4 Ways To Update Your Posts and Jab the Competition

Little things mean a lot, especially when it comes to presenting your image and expertise to the online world.
That’s what a blog post is. Your calling card. Your first impression. You strutting your stuff 🙂
So here are four super simple tricks of the trade that will immediately elevate your status. The first two involve wordpress.com’s Jetpack 2.9, a powerful plugin that hooks your self-hosted WordPress site to WordPress.com’s infrastructure with great features such as robust stats, easy social sharing, and much more. Jetpack comes preloaded with your WordPress installation, you simply need to activate its various settings and follow the directions.
1. Jetpack Related Posts
In many cases, we don’t need to resort to third-party plugins to get the job done. The Related Posts feature by Jetpack is a fine example. It pulls relevant content from your blog to display at the bottom of your posts. If the feature is enabled, a section of related posts appears just underneath your Sharing Buttons.
2. Jetpack Sharing Buttons
There are lots of sharing button plugins for WordPress. But, for simplicity nothing beats Jetpack’s Sharing Buttons which are built-in features. Recommended: Place your buttons at the top of the post. You will need to download the Jetpack Extras plugin to accomplish this task.
3. Twitter Follow Button
If you’re a Twitter aficionado like me, the Follow Button is a neat trick … a small widget that allows users to easily follow a Twitter account from any webpage. It’s very easy to implement. Below is Brian Gardner’s explanation of the code you can use to display various “Follow” buttons.
http://www.studiopress.com/design/twitter-follow-button.htm
4. Starbox
Push your content marketing with the Author Starbox plugin which lets you add author information to each of your WordPress posts. Link to as many as 11 social networks, customizable with various themes, Google and Facebook authorship friendly, all the bells & whistles. Your readers will feel like they know you better, feel a connection and most important … return more often.
– By Marcia Coffey
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