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Top 5 Best Related Posts Plugins For WordPress Blogs

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We already posted lots of tutorials on wordpress about Best Security Plugins,  Best Stats Plugins. Today we decided to comes with Top 5 Best Related Posts Plugins For WordPress Blogs. Every blogspot or wordpress blog must have a good Related plugins because they are most important to give good experience to your visitors and it will Force Visitors Not To Leave Your Blog. Without wasting any time let me show you some Top 5 Best Related Posts Plugins For WordPress Blogs.

1. Wp-Thumbie

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A simple clean yet stylish WP Related posts plugin. It Display a list of related posts along with thumbnail images of those posts for the current post.You can select the number of posts to be display on articles or on feed.You can choose to exclude posts from certain categories as well as exclude pages.

2. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. It is best related post plugin easy to configure and use. But it have no thumbnails with related posts..

3. nrelate Related Content

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   The best way to display related content: Thumbnails or Text, on all your pages.  One of my favorite Best Related Posts Plugins For WordPress. It is very easy to use. It contains 5 skins which you can change hover, different thumbnail size etc.

4. WordPress Related Posts

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.  It also contain option of adding thumbnail. One of disadvantage is it contains a link at end of post as far as we know. But over all it is best easy to configure.

5. Related Posts Thumbnails

This plugin will add related posts thumbnails after the post. Plugin allows to customize thumbnail sizes, display settings and type of relation. This is at no.5 Related Post PLugin

That’s all. If i miss any best WP plugin then let me know in comment section.

How to Succeed After Google Panda Update

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None can believe that his or her site is no up to par level because everyone does his best. When Google Panda updates, it can bring some revolution in the electronic world and most of the site owners can suffer from problems. There are a few circles which are mentioned for update and by following those circles and to work in those circles, it is easy to cope with the update problems. The confusion and fear about updates are understandable. By following a few tips, you can make your site free of such confusion and can get ideal results in succeeding with Panda update. Here are a few tips which you need to follow to cope with Google Panda updates.

Before we continue. Have a look at other SEO related posts to improve your blog SEO and Beat Panda..

 

Evaluate content

The very first thing which you need to do is to evaluate the current content of your site. There is the list of Google checklist which you can follow while posting the content at your site and you can make your site free of all the problems with ease. So, if you want to describe the checklist of Google in one word, you need to know that the checklist is made visitor oriented and whatever search engines want will no longer apply to your site. So, you can conclude that Panda update is being done to make the content of the sites user-friendly. In this way, the visitors are being given a lot of importance in Google.

Most of the time, the visitor love to read engaging content and they want to have informative content in the site they visit in. Moreover, Google wants you to become the best authority to engage the visitors on the site for longer time. Google is keeping this in mind that how long your site will keep the visitors and it is taking this positively from you. You just need to keep your site user friendly by keeping quality content so that Google may understand that your site is up to par level and is liable to have higher ranking. So, your site will succeed in Panda update.

Is the existing content of your site provides detailed information to readers? Is the content of your site easy to read? Are all references correct and have been checked carefully? Is the content well edited? Is not any mistake in the content? If so, you will see that by Panda updates, your site will not be affected and you will be able to see the detailed results. If you think that any of the above questions is of trouble for your site, try to put stride forward now and you can start making changes in your site to be succeeded in Panda updates.

Most of the site owners have no time to pay attention to Google Panda updates and they are spending time in other activities. If this is happening with you, there is the need to hire some writer so that you may take his or her help to bring revolution in the content of your site and you can make your site free of bad content and grammar mistakes. Moreover, rewriting the existing content can also be the ideal choice for you to get riddance from such issues.

Control Ads and over SEO

Beside the content, there is the need to make sure about the advertising place in the site because if your site contains less material in it and contains a lot of advertisements in it, Google will consider it a spam and you will have to suffer. It is good to earn from your site but if you make your site stuffed with advertisements or over SEO your blog, you will find adverse results. If it happens, your site will look unprofessional and more like a spam. To fix this issue, you need to bring more content to your site and less advertisements so that you may end this problem.

See Also:  Common SEO Mistakes & Tips From Google for New Bloggers

Diversify traffic sources

Depending solely on organic traffic is the biggest mistake of webmasters, your website will become a zero if it is affected by Google Panda. The boom of social networks is the thing we should take advantage. Beside Twitter and Facebook, Pinterest is now the potential traffic source for our websites.

For the new social network, you need to focus on all the images, logos and pictures associated with your brands and you can keep the interest of the readers by doing this. In other words, by adding images which are associated with brands, you have created catalog for your own convenience to use and you can do what you think. Pinterest is the network where you can share all the items and get the best results in your favor. In other words, the items which are shared on Pinterest and these images can be originated easily. For example, if Sue likes a cake to eat and she purchased that cake to present at the party, Sue can arrange party in the well sense. Afterwards, if Sue has posted that image in her pinboards, other can purchase that cake as well easily. When the wedding of Sue happens one year later, you can click on the topper cake and she will be led to the ideal source with the help of Pinterest where you can purchase that cake. In this way, she will not suffer from problems and she will enjoy this forum. In this way, when anyone is led to your site, Pinterest will lead you to get higher SEO ranking. It will be beneficial for your site easily.

So, by adopting these techniques for your site, you would be able to have effective results for higher page ranking in Google Panda update and you can have what you are looking for. In other words, by posting content keeping these things in mind, you can make your site free of all the problems and can succeed in Panda updates easily.

Author: Tuan Do is the founder of TechWalls, the technology blog founded in 2011. We write on topics related to blogging tips, earning money from WordPress blog , SEO, internet marketing and technology news.

3+1 Ways to Optimize and Speed Up WordPress Blog

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All right. Let’s gear up some questions about your blog performance now.. Have you ever thought about your blog’s loading time?

No.. than It’s time to think about it now..

Speed up WordPress

Why?

Because it’s not only essential to maintain a friendly SEO blog but also for your readers engagement. If you want to increase your readership or to decrease your bounce rate, you need to focus on decreasing your blog loading time. The faster it loads the better it is. Following are the few best ways to Speed Up WordPress.

See also. 20 Best WordPress Plugins That I Used In 2011

1. Use WP Cache Plugin:

This is by far the best WP plugin many blogs are using to clear the cache to speed up the blog. You can clean up your cache memory all the time whenever you loading new plugins or deactivating them.

W3 Total Cache Plugin

Installation guide: 

  1. Download the plugin here
  2. Unzip the file
  3. Upload the plugin to your Plugins folder via FTP or Admin area
  4. Inside the Plugins section of your WordPress control panel activate the plugin
  5. Under the Dashboard click on W3 Total Cache and use it..

2. Optimize Image Size:

Decrease the image size by tools like image optimizer, shrink pictures, picresize etc.

Or you can simply use this WP plugin WP Smush.it (This reduces image file sizes and improves your blog’s performance)

And try to use the images in the following 3 formats.

  • .PNG
  • .JPG or
  • .GIF

These are the best extensions to save your images and decreasing your images size means you are decreasing your blog’s loading time.

3. Clean Up Your WP Database:

Use this plugin called WP Database Optimizer (This plugin allows you to make automated scheduled database optimization. You can specify how long in between automated optimization).

Installation guide: 

  1. Download the plugin here
  2. Unzip the file
  3. Upload the plugin to your Plugins folder via FTP or Admin area
  4. Inside the Plugins section of your WordPress control panel activate the plugin
  5. Under the Dashboard click on WP Database Optimizer and use it..

4. Avoid Too Many Plugins:

Last but not least, don’t use unwanted plugins which effects your blog loading time relatively high. Try to use the top plugins which suits your requirements and needs.

You can check your blog loading time using the following tools.

  • Pingdom
  • whichloadsfaster or
  • searchmetricsrapid

And there are several more ways you can speed up your blog loading time by:

    • Using free CDN (Content Delivery Network)
    • Using the better web hosting provider like HostGator
    • By reducing the widgets in your sidebar

Advantages of having a faster loading blog:

You can have the following benefits if you use the above methods to speed up your blog.
It essentially improves your blog’s credibility
Your visitors or readers will be happy with your blog performance
Low bounce rate (it effects certainly)
Good PR and Alexa Rank (yeah, of course)
and many more…
Your Turn:

If you know extra tools more than the above to check a blog’s loading time or any more ideas/tips on speeding up a blog in your mind – do share them below.

This is a guest post by Rahul Kuntala who blogs at LearnBlogTips

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5 Reasons How Blog Comments can Increase Your Blog Ranking

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When we are writing blogs as a regular feature, we find a special bonding with the readers. The comments must be good and heartfelt to bring the readers back to the page to read them. Few ways can be discussed to find out how to increase the ranking of the page.

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Blog comments and reading the posts:

There are reviews and comments that are posted by just getting a glimpse of the reviews. This is not a good practice and if you keep working in this way then the readers will find the thinning interest level and then they will stop commenting and coming back to read your blogs and comments. The best way is to read the points thoroughly and then thing about it and then find a few good points to discuss. Then write them down in a few crisp lines so that they are short but to the point and this crispness will bring in more readers, increasing the ranking.

Be a friend to the community, know their choice:

When you are commenting, you will find there will be small information regarding the choices and likings and disliking of the readers. They may like to drink coffee or may feel good in a blue cardigan and all these small things become important to them. When you can comment on these or refer to the likings of the readers, you get the readers closer to the group. They feel the bonding and then come back to the site at least once to check if there is any comment for them to go through.

Be a teaser for your readers:

You can tease the readers to make them feel good and come closer to the community. The reader base is from different age group and some small jokes and few questions on the comments that can have different meaning will make the blog comments interesting read. The readers will crave for more such session where they can laugh a little and pull each other’s legs and feel the warmth of the bonding. This bonding can make the readers come closer and also increase the ranking with their regular visit. The different types of people from different background can be in this community and they will all find something funny to say at times and thus make the session interesting and attractive and less boring.

Use technicalities to Make popular comments:

You can use different links in the comments so that they will pull up the page ranking. You can use keywords that will bring the comments for the blog and users following keyword search will get these comments by those word. You can use do follow and anchor text links for the commenting page so that the search engines offer the comments to the user of the engine.  You can also find out other posts that are there in the popular sites and then comment on them and then point your site from there. Copy the link is the address bar after you have posted the comments and for this purpose you can use Pingomatic or Pingler etc. These links in the popular sites will help you to increase your PageRank for the comments pasted in your website.

A new angle and interesting comment:

You can find the comments that have been there on the page and then try to post your own views about the subject. You must try to find the note of the previous comments and then try to bring in a new line or a new angle of the topic. Do not make it boring and repetitive. Keep it short and interesting so that it is good to go through and then other might agree or disagree and the topic discussion can turn to a new zone of the old subject. This can be done regularly and can make your topics and blogs and comments more interesting. This attraction can bring in the regular readers and even the readers of blog comments as the angle is unique.

The blog comments are short lines and they need to be to the point for the readers to find interest in them. These regular changes in topic and comment angle attract readers and they feel the urge to comment on your site regularly too, increasing the ranking of the page.

Author Bio:

Rajkumar Jonnala Full time SEO Consultant and Currently Working for bookgator.com which Provides wide range of online textbooks, school textbooks and many more.

5 Things to Confirm You Are Still A New Blogger

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Oho
Do you know what it makes a blogger professional blogger or newbie blogger? Professional blogger learns from his/her mistakes while the other one who never learns from their blogging mistakes is called a NEWBIE blogger.

Are you blogging from so many days or just started? Let’s check out whether you are newbie blogger or not…

#1. Looking At Stats All The Time:

This sounds to be crazy but its common for the newbie bloggers who check their traffic stats all the time. Stop checking it, or disable the plugin if you are using WP stats plugin. And don’t check your stats even in Google analytics!!

I agree that stats reveal your blogging success and progress but what’s the use if you stare at them always? Instead of checking all the time, set a proper time for checking your stats once in a day or at the weekends.

#2. Updating The Themes Thrice A Week: 

Shocked? You will do this if you are a absolute beginner. You always like to change your theme at least once a week.

How to overcome: Stop chasing after updating the themes, concentrate on the quality content creation. My advice is use simple and minimal theme like this blog.

See Also: Selecting your blog theme design

#3. Looking At Alexa Rank So Often:

Keep your head on the content creation, building network and getting traffic to your blog rather than looking at the alexa ranking system. What’s the use if you just sit and look at that widget or rank?? Will it change?

Otherwise try to increase your alexa by updating more often. The more you update, the chances of increasing your rank will be more. Install alexa rank widget and toolbar in your browser to increase your rank.

#4. You Feel Lazy to Write Regularly:

You should be consistent in writing/updating your blog. It’s not necessary to write one post/day though. But, you should always update your blog often. It’s needed if you want to succeed in blogging.

Keep one thing in mind that “Perfection is an illusion”. We all are humans, so strive not for the perfection, strive for the consistency. Don’t feel lazy to update your blog content.

#5. Not Proof Reading Your Posts Before Publishing:

You never check your blog posts before hitting the publish button. You are just so lazy to do that. After all who will read your blog, huh? Your mom, pet and you – isn’t it?

How to overcome: Make it a habit of re-checking your posts before you publish them to the world. If possible double check them and re-craft it until you feel satisfied. This makes your writing better and adds value to posts.

Conclusion:

No one is more than you – think yourself as a professional blogger even if you are a newbie blogger and start doing the things. Learn from the successful bloggers in your niche and try to list out the top blogs in your niche and start commenting on them. You will notice the changes within few weeks.

Your Turn:

If you found this post funny or useful – drop your comments below. I would love to hear them from you.

 

This is a guest post by Rahul Kuntala, author of LearnBlogTips