Hiding 404 pages and other undesired pages on your site or blog and Promoting special and Featured pages with AddThis Recommendation widgets
Promoting your best works and featuring them is the key to gaining new followers and add in to more engagement but at the same time it's important that you hide or do not recommend pages which are not supposed to be promoted like the custom 404 pages, homepage, contact pages, etc which are crucial landing pages in short just a window so one should avoid from recommending such pages but with recommendation widgets scanning site structure and sitemap and recommending things at random it's one's responsibility to curate and display the best and hide the undesired. Today we will see how to do this with the popular and number one social sharing site AddThis which comes with lots of awesome recommendation widgets and easy customization options to control what to show and hide.
How to Hide Undesired Pages in AddThis Recommendation Widgets
- To hide specific window or display pages like the 404 pages, homepage, contact page, etc go to your AddThis Pro dashboard and navigate to "recommended" icon bar option where in you can see all the activity of your current recommendation widgets. In the top right click the "Hide Content" option and enter the URL of the page which you wish to hide and save it in the blacklist.
- Your specified URL's may take some time from showing up as recommendations in AddThis recommendation widgets and in case you wish to remove the link from hidden recommendations then navigate to same page again and scroll down to see the list of all blacklisted links and click on their hide status (unhide) to remove them from being blacklisted on AddThis recommendation widgets.
How to Promote or Feature Specific Pages in AddThis Recommendation Widgets
- To promote specific pages in AddThis recommendation widgets go to AddThis Pro dashboard and navigate to "Recommended" Section and from their click on "Promote Content" option to add in your page URL which you wish to promote and choose a recommendation widget where you wish to promote it.
- Now to remove some of your featured or promoted content from your recommendation widgets navigate to the same page as above and scroll down to see the list of all promoted contents and click on their promoted status to remove them from promoted section of your AddThis recommendation widget.
Now some of you might ask how to find the best content from your site? well you can do so using the content activity analytics which shows which articles are most shared or most clicked on including the factors sending in more traffic to that post or else you can feature one of your underdog works which hasn't received the appreciation it deserves. You can even directly feature them by hovering over their links in the content activity section and click on promote to feature it in one of your recommendation widgets.
The Demerits or the blissful merits that may arise are that if you have activated AddThis on multiple number of your sites then these content recommendations also show up on those sites which some of you might want and some of may thereby making it both a plus point and a negative point. Also the feature is quite handy in AddThis pro but for free AddThis recommendation widgets one needs to manually tweak the code and hide and promote content using the AddThis internal code. | |