Top Reasons Why You Should Have Most Popular Posts Column

by Ramkarthik

If you are optimizing your blog, here are the top reasons why you should add most popular posts column to your blog.
1. Increases Page Views:
When a reader visits your blog, the chances are more for him/her to visit the most popular blog posts. Most popular posts will have a magnetic headline. These headline will attract the reader to click on the post and read it.
2. Increase In Subscribers:
When I visit a blog for the first time, I decide whether to subscribe or not by reading recent posts and few other posts. If you can capture the hearts of your visitors by the most popular articles, they are mostly to become your subscribers. For this you should know how to Convert One off Visitors to your Blog into Regular Readers.
3. Gain Back links:
When displaying most popular posts, few of the posts might be new. There are bloggers in the blogosphere who will link to great articles in the recent days. They might just give it a link or sometimes they will add their views on the post linking to your post. So there are more chances for a blogger to link to your famous posts.
4. Exposure To Your Old Articles:
By displaying most popular posts, your old articles actually get more exposure. You can sometimes handpick few old articles that you thought would have been a success. Those articles can be linked.
5. They Stand As A Trade Mark:
If you see the blogs I mentioned above, you could see that the top articles are very different and they are the blog's trade mark. Every blogger has/should have their own trade mark post or Flagship Content however you call it.
Instead of displaying those long blog rolls and big banners(other than your advertisers'), you can display your most popular posts so that you can enjoy the above 5 points.