage SEO is as important as off page seo, so missing out on an SEO plugin will hamper search engine’s visibility and off-page efforts.

Social Sharing Plugin: Social sharing plugin is for enabling social sharing on your blog. Irrespective of technology your blog is built in, it has sharing support for all.

Social media is one of the best platform to get exposure and generate leads.

Sharing plugin enables sharing buttons which help cut down visitor efforts of copying and pasting your blog elements on social media. It also increases user experience on your blog.

Google Tag Manager Plugin: Google Tag Manager is a free tool that makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags. It includes site analytics, remarketing, conversion tracking and more, in just few clicks.

With just one implementation of code enables use of 50 tags on a website for free. For this there is no need of plugin as tag manager code can easily be added by opening header.

For those who are not fine with opening website code can search for plugins in official plugin directory.

Do make a note of them, replace them with your current plugin and use them in 2017.