I’m falling in love with wordpress all over again because of wordpress 2.7. One of the reasons is the ability to install plugins right from within wordpress. (this is a beautiful thing people!)
One of the plugins that I discovered is wp-greet box. It’s a great plugin for blogs that get a lot of random search or referrer traffic. The plugin will load a small message at the top of a post if someone has arrived on that post as the result of a link. But the plugin goes beyond that. It recognises where the traffic came from (google, stumbleupon, facebook, twitter, etc) and give the visitor a customized message based on that.
If the visitor is on your site because of a random google search (I get traffic like this a lot) It will let the visitor know that they can subscribe to your rss feed if they like what they see. But it also has the ability to display what they were searching for on google and show other posts on the site that they may be interested in.
I have my twitter updates feed into my facebook status. Because of this I get a lot of blog traffic from facebook when I tweet a link. This plugin will give your facebook friends the option to share the post they are viewing on facebook.
As many of my readers know, I love twitter! So you can imagine that I was happy when I saw that this plugin had twitter support. The message will let readers tweet a link to the post using TwiThis. The plugin also puts a link to follow me on twitter if perhaps you found the link through a re-tweet and you weren’t following me already.
Currently the following referrers are installed by default, but you can easily create your own if your favorite referrer is not on the list!
- blinklist.com
- blogmarks.com
- del.icio.us
- delicious.com
- digg.com
- diigo.com
- facebook.com
- flickr.com
- furl.com
- google.com
- ma.gnolia.com
- mister-wong.com
- myspace.com
- netvibes.com
- newsvine.com
- reddit.com
- search.live.com
- search.msn.com
- search.yahoo.com
- simpy.com
- stumbleupon.com
- technorati.com
- twitter.com
- youtube.com
