Making Use of Pages
It’s trickier for Blogger blogs to create pages, and sometimes Blogger users like me need to improvise. First of all, of course, we must ask ourselves why we need to create pages.
Unlike blog posts, pages are those places in your blog under the Wordpress platform that are separate from the dynamically changing posts. Pages remain constant and are usually in places where people can access them easily.
That pages are constant and permanently fixed in places that people can see means we should use them to bring in more readers. How? We can publish the posts that best represent our blogs in these pages. For example, in evilwoobie, I use the pages to share my knowledge of Zodiac signs and Palmistry; as well as my recommendations for online dating and, of course, my About page, which directly tells the guests who I am and why my blog is all about love. I also have my contact page, where people can send me messages; some of these messages are ‘for my eyes only’ and do not belong in the comment section.
Here are some ways to maximize your pages.
1. Go beyond the normal About Me page, and open the comments to suggestions or just to say hi. Sometimes blog owners simply rely on posts to communicate with their readers, but these posts get bumped down by more posts so that the conversation is lost (particularly if you don’t have the subscribe to comments plugin)
2. Publish the quotes that you want to be remembered most for in your pages. Push your personality. Show what you’re about in a page, rather than on posts. This page could go hand in hand with the About me page, but different in a way that it tells a story of who you are, not just facts.
For Blogger bloggers like me who don’t know much about subdomain creation in blogger, a post created in the past could serve as a makeshift page that people can visit over and over. You can just create a link to that page on your sidebar.
Example is the Thank You, Entrecard! that you see now in my sidebar, just below the Entrecard widget.
