Stuff to make your wordpress blog sticky

Posted by Sava on May 9th, 2008
2 comments

I’ve read a a lot of ebooks in the past year and I have to say that many of them contain a lot of bullshit.
I have a post on Sava’s Place entitled eBooks are a waste of time. Words are useless and that picture says it all.

Wordpress has a lot of plugins but I suggest you use at least these 3 for your blog.

Show Top Commentators

This plugin will count the number of comments each visitors makes on your blog. You will then have the possibility to display a list of your top commentators.
The thing is that when displaying the names the script will also link to the visitors website without a nofollow tag. Who doesn’t want a free link on your blog ? Users will make more comments for sure to be able to stay on the list. I suggest displaying only 10 commentators so that the battle is always on.
More information on the plugin and download

Google Sitemap Generator

If you don’t use Google Webmaster Tools READ THIS first. If you don’t read it you won’t understand what I’m saying below.
Generating sitemaps for a big blog with a lot of pages can take some time. This plugin will generate a new sitemap each time you update your blog. Using this plugin will save you time and help search engines to index your blog better. The more pages you have indexed by search engines the more traffic you’ll get.
More information on the plugin and download

Subscribe to comments

Every time an user comments on your blog is because he found the post interesting. He might want to find out what other people think about your post.
This plugin will give users the possibility to get notified by email whenever a new comment is posted on your blog.
More information on the plugin and download

Must Have, Tips, Wordpress


2 comments

  1. To summarize your post, it looks like enhancing the commenting experience is a good way to make your blog more sticky.

    There is new plugin quite promising to foster constructive discussions. So that can help!
    It is called commentag (http://www.commentag.com) and it allows to tag comments to keep discussions sorted.
    They use that on TheNextWeb.org and it is a great add-on!
    It uses Web semantic to automatically tag what you type, but you can always edit tags in a del.icio.us way.

    Xavier Damman says...
    May 22nd, 2008 at 6:41 am

  2. w0w … that plugin is very very nice. I will use it as soon as I have more time to workaround it.
    Thank you very much Xavier.

    Sava says...
    May 26th, 2008 at 4:10 am
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