Reduce Blog Clutter to Increase Traffic and Monetization
Your blog setup can make or break your blogging efforts.
And the major problem is that many new bloggers have a “more is better” mentality.
Their blogs up as a dumping ground for too many unnessary plugins, icons, and “Top Blog site” tags.
You are a “Top Blog” because your readers come back constantly to check the content.
You are a “Top Dog” when other bloggers point at your blog posts as a resource for their readers to check out.
So if you’re guilty of abusing the social WordPress plugin (which allows readers to bookmark your post at popular social bookmarking sites) in the following manner:
or even:
So if you choose it, don’t go hog wild and display 20 services. Plug 3 services, or a maximum of 5 if you have to.
StumbleUpon is good, so’s Digg and Reddit.
There’re even worse things you can do however, and that’s to (more…)