Psychic Search
How to Use It
Nowadays people like to read specific topics when they visit your blog. Gone are the days when they aimlessly clicked on anything just to spend some time. People have also become smarter. With more and more time constraints your readers have become a lot more choosy which means if they don’t find the information they are looking for on your blog, they will be gone forever.
Imagine you could read their minds?
Wouldn’t it be great to have a WordPress Plugin that secretly reveals what is being searched for on your blog. This would give you an unfair advantage over your competition by being able to cover the exact topics people are searching for on your blog.
The great news is that now you can!
With the MaxBlogPress Psychic Search WordPress Plugin you can take back control on your blog and serve your readers with what they want.
“The Search box on your blog is a valuable source of information to you as a blogger. If you keep track of what your readers are searching for and what results they get, you’ll know what your visitors want to read.”
The Psychic Search Plugin records all searches
You’d be surprised how many readers use your blog’s search box. When they do, the Psychic Search Plugin records all the searches made by your readers. This will enable you to see at a glance which terms have been searched and how many times this week.
Further to being able to tell exactly what your readers want when they visit your blog, the Psychic Search Plugin also records whether these search terms have yielded any results at all.
Know exactly what to write/blog about next
The great thing about the Psychic Search WordPress Plugin is that you can quickly make the distinction on what to write about next. How - by singling out the terms that have been searched for on your blog without results.
This will give you the ability to:
- Eliminate writers block once and for all by blogging about the things your readers are searching for.
- Be ahead of the competition by blogging about the latest gossip on a news related blog the minute you wake up (imagine you have a blog that talks about celebrity gossip and while you sleep, [insert your fav celebrity her] gets up to some mischief. Naturally your readers come to your blog and search for this topic as soon as news break. Since you were asleep, you weren’t aware of what happened but thanks to the Psychic Search Plugin you’ll soon find out and bingo - you can now blog about this before most others in the industry).
- Compile strong series of blog posts as readers search for more info about topics you already covered before.
- Be one step in front of your competition because they don’t know what their readers want from them. So they keep blogging about this and that only to wonder why their readers click out so fast.
- Sell more - since you will be able to determine what exactly your readers want from you, the chances are that they are already pre-sold on what they want, therefore they will be more inclined to click that “buy now” button.
Psychic Search Plugin Quick Start User Guide
After you install and activate the Psychic Search Plugin, it will work by itself without further customizations.
To see your Psychic Search stats goto:
Dashboard >> Psychic Search
Once you click on the Psychic Search tab, a new window will open see screen shot below:
The section to concentrate on is the “Searches without any results” within this window as this will be the secret key to tell you what your readers want from you!
The following screen shot gives me some important information
As you can see, I’ve had 3 searches all related to starting a new free blog!
This is very powerful information, since now I can actually construct a blog post about exactly this topic giving my readers what they were searching for. Since the same topic was searched for 3 times over the last 24 hours, this indicates that there is a strong demand.
I can now use this to my own advantage as well as giving my readers what they want.
The second half of the Psychic Search Plugin stats page looks like this:
This screen shot provides an overview on all the searches that have been made on my blog over specific amounts of time ( last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days)
It will soon enough give me an understanding on what else I can do to serve my readers better and whether I do enough to keep them coming back.
The Psychic Search WordPress Plugin is easy to use and a powerful weapon for WordPress bloggers who want to get more repeat traffic. It also comes with full support through your WordPress admin section so if you have questions, feedback or are still not sure how to use it, you can use the links provided.
To start writing for your visitors and never wonder what to blog about again click on the link to get your Psychic Search WordPress Plugin NOW!
Detailed Usage Instructions:
To use the advanced feature of the MaxBlogPress Psychic Search Plugin you will need to navigate from your Dashboard to:
Options >> Psychic Search
OR
At the very bottom of the page with your Psychic Search stats you’ll see a link that reads:
Click here to change the settings
By choosing “Click here to change the settings” option in the Psychic Search page, you now have several options to customize the Plugin any time.
Related Posts for Vistiors From Search Engines Options
Related posts for Vistiors From Search Engines Options is for display of related posts that a visitor uses while typing any keywords via search engines.
Thus, you ‘ll have the added advantages of:
Here, 6 is the maximum number of related posts you want to show to your visitors.
You can choose to show it at top or bottom automatically. If you would like to manually place it using theme function then you can simply choose “Don’t show related posts Automatically”.
Formatting the posts listing:
You can choose to format the posts by choosing bold or italic through this option:
You can now just save the settings and change it the way you want it.
With this upgraded version of Psychic search, you can format the posts listing if you don’t like the default formating of the related posts.
Psychic Search Options
Reset Statistics: Will delete all stats
Show the stats to: this will be helpful if you have a multiple user blog. It gives you control to decide on who is able to see the Psychic Search Plugin stats. For example you can choose:
- Administrator: gives stats access only to Administrator
- Editor: gives stats access to Editor and Administrator
- Author: gives stats access to Author, Editor and Administrator
- Contributor: gives stats access to Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator
- Subscriber: gives stats access to Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator
Count searches from admin: If ticked this will also count the searches you make whilst logged into your admin compiling blog posts and looking for inspiration. These search counts will also display in your psychic stats.
If you don’t want them to be recorded you can un-tick this option.
Count searches from logged in user: If you allow other users to register on your blog, either as a Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor or Administrator you can elect to either record their searches while they are logged in or not. Ticking or un-ticking this option will allow you to control this.
Instructions for Widgets
Go to:
Presentation >> Widgets
Popular Searches Widget
You can drag and drop the popular searches widget into your sidebar. This will show the most searched terms which yielded search results in the sidebar.
However, it won’t show unsuccessful searches as this won’t do any good for your blog.
Number of searches to show: These are the number of entries that will be in the sidebar
Show Popular search from last: You can specify the number of days from where the most searched terms will be counted. If you select 2, then the most searched terms with the last 2 days will be shown.
Here is how popular searches look in sidebar:
Recent Searches Widget:
This is the same as the Popular Searches Widget except that instead of showing the most searched terms it will show the recent searches.
Here is how recent searches look in sidebar:
Functions for Recent/Popular Searches
If you don’t have widgets enabled on your theme or need more customizations, then you can use these functions:
Recent Searches Function
pmp_recent_searches($number, $before, $after);
Shows recent searched terms. (will show only the successful searches)
$number = Number of terms to show.
$before = The text that will appear before the search term
$after = The text that will appear after the search term
Example:
pmp_recent_searches(5, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’);
Popular Searches Function
pmp_popular_searches($number, $days, $before, $after);
Shows popular searches within $days.
$number= Number of terms to show.
$days= Number of days back from which popular searches will be calculated.
$before= The text that will appear before the search term
$after=Text text that will appear after the search term
pmp_popular_searches(5, 30, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’);
Special thanks to Dr. Jason Dorairaj of “The Great Time Management Secret” for creating the video for this plugin.
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