A sidebar plays a vital role in your blog design, it helps to make your design attractive and moreover decreases bounce rate. Your target should be to keep a visitors on your blog for as long time as possible, this can only be possible if you have good content and sidebar has proper widgets. In my today’s article I am going to tell you how to make the most out of your sidebar. Lets start :
There are few widgets that you must have in your blog and they are :
Short Description
At the top of the sidebar you must have a short description about your blog, of just about 20 words.
Importance : When any first time visitor comes to your blog, he/she should know what your blog is about and if you’ve given proper description the visitor will definitely subscribe to your blog.
Subscription box
It is must to have a subscription box, because it helps your blog readers to read your article in their mailbox. You can register to a free service called FeedBurner that delivers your recent articles to subscribed members mailbox.
Recent articles, recent comments and popular articles
These three are the most important widgets that you must have in your sidebar, the first time visitor can easily read latest and popular articles through sidebar.
Weekly/Monthly roundups
As told in my previous post, 70 Tips to Get Traffic To Your Blog, it is must you create a weekly and monthly roundups so that all your articles gets wraps up at one place. So, it is good to have monthly and weekly roundup links in the sidebar.
These were few most important widgets that every blog should have, so that first time visitor gets enough content in a single page. I hope you like this little article, I’ll definitely want to know more about your views regarding making most out of the sidebar.
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