5 things that your blog doesn’t need
The More Minimal blog has a very interesting post listing “5 things that your blog doesn’t need”:
- Badges
- Social bookmarking buttons
- Google AdSense insertions (when your blog has low traffic)
- The Really Big Blogroll
- Unrequested media (i.e. Background music)
I agree with most of the items. Badges, buttons and other intrusive objects just clutter the blog without adding to the reader experience.
Daniel Scocco on November 28, 2006
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Nice Point, I personally hate to visit those Malaysian blogs with sidebar filled with ads and other unwanted things
Could you please explain why social bookmarking buttons are not needed for our blog?? I thut that was one was to get more traffic..
If people want to bookmark your stories or vote for them on Digg, they will do it no matter what.
Buttons only serve as a reminder, but they are not essential.
One of the most frustrating things about some people’s blogs is their apparent refusal to archive their material. Blogs with a “front page” consisting of a year’s postings take an age to load. Each successive time I visit them I get more and more frustrated. Keep your posts on one page to a maximum of five!
The links aren’t working, at least for me. I just get a page with sponsored links and the message “This domain is available”.
I agree on the background music…That kills a site.
I close it as quickly as I opened it.
And most of the tunes are those horrible midi things,
yaikes!