Goodbye Clutter!

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Some time ago I had a Home Staging business. We helped homeowners to prepare their homes for sale. One of the main issues I encountered everywhere was CLUTTER.

In your home you usually surround yourself by things you love. Things that reflect who you are. But when you are selling your home you want prospective buyers to envision themselves living there.

So sometimes, what you love, looks like clutter to the prospective buyer. Such as in the room above which was totally cluttered with musical instruments. Here is the same room after Staging.

I convinced the home-owner to store most of the musical instruments elsewhere and we moved the existing furniture around to create space.

What does all this have to do with Wealthy Affiliate? You may well ask. Let me explain

Avoid A Cluttered Website

I joined WA in November last year and since that time I have seen and commented on numerous websites through our Comments platform. Some of them seemed to me to be quite cluttered! For example they contained:

  • Moving images, bright colors and bold capitalized navigation.
  • Ads that appear in the middle of a post, unrelated to the content of the post.
  • Many messages, ads and images in the column alongside the blog post.
  • Long paragraphs with no white space.
  • Pop-ups, too, can be distracting.

Any or all the above can make your website seem cluttered and this should certainly be avoided whenever possible.

I learned from Kyle very early in the training that we should write short paragraphs and have plenty of white space on our websites. Some of the blogs I read had enormously long paragraphs, which seemed to contribute to clutter.

Home Staging is all about making the home look uncluttered and spacious. So the same rings true for our websites.

Some websites had so many messages, images and ads in the side column, that I didn't know where to look.

I am personally bothered by pop-ups. When a pop-up comes onto a website and asks for my email address, I get annoyed and ignore it. Perhaps that is just me and I must presume that these are very successful generally, because they are widely used.

So, I guess what I'm trying to say, is simplicity works. I have always bought into the K.I.S.S. principle.

A clean and uncluttered website will always help you tell your story more effectively.

These are just some of the things I have learned from Kyle so far.

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Great analogy, Jenni to our websites! I have a LOT of clutter--I am a hoarder, but my sites are bare! I wish I could simply snap my fingers and make my houses bare and my websites full!

Jeff

Oh oh! Hoarders always have the most trouble with clutter, Jeff!! Glad to hear that your websites are clean, though.

Ha ha--they are only clean because I don't have much on them right now, Jenni! 😉

I'm a hoarder, but everything gets hidden lol

Hi Jenni
I do agree about uncluttered websites.
I admit I’m not so good at avoiding clutter at home!
You raise an interesting point though. If clutter reflects things we love, perhaps there are niche ideas among the clutter?
:-)
Richard

I must admit, Richard, that I hadn't thought about the possibility of niche ideas among the clutter!

Thanks for the reminder Jenni.

I am always fighting clutter. I think that gremlins sneak in at night and mess up my desk. But I will continue to fight to be organized!
Thanks for the good reminders about keeping out posts clean and organized. I actually do better there than with my desk!
Barbara

Isn't that the truth, Barbara. I try to finish each day by tidying up my desk that your gremlins have messed up during the day! Don't always succeed!

Oh dear! My gremlins are bothering you too? Those little rascals. Sorry to hear that.
Barbara

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