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| Best Related Posts Widgets For Blogs |
One of the best way for bloggers to keep visitors engaged in your blog is to get them introduced to more and more interesting posts.Related Posts widgets and plugins are the most suitable piece of code to get this job done easily for us.Using related posts plugins can bring visitors attention to related articles on your blog and thus help in reducing the bounce rate and possibly converting a random visitor to a loyal subscriber to your blog.Through this post, you will see the best and easy to install related posts widgets and recommended posts plugins that can be used with any blogs on WordPress, Blogger or any other popular platforms.
Best Related Posts Widgets
Here is the list of the best, beautiful and easy to install related and recommended posts widget and plugins for blogger and wordpress blogs.
nrelate
nrelate related content plugin is one of the best related posts plugin for WordPress blogs, Blogger blogs and other blogging platforms like HubSpot.Installing nrelate related posts widget is very easy.nrealte Related Posts widget is available in various designs which you can customize through nrelate account.You can also view reports on user interactions on the related posts widget.
Apart from increasing the pageviews on your blog, you can also earn money by enabling ads - which will display promoted contents.
Outbrain
Outbrain related posts is another simple related posts plugin for popular blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Drupal etc.They also provide javascript widget which makes it possible to add related posts widget to any blogging platform.Reports and statistics on user interactions on the related posts widget can be viewed on your Outbrain account dashboard.
Outbrain also displays sponsered posts on their widget which can provide you the opportunity to earn from the widget if your site has over 10 million monthly US pageviews.
Zemanta
Zemanta is popular for it's editorial assistant widget which automatically suggest ideas and related links for your new blog post.They also have Related Posts widget which works on WordPress, Blogger and TypePad blogs.
WordPress users have the option to change the theme of Zemanta Related Posts widget.It is also possible to earn additional revenue from promoted posts on the widget through their newly launched content discovery network.
Shareaholic
Shareaholic Related Posts widget is another best widget to increase pageviews on your blog by displaying related contents.This widget can be easily installed on WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and other popular blogging platforms.The related posts plugin is available in four themes.You can also track analytics on your blog from your shareaholic dashboard.
LinkWithin
LinkWithin Related Posts widget is a lightweight plugin for WordPress and Blogger blogs.It can display up to 5 related posts.If you don't care about analytics and design of the related content widget, go for LinkWithin widget.
The above plugins are related posts plugins - which means they displays posts according to keywords and relevancy of the articles.One other kind of plugin which can be used along side with related posts plugins are the recommended posts plugin - which display posts according to the popularity of the posts.Below are some of the best Recommended Posts plugins and widget for blogs.
Best Recommended Posts Widgets
Recommended Posts are based on popularity of the posts.Here are some Recommended Posts plugins...
Facebook Recommendations Box
Facebook Recommendations Box is a cool widget to show the most liked / shared content on facebook from your blog.The higher the number of likes, more the people would be tempted to check out that content which leads to increased pageviews and low bounce rates.Read this post to find out how to add facebook recommendations bar on your blog.
Disqus Recommended Posts
Disqus Recommended Posts can be used on your blog if you are using Disqus comment system on your blog and also have very engaging and active user community.This widget sorts posts to recommend based on the number of comments made on the posts.
This widget also gives you the opportunity to earn revenue through promoted contents from Disqus Discovery Box.You can choose to enable or disable this feature from your Disqus dashboard.
AddThis Trending Content
AddThis Trending Content widget will display the top posts based on number of shares and clicks according to AddThis analytics.
