Sidebar Clutter Makes a Gutter側雜波使排水溝

How many widgets and chiclets are in your blog sidebar? 有多少工具和chiclets是在您的博客欄？ Is all that sidebar crap giving your blog value, or making you look foolish? 這是所有欄廢話給您的博客的價值，或者讓你看傻？

When you’re out dropping entrecards or surfing and reading blogs do you notice all the crap in the sidebars?當你放棄了entrecards或上網和閱讀博客，你通知所有的垃圾在sidebars ？ I know that to some extent you do - because that’s how the sidebar widgets virally spread.我知道，在一定程度上你-因為這是怎樣欄小工具維拉利蔓延。 You see blogrush on Shoemoney.com or JohnChow.com and you just have to have it.你看blogrush上Shoemoney.com或JohnChow.com和你只是把它。 Then in a week or two, like a brushfire - everyone’s got it.然後在一兩個星期，像一個brushfire -每個人的得到它。 A month later we’re asking ourselves “why do we have this, what good does it do?” Even though some bloggers remove it in a month when they are unhappy with it - most leave it on their blog sidebar and over time the widgets pile up like trash you haven’t taken out.一個月後，我們要求自己“為什麼我們有什麼好它做什麼？ ”儘管一些博客刪除它在一個月時，有過不愉快的它-最讓他們的博客欄，並隨著時間的推移，小工具像一堆垃圾你還沒有取出。 I did a little cleaning of my own lately, and it appears我沒有一點清洗我自己的最近，看來 I’m not the only one who is tired of sidebar clutter我不是唯一一個誰是厭倦欄雜波 . 。

You may have noticed (if you’re returning) that the other day I updated this blog and the Wordpress theme a bit.您可能已經注意到了（如果你返回） ，其他一天，我更新此博客和WordPress的主題一點。 I decided to clean up some of my own sidebar clutter during that process, and ended up removing myBlogLog, BlogCatalog, and all my 125×125 ads.我決定清理一些我自己的欄雜波在這個過程中，並最終消除myBlogLog ， BlogCatalog ，和我所有的125 × 125的廣告。 One of the first comments I received was “ how clean my blog was …” What does that tell you?的第一個評論是我收到“如何清理我的博客是 ... ”這是什麼告訴你？ It must have been “ cluttered “.它必須是“ 混亂 ” 。

Maybe it’s time that you thought about your own sidebar clutter ?也許是時間，你想過自己欄的混亂情況？ Before you start ripping out all those widgets to go back to your barebones theme, I’m going to give you some things to think about.在您開始剝開所有這些工具返回到您的準系統的主題，我要去給你一些東西思考。

Do a “Sidebar Assessment” 做一個“欄評估”

• How fast does your blog load? Does your blog load in 3-4 seconds? 如何快速並載入您的博客嗎？您的博客負荷3-4秒？ Have you ever noticed it “hanging” while loading during certain times of day (peak hour)?你有沒有注意到它“掛” ，同時加載在某些時段（高峰時段） ？ Every widget you place on your blog make an “external call” to another web site to get information.每個窗口小部件您對您的博客進行“外部呼叫”到另一個網站上獲得的信息。 These external calls add up if you have a half dozen widgets.這些外部呼籲增加如果你有6個小玩意。 If any one of them is slow - it will in turn slow down the load time of your blog.如果其中任何一個是緩慢的-這反過來將放慢負荷時，您的博客。 It may even be intermittent.它甚至有可能時斷時續。 I noticed that during peak hours during this last week, myBlogLog was particularly bogging down my site during peak hours.我注意到，在繁忙時間在此，上週myBlogLog尤其市場影響我的網站在繁忙時間。 I also tried to use adToll (which I quite like) for 4 125×125 ad blocks - but it slowed down my blog so much I had to remove it.我還試圖利用adToll （這我很喜歡）為4 125 × 125塊廣告-但它減慢我的博客這麼多我不得不將其刪除。 If you have widgets that slow down your blog - they’ve got to go!如果您有構件，以便放慢您的博客-他們得去！
• Is it annoying? Some widgets are so damn annoying, things that move and blink routinely piss me off. 這是煩人的？一些小工具是如此該死的煩人，東西，移動和閃爍經常小便我趕走。 Also things that distract me and keep me from getting the information I want.還東西，我的注意力和讓我獲得了我想要的信息。 If I feel tricked, I’m outta there.如果我覺得被騙，我有outta 。 The one (that’s not really sidebar) that most annoys me lately are these new “peel ads” from adTool in the top right corner of a blog. 1 （這不是真的補注）是我最苦惱最近這些新的“剝離廣告”從adTool在右上角的一個博客。 You’ll know one when you see it because it flashes raunchy green stripes back and forth with such velocity that if you epileptic you’d probably have a seizure!你知道一個當你看到它，因為它閃爍淫穢綠色條紋來回這種速度，如果您想要癲癇有可能發作！ You could lose any value a widget could provide if the format or display so annoys people that they leave your blog!你可以失去任何價值部件，如果可以提供的格式或展示，使苦惱的人們，他們離開您的博客！ Another big offender are widgets that automatically start playing audio or video!另一個大的罪犯的工具，它可以自動開始播放音頻或視頻！ If I want to watch or listen to something I will click on it - turning your blog into an infomercial turns me off!如果我不想看或聽的東西我會點擊它-把您的博客成為一個商業信息變成我了！
• Is it related to your niche? Am I the only one who’s tired of this? 它與您的利基？我是唯一一個誰是累了嗎？ Look, if I’m on your site about blogging - I don’t want to buy an iPod!瞧，如果我在您的網站上有關Blog -我不想購買i Pod！ I don’t want a total gym, I don’t want ringtones, and I don’t want to learn how to make money trading F0rex!我不想總健身房，我不想讓鈴聲，我不想學習如何賺錢的貿易F0rex ！ This reminds of a few years back when a few undercard boxers started to accept money to have golden palace dot com stenciled on their back for a televised match.這提醒了幾年回來時，幾個undercard拳擊開始接受金錢有金色宮殿點的COM stenciled他們回來的電視比賽。 What the hell does online gambling have to do with boxing?什麼地獄不在線賭博都與拳擊？ Sure golden palace got exposure, but how cheap and sleazy did that boxer look?確保黃金宮殿了接觸，但如何廉價和低俗這樣做拳擊手看看嗎？ One of the biggest offenders in this area that I can recall is John Chow with his little widget on posts hawking electronic gadgets.其中最大的罪犯在這方面，我記得是約翰週與他的小部件員額擺賣電子產品。 Sorry John Chow, if I’m on your site about making money online I DON’T want to buy an LCD monitor or a digital camera.很抱歉約翰週，如果我在您的網站上賺錢在線我不想購買液晶顯示器或一台數碼相機。 Maybe John actually gets enough traffic to pull this off - but 99% of blogs don’t.也許約翰實際上得到足夠的流量，這一關閉撤出-但9 9％的博客沒有。 It’s not relevant, it looks stupid, and you’re probably not making any money from it anyway.這是不相關，它看起來愚蠢的，你可能不會作出任何金錢反正它。
• What Value Does it Provide? If you’re going to have a widget in your sidebar make sure that it actually adds value to your site and that it doesn’t “de-value” it. 什麼價值沒有提供？如果你有一個部件在您的提要欄確保它實際上增值到您的網站，它沒有“去價值”它。 Does it do more than just look cool?它不僅僅外觀很酷吧？ Does it monetize?它是否賺錢？ Does it allow you to communicate with site visitors or network with other bloggers?它是否讓您溝通網站訪客或與其他網絡博客？ There’s nothing worse than a non-used widget.沒有什麼比不使用窗口小部件。 What about these “chat with me” or “live help” widgets that always say “not available” or “offline”?怎麼這些“與我交談”或“生活幫助”工具總是說“無法使用”或“脫機” ？ If you’re not there or the widget can’t be used most of the time - get rid of it!如果你不存在或部件不能使用的大部分時間-擺脫它！
• Does it have a Track Record of Results? Well, you placed these god-awful widgets on your site, have you gone back a month later to see if they lived up to expectations? 是否有記錄的結果？嗯，你把這些神可怕的工具在您的網站上，你回去一個月後，看看他們是否達到人們的期望？ Does blogrush really provide visitors for your site?是否真的blogrush遊客提供您的網站嗎？ Are you actually networking with bloggers in myBlogLog and BlogCatalog - or just getting spammed with notifications?你是真正的網絡與博客在myBlogLog和BlogCatalog -或剛剛起步與垃圾郵件通知？ Has that amazon widget ever made you any money?有亞馬遜部件都讓你任何錢嗎？ Are people using your shoutbox?有些人使用您的發言欄？ Are they voting on your polls?他們是在您的投票選舉？ Are people actually clicking on those 125×125 ads?實際上人們對這些點擊125 × 125的廣告？ Be sure to re-evaluate all your widgets on a regular basis, and if you and your visitors aren’t getting any real clear and measurable value - get rid of them!一定要重新評估所有的工具，定期，如果你和你的客人是沒有得到任何實際的明確和可衡量的價值-擺脫他們！
• Would You Use it? This is what they call “eating your own dog food”! 你會使用嗎？這就是他們所謂的“吃自己的狗食！ ” When you are on other blogs what annoys you?當你在其他博客什麼苦惱嗎？ What widgets do you like?什麼工具你喜歡？ A good rule of thumb is to not add any widgets that you yourself don’t use when you’re out there reading blogs.一個好的經驗法則是不添加任何工具，你自己不使用時，你有閱讀博客。 If it’s not good enough for you - it’s not good enough for your blog visitors.如果沒有足夠好為你-這還不夠好為您的博客訪問者。
• Is it professional? Certain widgets, chiclets, and forms of monetization work well on one blog and not another. 是專業？某些構件， chiclets ，以及各種形式的貨幣化工作的一個博客，而不是其他。 It depends on the factors of professionalism and audience.這取決於各種因素的專業知識和觀眾。 For instance, on my “jokes” web site using in-line contextual text link ads is completely acceptable - and it does make money.舉例來說，我的“笑話”網站使用的在線內容文字鏈接廣告是完全可以接受的-這並不賺錢。 On this blog most bloggers would hate it, and I would get almost no clicks.在這個博客博客將最恨它，我將獲得幾乎沒有任何點擊。 On my tech blog a widget with tech deals is fine, on this blog probably not.在我的博客高科技小裝置與高科技配套的罰款，對這個博客可能不是。 You set the level of professionalism on your blog, and if your sidebar looks like a Christmas tree you may not be taken as seriously.設置的專業水平在你的博客，如果您的欄看起來像聖誕樹您可能不被視為嚴重。 If your blog is about celebrity dirt and not making money online different guidelines apply.如果您的博客是名人污物和不賺錢在線不同的準則適用。

All I’m asking you to do is take an assessment of your own blog sidebar(s) and not only the value of your widget(s) to you and your visitors - but whether or not it’s distracting and making your site look like the city dump!所有我要求你做的是採取的評估自己的博客欄（ s ）和不僅的價值部件（星期日）為您和您的訪客-但它是否的注意力，使您的網站看看如城市垃圾！ Please, comment now and let me know what you think!請評論現在，讓我知道您的想法！

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