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Keeping it clean and simple is the what every blogger should keep in mind. This tutorial will help you to do that. A list of related posts and bookmark after every post might help boost your traffic. Here is a guide to help you create it for your WordPress blog.

1. Download wp_related_posts plugin
2. Upload it to your “/wp-content/plugins/” folder
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Navigate to Manage > Option > WordPress Related Posts to configure plugin output as in the screenshot shown below

5. Now open Design > Theme Editor > Single Post.php
6. Find “<?php the_content(’Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>” or somthing similar
7. Paste the following code for Related post

<div style=”float:left”>
<?php wp_related_posts(); ?>
</div>

8. Now paste the following code for Bookmark

<div style=”float:right;margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 70px;”>
<div>
<h3>Bookmark</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>”>Del.icio.us</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>”>Digg</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>”>StumbleUpon</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

And we are done with our new Clean and Simple Related Posts and Bookmarks. Hope this might increase your blog traffic.

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