However, I have an even more important agenda. I want to share with you my thoughts on why these posts performed so well. If I succeed in doing this, my hope is you'll get all kinds of useful insights on how to make your blog posts and content more magnetic, earn more social shares and open more doors.
My most viewed post of 2013 speaks to why infographics are so popular and can be so valuable to your content marketing efforts. It also discusses various ways I created four popular infographics with a modest budget and moderate design skills.
The article's headline promises a simple lesson on a timely and popular topic and the piece itself offers a tutorial, several examples of effective infographics, and a short list of what you need to create them. Readers appreciated the simplicity-and honesty-of the lesson.
This post was popular on Copyblogger and then performed great on my blog. In it, I recognize the many important components of online marketing (including a quick quiz), but explain the one thing great marketers focus on regardless of the forum or media: the customer.
"HEADLINES" was only published a few weeks ago and shot to the third spot fast. The post breaks the word "headlines" up into an acronym where each of the nine letters kicks off an easy-to-apply (and remember) headline writing tip.
This piece was popular when published in May and remains popular still. I'm very glad it's been so well received because I put more effort into it than any post I wrote this year. The article talks about how important it is to gain visibility across the web and offers a huge list of tips-beginner, intermediate and advanced-for getting your content in front of large audiences.
I'm developing a series of posts that are "copywriting tips" for various media. The first three posts addressed the top 3 website pages that need to be professionally written: home, about and landing pages.
I'm not sure why the post about landing pages outperformed the other two, but no complaints. All three were well received. I believe the super straightforward headline served the story well and suspect online marketers are beginning to understand what a landing page is, what it can do for your marketing, and how vital it is to get them right.
This mega-list post simply says if you want to find the best of the best email marketers in marketing, allow me to save you the trouble. Here they are. Of course, these are my favorites, but I managed to include an immense variety and justify each one, so there's likely to be something here for every reader.
Of the 13 posts that made this list, this one surprised me the most. It's a very simple idea, one you'll see daily: a list of useful resources. However, I should add this: when you highlight the great work people and companies are doing in a niche, they either notice or hear about it and then promote it themselves. Win-win-win, right?
My idea for this post was simple enough: if a click is your objective, how do you achieve it? I listed what I feel are the 10 links you most want clicked and the one you don't: the back button. Then I found great examples of winning click-and-convert strategies to demonstrate my points of view.
Recognize the title? Yeah, it's pretty similar to the infographic post. This is because it was a blog post before it was an infographic. In fact, it was a post written for Convince and Convert. I edited it here and there and ran it on "The Point" and am glad I did.
Funny side note: Google Analytics reveals my most popular keyword this year was "slime." Clearly, this is not a demonstration of my command of SEO, but sometimes when you experiment you experience some accidental success. My apologies to the many readers who clicked and hoped to learn more about slime. The post is slime-free.
Although several similar plugins exist today, Top 10 is one of the most feature-rich popular post plugins with support for thumbnails, shortcodes, widgets, custom post types and CSS styles. The inbuilt caching system also helps reduce server load by caching your popular posts output. The tracking uses ajax and is thus compatible with most popular caching plugins.
Background: Results from retrospective studies suggest that use of neuromuscular blocking agents during general anaesthesia might be linked to postoperative pulmonary complications. We therefore aimed to assess whether the use of neuromuscular blocking agents is associated with postoperative pulmonary complications.
Findings: Between June 16, 2014, and April 29, 2015, data from 22 803 patients were collected. The use of neuromuscular blocking agents was associated with an increased incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications in patients who had undergone general anaesthesia (1658 [76%] of 21 694); ORadj 186, 95% CI 153-226; ARRadj -44%, 95% CI -55 to -32). Only 23% of high-risk surgical patients and those with adverse respiratory profiles were anaesthetised without neuromuscular blocking agents. The use of neuromuscular monitoring (ORadj 131, 95% CI 115-149; ARRadj -26%, 95% CI -39 to -14) and the administration of reversal agents (123, 107-141; -19%, -32 to -07) were not associated with a decreased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. Neither the choice of sugammadex instead of neostigmine for reversal (ORadj 103, 95% CI 085-125; ARRadj -03%, 95% CI -24 to 15) nor extubation at a train-of-four ratio of 09 or more (103, 082-131; -04%, -35 to 22) was associated with better pulmonary outcomes.
Interpretation: We showed that the use of neuromuscular blocking drugs in general anaesthesia is associated with an increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications. Anaesthetists must balance the potential benefits of neuromuscular blockade against the increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications.
Your Jekyll site is static, so calculating what post is popular using visitor data will probably be more trouble than it is worth. I am sure there are articles on how to do that, but I doubt it is easy
Option #2: Display what you have decided is a featured or popular post
In the front matter of the post, create a custom variable called featuredPost (you decide on the name) and then write code that looks like this:
Sample Jekyll site that shows how to implement featured images on posts and post feeds. - GitHub - BillRaymond/jekyll-featured-images: Sample Jekyll site that shows how to implement featured images...
I am newbie in Laravel Framework. I work in my project where i need to display the most popular post link in the website.SO I used simple logic to stored each load of page and store the count the database table and sort it by values of the count.
They have the best Popular Posts feature, which allows you to show your popular articles anywhere on your WordPress site. You can use also use Inline Popular Posts to show articles inside your content.
Pros: MonsterInsights offers lots of options to display popular posts. You can select different themes, layouts, styling, and customize each popular post widget. It can automatically determine popular posts and show them on your website.
It also comes with a Featured Content tool for creating sliders based on your popular posts, pages, and custom post types. This means that you can create a slider of your popular blog posts and their thumbnails.
Pros: Soliloquy is a powerful and user-friendly plugin for creating eye-catching popular post sliders. You can choose from different templates, make customizations, and control exactly what content is displayed. It also lets you display popular products, testimonials, and more.
WordPress Popular Posts plugin is one of the most downloaded popular posts plugins on the market, with over 200,000+ active installs. It allows you to show popular posts with many different conditions.
It is multi-widget capable, which means you can add the same widget multiple times into the same or different sidebar. You can apply your own custom CSS, show post thumbnails, excerpts, author, comment count, number of views, and more.
Pros: WordPress Popular Posts is a powerful plugin with all the options you would need to display your popular posts. Support for custom post types and the ability to add the widget multiple times allows you to create a different set of popular views, e.g., Popular Posts, Popular Reviews, etc.
Despite the name, you can choose to display any number of popular posts. It allows you to select a date range to choose from. You can show post views, author, post summary or excerpt, and post thumbnails in the popular posts list.
Relevant will help you show your popular posts, featured articles, related content, and the latest posts on your WordPress website. It comes with multiple widgets, including one for popular posts and a neat settings page.
Trending/Popular Post Slider and Widget allows you to show popular posts in a slider, a grid block, or as a plain list. This way, you can show your best content in more engaging ways than just a list of links in your sidebar.
Cons: Limited features than other popular posts plugins. The slider, carousel, and grid blocks only work with shortcodes. The widget is basically a list of links with post thumbnails, excerpts, and some metadata.
The best part about the plugin is its rating widget, which shows top-rated posts on your website. This allows you to show popular posts by user votes. The plugin also works with WordPress Popular Posts plugin.
The plugin lets you filter posts by category and display content based on share count and the number of comments. In your display parameter, you can include excerpts, thumbnails, author avatars, and more.
We hope this article helped you find the best popular posts plugin for WordPress. You may also want to see our list of the best WordPress plugins for all websites, and our tutorial on how to add web push notifications in WordPress to grow your traffic.
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