Greet Your Visitors with WP Greet Box

When you get started with your blog, you only have a handful of posts for a while. So you don’t really get too much traffic from search engines. But once you hit those magic numbers (500, 1000, …) in posts, you are going to get a lot of passive traffic from all kinds of places. Some people may digg your blog posts. Others may submit your posts to Facebook, Delicious, or even Twitter. So you are going to get traffic from different sources. Now the easy way to deal with your traffic is to do nothing. Just sit and watch as people come and go. But that’s not very smart. Perhaps the smarter way to approach your traffic is by figuring out where its coming from and treat each source differently.

WP Greet Box is a cool plugin for WordPress bloggers that makes it easy to track your visitors and show them customized messages based on their referring URL. Essentially, the plugin lets you treat your Facebook, Twitter, and Stumbleupon traffic differently. You can give your Facebook visitors an incentive to tweet your posts and vice versa. This process can be implemented for other blogging platforms as well, though you’ll most likely need a 3rd party script to get the job done. With WP Greet Box, you won’t have write a single line of code, which is a big plus.

So why is this approach important? As someone who has worked on a lot of landing pages in the past, I can tell you that people often take the actions that you ask them to when they are faced with the call to action. And if you give them an incentive to distribute your content, as long as your content is of high quality, they will most likely take you upon your offer. What you don’t want to do is go overboard with WP Greet Box. Thankfully, you have got access to a series of settings that you can customize to avoid annoying your readers (e.g. Visitor Timeout).

Overall, you can’t do everything by yourself when it comes to blogging. So if you are getting ranked on search engines and your content is distributed on social media sites, why not ask your readers to help you take your blog to the next level? WP Greet Box lets you do just that.