Hey everyone how are you guys been up to lately? Getting good
at blogging already? Well at least I hope you find this blog’s posts useful and
getting better than before!
Ok, the previous post we were talking about How many words
in a blog post? Be sure to check it out, I’ve stressed about the importance of
content and the structure content and focus influence the audience, instead of
just the word count.
Well in this post we will be discussing about How many
plugins and widgets should you put in your blog? There are some discussions about
this topic before, whether it might slower down your site, how desperate do you
need this particulars plugins or widgets, was it worth the shot and any other
concerns. So I hope I will be able to state some of the questions and answers
that I know of course added with my own suggestions.
Alright first of all there are pros and cons of adding
plugins and widgets to your blog let list out some of the commons:
Below are the pros of using widgets and plugins:
User engagement
Social subscription widgets will provide user interaction
with the blog to even more engaging level! With that said if you have a
facebook or twitter account, then you should add these widgets on the right or
left side of your blog, those who attracted by your content will want to look
and follow you around.
Sharing is caring
Adding a “share” or “tweet” button in every post encourage
you readers to share the post they think making sense to their facebook news
feed for example; they will share because they agree and they think their
friends should know how he or her thinks about certain topics and hopefully
agrees with them.
Ad banner space
If your blog is intended to make money through selling
online banner ads space, then you should include the widget which allows you to
create space for online ads, if you are kind enough, look for widgets which you
can show ads to readers based on their interest, I believe there is a widgets
for that!
Security wise
There are plugins which are best in giving security for your
blog from minor problem such as having spams under the comment section to major
problem such as being hack by hackers. In these modern era, we might heard
popular blogger’s complaint about blog being hacked or content misused, thus it
is wise to setup a plugin for security purpose.
SEO
There are some useful SEO plugin for you to optimize in
search engine, it helps in setting up a template for titles and meta
descriptions and other features available.
Here are the cons if you did not use these widgets and
plugins properly:
Loading time
Why yes, widgets need to load from somewhere in your blog,
if you abuse the number of widgets your blog takes longer loading time, same
goes to plugins. Pin down what you really need not want, so your blog can save
some loading time, folks!
Noise and distractions
Back in the Friendster social website, there is a trend
where most of the people likes to add auto play of their favorite music and
songs when the page loads, yea I agree it is a small sharing session of music
taste ONLY IF your reader share the
same taste because it would distract your readers from reading the content in
which they came to your blog at the first place, and every time they load a new
page they need to stop the music first, your potential readers will came for
the content and left because of the distractions. Same goes to too much online
banner ads.
Unnecessary pop outs newsletter
I personally think that the act of setting a newsletter or
subscribe pop outs itself is acceptable, but having it to pops out for a new
comer sends a message as “subscribe this whether you like it or not” because we
human needs time to understand the stuffs we like, only then it decide whether
to follow or buy, no one likes being force to buy or see something before
knowing the product first. For this solutions, if possible only trigger the pop
outs when readers view more than 2 or 3 posts would make it more comfortable.
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