WordPress tips on how to make the best use of your WordPress text widgets. If you need wordpress support, please hire Neogain, who are wordpress experts in the UK. http://www.neogain.com

1. WordPress – How To Cleverly use your Text Widgets
WordPress widgets are often either overused or underused on a self-hosted WordPress website. Often
people don’t cleverly use the widget area and it is a wasted opportunity, worse misuse can actually
impact the SEO of a website. This article shows you a few clever uses for WordPress widgets.
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Advertisement
If your WordPress website is a personal site, you still could consider having advertisement in your site, to
help generate some additional funds. A box advert within a WordPress text Widget enables you to easily
display advertisement on your website, without needing knowledge of how to modify a theme.
Remember to check that you are allowed to use advertisement on your website. For instance if you use a
.co.uk domain prefix, make sure you have it configured to allow commercial use.
Search
Sometimes a basic ‘search’ widget will be the most important widget you can add, if your website doesn’t
have a search facility already available.
You can put blog posts into categories, tag them and use internal linking, but often people will prefer to try
keywords via a search box. Enabling a search facility could save your visitors a lot of time, plus
encourage people to visit other areas of your website.
Where widget ‘retail space’ is often so valuable, such a basic function of a website could prove to be the
most important widget to your next visitor. A search box may sound basic, but it can hugely add to the
visitor experience.
Translation
Google have a free website translation tool, which can be activated by placing some code into your
website. If you have a spare widget box why not place the code within a text widget.
Why not place directly into the theme code? You can easily forget you placed the translation feature into
your website, especially when using Google’s option to only display the toolbar to those visitors visiting
from other regions of the world using different languages, but not showing the toolbar to you. So if you do
have a spare widget box, it is hard for most administrators to forget they placed the code.
Subscribe by Email
Another Google ‘goodie’ is their email subscription feature, part of their Feedburner service. Basically you
tell Google Feedburner your RSS feed, which it can then turn into a email subscription service.

2. How is this relevant to widgets? Again you can place the HTML code into a text widget and present the
email subscription option to your visitors. Another great way to offer an additional method of connection
for your visitors.
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