Tags Show What Visitors Like

Nov 042009
 

If you are a blogger, know that post tags could be your best friend when it comes to identifying what your readers want more of. Some of you may initially be thinking that is what tag clouds do, but it’s not. Tag clouds show what the blogger likes, not what the readers like. Having a tag cloud, in my book, is like asking someone to pick a card out of a deck that is manipulated to force a known pick.

Having a list of tags that do not indicate popularity by size or order, offer insight to what your readers really want to see more of. On this site it  appears that you want to see more usability tips, web design tips, and Google. The tags have spoken. Continue reading »

How Effective is Your Post Title? FeedBurner Knows

Jul 282009
 

For those of you that read my daily Today’s Read posts you know that I find new posts by using Google Alerts. I pick my favorite keyword phrases, Google finds all the blogs that use them, email them to me, and I check them out in the morning.

Each alert that Google sends me usually has about three to five blogs that use the keyword that day. I have alerts for a bunch of keywords, so I get a bunch of blogs to read. I don’t check out all the blogs because they are not always relevant though. How can I tell? It’s in their title. I’m not going to read a post about improving the “usability” of kitchenware. I just read the posts about improving the “usability” of websites.

Each blog Google mentions also include a brief description with the title, but I usually only read those when I’m am unsure if the content is what I am looking for. Just like most users read websites, I skim. Continue reading »

Expectations of Blog Readers Reveal 8 Common Traits

Jun 112009
 

expected items 150x150Knowing that visitors spend most of their time on sites besides BWI, I decided to do a little research on those sites, and see what my visitors would expect to find. Using Technorati, and a few other sources, I took a look at over a dozen top blogs. What I was looking for was common traits that I believe are expected to be found on a website regardless of their function or fashion. Continue reading »

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