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I was going through my Woopra stats not so long back when i noticed something very exciting and very unexpected. My political blog, Brad’s Tiny World, was receiving a lot of traffic from CNN and within a few days of watching that incoming traffic I started noticing them coming from The Wall Street Journal. When tracking down this traffic I found it had come in the form of a sweet little plugin I had accidentally left on when I was testing what did and didn’t work with the new theme tools and WordPress 2.6. I had long known Sphere Related Content plugin existed, in fact the version I had in the plugin directory was a few versions out of date, but I never really expected much from it and as such never used it. What a mistake that was.
While the traffic generated was small, it was all relevant traffic and directed at specific stories. To get those links I was citing and linking to stories on the major sites. This was usually an excerpt with a backlink. it was a small common courtesy, but well worth it. That new traffic which fades after a story is no longer popular, does bring you people willing to give relevant comments and more important, it increased my social bookmark submissions. I can’t promise you will gain anything from this plugin, but I also know it doesn’t take up very much room either. Add it and comment on sites using it and see what happens for yourself. You too might just find links from unexpected places.
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Frankly, I’d never even thought of plugins. Thanks for the tip.
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I got incomming from CNN too once, and my blog aint political. I had mentioned the Dalai Lama and a few other keywords in a blog entry. CNN had some automatic search for blog entrys that could be related to their own articles and found mine. A success (?) that is hard to repeat.
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Hey thanx for sharing this, i had no idea about this sphere plugin and great news that out of it you are getting good quality traffic. Should try it out.
This is one of those things that happens a lot if you use the sphere related content plugin since I wrote this I have received incoming links from quite a few major sources.