How Many Widgets Is Too Many?
If you have your own blog you might have come across the concept of widgets by now. These are quirky little things that give your readers information about something, or make your site a little more user friendly. They can also be used to your own advantage as well – you can use bookmarking widgets for example, to make it easy for people to bookmark your blog to revisit again later.
But some people tend to fall in love with them, sometimes even to the extent that their pages are smothered with them. In serious cases the site seems to exist only as a platform to show off the latest and the greatest widgets, with little or no thought given to why the whole site was started in the first place.
Is this you?
Have you fallen in love with them a little too much? There’s no doubt that they’re extremely useful, but sometimes even the most wonderful tool can be a burden when it’s used all the time. Let’s say it loses its effectiveness, and its very presence distracts from what the blog is trying to say.
There is no magic number that you need to try and adhere to, but if they are not adding any real quality to your site then you need to ask yourself why they are there. Is it because you saw them and fell in love with them, and simply had to show them off? Do they enhance your site at all?
If they do then great – you’re doing a grand job and you should carry on serving your readers exactly as you are now. But if updating your widgets is beginning to take on more importance than updating the rest of your site, you may have an addiction that you need to curb.
So be warned – widgets can be harmful.
Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
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