6 Free WordPress Plugins To Boost Your Sales & Engagement

You got a great looking wordpress website or blog but you cannot get anywhere if you see visitors come and not taking the actions you want. You got to CONVERT those visitors into buyers.

In order to improve your conversions, you need to pay attention to many factors; from learning about your visitors’ behavior, create effective calls-to-action that resonate with your visitors, and convince them to sign up for your emails or newsletters or buy books. Guess what! You can handle this and much more with utmost ease by making use of some best WordPress plugins.

Here is a list of some highly effective and powerful plug-ins I have successfully used on different websites and these will take your conversions to a new level too.

1. ExtraWatch

ExtraWatch is equipped with all those features you need to improve your conversions and sales. This has come out as one of the best wordpress plugins for analytics that helps you analyze your visitor’s behavior and optimize your website accordingly to get more sales. It has an anti-spam feature that protects you from dealing with spam and keeps spam bots from using your forms. The in-built heatmap highlights the most clicked areas of your website through a “Clicked Elements Report”.

Price: Free and Pro both versions are available. It has versions available for Joomla and Drupal sites as well.

2. VisitorEngage

Adding a feedback option on your WordPress site has never been this simple. It would less than 2 minutes. The feedback button allows your visitors to contact you instantly. And You can also run personalized push notifications with announcements, offers, coupon codes, etc., considering the behavior of your visitors. It lets you customize feedback form-fields, position, button color, and email auto-responder content. It works flawlessly with your ecommerce plug-ins and is a must-have for all users.

Price: Free

I am using vCita plugin to encourage contact and schedule a talk with my blog readers. Working brilliantly well so far. 

3. WordPress Calls to Action

Your website cannot convert without an effective call-to-action, and that is when this plug-in comes in handy. It gives you the ability to monitor and track your conversion rates. You can also run A/B tests on different calls to action and increase your lead flow. You can use it to create popup calls to action, clone existing calls to action, run multivariate split tests, and access its design library to select custom call to action designs.

Price: Free and pro both versions are available.

4. Envira Gallery

Are you looking for a responsive image wordpress gallery plug-in with a simple gallery creation process? Try Envira Gallery that is extremely simple to use and still lets you share your photos in style. It allows you to create global and post dependant galleries for your WordPress site that are extremely simple to import and export.

Thanks to its slim yet powerful codebase, it is fast and delivers exceptional performance that has brought Envira among the best wordpress plugins for photo gallery. You have a wide variety of options for presenting the lightboxes and galleries. It also comes equipped with custom CSS support for additional styling options. You can set up images without having to waste a lot of time and optimize them easily to suit your post that will provide your readers with a great reading and viewing experience.

Price: Free

5. OptinMonster

Originally designed as a WordPress plug-in, it has now turned into a list-building platform with ability to create, implement, and test opt-in forms. The plug-in makes it simple to deploy opt-in forms on your WordPress site, and you can monitor all those forms from a central location. It lets you explore a high converting template library and 8 different types of opt-in forms. You can manage your email marketing better because the plug-in help you build a hyper-segmented email list. It also lets you take advantage of custom analytics that work with Google Analytics to determine which campaigns are working great.

6. Vertical Floating Social Bar

As implied by the name, the plug-in helps you setup a floating social bar on your WordPress website. It adds a floating share bar to all your content. You do not need any programming experience to set it up – just drag the icons of different social networks to the Enabled Social Services box and you are good to go. You visitors can share your content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest with utmost ease. There are several wordpress plugins for social sharing nowadays. Digg digg and addthis is my personal choice for their simplicity.

I personally prefer and found the vertical social bar better than horizontal since you’re available to your reader the moment they’re ready to share your post, without any pains of scrolling up and down to locate share options.

Be sure to install and try these WordPress plug-ins to make it easier to track what your visitors want and how to turn them into buyers. All these plug-ins are either free or got a trial and highly effective but are extremely simple to use.  So, save yourself from all the hassle involved in improving your conversions.

Have you got some plugins you found amazingly useful? Share it in comments and I will update the list with a credit to you.

Would you like to have the complete list of 19 brilliant plugins I am using? Email me at hello@sunitabiddu with subject “WordPress Plugin List Request” and I will share the list with you within few minutes.