Here are some power tools that will catapult your wordpress blog from ordinary to a super blog.

Headspace Wordpress SEO - This is an extremely good plugin for Wordpress that I found very effective. It is even better than the much hyped All in One SEO plugin. It is a bit hard to manage this as there are more options in it, but this is far more effective than All in One SEO.

Homepage Excerpts - Duplicate content is a big issue on Wordpress. The same content is shown on one or more places on Wordpress and hence the chances of duplicate content and supplementary pages are more. But using this plugin will reduce the chances of duplicate content on wordpress as the homepage content is cut short.

Social Bookmarking - Getting your sites content to travel and propagate is a key factor to getting popular. And what more could be better than social bookmarking? This is a best social bookmarking plugin I’ve seen in the recent times and the X number of them that’s been released.

KB Linker - Extremely useful plugin. You know that internal linking is one of the best way to spread the Google juice and increase the authority and importance of pages. This plugin lets you to select a keyword and whenever there’s an occurrence of the word in your articles, a link can be automatically placed to the keyword. Use it to link to your articles and it increases the internal linking drastically.

Kill supplemental results - There are more instances on Wordpress that increases the chances of supplemental results than you thought of. Homepages, Archives, articles the chances of getting supplemental results on a naked wordpress blog is higher. Use this plugin to decrease the chances in autopilot mode.

Bunny’s Technorati tags - If you are looking for backlinks and traffic from Technorati blogs, you must have this plugin. I’m not a Technorati enthusiast, so I’ve not used them on this blog, but yes, I’ve tested it on other blogs and it works fine.

AdSense DeluxeAdSense Deluxe is a WordPress Plugin that offers advanced options for managing your Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network account. Even you can use that for managing your other Affiliate Networks like Commission Junction. It allows you to insert ads directly into your WordPress posts or pages.

Akismet:Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API Key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

All In One SEO Pack:It’s a highly recommended Plugin for your WordPress Blog. All In One SEO Pack offers automatic Search Engine Optimization.

Dagon Design Form Mailer Dagon Design Form Mailer is a contact us form for your WordPress blog. It is simple, easy to install Plugin for you blog. I have implemented this Plugin here Dagon Design Form Mailer Contact Form.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator :Dagon Design Sitemap Generator is yet another Plugin from Dagon Design. It creates a Sitemap for your WordPress powered blog. It’s not an XML Sitemap. It looks like a real Sitemap which we see on other websites. See it live here Dagon Design Sitemap Generator.

FeedBurner FeedSmith:FeedBurner FeedSmith is a WordPress Plugin that detects all traffic to your original WordPress Feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner Feed so that you can track every possible subscriber.

Google XML Sitemaps Google XML Sitemaps is a another WordPress Plugin that generates XML Sitemap compliant Sitemap for your blog. The format is supported by Google, Live Search, and Ask.com. See it live here Google XML Sitemaps.

Permalink Redirect :Permalink Redirect Plugin ensures that all your WordPress blog pages and posts are always accessed via the permalinks. Otherwise, it creates a 301 redirect. I’m using permalinks of the type /%postname%/ now try to access the post via /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/. It works! Try http://www.getoffer.uni.cc/2007/10/17/yahoo-search-marketing-coupon-credit/ it automatically redirects to http://www.getoffer.uni.cc/yahoo-search-marketing-coupon-credit/.

Search Meter: Discover what your visitors want! Search Meter keeps track of what your blog visitors are searching for. Activate the Plugin and check the Search Meter Statistics page (located in WordPress Dashboard) to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.

Share This: Share This is a WordPress Plugin which allows your visitors to share your blog content via Social Networking and Social Bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.

WordPress PageNavi: PageNavi is a Plugin that adds a more advanced navigation to your WordPress blog.

WordPress Stats :Display your WordPress blog statistics. It displays Top 10 Post Stats which includes 10 Recent Posts, 10 Recent Comments, 10 Most Commented Post, and also Categories including Post Categories, and Link Categories.

WordPress UserOnline: Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are (Members/Guests/Search Bots). It also displays the IP address of your visitors.

Viper’s Video Quicktags - This plugin will save you having to rip out all the embed code from videos on major sites like YouTube, all you need to do is paste in the video ID and this plugin will do all the rest of the code & alignment for you. It’s essential to make adding videos as quick as possible.

WP-Email - This plugin adds an “E-mail This To A Friend�? option at the bottom of every post (which will be your videos). I’ve been using these for a while and although you don’t get loads of people use them, personally recommendation is the best kind of marketing your website could hope for.

WP-PostRatings - This will add the “rate this video�? 0-5 stars function at the bottom of each post. It’s a nice addon to get people to try and interact with your site if the can’t be bothered to post comments. Interaction is good - it’s the first step in relation building with your visitors and ultimately trying to get them to come back.

Sociable - Adds a mini-bar of just about every popular social bookmarking site worth mentioning at the bottom of each post. Digg, Reddit, Bloglines, they’re all there. Optimization Tip: From experimenting, I found it is best not just to select all the social sites going, choose a maximum of 5 major ones, then rotate to see what is most successful. Having a line of 20 social bookmarking icons looks a bit confusing and seems to ultimately put people off using them.

StumbleUpon It! - StumbleUpon is a really great way to promote sites with entertainment and disposable content. This plugin gives you a “stumble it�? button at the bottom of each post, which will play a part in our future marketing strategy.

Did You Pass Math? - Did you? This is just a basic anti-spam measure that puts one of those sums before you’re allowed to comment. Spam is a major problem, so I’d recommend this one, just to save you some time.