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By: Ben Huberman,
on 3/18/2014
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From your sidebar to your comments section, these tips will help you clean up your blog in just a few minutes.
Great tips! Thank you!
Great, useful post. Thank you.
Excellent things to do! I plan to also change the color scheme of my site and lighten the heading font. used a “Chunky” font for the winter, and plan to use a “lighter” font choice for the spring and summer
Your Spring-tips were very welcome – I have already applied some of them! Thanks!
One thing I would encourage is that everyone ADD a Recent Posts widget. I’ve visited blogs where you had to click ‘Previous post’…and click ‘Previous post’…and click ‘Previous post…’ if you wanted to know anything about what the blogger wrote before today. I like to see at a glance the titles of their last five posts so I know if their other content will interest me or not.
Another thought: If bloggers go back and edit the Tags on some recent posts, why not also spice up some titles if needed and be sure they accurately reflect the post’s central point?
I advised one man yesterday to change his Archives to a drop-down menu because he had a long line–30 months I think–in his sidebar. I did the same for my Categories.
The blog is excellent, but I did not get the third point.
It’s so easy to accumulate clutter and you are my hero for publishing this excellent advice. May I also suggest that broken links checks and editing to update popular posts with new information ought to be on our spring blog cleaning list?
Thanks for reminding me about all the unfinished drafts that are stuffing up the closets in my blog. Time to rummage through them and either use them or throw them out! (Wonder if there’s a “Second Hand Store” for drafts?)
Right on time!! I’m in the process of revamping or as you say Spring Cleaning!!! Thanks for sharing.
There is one more idea that hasn’t been explicitly mentioned in this (very helpful!) article — disabling pingbacks and trackbacks. I don’t how you guys feel about it (and I’d love to hear your opinion!), but I recently disabled these because I was unhappy with the dozens of automated pingbacks to my Daily Post responses. Now I think it’s much better.
Broken link checks are a great idea — it’s a small detail, but it can be so frustrating for a reader to click through only to find… nothing.
Thanks for the additional tips — very helpful! I particularly like the idea of going over titles to make sure they do a good job channeling the essence of your posts.
It’s aimed for those among us who start many drafts that we then let languish in our dashboards, unpublished. It’s a good idea occasionally to go over them to create material to publish.
I think that’s a solid choice if you want to exercise stricter control over your comments section, especially if you’re part of a very active community, like the one at The Daily Post.
Wow, thanks for the tagging tips, I was much in need of a spring cleaning!