Comments on: WordPress Plugins that Target Search Engine Traffic

By: Frank Michlick

Frank Michlick — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:04:46 +0000

Just a side note – it appears that this plugin displays an empty search term when I come from Google Reader, in which case the plugin should rather not display anything instead. Other than that it’s a great idea.

By: peter lee

peter lee — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:34:15 +0000

very cool, I just downloaded it.

thanks

By: miriguy

miriguy — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:33:20 +0000

great plugin. I am gonna try out this one ;)
Thanks!

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:16:27 +0000

I subscribed to ProBlogger’s RSS via my Google homepage, and when I clicked on the link to this post, Landing Pages detected I came in from Google, despite not having done a search

To solve this issue do the following:

In landingsites13.php, in the function ls_getinfo, add the following:

if($what == ‘hasterms’) {
return $terms != NULL;
}

Then, where you want to show the related posts list, change the code like this:

if (ls_getinfo(’isref’) and ls_getinfo(’hasterms’))

HTH

By: Kingsley Tagbo

Kingsley Tagbo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:08:58 +0000

Sounds like a veru useful plugin Darren,

I will install it now.

Hopefully, it won’t cause my pages to load more slowly.

By: Thomas Silkjær

Thomas Silkjær — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:33:46 +0000

Glad my plugin is of use – I am working on an update with support for more search engines, easier installation and a few minor bugfixes.

By: Sherman Haywood Cox II

Sherman Haywood Cox II — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:40:45 +0000

Man thanks…

I never know what I want for my blog until I come to this blog.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:38:21 +0000

Hi!
I’ve been using the “Landing Sites 1.3″-Plugin for a couple of weeks now and I think it’s very useful and easy to handle.

By: Davinian

Davinian — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:10:38 +0000

Interesting plugins – I had a quick look at both but not tried either yet – but I was wondering if it was possible to put the Landing Sites code inside the MoreMoney plugin?

By: kunal

kunal — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:09:34 +0000

sweet….i will trying it out soon as my most visits come from SEs

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:24:02 +0000

I’m going to have to give this a try when I get my blog moved to Wordpress. It did seem the page took longer to load though.

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0000

I actually used this to help in a move from Typepad to Wordpress in which I found the change in Link URL’s meant that a lot of Search Engine traffic was ending up at the 404 error page. Now I know that there might be better options then this, but this worked for me with my poor Web skills.

I really need to add it to my other pages and will do that in the next few weeks.

Molly
PS. Its a bit funny that the top post following the example you have in the post is to this article. So new visitors will be onto your little game immediately.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:26:29 +0000

Thanks for finding this Darren. I installed it no problems. I tried it with searches that others had used to reach my site. It seems to be working okay. The code to make the plugin work can be placed anywhere in your template – top, bottom, sidebar – it’s up to you, so you can work around your ads.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:16:49 +0000

Is there a plugin or module for Moveable Type or Typepad that does this?

By: brem

brem — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:17:40 +0000

Lisa: thanks for the answer.

It’s a good thing, but also can lead to bad links…

If you already are using keywords for your articles, then the plug-in could use these keywords to try to find corresponding posts.

So many things to try, so little time… ;)

By: Abe Olandres

Abe Olandres — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:37:47 +0000

Also found the plugin via WeblogTools Collection though I haven’t installed this yet.

How did it affect your CTR, Darren? Some of the blogs have their Adsense on top of the content entry and by adding “welcome” links to other parts of your blog, that might affect their clicking of a contextual ad.

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:51:58 +0000

I don’t see the links at the top of the page, nor do I see them when I go to “The Undersigned’s” example page. Is anyone else having this problem?

By: Enrique G

Enrique G — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:20:30 +0000

I’ve been using Landing Pages on one of my sites for a while now, works a treat. Ironically I found a bug in it by visiting this very page! I subscribed to ProBlogger’s RSS via my Google homepage, and when I clicked on the link to this post, Landing Pages detected I came in from Google, despite not having done a search :)

So right now the top of this page reads “You came here from google.com search for (blank) . No related posts.”

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By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:58:12 +0000

Nice selection of plugins. The landing sites one is very tasty and easy to install