Just to clarify, I highly recommend the plugin we’re currently using – didn’t mean to come down on it at all.

In our case we promote a lot of our differen posts differently through social media, etc. so the traffic to our posts is unnaturally skewed. Otherwise this would be an excellent solution.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

Just to clarify, I highly recommend the plugin we’re currently using – didn’t mean to come down on it at all.

In our case we promote a lot of our differen posts differently through social media, etc. so the traffic to our posts is unnaturally skewed. Otherwise this would be an excellent solution.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

I would buy mint if I was you as you’ll get top-notch stats as well

I would buy mint if I was you as you’ll get top-notch stats as well

I’m thinking about making the top posts page static – because it may not justify the resource usage since it’s not a “natural” ranking anyway due to differences in which posts we promote how, where, and how hard.

But it’s definitely a good way to increase views, no question there.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

I’m thinking about making the top posts page static – because it may not justify the resource usage since it’s not a “natural” ranking anyway due to differences in which posts we promote how, where, and how hard.

But it’s definitely a good way to increase views, no question there.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

It works fine and as expected, and the list is nice to see, but I’m not sure of it’s value, specifically for us. This is because the posts that we promote the hardest are the ones that will always end up on top… so basically it’s not a natural reader list anyway, so not sure it’s worth the overhead.

True, but I feel the value of promoting your top posts is so that new readers to your blog can see your best posts right way which I believe will encourage them to come back. Ats a minimum it will increase your page views per visit which is one of your pimp objectives.

It works fine and as expected, and the list is nice to see, but I’m not sure of it’s value, specifically for us. This is because the posts that we promote the hardest are the ones that will always end up on top… so basically it’s not a natural reader list anyway, so not sure it’s worth the overhead.

True, but I feel the value of promoting your top posts is so that new readers to your blog can see your best posts right way which I believe will encourage them to come back. Ats a minimum it will increase your page views per visit which is one of your pimp objectives.

Great post, thanks for sharing again your list of plugins, lots of good stuff in there.

We also installed a top-posts plugin recently, it’s called “top posts by category” – http://www.macalua.com/2007/02/01/top-posts-by-category-plugin/

The plugin does add some server overhead – To maintain this list, the plugin has to make a database insert for every page view to your site – this in addition to your OpenAds, etc. And the tpbc table grows pretty fast, we just passed 100k records in the few weeks since installing the plugin.

It works fine and as expected, and the list is nice to see, but I’m not sure of it’s value, specifically for us. This is because the posts that we promote the hardest are the ones that will always end up on top… so basically it’s not a natural reader list anyway, so not sure it’s worth the overhead.

This of course is assuming you do any social media promotion, which we should all be doing these days to get extra traffic.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

Great post, thanks for sharing again your list of plugins, lots of good stuff in there.

We also installed a top-posts plugin recently, it’s called “top posts by category” – http://www.macalua.com/2007/02/01/top-posts-by-category-plugin/

The plugin does add some server overhead – To maintain this list, the plugin has to make a database insert for every page view to your site – this in addition to your OpenAds, etc. And the tpbc table grows pretty fast, we just passed 100k records in the few weeks since installing the plugin.

It works fine and as expected, and the list is nice to see, but I’m not sure of it’s value, specifically for us. This is because the posts that we promote the hardest are the ones that will always end up on top… so basically it’s not a natural reader list anyway, so not sure it’s worth the overhead.

This of course is assuming you do any social media promotion, which we should all be doing these days to get extra traffic.

Have an awesome day!
Dan