Jude’s Eclectic Resources

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.