Another Way To Draw Attention To Your Best Posts

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Yesterday I wrote on how you can use images to get your best posts noticed by your visitors. If you have too many posts that you want your new visitors to check out, either create many images and rotate them like Cybernetnews does or list out the text links in an organised way like you see on Problogger.net and FreelanceSwitch.

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This can be done using DOMTab. There are instructions on the site on how to use it or you could read this post by Small Potato. The one problem I have noticed about DOMTab is that it will list all the links together while the page is loading.

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14 responses so far, Leave a comment

  1. 1

    JP Russel

    November 21, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    Hi. Thanks for the tip.

    You can also get a widget to do this on spotplex http://www.spotplex.com/About

  2. 2

    Wayne Liew

    November 21, 2007 at 10:31 pm

    I find this useful, but only for blogs with a large database of pillar articles like Problogger.

    Anyway, I should say that this is a nice little plugin.

  3. 3

    Small Potato

    November 22, 2007 at 12:01 am

    The DOMTab author gives you a way to hide the content until the page is loaded.

  4. 4

    Mohsin

    November 22, 2007 at 3:08 am

    John, is there a plugin to highlight last month/current month best posts?

  5. 5

    Keith Dsouza

    November 22, 2007 at 8:34 am

    Nice find DOMTab, I use something called as tabber to tab my content.

  6. 6

    Venkat

    November 22, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    John its a nice find, Your new header looks nice can you insert php like placing random posts, recent comments etc into the header.

  7. 7

    Michael Woo

    November 22, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    I think it’s a good recycling method - very good since you still can promote your aged article.. info is info and info is gold :)

  8. 8

    JohnTP

    November 22, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    Small Potato - That’s good news

    Mohsin- Have you tried Popularity Contest plugin?

    Venkat- Yes, it is possible

  9. 9

    Venkat

    November 22, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    John I Found This Meyshan 6 in 1 Worpress Plugin, which is some what close to what you mentioned.

    http://www.spicyexpress.net/ge.....ss-plugin/

  10. 10

    Madhur Kapoor

    November 23, 2007 at 1:46 am

    Great post John. This is lot better than the popularity contest plugin which i have been using

  11. 11

    David Bradley

    November 23, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    Alex King’s Popularity Contest is a nice plugin for displaying popular posts, but I don’t think you can choose to show only those popular in a given timeframe. And, perhaps annoyingly, you cannot exclude specific posts, which would be very useful if a boilerplate post gets too many visits because it ranks well in the SEs and is always top of the list.

    db

  12. 12

    daya

    November 23, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    John,

    Great post. But I feel using accordion plugin from here http://www.spicyexpress.net/ge.....functions/ will be best bet instead of DOMTAB.

    regards

    daya

  13. 13

    Sharat Jaswal

    November 23, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    Without any doubts, i agree that the above mentioned method is one of the best way to draw attention of our visitors to the best posts.
    I recently have done my new blog design. And if you can see at my blog, i tried to do something different as well. I titled them as “Favorite Posts”. It’s pretty visible as it is placed right beneath the header part.
    However it requires lot of work. For a blog post to appear in “Favorite Posts”, i have to make the entry in a particular category. But i guess it’s worth the effort :)

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