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Went Hot: August 14, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 110 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Bookmarking
Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate when you’re targeting Digg, right? To solve that problem, you could use multiple page templates to help improve your Diggs, Sphinns, Stumbles and so on!
This article covers how to create optimised page templates in Wordpress to display the correct SMO button using PHP examples and downloadable code.
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Excellent idea and a novel take on what is a best practice for cutting bounce rates, especially on social media traffic. Lovely!
Thanks Gab, it's incredible how bounce rate can reduce by more than 40% with some simple dynamic changes. Fun with blog bounce rates!!
Excellent, nicely put tutorial. Thank you!
Nice post - very useful. I could have a different page template for stumbleupon, reddit, digg and Sphinn!
Those of you who are perhaps more familiar with WP development might also be interested in the use of conditional tags.. this is a great tip but conditional tags can take you a step further and help cut down the number of template pages in your theme.
Trust me.. this is coming from someone who has ~30 pages to her website, before I figured out conditional tags, LOL.
Yes, but don't most people blog in WordPress using posts not pages? You could do the same trick with the post template though by showing buttons based on the referrer. You could possibly do it with this plugin if it allows you to input the button code into the admin section:
http://www.bigbluedev.com/plugins/referer-message-wordpress-plugin/
Or this plugin might get you closer to there with some modification:
http://theundersigned.net/2006/06/landing-sites-11/
Or else you'd need to write something custom. At some level though this is a form of cloaking, but as the intention is to improve the user experience (less bounces), I can't see it being a problem.
These are really great tips! thanks for sharing this with us.
@NickWilsdon hello mate - you're absolutely right to suggest this and I'm working on the custom code now - a category specific conditional SMO button display. As for a plugin, I personally really like cracking the code myself, it's so satisfying! I'll ping you a post when it's finished. Thank you!
@richardbaxterseo
Sounds good, send me a note - should be a useful plugin.