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Show related posts on your blog with LinkWithin
Nowadays, most of the blogging platforms feature a number of third-party plugins that can display a list of related stories on blogs, or even from other blogs on. Typically, these plugins will look at how a story was tagged and then display a short list of similar stories that use the same keywords. LinkWithin is the newest contender in this market. The plugin looks at tags, but it also analyzes other factors like relevancy, popularity, and recentness. Unlike similar plugins, however, LinkWithin doesn't just display a list of headlines underneath each post, but also a thumbnail with a related images from posts, which makes it far more attractive.
The plugin is available for Wordpress, Typepad, and Blogger, You can also do it with a code snippet that you can use on other blogging platforms. LinkWithin does some semantic analysis in the background in order to arrive at its list of related stories.
However there are a few Caveats. Because LinkWithin does most of the computing on its own servers, it can take a little while before its results appear on your blog (usually around one hour). The plugin also doesn't play nice with every theme. LinkWithin is still a bit rough around the edges and so this is not sure to go well with all sorts of themes. It would be great if you could actually customize the display settings. For now, you are restricted to showing three related stories that will appear on both your homepage and on individual posts. If you want to show the related posts on your blog in a cool way, you should give LinkWithin a try.
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