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11:10 am
September 17, 2012
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I have a plugin that is quite popular among other blogs, called "linkwithin". The plugin is the one that says, "you may also like…" and shows several other related posts. I am thinking about getting rid of it to focus on building up newsletter subscribers, but I was wondering if there is an easy way to see how many of my visitors click on it. I checked my analytics (and even my get clicky stats), but i can't seem to find a way to track its use.
Anyone have any ideas? I thought about just removing it and seeing how the actions per visit does.
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6:39 am
September 18, 2012
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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For me, when someone clicks on one of those links, it usually shows up as "widget5.linkwithin.com/redirect?url=YourURL" under the referrers lists in WP stats.
Personally, I get about 5 or 6 clicks per day, and if it's the same for you, I'd focus on building up an email list (which is on my list of things to do).
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7:57 am
September 18, 2012
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michael @ financial ramblings
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What about using something like CrazyEgg to create a heat map of clicks? Google Analytics offers something similar. Look under the "Content" tab on the left for "In-Page Analytics". These tools give you a feel for where people are clicking.
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1:25 pm
September 18, 2012
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Thanks for the feedback. I took a look at my on page stats and it wasn't showing me any favorable figures. I did find the referral link, but it was only 2-3 a day max. Definitely not worth it in my book. I'm going to focus on a newsletter. It might be time to actually get an aweber account. :)
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5:13 am
September 19, 2012
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michael @ financial ramblings
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Were you using LinkWithin to link to exchange links on other sites? Or to link to related content on your own site? I think (?) it's capable of both.
Given one of the above comments, it sounds like LinkWithin runs the links through it's own server (with a redirect) so if you're mainly interested in interlinking your own content, I wouldn't use it.
Rather, I would using something like YARPP (it's a wordpress plugin; google it) to handle your related posts. There's no reason you can't do both related posts *and* focus on list building. Just have a nice, splashy box for subscriptions and then put the related posts after that.
Getting people to click around is only a part of the goal with a plugin like this. The other is to build connectivity b/t posts on related topics. And because YARPP doesn't redirect things through some outside server, you get the full SEO benefit of interlinking your articles.
YARPP is quite powerful, allowing you to tweak the threshold (and how it's calculated) for consider something a match, allowing you to allow/disallow specific categories/tag, etc. You can even check a box to insert the related posts into your RSS feed at the end of each post — this can be good for drawing people to your site if you publish a full feed (and you really should be publishing a full feed).
If you pop over to my site (link in footer below) you'll see that I follow each post with a prominent (albeit non-splashy) call to subscribe via e-mail and put the related posts a bit further down the page (between the meta links [categories, tags] and the comments). Again, while enticing people to click around is nice, I'm more interested in the interlinking.
Note that you won't always have great matches if you don't have much content in your archives (this is a new site, so you may only see 0-2 matches per article so far, and that's with the threshold pretty low) but it improves quickly. I typically allow up to 8 related article links, but that's also customizable.
Hope this helps.
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7:49 am
September 19, 2012
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That's great to know Michael. Thanks for the tip.
michael @ financial ramblings said:
Were you using LinkWithin to link to exchange links on other sites? Or to link to related content on your own site? I think (?) it's capable of both.
Given one of the above comments, it sounds like LinkWithin runs the links through it's own server (with a redirect) so if you're mainly interested in interlinking your own content, I wouldn't use it.
Rather, I would using something like YARPP (it's a wordpress plugin; google it) to handle your related posts. There's no reason you can't do both related posts *and* focus on list building. Just have a nice, splashy box for subscriptions and then put the related posts after that.
Getting people to click around is only a part of the goal with a plugin like this. The other is to build connectivity b/t posts on related topics. And because YARPP doesn't redirect things through some outside server, you get the full SEO benefit of interlinking your articles.
YARPP is quite powerful, allowing you to tweak the threshold (and how it's calculated) for consider something a match, allowing you to allow/disallow specific categories/tag, etc. You can even check a box to insert the related posts into your RSS feed at the end of each post — this can be good for drawing people to your site if you publish a full feed (and you really should be publishing a full feed).
If you pop over to my site (link in footer below) you'll see that I follow each post with a prominent (albeit non-splashy) call to subscribe via e-mail and put the related posts a bit further down the page (between the meta links [categories, tags] and the comments). Again, while enticing people to click around is nice, I'm more interested in the interlinking.
Note that you won't always have great matches if you don't have much content in your archives (this is a new site, so you may only see 0-2 matches per article so far, and that's with the threshold pretty low) but it improves quickly. I typically allow up to 8 related article links, but that's also customizable.
Hope this helps.
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11:19 am
September 27, 2012
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BeatingBroke
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Michael, are you using a plugin for the newsletter subscription box, or is that DIY?
michael @ financial ramblings said:
Were you using LinkWithin to link to exchange links on other sites? Or to link to related content on your own site? I think (?) it's capable of both.
Given one of the above comments, it sounds like LinkWithin runs the links through it's own server (with a redirect) so if you're mainly interested in interlinking your own content, I wouldn't use it.
Rather, I would using something like YARPP (it's a wordpress plugin; google it) to handle your related posts. There's no reason you can't do both related posts *and* focus on list building. Just have a nice, splashy box for subscriptions and then put the related posts after that.
Getting people to click around is only a part of the goal with a plugin like this. The other is to build connectivity b/t posts on related topics. And because YARPP doesn't redirect things through some outside server, you get the full SEO benefit of interlinking your articles.
YARPP is quite powerful, allowing you to tweak the threshold (and how it's calculated) for consider something a match, allowing you to allow/disallow specific categories/tag, etc. You can even check a box to insert the related posts into your RSS feed at the end of each post — this can be good for drawing people to your site if you publish a full feed (and you really should be publishing a full feed).
If you pop over to my site (link in footer below) you'll see that I follow each post with a prominent (albeit non-splashy) call to subscribe via e-mail and put the related posts a bit further down the page (between the meta links [categories, tags] and the comments). Again, while enticing people to click around is nice, I'm more interested in the interlinking.
Note that you won't always have great matches if you don't have much content in your archives (this is a new site, so you may only see 0-2 matches per article so far, and that's with the threshold pretty low) but it improves quickly. I typically allow up to 8 related article links, but that's also customizable.
Hope this helps.
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10:04 pm
October 1, 2012
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John @ Married with Debt
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Yes, do tell :)
BeatingBroke said:
Michael, are you using a plugin for the newsletter subscription box, or is that DIY?
michael @ financial ramblings said:
Were you using LinkWithin to link to exchange links on other sites? Or to link to related content on your own site? I think (?) it's capable of both.
Given one of the above comments, it sounds like LinkWithin runs the links through it's own server (with a redirect) so if you're mainly interested in interlinking your own content, I wouldn't use it.
Rather, I would using something like YARPP (it's a wordpress plugin; google it) to handle your related posts. There's no reason you can't do both related posts *and* focus on list building. Just have a nice, splashy box for subscriptions and then put the related posts after that.
Getting people to click around is only a part of the goal with a plugin like this. The other is to build connectivity b/t posts on related topics. And because YARPP doesn't redirect things through some outside server, you get the full SEO benefit of interlinking your articles.
YARPP is quite powerful, allowing you to tweak the threshold (and how it's calculated) for consider something a match, allowing you to allow/disallow specific categories/tag, etc. You can even check a box to insert the related posts into your RSS feed at the end of each post — this can be good for drawing people to your site if you publish a full feed (and you really should be publishing a full feed).
If you pop over to my site (link in footer below) you'll see that I follow each post with a prominent (albeit non-splashy) call to subscribe via e-mail and put the related posts a bit further down the page (between the meta links [categories, tags] and the comments). Again, while enticing people to click around is nice, I'm more interested in the interlinking.
Note that you won't always have great matches if you don't have much content in your archives (this is a new site, so you may only see 0-2 matches per article so far, and that's with the threshold pretty low) but it improves quickly. I typically allow up to 8 related article links, but that's also customizable.
Hope this helps.
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12:52 am
October 2, 2012
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Looks like a Feedblitz form, so I'm guessing there's a customizable code like the one that comes with the Feedburner subscribe box. :)
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