My addition or yours?
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Since recently I see underneath my posts:
Possibly Related Posts: (automatically generated) and a few links. Is it something the user activates in Settings (something about Link Notifying which I checked on), or is it a general wordpress freebie? -
it’s a default setting which you can turn off by going to dashboard -> design -> extras then uncheck Enable Snap Shots on this blog
one reason to consider turning it off: links may be of inappropriate and irrelevant content
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one reason to consider turning it on: readers might find this feature useful for reading up on (as the title suggests) possibly related posts
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Thanks, sulz. I thought ‘Extra’ only featured the SnapShots utility.
Of course I don’t want to direct anyone to other blog articles! I didn’t write them.
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I think when you turn it off your blog stops coming up on other people’s “possibly related posts” too; therefore you don’t get traffic that way. That is why most people leave it on :)
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That is correct. But it’s never responsible for a huge inundation of hits anyway.
I have a blog that is hosted off WP.com and we get hits from you guys all the time via your Possibly Related Posts. But we’re not using it on those blogs. I have no idea why it works this way.
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for benefit of future readers, my above instruction was wrong -> should read as: check option ‘Hide related links on this blog, which means this blog won’t show up on other blogs or get traffic that way’
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If I understand well, the option is not really for MY benefit. I don’t want to advertise for others in the first place. If someone else has the option activated, and sends his visitors through to my blogplace, great. But one should think: do outward links really benefit my post? Of the links, I saw two that are of little value, to remain polite.
There is also the esthetic value. There is already that integrated Adsense crop (yes, I’ve now seen it on a freshly re-installed laptop) and adding another crop of blogrelated links is too much. Why not stash all that trash in the sidebar? Keep intellectual/creative property clean, please. -
@doubleuvandeursen: I agree. When I first opened my blog, I was both surprised at seeing this spring up by itself AND appalled at how successful it was. I feel the one responsible for the whole of the content of my posts (including any relevant links, of course) should be completely and exclusively me, not some random machinery – especially since that machinery often produces possibly veeery unrelated posts (to remain polite myself, too, as you say)…
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Yes, I brought it up in the forum before: one posts a writing about victims of dangerous religious sects, and gets rewarded with the advertising ‘Scientology, Call Us’. Are you a mother with a daughter killed by anorexia and you blog about it to help yourself cope with the grief, and as a warning to others? How dreary. Fortunately there are the ads for Slimming Pills, Plastic Chirurgy and Trendy Coffins to brighten your story up.
I still can’t believe this totally inhuman form of commerce is happening, but wordpress is by far not the only one.
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