Author Jim-Bo
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Welcome. The image above is created with canva. On my website you can see this image is in a widget. My widgets in my sidebar are 300 pixels wide. The image widget links to a post (or a page) on my website.


Above is a tutorial made "on the fly" to show you how easy this process is to complete. I can actually complete this whole process in a mere 5 minutes when I'm doing it without recording and going carefully to explain the steps. You can do it in 5 minutes, too.


Why would you want to have widgets that link to your own posts on your website rather than linking to your affiliate product?


Well, the answer is SEO. When you have too many affiliate links littered within your site, it doesn't look good in the eyes of the big Google overlord.


The fewer affiliate links on your website, the better.


What if you linked your widgets to a page or a post that is a review of the product or service instead? Hmmm, fewer affiliate links in the sidebar, me thinks.....


So, in this tutorial, I'm using a custom image made live in Canva, then shrunk to the correct size for my sidebar which is 300 pixels wide. Then I insert my url of choice within the image widget.


Here are the tools I used.

1. Canva. - To Create My Custom Image - You can use any image editor of choice.

2. (Non essential) My colour picker browser extension to "copy" a colour used on my site.

3. TinyPng - To Reduce the Memory Size of my Image (Not the Dimensions, just the kb) because I want a nice 300 wide image that isn't 100kb in memory.

4. A Text widget for my sidebar. Don't be confused by the fact that it says it is a text widget, it simply means it can be "html text." The code we copy once we create a dummy post with the image in it, is going to be the html code.

5. The URL that I want the image to "link" to.


note: The post I created which contains the actual image is a "draft" post which can actually be delete once you've got the html code and pasted it into your text widget.


Hope you enjoyed today's video, please like and comment, it helps!

Until next time. stay sharp!


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MKearns Premium
Good tips on creating a better image impression Jim Bo
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Jim-Bo Premium
Better for SEO, too. As you don't have too many affiliate links in your sidebar.

As Kyle teaches, centralize your affiliate links for a specific product such as "wealthy affiliate" all on one page, which would be your wealthy affiliate review page (or post)

Same can be done with all of your main promoted items.

Less affiliate links leads to better seo and better seo leads to better rankings and better rankings leads to more lovely money.

lol

Thanks Mike
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Ultimateless Premium
I call them God, Google Online Domination. Good training though.
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Jim-Bo Premium
I recently read (from wikileaks) that google has been involved with hillary emails, and coverups and regime change efforts on behalf of Israel over in Syria.

What is google's motto supposed to be?

I believe it was "do no evil" or something along the lines of.
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Ultimateless Premium
We are trapped in the google network/conspiracy to take over the world, without a fuss...
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Jim-Bo Premium
indeed, but some of us are too "awake" to fall for their tricks.
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shelley8492 Premium
Thanks
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Jim-Bo Premium
Most welcome
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Hofmeister Premium
You rule Jimbo.
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Jim-Bo Premium
lol, thanks buddy!
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StepChook Premium
Another quality training article, Jimbo. Thank you!
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Jim-Bo Premium
Thanks, Steve!

Hey, tell me where you made your avatar, Steve. Me likey!
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StepChook Premium
I used someone on Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/polillavw. He was recommended by someone here on WA.
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Jim-Bo Premium
Thanks Steve!
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StepChook Premium
No worries mate.
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