The great bloggers have the ability to direct you to their best written stuff, no matter what blog post you happen to be reading at the time. This is one of the big keys to their success. You want to be able to inform your new readers of the great content you wrote 6 months ago, or even 3 months ago. There are some handy plugins that can help you with this. Here are 13 that will help your readers find your best content.

1. WP-PageNavi

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog. This is called ‘pagination’ in the development world. The navigation will direct your readers to older posts. The navigation looks very similar to that of Google’s.

2. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. An example of this is what you see below the bottom of this article.

3. Popularity Contest

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/popularity-contest/
Which of your posts/pages are most popular? Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular. You can then use the sidebar widget that comes with this plugin in your sidebar, to show off a certain amount of your most popular blog posts. See my sidebar to the right for an example of this.

4. Multi-level Navigation Plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multi-level-navigation-plugin/
Adds an SEO friendly, accessible dropdown/flyout/slider menu to your WordPress blog. The plugin produces W3C valid XHTML and CSS. When you have a blog that has lots of pages, this can be super helpful. The drop down nav simply gives you more room to list pages.

5. Redirection

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. You never know how many 404 error pages you have out there. Might as well direct that traffic to some of your good content.

6. Yoast Breadcrumbs

http://yoast.com/wordpress/breadcrumbs/
This plugin allows you to add breadcrumbs to your theme. Not only does this provide SEO benefits, it is also helpful for readers to find their way to parent pages and categories that list more of what they are reading.

7. Search Everything

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search. The plugin will search every tag, category, title, and comment to help your readers find what they are looking for.

8. WP-Sticky

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-sticky/
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog. What this means is that you can keep a blog post at the top of your ‘loop’ for an exteneded period of time, even above other articles that you write after.

9. Featured Page Widget

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/featured-page-widget/
Allows you to feature pages on your sidebar using an excerpt of the page and a text or image link to the page. You may want to feature a specific page of content that you wrote recently because it carries a certain amount of significance.

10. Category Posts Widget

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-posts/
Category Posts Widget is a light widget designed to do one thing and do it well: display the most recent posts from a certain category. For example, you could highlight a specific category every week or so in your sidebar. And with this widget you could display the most recent 3 or so posts from that featured category. Very helpful.

11. Instant Weekly Roundup

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/instant-weekly-roundup/
Instant Weekly Roundup is a free Wordpress Plugin which will help you create the weekly or monthly or any span roundups of your blog posts in a few mouse clicks. It will help you to write, order, design and post a roundup post in no time.

12. SEO Smart Links

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/
SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. This will help you link to other articles within your posts on a mass scale.