5 best free services to use with WordPress

MailChimp: Free for up to 12,000 emails per month, send your newsletters using this service. Best of all you can totally automate from people signing-up to your campaign being sent using your blog posts.

Great for SEO and security, the free plan from CloudFlare will deliver your content via their ultra quick CDN as well as throw in additional security. If your visitors are in AUstralia, the good news in that they have a datacenter in Sydney, Australia.

For many reasons, including SEO, it's important to know what your WordPress website visitors are viewing and where they are from. Google Analytics provides tonnes of useful informations for absolutely no cost.

Google Webmaster tools is also free but extends on the useful information that Google Analytics provides. Find out if search engines have problems indexing your website, how many pages are indexed and so much more.

Get more control and reliability in regards to your WordPress emails; customize the email address emails get sent from, the name of the sender and make sure that your contact form emails aren't seen as spam.