Lately there have been some questions asked previous topics and I thought I’d go back and answer them. Some have been answered in comments but not everyone subscribes to all the posts so I wanted to put them in a post so people could find the answers if they needed them.

Q Re Squidoo: is there a way to get a new module, not at the end of your lens, but between certain lenses. I think some of my lenses would look better if I had certain modules between the text lenses, but I cannot find out if this is even possible.

A Yes! It is absolutely possible. All you have to do is go to the sidebar of your lens where all the modules are listed. You can then click on the one you want to move around. Hold it down when you click and then move it into the order where you want it. When it’s where you want it just unclick. This is called “dragging and dropping”. So you just drag and drop it where you want it. Make sure to click “apply” so it will stay where you put it.

QMy footer code doesn’t say “body” anywhere for me to insert what I need to. And I can’t figure out how to make a text widget go to the location in the sidebar where I want it to go.

ATo add a widget you go to your dashboard and click appearance. You’ll see the widget option. Click that. When you get to your widgets you’ll see a bunch of different widgets to choose from. Choose the “text” widget. You’ll drag and drop it (as discussed above) to the sidebar you wish to put it in. Then open it up and paste your statcounter code there. Then save. There has been a weird glitch with WP lately where if you go view the blog and then click the back button to get back to the dashboard it deletes what you just did. So open another window to check any changes you’ve made. Just remember you won’t see anything on your blog that confirms you’ve installed the statcounter code ~ you’ll just have to wait until someone clicks to see the number move. You can also go to the Fanpage and ask someone to go to your site so you can see if your counter is working.

QClickthrough rates. Can you tell me, or suggest where I’d find the information, on what is considered a decent clickthrough rate from articles to one’s site? I’ve tried, but I cannot find this information. Please understand, I do not mean conversion rates (sales, I assume), I mean how to find out what an acceptable or even good clickthrough rate from articles would be.

AI did some asking around since I didn’t really know the answer to this and here’s what some of my twitter friends had to say: (read the bottom one first

QOn my blog the newest posts come on top of the older posts. Can I make it so just one shows up on the homepage?

AThat is the nature of the blog. It gives the newest information at the top of the page. You can change how your homepage looks in a few ways. You can make it 1 new article ~ the whole article by going into your settings area and clicking the “reading” settings. You can change how many posts show up on the front page. If you want the posts to show up in the sidebar you can add the “recent posts” widget to the sidebar where you want them to show up.

You can also make it so only a portion or excerpt of your posts show up on your homepage. There’s a plugin called “homepage excerpts” that will allow you to do that. I use it on this blog. You’ll see I’ve chosen to show one whole post and then excerpts for the rest of the page. There’s plenty of flexibility with that plugin so play around with it until you get it the way you like it.

If you have more questions feel free to ask. I will answer them either in a post, on the facebook page or maybe in another Q and A post such as this one. Just keep in mind that all the tweaking in the world will not bring you traffic! It’s content and promotion that does that.

Keep taking action! There’s not much that can’t be changed as you go.

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