My way to increase Page Views in this Online Knowledge Blog
Page Views is really important for blogger. Page Views tells blogger that the blog visitors really read the blog content. In further, it tells blogger that the content is great and needed. I think this opinion is acceptable even it is not accurate 100% to describe how contents are. Of course there always is limitation. There will be no page views if blog posts are unknown. Blog posts become unknown usually because the posts were old enough. The old posts usually are buried because there are many new posts come. That’s why I think I need to make my old posts still visible for my blog readers regardless of time. What a waste if old posts stay buried because there may be many great posts in old posts.
Have Popular Posts List and Related Link List
I once consider “Table of Contents” page for old blog posts visibility purpose. But, I cancel it because “Table of Contents” page is very slow to opened if there are 500 or above list of contents, and it hard to manage too. So, I look for alternative ways to make old posts of this online knowledge visible even tough there are many new posts come. And I found the alternative which is related links list and most popular post list. I think it is more reasonable to have a related links list and most popular posts list instead to have particular page that consist all link of blog posts. Popular posts list is indicator for most good and needed posts. And related posts are guidance to related article with current reading article that may need to read for further understanding.
In my opinion, both of popular posts list and related posts list are more then enough for old posts visibility purpose. Its can represent “Table of Contents” good enough. It is because both of them are enough to represent link to old blog posts. And base on my own experience in this blog, it surely increases number of Page Views. And it is not only more visible in human eyes, but also in search engine eyes. It is because the link is tag as do follow. Popular Posts list and Related Links list have similarity affect like do internal deep linking in post article. Surely, it will help in Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) and will increase our blog search engine result page (SERP).
So, we do not need particular page as “Table of Contents” anymore if we already have popular posts list and related posts list. And there are many WordPress plugin out there in internet to be found. WordPress plugins that allow us to have great popular posts list and related posts list in our blog. I, my self, use “WordPress.com Popular Posts” plugin for show the popular posts list and use “Yet Another Related Posts” plugin for show related posts list. Both of the plugins give good customizable Popular Posts List and Related Posts List.
Install “WordPress.com Popular Posts” plugin
Popular Post
- Log in to blog “site admin”
- Click “Plugins” tab
- Click “Add New” button
- Fill “WordPress.com Popular Posts” in search box
- Click “Search Plugins” button
- Click “Install” button of “WordPress.com Popular Posts”
- Click “Install Now” button
- Click “Activate Plugin” button
- Click “Appearance” tab
- Click “Widgets” button
- Drag “Popular Posts” widget to side bar
- Setting it with my most suitable needs and then click “save” button
I choose to show title and number of view in my popular posts list, and also except the blog pages in the list. I do it by add [%post_views%] in “formats of the link” and insert all “page id” in “Exclude these posts”. And I leave all others settings in default. We always can go to “”WordPress.com Popular Posts” plugin site for more advance setting. And do not forget that the blog must be already installed “Wordpress.com Stats” plugin.
Install “Yet Another Related Posts” plugin
Related Link
- Log in to blog “site admin”
- Click “Plugins” tab
- Click “Add New” button
- Fill “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” in search box
- Click “Search Plugins” button
- Click “Install” button of “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin”
- Click “Install Now” button
- Click “Activate Plugin” button
- Go to “Settings” tab and click it
- Click “Related Posts (YARPP)” button
- Move YARPP template files into my current theme
- Disallow “uncategorized” category
- Click “Update Options” button
I leave almost all of the setting in default mode for this “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin”. I only disallow “uncategorized” category on it and disable description of the link. It is already enough to give what I need for this time. I may try some advance setting in future for better related link list.
Conclusion
The visibilities of old posts are really important to have more blog page views. We can have that in reasonable way with Popular Posts List and Related Links List. We can install “WordPress.com Popular Posts” and “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” WordPress Plugin to have great Popular Posts List and Related Links List.
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Dana,
Your online knowledge blog keep bringing up great ways for bloggers to greatly increase the effectiveness of their blog.
By having the related posts you are able to keep people clicking through to other pages. The popular post list is also excellent for giving new readers a great place to start. Anytime I start reading a new blog I always go to their “best of” or “popular posts” to determine what the content on the site will be like and if I enjoy the blog.
Keep up the great work.
Yes, you right Blake. Related link and popular post are working great together.
Yeah this plugins really add more readability on your blog but first, you have to get visitors. I’ve been tracking these plugins on its performance on my blog and it really does work.
it is working great in this blog too.
Great tips. I am using the YARPP plug in already, but now I am going to go download the popular posts plug in. I hadn’t thought about installing it yet because I just had a handful of posts, but you make a great point about the dofollow links and I can certainly use all those I can get.
Yes, you should have popular post too. Both of popular post and related link will give optimum result.
first i was using Linkwithin plugin to show related post but few days back i installed Wp Thumbie plugin to display related posts to show after my blog posts with an image too.
Try it out and am sure you will like it
Thanks for the info, i will check it.
There are many more ways to increase page views of the blog like Popular posts,recent posts,related posts etc.
Even linkwithin also helps to increase page views.
Sure, there are many tools that we can use for it.
I have both a popular and related list on my blog. It does help people to find your best content and to show people other related posts you have.
Yes, it surely really helpful to fine our buried content which may our best and related content.
Excellent! Not only will this increase pageviews, it will also reduce the bounce rate of new visitors and increase conversions.
Bookmarked.
Yeah, it can keep our bounce rate below 50%.
Yes I agree with you on this. I have popular post in my blog.
glad to hear that. I am sure that Popular post list work great in your blog.
I installed these two important plugins too on my blog. But most recently, bloggers who are using images embedded on their blog posts are using linkwithin in order to increase visits within pages of the blog.
I do not like a post that have many link (because of linkwithin ) in it. It disturb my reading. Therefore, i only stick in popular post and related link list.
Dana,
I have tried several times to get this plug in to work, but I am having no success. It doesn’t even show up on my sidebar.
Any thoughts? Maybe DISQUS is causing a problem with it? DISQUS has their own widget for this that looks great but the links go back to their site when you click on a comment plus you can’t force it to open up in it’s own window.
Brad
I do not know if it is because of DISQUS plugin. I am not familiar with DISQUS plugin. But, yeah, there are sometime plugin conflict with other plugin. You can check it to make sure by temporary disable the DISQUS plugin. You always can enable it again after finish the checking.
Btw, is there any error message?
Thanks for the tips Dana. I am going to check out these plug-ins. I was looking for ways to add some of my popular posts.
You should check it friend. It is a great plugin.
I need to install a plugin for related post, I forgot all about that. Thanks for the reminder:)
You’re welcome.
these plugin are good.i use popular and related post plugin by marsh.This helps readers to find good content easily.
Yes, popular post and related link really helpful.
I’d prefer Install “Yet Another Related Posts” plugin
Sure, it is a great plugin.
@dana No error messages. It just doesn’t display anything. I think I tried this before and DISQUS was the issue.
very good suggestion. I also install popular post plugin on my blog
Yeah, it is a great tools.
Using related post plugin. But did not use most popular post plugin…
You should use both of it for better result.
This is definitely a step I need to take. Perhaps I’ll spend the weekend updating and installing better plugins. Great post!
Yeah, you should have it.
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Well said, YARPP will definitely increase the page views. I have seen a rapid increase in the page views per user, after activating these plugins.
Yeah, and i face decrease of page views when my old web hosting disable it.