1. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress
   • To social media-ize your site, you’ll have to create a conversation, This is easier to do when people have more to talk about. Your site should provide this additional food for thought. This plugin enables visitors to get to that related content.
   • The idea here is that the conversation will become increasingly informed and insightful. This will lend value to your blog.
2. WordPress › Subscribe to Comments « WordPress Plugins.
   • Another essential for continuing the conversation, this allows people to see that the activities at your site continues. As traffic picks, up and the quality of dialog increases, so does the authorative quality of your site.
   • Make sure to style the opt-in box to stand out a bit more, add some red text along with an explanation as to why opting in to follow comments is a good thing.
3. Popularity Contest
   • One key to sucessful social media sites is the ability to findout where the party is. This means being able to quickly locate which posts are the most popular and generating the most buzz. Popularity Contest adds a ranking for each post so that the visitor can see whether this post is popular with other users.
   • This plugin is also very useful in determining the source of your blogs traffic. If you’ve promoted a given post with one particular method and there are no other external links to it, you can very quickly see how effective that promotion method is. More specifically, you can see how effective that promotion method is for a specific article title or set of keywords.
4. Most Popular Posts
   • This complements the plugin above because while Popularity Contest shows a given posts ratings, it is ideal to have links to the most popular posts on the whole site. This way, visitors have one glance access to not only your own content, but also the kind of community that is evolving around it. This kind of information will drive the perception of authority on your site and motivate commenters to contribute to the conversation. /li>
   • This strategy, coupled with effective moderation will help to move your site toward an agent of change.
5. All in one SEO Pack
   • Before you can get into all of this snappy social media stuff, you’ve got to make sure that you can get on the radar.Search engines make take longer to find you on the radar, but by the time they do, you’ll already have a bit of a community in place.
   • Search engines also bring in new blood. Your own traffic generating efforts may bring in a certain demographic or interest group. As others become interested in what you have to say, they will be coming from areas that you may not have considered before. Expanding traffic to your blog is good, but widening the scope of your audience has an exponential effect.
6. Comment Luv
   • This plugin searches the rss of the person who added a comment for one of their mose recent stories. This provides an incentive for them to leave a comment on your blog. Doing so contributes to your conversation and adds traffic to theirs. It’s a nice trade off.
7. Commentwitter
   • People who leave comments on your site can also tweet that comment. This is great for those quick comments that just drop in a word or two of approval. It promotes your site and also adds activity to a Twitter user’s account. There should be more plugins like this, where any activity on the internet can be tweeted. Doing so allows for more insight into the person you are following.
8. Post Ratings:
   • Think YouTube where videos are rated. This is a great way to drive interest in articles. It is important the consider, however, that posts of high quality and few views and an unfortunate low rating may end up driving traffic to another article. So, it may be best to manage which posts you’ll allow ratings on.
9. Referrer Detector
   • Allows your blog to detect where your visitor is coming from.
   • This is great for delivering a ‘Don’t forget to Tweet/Digg/Sphinn etc.’ specific to the referrer. This can help to bump you up on those sites.
10. Get Recent Comments
    • This plugin will show recent comments to your posts. This makes the dialog visible from any page on your site and can therefore draw visitors deeper into the site.
    • Seeing, at a glance, the level, quality and scope of the communications taking place breathes life into what otherwise would be something as static as a newspaper.
    • You are publishing and facilitating a group of people with shared interests.
    • Be careful to first remove the included recent comments widget from your sidebar. After doing so, drop in the Get Recent Comments widget and configure. To add more life to the implementation, make sure to add gravatars.
    • Instructions, with a picture, are here.

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