Steve Rubel posted on Monday about the faliure of many “Web 2.0″ sites to provide users with lists of relevant content. Why would you do this? Primarily because you want to keep your readers on your blog longer instead of sending them elsewhere on the Web.
Lorelle on Wordpress has a great rundown of plugins that will provide services like this for Wordpress users.
For Movable Type users, Adam Kalsey has a plugin that will provide related content by relying on MySQL fulltext search behavior.
I’m going to start tinkering with these plugins over the next few days to see whether or not they’ll work for our purposes. I’ll definitely be implementing a function like this on my personal blog.
What other plugins have you discovered or used that do a good job of giving your readers more interesting stuff to read?
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