Mashable & NYTimes Like Recommendations WordPress Plugin

August 6, 2011

Recommending articles to the visitors in a fashion similar to Mashable and NYtimes which show recommendations in the right bottom corner will not only grab the eyeball attention of the users but also helps you in engaging the user to the site for more time and therefore helps you in getting more page views. (double benefit with a single tweak )

We have searched for the plugins which will achieve the same effect and we have succeeded in finding a plugin which works in a similar way and shows you sidewall recommendations for the users.

SimpleReach Slide Plugin

The SimpleReach Slide helps your readers in discovering more of your content. The Slide recommends related posts on a widget that “slides” in at the bottom of the page – increasing pageviews and time spent on your site. The benefit of the plugin is it also shows the social networking sites like twitter, Facebook, and Google+ and let your users submit their favorite content to the web.

This plugin is available for free and you need to register at SimpleReach website to activate this plugin (it works in a way similar to OutBrain and LinkWithin) and further customizations of the plugin can be done at the website. It also provides complete analytics in the ‘Reports’ section at the website.

You need not worry that this plugin will distract the user concentration because with this plugin users will have an option to opt-out of this plugin.

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Let us know if you know any other plugins which work in the same way, we will continue our search and will let you know if we come across any.

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