Cleaning the widget clutter

It seems many bloggers nowadays contain little control over their widgets. Either they turn their blogs into a shelf of their widget collections or they just seem to let ‘the more the merrier’ saying get them.

Does this pose a problem?

Unless your blog is focused on widgets topics, then yes. I find blogs having many widgets a bit of a clutter place. It’s good if the blogger know the codes to position them well. But what if they don’t? This seems the more common case. Most bloggers tend to just throw in every widget they see in their blogs. Some of them seem to follow a ‘widget-craze’. Remember the times when famous sites release a new widget? And everyone gets excited to try them. Then you see some of your fellow bloggers with that widget and then you’re like ‘I’m gonna have one in my blog’. And the process repeats again and again until you have a lot of them packed in your blog.

An evaluation on widgets

Widgets are application that you add to your blog. They are a great part of every blog and usually help a lot in blog improvement. Well, I can say widgets are like material things. Some are necessities, others are just, well, not really that much needed. A good blogger should know what widgets to place and how to avoid those that shouldn’t really be there.

The widgets you need and the widgets you don’t need

There’s a golden rule to be followed in sorting out widgets from the needed to the not-so-needed. A good widget should have three uses. One for the blog, one for the blogger, and
another one for the readers. That makes three right? For a widget to be considered good, it should be both beneficial to the blog, the blogger, and the reader. A great example is the social-bookmarking widget.

I recommend that you evaluate the widgets in your blog or those that you’d like to put in your blog. You don’t really need some of them and it might just be a waste of space. Learn how to convert every area of your blog into useful spaces. And try not to make your blog look like a can of fully packed widgets. Know how to sort out the useful from the not, trust me, you don't want your blog to end up as the online widget junkyard.

P.S. I'm currently running a blog widget check.If you want your blog widgets checked by a real human (at least I think I am) then leave me a message. Ok?