I saw some blog showing related post, random post and popular post  with post image on the side. Its a good idea to show post with post image. Do you know that showing post with pictures can get more views? Few days ago i started to test my web traffic from referrers and search engines. I found that My post with image get more views than others.. Then i posted tips and articles with image and it doubled my page views. If you don’t add image to your posts in wordpress you should test it. But you should decide that what would be best for your blog. You can also add some new options in your blog like showing related post or random post at the bottom of your post. You can add this option in your theme in a easy way. Just all you have to do is use a wordpress plugin with right settings. You can even edit the looks and styles by editing css code. So here is a little tutorial about how to show related post with image thumb.

1. At first download this plugin from Here Related post with Thumb Revised. This plugin is a modified version of WordPress Plugin Related Post Thumb from ZioGeek. But that plugin can’t re size image to thumb. But with revised version you can change the size of the thumbnail page configuration. Related lists are generated using tag. Download and activate that Plugin.
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Do you  show random featured post on your Blog Home page or on your post? If you don’t the here is a reason why you should show random post on your blog. I was looking way to add random post in my blog.  Cause i wanted to show featured post to my blog readers. They can find about the tips and tutorials i wrote before in my blog. By doing this i got some more activity in my old Posts. It also helped me to get some more page views and extra visitors. I have a random post on my home page to show my old post to my blog readers.Here is the benefits to use random featured post:

1. If you get a lot of hits on your blog then you can rank high on search engines. If you get a high rank you can easily get lot of hits from Search engines.

2. You can show your Random post to readers.That means you get a chance to show your skills and  Products to your blog readers.

3. You can earn some Extra activity’s on your blog. If you run PPC Advertisement on your blog, More Hits and Activity Can earn Some revenue from PPC Advertisement.
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Today i was browsing around and found a post on DP (Digitalpoint forum) about Which WordPress Plugins NOT to USE!!!  Dp member godsofchaos his opinion about that. So always think before adding a Plugin

Let us help each other out. we all have bad experiences with plugins. some with this one and the others with that one… know what I mean… I lately found out what plugins you should not use if you want to have a blog with relatively moderate/high traffic.

Number one wordpress villain is the Global Translator plugin

Number two is the Lancelhoff wordpress translator plugin.

Both will kill your MySQL server by sending pings after pings after pings…. and your host will definitely kick ya out if you are on a shared environment. The translator plugins maximizes the load on MySQL significantly, and if you use Global Translator without the cache feature, its a matter of days of getting suspended for CPU usage for sure.

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