In today’s video, Jack Humphrey from friday traffic report reviews the wordpress popularity contest plugin published by Alex King. If you don’t know Alex King, he publishes a number of excellent wordpress plugins, including twitter tools, which I use. He also provides professional wordpress development and consulting services.
Popularity contest is a free wordpress plugin, which is best placed on you home page in a prominent position. It lists the most popular posts published on your blog. Why would you want this plugin? I think it’s obvious. People are most interested in reading what everyone else is interested in reading. It ranks each post on your blog in order of user importance by calculating a percentage value and displaying the value below each post. Then it uses this ranking figure to decide on the top ten list of posts.
Best of all, the plugin collects an amazing array of statistics, which are reported from your wordpress dashboard. It collates and lists your posts, along with how many views, feeds, trackback, pings and more. It also provides statistics on each page, category views and archive views. As Jack says, it’s the most thorough tracking of visitors he has seen from a plugin. And the longer you have the plugin installed, the more statistics you collect.
Discover what’s popular on your blog.
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