May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Misc | 2 comments »
I wrote a post earlier about why I might bounce so quickly from your site and I had a comment from a poster which I think I’ll share and answer here and the comment was from
Lulugal11: I enjoyed reading this post and I wonder if you bounce from my blog too? I am guilty of some of the things you mentioned but then I also have some positives..so next time you visit my blog would you let me know if my blog is sticky or bouncy in your eyes? Thanks!
I decided I would go check and see if it bothered me and if it was overpowering. I like when people ask me a specific question and would like a specific answer instead of making a generic comment that I’m not sure how to respond to and trying to figure out if I even need to or if they are just putting in their 2 cents worth and just looking for a link back.
I did not find that your blog was overpowering or actually intrusive. You had 3 Google ads that I saw one at the top, one in your content and one on the sidebar, but you didn’t have them everywhere I looked nor did you have a gazillion colorful Entrecard blocks everywhere I looked. Your page loaded quickly for me and your graphics didn’t overpower me.
Overall I would not be bothered to visit your blog because it didn’t confuse me. I could read your content easily and other than the Google ad that I ignored because I don’t click on Google and maybe it’s just me, but I don’t like to see it nestled in with the actual content. I found your blog to be easy on my eyes and I found the Entrecard easily.
May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Misc | 12 comments »
I have become a skimmer. I wish I could speed read then I could read more, but unless a headline really reaches out and grabs me and makes me want to read the whole post then I simply skim. I like short posts and to the point even though with some of mine I get carried away.
I refuse to even try to read a post with a dark background because it bothers my eyes and they are strained enough and I totally bounce right on by when bloggers have all their words running together instead of making paragraphs for me.
I also don’t stay very long on blogs that are obviously just here for the money even though I like making money myself some blogs simply go overboard with the site totally covered in ad blocks (AdSense, Yahoo and that type) especially when that’s the first thing I see instead of content.
When music starts up on me or it takes forever to load because of graphics and widgets I figure they really don’t want me to visit so I leave. I have a hard time focusing on a sales page because they are way too long and if they don’t tell me the price and what it will do for me in the first 2 paragraphs then I’m not interested.
I also have a problem when dropping Entrecards because many blogs hide them at the bottom or hide them in a block of other ads that fill the sideboard and when I have to hunt for that widget I’m certainly not going to stick around and read anything because by then I’m suspicious and wonder what else they hide.
Overly busy sites confuse me because there is just too much stuff jumping off the page at me. I’m actually thinking about removing the mybloglog widget because I think I have too many faces all together of course I could make it fewer rolls for both then maybe it would be better.
It’s important to use graphics for the visual and to explain a point your making, which I seldom do, but sometimes with all those graphics the blog simply wont load. I love looking at photo blogs and when they load quickly and use captions for me then I’m happy and I’ll stay longer.
Okay that’s enough about why I bounce quickly from some blogs and stay longer at others.
