A week ago, I added LinkWithin to this blog, unfortunately, I had to remove it and add two alternatives, nRelate and Outbrain, because results from LinkWithin really not related at all.

Here is a quick diff to my template:


diff -r 072440136db8 -r 88c902533087 3803541356848955053-blog.xml
--- a/3803541356848955053-blog.xml      Thu Oct 31 12:35:41 2013 +0800
+++ b/3803541356848955053-blog.xml      Sun Nov 10 11:58:22 2013 +0800
@@ -641,10 +641,14 @@
  <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;index&quot;'>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;archive&quot;'>
      <section id='post-related'>
-       <h2 id='linkwithin-related-posts'>Possibly (not) related posts</h2>
-       <div class="linkwithin_div"/>
-       <script>var linkwithin_site_id = 1987239;</script>
-       <input id='linkwithin-loader-button' onclick='$.ajaxSetup({cache:true});$.getScript(&quot;http://www.linkwithin.com/widget.js&quot;);$.ajaxSetup({cache:false});$(this).remove();' style='width:100%;margin:10px auto;' type='button' value='Click to load related posts via LinkWithin'/>
+       <h2 id='related-posts'>Possibly (not) related posts</h2>
+       <div id="nrelate_related_placeholder"/>
+       <div id='nrelate_related_backup_placeholder'/>
+       <script>window.nr_is_home=false;window.nr_posts_only=true;window.nr_pageurl="<data:blog.url/>";</script>
+       <input id='outbrain-loader-button' onclick='$.ajaxSetup({cache:true});$.getScript(&quot;http://static.nrelate.com/rcw_b/0.52.0/loader.min.js&quot;);$.ajaxSetup({cache:false});$(this).remove();' style='width:100%;margin:10px auto;' type='button' value='Click to load related posts via nRelate'/>
+       <hr style='clear:both'/>
+       <div expr:data-src='data:post.url' class="OUTBRAIN" ></div>
+       <input id='outbrain-loader-button' onclick='window.OB_platformType=8;window.OB_langJS=&quot;http://widgets.outbrain.com/lang_en.js&quot;;window.OBITm=&quot;1384007396854&quot;;window.OB_recMode=&quot;brn_strip&quot;;$.ajaxSetup({cache:true});$.getScript(&quot;http://widgets.outbrain.com/outbrainLT.js&quot;);$.ajaxSetup({cache:false});$(this).remove();' style='width:100%;margin:10px auto;' type='button' value='Click to load related posts via Outbrain'/>
      </section>
      <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
        <section id='post-comments'>

I am most satisfied by nRelate’s results, although I don’t think it’s 100% related, but I would say 3 out of 4 posts are. It’s really quite good. Outbrain is about 50% from what I see.

The loading speed of nRelate is a bit slow in my opinion, a couple of seconds until everything is loaded and rendered, but it’s okay with me. The customization of nRelate is the best, many options and several themes to choose. I don’t really care about the reporting, not gonna read them.

If I can only put one one, I will keep nRelate. But since this is my blog and things only actually is loaded after clicking the buttons, no harm to put both of them on.