Blogging Tip #11- Working With WordPress Blog Widgets
It’s time to clean up your default WordPress installation/blog by deleting some plugins and blogroll links.
1. Delete or deactivate the Hello dolly plugin- Go to plugins and DE-activate Hello Dolly Plugin,or FTP into site and delete the plugin that way
2. Delete the default Blogroll links- Go to Manage tab of WordPress Admin Panel, select Links, and delete all the default links already populating your WordPress install.
Working With Widgets
You used a text widget to create RSS feeds and Aweber optin forms, but there’s more you can do here…
Add your EzineArticles widget to sidebar-
If you’re writing articles and publishing them to article directories like Ezine Articles.com then you can always grab your Article author feed and place it on the sidebar of your site.
Go to Design Tab, widgets sub-selection, and add a text widget there, then paste in the feed code that EZA gives you to display your feed (or someone else’s…)
This helps when you have a visitor that doesn’t see something in your most recent posts that’s of interest to them, but if they see your “EZA feed”, they might go read one of your published articles dispayed in EZA feed snippets on sidebar…
Of course, you will link back to your site from those articles, so that helps keep your visitor “dialed in” to what you’re saying without losing them for good by sending them off your site to read something.
Add a Tag Cloud to your sidebar-
Supposedly this is good SEO because it displays “tags” that show the keywords that your site has content on. Go to Manage in WordPress Admin panel, TAGs tab, to add new tags. Then go to Design Tab, widgets sub-selection, and find the TAG Cloud widget and add it to a sidebar
Should you add a Calendar to your sidebar?
I never understood why people choose to display a calendar on their sites.
· What’s the purpose of this, to tell me what time and day it is when I have a computer that tells me this anyways?
· Is it to show the search engines that some thing has been updated on your site (ne wmonth now, yay!)
From what I’ve read about calendars’ effect on SEO and spider crawls, having a calendar on your site sends the search engines spiders into an endless loop of crawling activity that eventually causes them to stop digging thorugh your site. If the spiders get confused your site suffers…
I say get rid of the calendar and choose to optimize your web space with more effective displays…
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