Hey Mate, hit me up on Skype – I can give you all the tweaks, plugins, skins you need to keep you happy.
Will show you some gambling sites, or sites built on wordpress that don’t look like a blog.. but a website.
Top, no time wasting plugins for me, which have benefit for experience, ease of use, and SEO are
At the very least.. these plugins as default for any wordpress setup.
Contact Form 7 – best and easy to use contact form
Web Ninja Google Analytics – Enable Google Analytics on all of your pages instantly and add Google Analytics Stats to your Admin Dashboard and Posts. Can track external links, mailto links, and download links on your site.
WP-Table Reloaded – This plugin allows you to create and easily manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress. A comfortable backend allows an easy manipulation of table data. You can then include the tables into your posts, on your pages or in text widgets by using a shortcode or a template tag function. Tables can be imported and exported from/to CSV, XML and HTML.
SEO Ultimate (most people use the plugin “All in One SEO Pack”) – This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex/nofollow, meta tags, rich snippets, slugs, canonical tags, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.
Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines
Other things you should mess around with in WordPress
In the WordPress Admin
click Settings -> Permalinks ->
mess around with the custom structure, so you have nice looking URLS.