Congratulations! You have finally managed to master SEO, social media marketing, article marketing and whatever other traffic generation methods you might be using. You are getting floods of new people coming to read your blog…

But Have You Ever heard about so-called “bounce rate” ?

And yes, I used that picture on purpose to show you just how happy your newly acquired visitors to click that “Back” button or simply close the window they are using to read your blog post or page….

UNLESS

You Give Them a Reason to Stay!

Luckily, as WordPress blogger you have quite an arsenal over your competitors who (out of sheer stubbornness, I assume) using different blogging platform.

By simply adding a few plugins you can deploy two of the most effective strategies to draw your new visitors into your blog content: Related Posts and Popular Posts.

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With release of WordPress 3.0 Beta 2 we are inching closer to the main release of the newest version of this very popular blogging platform. I’m quite excited as new version brings us not only a host of enhancements but also some new functionality that was not previously available. Mashable did an excellent job of covering most important new features of the WordPress 3.0 and I will not make any double takes on it.

But new features include ONE particular enhancement and functionality that I think will bite many bloggers and cause a lot of pain and I want to share some thought on how it could be possibly avoided!

I believe that ANY new functionality should not be coming at cost of security!

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Ladies and Gentleman, today you life and your blogging habits, as you know them will change forever! And not necessary to the best as I’m about to show you how to get MORE information about your blog, how your visitors interact with your content and where they are coming from than most bloggers need to know!

In Fact – Stats Tracking is One Of The Most Addictive And Time Wasting Activities You, As A Blogger Can Participate In!

I highly recommend you stop reading RIGHT NOW and don’t click that “Read More..” link to save your sanity and time!

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Love Blogging but need a vacation? Perhaps your blog hasn’t become the *HOTTEST* spot on the net with hundreds of bloggers begging to allow them submit content to it? Or perhaps you are just suffering from brain freeze and need a bit of time to re-evaluate your options all the while making sure you don’t lose your readers?

• What Do You Do?

• How Do You Find Quality Content For Your Blog?

Obviously you can use an option provided to you by WordPress to schedule a bunch of posts for the future publishing, you can get some PLR content and re-write it, you can hire someone to create content for you or…

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Beauty of WordPress is its infinite extendability through adding new functionality without knowing any coding or html. Simply find plugin that delivers the options you need, install it, configure as advised – and Voila! Your Blog Extended!

Today I want to discuss 2 plugins that will help you Get More From Your WordPress Blog:

• More Subscribers
• More Sales

And all of it will be done without you needing to dig too much into code! Got to love it!

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