Comments on: 3 Widgets You Should Never, Ever Keep on Your Blog

By: Latief@AnotherBlogger

Latief@AnotherBlogger — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:37:37 +0000

Simple and I think you are a mind reader Yes, sometime I feel there a widget that I should remove form my blog but I don’t know the reason.
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By: John Samuel

John Samuel — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:16:29 +0000

I am not using any of these for my blog. But sometimes I am tempted to add the archive section .-= John Samuel ´s last blog ..Difference between Wordpress Tags and Categories =-.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:07:13 +0000

The reason the archives widget is so useless (other than the drop-down format) may be due to the fact that only a small portion of users will ever click on it. It also takes up a lot of space. Let’s say your blog goes back five years. That’s sixty links within your sidebar, which could be contained within a single, organized page. An archives page allows these users to browse by tags, date, and categories if they like.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:04:27 +0000

I’m a bigger advocate of a single “archives” page that gives your readers a look back at your posts and all your categories. It cleans up your sidebar, and there’s a clear link to this post in your header.

I think the main reason bloggers close comments is because as a post gets older, spam increases dramatically, and many spam detection plugins can’t detect it all.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:01:41 +0000

That’s the main point of the archives widget – most people will only go back a month or two, and there are only a few that will want to see the first few posts to determine how old your blog is.

By: Nice from Thailand

Nice from Thailand — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:29:23 +0000

Agreed. I don’t put these 3 widgets in my blog but still put some unnecessary widgets lol

Archive widget, if it’s the long list of months it’s quite useless.
I prefer to all old posts in one(or more) page instead of the sidebar on every page to clutter the design.

By: sandy

sandy — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:00:29 +0000

I don’t have a sign in thing, hate them and refuse to join a site in order to communicate, so pass those by quickly.

The spam comment widget is just stupid, don’t have it and don’t want it. I’m not impressed when I see it on others blogs.

Archives, I’m not sure about. I often leave comments on older blog posts and do actually look at the archive titles; hate it when comments are closed. What’s the point in doing that? If you posted something stupid that you don’t want more comments on …just delete the post. I often see it with people who’ve been called on making the wrong assumptions or saying something untrue politically. If you put it out there, be big enough to allow rebuttal and conversation or don’t blog. However, archives are less needed now with similar posts widgets, my last x number of posts and so forth. Haven’t decided whether or not to remove mine.

Sandy
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By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:12:51 +0000

I am reading a lot of posts about “10 best widgets” and it’s a very nice idea to write a post about useless widgets. There are a lot of useless widgets such as traffic and user stats.
I am not so sure about the archive widget. I tell you why I think it is important.
For blogger it is the only form to build SEO links, because your other options for (“deep”) links are to put links 1. manually (lot of work), 2. by javascript (which doesn’t count for SEO), 3. to categories (which is no-follow by robots.txt).
It is important to provide navigational features. Standard navigation widgets are recent articles and popular articles. I have both of them. But what if people want to explore even more? They may want to do so by categories and I know some visitors do, however if they want to explore by time, let them!
Often the standard (i.e. non-custom) blog search and web search don’t show your articles so the article archive is the only way for people to find an article they know exists.
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