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If you’re new or old at building websites then you know that fresh content is the key to building traffic. Keywords in content are the fuel that drives traffic from search engines. Sometimes we need all the help we can get.

If you have a WordPress blog then your job has been made a little easier by the plethora of free plugins that help you maintain and optimize your website for improved rankings on search engines. Related posts can help increase site content and guide the visitor to other related posts that may be of interest. You can do this automatically with an extension (plugin) called “Contextual Related Posts” by Mike Ghosh. Unlike many related post plug-ins, it does not require

that you add any code to the template. Which can be a pain.

Although not perfect, it is really a neat little plug-in if especially for a beginning webmaster. Contextual Related Posts will allow you to display content excerpts. You can set the length to your liking. Other features include:

1. Exclude related posts on pages
2. Show thumbnails
3. Option to manually add code to template
4. Tagging not needed
5. Exclude post from categories
6. Optimize website content

Although there is some room for improvement in terms of the related posts it selects, some of this can be controlled by the webmaster when selecting titles and keywords for posts.

Of course this is not the only free WordPress related posts plugin. Some are better at honing in on related content, but fall short when they hang or freeze during configuration.

How To Setup Related Posts

1. You can find the plugin here Contextual Related Posts.
2. Download and extract file to its own folder
3. Upload to your WordPress blog plug-ins folder
4. Activate from your WordPress dashboard’s inactive plugins menu
5. Adjust settings from the settings menu in the side panel