10 Best Free WordPress Plugins for Travel Blog
Writing a travel blog is something lots of traveller love to do. Some do it for passion, other for business. In any case, nobody wants to spend tons of money.
When you start your travel blog, you want to keep the expense low and WordPress is an amazing tool to do so. With its huge library of plugins, it is the perfect tool for travel blog.
Here is the list of the 10 Best Free WordPress Plugins that we are currently using.
Note, that all of them have a free version and some will have additional features with their paid version.
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The Best Free WordPress Plugins
Interactive Geo Maps
Do you want to display in which country you have been with direct link to a page or post? Or simply show all the city you visited in a country? Interactive Geo Maps is the best tools for it and the free version offers more than enough! We are using it in our home page and all our country pages.
Rank Math SEO
The best SEO plugin we tried so far. It is easy to use and tell you exactly what to do in real time. You get a score from 0 to 100 and by achieving the guideline your score rises. Nothing easier to follow as it adjusts in real time. It works perfectly with WordPress as well as Elementor.
Akismet Anti-Spam
Akismet is a spam fighting service. It filters out spam, clean them up and allow you to save time. Akismet checks all your comments against a constantly growing global spam database to remove irrelevant, malicious content before it gets published and hurts your site’s credibility.
MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress
MailChimp is a plugin that allow you to create newsletters, send out email campaigns to a list of email and also create a registration form on your site. This way you can engage with you readers.
Custom Permalinks
Some pages are sub-page of sub-page and therefor their URL start to be extra long which isn’t recommended and decrease your SEO score.
For example: https://thedailypackers.com/Destinations/Europe-travel-guide/France-travel-guide is an extremely long permalink. With this plugin, we changed it to : https://thedailypackers.com/ /France-travel-guide
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights
You will want to track the statistic of your travel blog; this plugin is directly connected to your Google Analytics account and allow you to check your blog:
- Sessions: A session is a set of visitor interactions with a website that takes place within a period of time. A session can contain many pageviews, events, form submissions, and eCommerce transactions.
- Pageviews: How many pages have been seen
- Average Session duration: How long is the average sessions
- Bounce rate: Percentage of users who leave immediately after entering without an engagement of any kind like clicking through to another page.
- Top 10 Countries: From which countries are your visitors
- Top 10 Referrals: Which are the 10 ways people get to your site
- New vs. Returning Visitors: If you have new visitors or returning one
- Device Breakdown: Is people are using Desktop, Tablet or Mobile
- Top Post/Pages: Which is the top page on your blog
You can read more at: https://www.monsterinsights.com/docs/glossary-of-terms/#s
Sticky Header Effects for Elementor
Your header is one of the best tools for people to navigate on your website and stay longer. With this plugin you can make it stick to the top. When your reader will slide down, the header will always be on the top for a quick access.
Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
Instagram is a great way to share your pictures on the WEB. A top thing for travel bloggers is to have your Instagram feed in your footer. This easy to use plugin will resize the images from Instagram.
By doing so, you will also have more engagement on your Instagram from your website reader.
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