Recommended WordPress Plugins

I have had this conversation with many people lately, so rather than trying to dig my through my email, I thought I would put my recommendations into a post.

Akismet – helps to prevent spam bots from posting on your site.  You will need to register with them, and get your code.  This is helpful to keep most spam bots from posting comments on your blog.  If you don’t allow comments, well I really don’t consider you a blog, as you don’t allow for two way communication.
ALL in One SEO Pack – INSTALL THIS ONE !!!!!!!! USE IT !!!!!!! While WordPress is optimized for search engine optimization, this plugin will help search engines narrow down what is important.  One of the things I like best on this plugin is you can have WordPress title your page one thing, and you can title the page for SEO optimization as something else.
Bad Behavior – helps screen out assholes who post spam on your site before akismet would catch it, so you could possibly do without akismet, but while I have never had anything go through this, but there is always a first time.
Digg Digg – puts on big buttons for people to share something on facebook or twitter

Easy Contact – easy contact form to install
Google Analyticator – after you sign up at google analytics, and google webmaster, add this plugin to help install that code on your site
Similar Posts – will pull up other posts on your site at the bottom of your current post that may be related
Twitter Tools – let people see what you are tweeting, I don’t recommend posting your tweets from this application though
Wordpress Data Back up – emails you a back up as often as you like, automatically
WP-DBManager – you can set up chron jobs so the site will automatically optimize your data tables, this does so from the dash board, and not the back end.
WP Security Scan – helps from unauthorized folks taking control of your site.  Be careful with this installation, READ the instructions carefully.
WP-Post Ratings – let folks rate your posts if you like
XML Sitemaps – Install for google to make an XML site map, this means nothing to you, but everything to google.. 

I am sure from time to time I will have more recommended plugins, but these are the ones I have suggested over and over again.  Do you have any preferred plugins?