Related Post Plugin Can Boost Page Views
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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.
I have now finished the experiment and can bring you the results.
When I removed the Related Post plugin the page views per visit on my site dropped by an average of around 28% over the 7 day period. This meant that visitors on my site were viewing less pages for every visit. This is not good as I am aiming for my visitors to view around 4-5 pages per visit.
After the 7 days without the plugin I added it back into my site, 7 days later my page views per visit stat was up by 39% on the previous week. This is a massive gain in page views.
My most viewed post is currently my PHP Login Script Tutorial, this is also the page that gets landed on the most from search engines, at the bottom of the post and throughout the post there are links to my other pages, giving the visitor more in-depth knowledge. The related post plugin at the bottom of the post links to my other PHP tutorials which helps to increase my page views.
The related post plugin is a must for blogs, as it helps to keep visitors on your site, and increases your blogs page views. If you are getting 100 page views a day you could increase this to around 139, but if you are getting 100,00 you could increase it by 39,000 page views.
For more information see: Increase Page Views On Your Blog
As you may have noticed I am very big on stats, alot of my previous posts have been about increasing my sites stats, such as how to increase RSS Subscribers to your blog. If you are having problems with an area of your site, that you want to improve, in terms of stats, maybe bounce rate or avg time on site, then let me know below and I will try to help you out.
Geoserv | May 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm #
STUMBLED!
This plugin is a definite must, I already use it.
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David Shaw | May 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm #
Thanks mate!
Cheers for the stumble. This plugin is a definite must, hopefully more people will give it a try and use it on their blogs to see the difference it can make!
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Chetan | May 13th, 2008 at 3:05 am #
Have been using that plugin
David Shaw | May 13th, 2008 at 8:16 am #
It seems to be a popular plugin.
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PChere | May 13th, 2008 at 11:11 am #
I use it for years and always wondereed if it works. Thanks for the test results.
David Shaw | May 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am #
Yeah, It makes a difference.
Have to have a look at the effect of other plugins now!
giga video | May 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm #
thank you for post
Barbara Ling | May 13th, 2008 at 1:03 pm #
I’ve been using the Related Posts plugin now for several weeks and have seen quite the benefit from it.
That and CommentLuv are two of my favorites.
David Shaw | May 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pm #
Hi Barbara
CommentLuv is another good plugin.
Do you have any stats about the benefit it has had on your site?
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EmmaB | July 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am #
I dont use Wasabis plugin but I do use Similar Posts. I noticed that my new blogs launch went better then my previous blogs. I am going to be adding them to my other blogs soon as well
David Shaw | July 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am #
@EmmaB
Sounds good.
Puneet | July 8th, 2008 at 7:30 am #
Thanx frd … very useful for my blog
Installed Related Post plugin on my blog … and will try few more plugins too
David Shaw | July 8th, 2008 at 8:10 am #
@Puneet
Hope it all works out well for you!