Possibly Related Posts– Best Practice Suggestions
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I have been reading past forum posts about the “Possibly Related Posts” feature. It seems that people really like it or really hate it. I am one of the ones that really likes it–I even like when it sends readers in a random direction that really isn’t related to the post at all.
On my Armchair Anglers blog, I have been blogging about the oil spill, and have posted four very similar posts. I have noticed that the “Possibly Related Posts” have changed for those posts, with two of the post having no possibly related links listed.
Does anyone have any idea how often the links update? Do we have any educated guesstimates as to the criteria?
Just curious…
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This is what the support documentation says > http://en.support.wordpress.com/related-posts/
This is my experience. It’s my experience that some “possibly related links” are not related at all related to the content in my posts. Some links lead to dead posts that “404” (page not found – broken link) blogs, some lead to dead blogs that haven’t been updated for months, and some lead to posts in blogs that I do not want my blog to be associated with at all. They are new blogs founded by opportunists who have cherry picked from multiple other established blogging tips blogs to create their own supposedly unique content.
When I see anything I don’t like what I see being posted I simply go to Extras and shut the feature off for a few days and then activate it again. That being said, as I have a very large archive most of the possibly related posts are actually posts in my own blog.
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