How powerful your sidebar is? Learn how to optimize your blog sidebar
This post title is powerful, isn’t it? Yeah just like what I will try to tell you soon “how to optimize your sidebar”. Your blog have at least a sidebar, right? Have you ever thought about how to optimize it or you probably ever thought about which plugin is the best for your sidebar. There are thousands of plugin out there and not all of them will work for your blog so what I will trying to tell you is how to optimize your sidebar with those plugin.
Sidebar is one of the most important parts of your blog
I wonder you realized this or not but you must know that sidebar is a very…very… powerful part. You may call it one of the most important parts of your blog. Based on what I know, all wordpress and BlogSpot themes have at least one sidebar, this because the author know how powerful sidebar is and they just provide it for blogger so blogger can do something with it. Okay enough chit chat, here I will provide a nice tips for you about how to optimize your sidebar:
- The sidebar quantity: Actually quantity is not important but I suggest you to have not more than three sidebar, if you want to have a clean blog then choose theme with one sidebar. Two sidebar is great if you have lot of stuff to show on your blog. So the conclusion is choosing themes with one or two sidebar.
- The sidebar placement: based on what I know, right column is working great for blog. Choose theme/template with content on the left and sidebar on the right of the blog. The reason is simple, people read from left to right, they will read your content and end on your sidebar.
- The sidebar widget : well , this is the most important part of this post. Choosing widget can make your blog more powerful or getting worst . The key is choosing widget that you really need based on what you really want for your blog.
first example : this time you want your blog have more page view so you can increase your alexa rank ( read the benefit of having more page view ) then all you need to do is choose widget for your purpose , such as : recent post , popular post , random post , etc.
Second example : you want to make more money from affiliate . Then you can use click bank widget or put your affiliate link on your sidebar. Just like that , simple isn’t ?
Third example : you want to find more referral for your making money program , then put your referral link , banner or text link on it .
Fourth example : you want to increase friend , follower , and subscriber . I bet you know what to do with your sidebar…lol
So what you need to do right know is open your blog and see your sidebar , is they great enough or they look “so weak” and can only get you nothing.
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“Utilize the sidebar to optimum, may lead our blog to higest success.” That what i think according blog sidebar. And i already utilize it to increase pageviews.
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jeandsen than Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
yeah… i make lot of lead from my sidebar… got 168 feedreader now.. i just having so much fun with sidebar
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I also like the sidebar on the right because in order to move the page up and down they have to do it from the right. Can you come check out my blog to look at my sidebar and tell me what you think? I have been thinking about purchasing a premium theme but am not to sure. Do you think serious bloggers should have purchased premium themes?
P.S. Great Post!
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jeandsen than Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
you have a wonderful themes. buy premium theme if you need it.. actually i suggest you to change the google ads on your sidebar .. it will make huge different to your monthly earning
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DJ Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 4:47 am
So you suggest just putting up Google ads instead of the others?
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jeandsen than Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 8:16 am
use 336×280 seems work better than the block ads you are using right now.. use it on the top of the sidebar.
I’m very much particular to my sidebar. here’s actually this certain month where I swore I keep changing feature positions every week. lol. The very basic tips is to keep it clean, not only does it make ads look better, it also helps in easy navigation for readers.
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jeandsen than Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
yeah, i have to agree when you said that we need to keep the sidebar look clean.. doesn’t have to much ads or our blog will look like a selling product site…lol
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I agree with all your points, I guess I try my best to make good quality sidebars. Nice Post.
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jeandsen than Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
look like you already have them on your blog..lol…
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Hi Jeandsen,
It has been my personal experience as well. Smart & appropriate use (for your niche) of sidebars can be really advantageous. It is really interesting to see you focusing on details of significance.
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jeandsen than Reply:
October 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
even i have a great result from my sidebar but look like i need to have a new plan on it. hope my sidebar can getting better next month
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I still feel that my sidebar has few missing elements and I should consider it fast to redesign it. Thanks for heads up.. Atleast it triggered an alarm for me
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jeandsen than Reply:
October 12th, 2009 at 6:48 am
yeah.. me too. we need to do lot of experience before find a great result on it. just try and try , this is how top blogger did it
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You have described way nicely to beautify sidebar
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Great post,very nicely explained how to optimize sidebar
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Nice post.I agree with you in all points..
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I have my site sidebar well optimized with great and good looking features. It offers e-mail subscription forms and many more things!
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jeandsen than Reply:
December 8th, 2009 at 7:00 am
nice job . a nice blogger can use their sidebar for good , and you did a great job
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