Psychic Search WordPress Plugin
I’m a HUGE fan of WordPress plugins. I could spend hours at the WordPress Plugin Database just browsing around seeing what neat little treasures I can find, but of course I have work to do, so I try to keep myself under control. 
Every so often I hear about a new plugin or come across a whole list of plugins that some other WordPress blogger says they use, etc.
I usually check them out right away to see if perhaps there is something that could improve my current blogs or if there is a plugin that might work better than an existing one that I’m using.
Yesterday, I received an email from MaxBlogPress notifying me of a new plugin that has just been released, which is called Psychic Search.
Basically, Psychic Search is a plugin that allows you to see what keywords your web visitors are searching for on your blog within the last 24 hours (It also keeps records for the last 7 and 3o days as well).
At first glance from reading their post ( Psychic Search ) I was thinking that I could just use my web stats for this purpose, as that’s what I usually do. So I was just going to pass on the plugin. Just as I was about to click away from their site, I thought I would give it a try anyway.
I installed it on my blog at Mommies Magazine yesterday to give it a test run. This morning I logged into my admin area expecting not to find any results but that wasn’t the case at all.
I was happy to find several search terms that had been used recently on my blog (some were quite strange) and have decided to keep this plugin activated. Here are the reasons why I’ve already decided that I like it
1. I can set the options so that searches performed by myself (admin) or any logged in users are not counted.
2. It’s so much quicker to view the stats from the WordPress dashboard than having to take an additional step to login to my hosting account to view the stats from there.
3. I can decide which type of user can see the stats. For example, if I have my virtual assistant setup as an Editor I can give her access to the stats as well. She then can take those keyword results and have articles written on those topics – since obviously that is what my web visitors are interested in reading about.
So, I’m giving Psychic Search two-thumbs up. If you want to give it a spin on your WordPress blog also you can download it from here.
If you try it out please stop back by and let me know what you thought of it.
