by Johnson Yip
on September 10, 2010
I have been using TweetMeme Twitter Plug-in for my blog, and found it quite useful at showing me how many tweeted and retweeted my posts on Twitter. TweetMeme is easy to use and attractive looking on my blog.
Tweetmeme is a great social bookmarking service which shows users how many times a post has been tweeted on the Tweetmeme badge. If the user clicks on the number on the Tweetmeme badge, it redirects them to Tweetmeme websites which shows who re-tweeted your posts. This can come in handy since you can find out who is reading your blog, and Twitter members who are worth following because they retweet quality links to posts which are usually in your blog category, so you’ll know what similar blogs are writing about. By knowing what other blogs are writing about in your niche, you can fid ideas for new posts for your blog instead of stuck on a topic or “what topic to write about?”.
If you run an E-commerce type blog, you can also find potential customers and vendors to add to your contact list. If a person retwetts your blog post, they are very likely to like your products and services.
 If the user click the retweet button on the Tweetmeme badge, it will open a window for the user to use Twitter to retweet your post.
You’ll get a backlink to your post, and the user will get to share valuable content with their followers on Twitter. It is a win-win situation. Hopefully, more bloggers on Twettmeme will find your blog and link back to your blog in the blogroll or their articles, so you’ll get some link juice back from a blog or website in your specific category which is good when it comes to search engine rankings and traffic.
It is very easy to configure TweetMeme. You click on the TweetMeme on the sidebar in your WordPress admin control panel, and click the Tweetmeme link under the Tweetmeme heading. The TweetMeme settings lets you easily position the TweetMeme Button before or after the article, hashtag, twitter name, URL shortener, ping TweetMeme and other settings.  Â
Click Here to See screen shots of the TweetMeme settings and learn more about TweetMeme plug-in for WordPress
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by Johnson Yip
on September 10, 2010
A lot of people find your blog while searching for articles online oppose to browsing on your homepage, so by displaying your latest posts in your Sidebar. It saves your readers time since they do not to go to your blogs homepage or your RSS feed to find links to your latest posts.
New comments on older posts can be hard to find unless the reader reads all the posts and comments on your blog by having a plug-in display the latest comments by users and yourself on the blog sidebar, it makes it easier for your readers to find newer comments.
By displaying a short list of new posts and comments on your blog, it may make your blog seem more interactive, and lively since users can have their comment on the sidebar once they commented on your blog. Plus, users can keep up to date on the newest posts on your blog by just looking at your sidebar. This can decrease bounce rate of readers if they can’t find what they are looking for on the post they are reading. They may read an article title on the sidebar, or a comment which may interests them, so they will click on a link which will lead them to the article and comment.
Search engine might also see the new content in your sidebar, and decide to index your new post links and comment links.
Most importantly, the Recent comments plug-in can show that you care about your readers comments since your replies to their comments will be displayed in the sidebar for every visitor to see.
I use two WordPress Plug-ins for displaying the latests posts, and comments on my sidebar since it is a lot easier then constantly going into the sidebar.php page and constantly coding new links to the latest articles and comments on my blog.Â
Click Here to See Screenshots of the WordPress latest posts and comments plug-in in action and how to install them.
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by Johnson Yip
on September 10, 2010
Do you want to increase visitors time on your site, and want them to read your older articles on your blog? However, you forgot what the link is for your older content on your blog, or you do not have the time to link to your older posts from your newer posts. Also, by having related links on your page, it will make it easier for search engines to index more of your older articles which were not indexed.
There is a plug-in for WordPress which allows your blog to automatically find related posts for a current article which a reader is reading. I have been using this plug-in for a few months and it works pretty well.
By having more related post links on your blog, your readers can find posts which they might like on your blog easier, so they are more likely to stay and read a second article, so your bounce rate decreases while your readers time on site will increase.
Click Here to learn more about WordPress Related Posts plug-in and to see screenshots of it
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