Adding Related Posts With Thumbnails to Your Blog

you are looking for an attractive but elegant way to showcase more of your blog posts to readers, keeping them engaged with your blog and increase pageviews, LinkWithin is definitely worth a try.

LinkWithin is a free service offer blog widget that appears under each post, linking to its related stories from your blog archive. The widget also known as related posts widget. What makes LinkWithin different and far more attractive compared to most of its competitors is thumbnail with a picture taken from each post:

In case LinkWithin can't found pictures on most of the recommended posts, the widget will only shows text links instead of thumbnail links.

LinkWithin work by retrieve and index all stories from your blog archive, and stories are chosen based on several factors, including post title, tags, and content. It does most of the computing on its own servers, so it can take a little while before related posts results appear on your blog. Also, if your blog uses a non-standard custom template/theme, the plugin sometimes doesn't play nice.

To fix this problem, LinkWithin team offer support for your blog manually, as far the related post widget remains installed on your blog. Just contact them via email at support AT linkwithin DOT com, they'll fix the problem within 1-2 days.

LinkWithin related posts plugin is currently available for Blogger, Wordpress (self-hosted), and Typepad. For other blogging platform users, LinkWithin also provide you with a code snippet that you can use on your blog. You don't need to signup to use the service. Just fill in your email, blog URL, and your blog's platform. You also have an opt to customize number of stories that will shown in the related posts widget, and set widget appearance in case your blog design has light text on a dark background.