In a previous post I listed the Related Post plugin as one of the 5 Must Have WordPress Plugins. I have done some research to show why your blog needs the related post plugin, and the effect it has on your blogs page views.

The related post plugin displays a list of posts related to the current post, as seen at the bottom of this post. It gives your visitors an easy way to navigate through content that may interest them.

I had a feeling that when I added the plugin for the first time my sites page views made a big jump upwards, but had no proof, so I decided that I would remove the Related Post plugin for 7 days, measure my stats and then add the Related Post plugin and after 7 days measure the stats, to see the effect of the plugin.

Many people ask about how they can increase the traffic to their blog. Your blogs traffic is a direct indicator of its success, so everyone should be looking to increase the traffic to their blog. I have compiled a list of 15 ways I believe you can increase traffic on your blog.

1.  Put a Link in the signature area of any forums you use. This will help to increase traffic because if people like what you are talking about in the forum, they may head over to your blog to check out the rest of your work. It also helps with building links to your site.

Last month I brought you my WidgetBucks Review, this month I write about Chitika. I will let you into my experiences with Chitika as well as ways to optimize it to work for your site.

Chitika is an alternative to Google AdSense and WidgetBucks’ Contextual Pay-Per-Click Advertising. I run Chitika on several of my blogs, including this one. It performs best on product related blogs, but can achieve good results on blogs such as this on also. You can see what the Ads look like by looking at the ‘Related Products’ section below my blog posts.

Here is an extract from the Chitika Publishers website that contains two stats that show Chitika is a respected Ads Publisher:

Fact 1: Chitika has over 70+ power-packed revenue earning ad units, the largest collection of revenue-generating solutions catering to publishers of all sizes.

I have been doing alot of reading/research lately which is why the posts have dried up for a few days, have also done a few guest posts, so if you have come to my site via one of my guest posts then welcome. I thought I would give a small selection of posts that I have read that I think you will find interesting.

I have been doing a lot of research lately which is related to some posts I have got coming, which you do not want to miss, so I suggest you sign up to our RSS feeds now to be sure not to miss them.

Here are five posts that I have found interesting this week:

1. 9 Ways To Make Money NOT Blogging at The Blog Entrepreneur
2. 10 Essential Legal Points For Bloggers at Daily Blog Tips

I have mentioned it before several times on my blog, but today is RSS Awareness Day. So I could not let the day pass without doing a post about RSS Feeds. I am going to give you an insight into the RSS Feeds that I read.

So first of all what is RSS? Here is a quote from RSSDay.org:

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.

RSS allows you to stay up-to-date with all the latest development from your latest blogs without having to visit each one individually to see if it has been updated.