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“Related Posts” - A fast and easy plugin to increase pageviews

January 7th, 2008 Roven Posted in WordPress, repeat visits, website traffic Comments Off

wordpress-icon-128.pngIf you’re a WordPress user, this is something you can do in the next 3 minutes that can radically improve your average pageviews per visit. Click on any article in this site, and you’ll probably see a grey box down at the bottom of the page. There are lots of “Related Posts” plugins you can use, including the original “Related Posts Plugin” and another aptly called “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” — both are excellent and extremely easy to use.

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‘Optimal Title’ - Another essential WordPress plugin

January 2nd, 2008 Roven Posted in WordPress, tips, website traffic 3 Comments »

wordpress-icon-128.pngI’m a big fan of things you can do to your site in under three minutes that will have a dramatic effect on your search engine optimization (and ultimately how many visitors you get to your site).

This is a great little plugin called Optimal Title. (You can get it here).

The plugin changes the way your titles read at the top-left of your browser window. As you probably know, Google and other major search engines focus only on the first several words of your page title. So if your site-name is the first thing in your page title on every single page, you’re wasting precious space where you could be identifying the subject of your post.

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