Our Favorite Marketing WordPress Plugins of 2018| Ep. #617

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In episode #617, Eric and Neil count out their favorite WordPress plugins. Tune in to hear what plugins you should be using to optimize your posts.</span></p> <p><strong>TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:27] Today’s Topic:</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Favorite Marketing WordPress Plugins of 2018</span></em></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:35]</span> <a href= "https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe-bar-youtube/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">YouTube Subscribe Bar</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">allows you to embed videos and include a subscribe button. However, the subscribe button will subscribe viewers to your channel instead of the channel from which the video was posted.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:13]</span> <a href= "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Yoast SEO Plugin</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">has an XML sitemap generator. They create XML sitemaps the correct way, whereas other plugins do not.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:37] Tools like</span> <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/pretty-link/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Pretty Links</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">help to shorten links and make them more visually appealing.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:05] Exit Pop Ups works well with</span> <a href="https://www.hellobar.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Hello Bar</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and Neil likes it because you can make your background an animated GIF. Animated GIFs tend to up your subscribers.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:27]</span> <a href= "https://www.wordable.io/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Wordable</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">allows you to write a post in Google Sheets and then push it directly to Wordpress.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: