You would have visited many blogs from the day you started blogging. In most of the blogs you see a column of 'Most Popular Posts'. They would be the most visited or most linked post. Bloggers like Daniel, ChrisG, Brian and many others have this in their blogs. There are many reasons to have this in a blog. Following are the 7 main reasons to have the most popular posts column.
1. Increases Page Views:
When a reader visits your blog, the chances are more for him/her to visit the most popular blog posts. Most popular posts will have a magnetic headline. These headline will attract the reader to click on the post and read it.
2. Increase In Subscribers:
When I visit a blog for the first time, I decide whether to subscribe or not by reading recent posts and few other posts. If you can capture the hearts of your visitors by the most popular articles, they are mostly to become your subscribers. For this you should know how to Convert One off Visitors to your Blog into Regular Readers.
3. Gain Back links:
When displaying most popular posts, few of the posts might be new. There are bloggers in the blogosphere who will link to great articles in the recent days. They might just give it a link or sometimes they will add their views on the post linking to your post. So there are more chances for a blogger to link to your famous posts.
4. Exposure To Your Old Articles:
By displaying most popular posts, your old articles actually get more exposure. You can sometimes handpick few old articles that you thought would have been a success. Those articles can be linked.
5. They Stand As A Trade Mark:
If you see the blogs I mentioned above, you could see that the top articles are very different and they are the blog's trade mark. Every blogger has/should have their own trade mark post or Flagship Content however you call it.
Instead of displaying those long blog rolls and big banners(other than your advertisers'), you can display your most popular posts so that you can enjoy the above 5 points.
Do you think a blogger must have 'Most Popular Page'? Do you have any points to be added in the list?
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Friday, July 27, 2007
5 Reasons To Have Most Popular Posts Column
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5 comments:
nice article buddy.. i have to consider putting a popular posts widget on my sidebar.
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Shankar, Glad that you liked it. With WordPress you can do wonders. So have a widget soon. Hope to see it live on your blog. And thanks for the stumble.
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Thanks Oscar.
Great article. Popular posts is a good way of displaying good posts, but apart from that you can also put the good articles, which never became popular but deserved the popularity.
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