New Contender For Best WordPress Plugin: Landing Pages
Sometimes I think there are far too many WordPress plugins to cope with and that some of them have no real practical use, but I’ve just discovered a true gem in Landing Sites, which improves the chances that visitors from search engines will find what they want on your blog and will also read more than just one page.
Anyone who runs a blog will tell you that 90% of all traffic comes from search engines, where people are looking for something specific and if they can’t see what they want on the resulting page will usually leave.
The Landing Sites plugin tries to solve this problem by automatically showing related posts from your blog for the original search term.
It works in a similar fashion to my previous favourite plugin Related Posts, but rather than trying to find related posts based on the text within the original post, Landing Posts finds related posts based on the search term entered. In fact, Landing Sites actually uses the Related Posts code and won’t work unless it is installed as well.
To see the plugin in action on my pages try searching on Google for one of the examples given below and click on the link to my site:
You’ll notice that I’ve added at the top of a page a new section that is only visible if a visitor goes direct to an article via a search engine, which shows other posts on my blog that could match the same search term.
I’ve also added a similar section just above the existing ‘Other Related’ which shows the same items again to save users having to scroll to the top of the page. Although these results look very similar to the Related Post matches, they are subtlety different and worth showing in my view.
If you want to give the Landing Posts plugin a run out then click here to download the plugin or click here to learn a bit more about how it works.
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Comment by ilovefreegadgets on 13 August 2008:
This sounds pretty cool, will definately help alot!
Comment by ps3 gamer on 8 August 2008:
It is true i barely ever browse through blogs to find what i want. Using this plugin will be a great help to fellow bloggers! Keeping their visitors glued to their blog!
Comment by msn ifadeleri on 6 August 2008:
Search engine optimization is big business these days. Type SEO into Google and you’ll find hundreds of individuals and
organizations promising to place your page near the top of the major indexes, for a fee of course.