WordPress Plugins – another great WordPress Plugin every blogger should have
You’ve just written a great post. Someone surfs the net and finds your post, reads it, then moves on. But hey, you’ve got lots more just like that, even better, juicier posts you’re sure they’ll love to read. Trouble is they don’t know that. But you say there’s a whole list of categories right there in the sidebar. Too bad your visitors don’t have the time to wade through those long lists. If only you could somehow attache links to similar posts at the bottom of your posts. Then when people read your posts and they come to the bottom of the post, they see the links and will probably click on them. Great. They find more useful information and you keep them on your site for longer. After all, the idea is not only to get the visitors to your site but also to keep them there for as long as possible.
You not only improve the visitors experience by giving him more useful information in the form of related posts but you also keep him on your site for longer, allowing him to experience more of your site than he would have without the related posts links. Without the related posts links, he would have read the one post then moved on to another site. By keeping him on your site for longer, you are also able to increase his exposure to your advertising campaign and hopefully increase your revenue.
Aizatto’s related posts plugin is very easy to install. Simply download it, unzip and upload the single PHP file into your plugin directory. Go to Options in the Admin panel and choose the options that suite you (I left the defaults and they work just fine), save and you’re done. Try it out. Select a post on your site and you should see a list of related posts attached to the bottom of that post. You can always change the settings in the Admin panel if you want to.
You can download Aizatto’s related post plugin here
