When it
come the topic of Related Content Engine in sites or Related Posts Plugin for
blogs, the first name that will sure be coming up in the majority’s mind must be
LinkWithin. Linkwithin.com is currently ranked 299 globally and 577 in U.S by
Alexa (as at 28 August 2012). According to Alexa, there were with approximately
44% of visits consist of only one page view, with the visitors view an average
of 2.4 unique pages per day.
LinkWithin
is totally free, and is the simplest as well as the easiest to use among all
Related Content Engines. What you have to do is just to simply providing your
Email and your Blog Link, together with the selection of your Platform in used
(eg: Blogger, WordPress (self-hosted), Type Pad, Other), as well as your
desired Width of stories to be shown (eg: 3 stories, 4 stories, 5 stories). Yet,
LinkWithin wills generating a widget for you to insert into your blog directly.
It is really fast for LinkWithin to get into functioning (approximately 5
Minutes after installed).
Overall,
the respond time of the LinkWithin’s widget is relatively short, and you need
no to worry about your sites might be getting slower after added it to be a
part of your sites. LinkWithin claimed that the selections of the stories are
based on several factors, including titles, tags and contents. The related
stories will be shown under the posts by default in thumbnail images form, or
in links form, if majority of the related stories retuned are without images
attached in the posts.
There is
with No Ads and No Signups needed. In fact, you have no way to sign up for any
account with LinkWithin currently. Although it sounds like really simple and easy, but you might have much lesser opportunities
to enjoy several services as provided by other Related Content Engines.
LinkWithin
provides supports via it support page only. They offer no official forum or
community resources. The FAQ page is with only two line codes provided for customization,
which include,
- Placement of LinkWithin - <div class=”linkwithin_div”></div>
- Text of LinkWithin - <script>linkwithin_text=’Your custom text:’</script>
Besides, one of the key services that are currently not provided by LinkWithin, is the ability to display ads or other sponsored contents. The lack of the ability to show monetized contents is impacting negatively to the LinkWithin’s competitiveness. As stated in the LinkWithin’s FAQ, they are planning to introduce revenue-sharing features in the future. However, as long as we see no login panel and the account registration page in LinkWithin’s website, we should expect the ‘future’ as stated in the LinkWithin’s FAQ might not be near as expected.
Also, if you are
concerning about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you will be probably worrying
about LinkWithin might be eating up your site’s Internal Link Juice. Link Juice
in general is the prime determinate for Search Engines such as Google Search. After installed LinkWithin, you will probably
discovering that your site’s referring URLs or Sites are full with LinkWithin URLs (eg:
widget3.linkwithin.com, widget4.linkwithin.com, etc). This however shown that
LinkWithin is actually directing your viewers to their site first, before they
redirect them back into the actual url in which the viewer desired article is
located with. So, I would say that, as LinkWithin provides
you with free service, they are expecting you to feed them with your Link Juice as the return.
As the conclusion, if you do not might to share your internal Link Juice and expect no sharing of ads’ revenue, you might probably enjoy to use LinkWithin. In addition, if you want a Related Content Engine to be set up in just a click or two and you are lazy to play around with customization, LinkWithin will definitely be the best choice for you. Also, LinkWithin ‘likes’ Blogger the most, as it will be really simple to add LinkWithin into a blog hosted by Blogger platform.
As the conclusion, if you do not might to share your internal Link Juice and expect no sharing of ads’ revenue, you might probably enjoy to use LinkWithin. In addition, if you want a Related Content Engine to be set up in just a click or two and you are lazy to play around with customization, LinkWithin will definitely be the best choice for you. Also, LinkWithin ‘likes’ Blogger the most, as it will be really simple to add LinkWithin into a blog hosted by Blogger platform.
