I just for fun to install Blogorator’s free rating widget in my blog and it allow blog readers to rate my blog. It is free to join. If you like my blog, then just rate my blog 5 stars huh! Blogorator will compile lists of top voted blog and listed in top blog page. May be I can say that it is another way to drive more traffic to your blog with the installation of Blogorator’s free rating widget.

I found a link for Top 30 Wordpress Plugin in Blogosphere, these plugins are the most popular that will be used by most bloggers. These top 30 Wordpress plugins are as belows:-

1. Akismet
2. Google Sitemap Generator
3. Related Post
4. Wordpress Contact Form
5. Wordpress Database Backup
6. Feedburner Feed Replacement
7. Ultimate Tag Warrior
8. Subscribe to Comment
9. Adsense Deluxe
10. Gravatars
11. Jerome’s Keywords plugin
12. Optimal title
13. Sociable
14. WP-Cache 2.0
15. Popularity Contest
16. Sidebar Widgets
17. Wp_Notable
18. Simple Tags
19. Adhesive
20. Exe-PHP
21. Extended live archive
22. No ping wait
23. PodPress
24. SRG Clean Archives
25. WP-Page Navi
26. WP-Cron
27. Wp-Shortstat
28. Lightbox 2
29. del.icio.us cached
30. Get Recent Comments

Google Sitemaps Generator generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. XML-Sitemaps can help you to get indexed by the major search engines. It has a user interface where you can customize all parameters like change frequencies, priorities etc and available in 14 languages. For more features about Google Sitemaps Generator, you can visit their site for further information.

Previously I have talked about how to backup your database from your hosting control panel, there is another way to backup your using Wordpress Database Backup Plugin. This plugin allows you to backup your data with three backup option, you can save to server (wp-content/backup-be994/), download to your computer, or email backup to your desired email address.

Previously Alexa toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer (IE) browser, now you can download the recent released Alexa plugin called Sparky for Firefox browser, it required Firefox 2.0 or newer to install this plug in. The features of the Sparky are as follow:-

Related Links: Find sites that are similar to the one you are currently visiting.
Traffic Trend: A sparkline showing the traffic trend from the last four months.
Reach Meter: A neat little indicator that shows the site’s Reach.
Traffic Rank: Shows the current site’s Alexa Traffic Rank.

Many people said that install Alexa toolbar can helps to improve your Alexa ranking. If you want to use it, you can download it by clicking here.