Comments on: Can You Find Me? http://suewaters.com/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:42:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Mobile Technology in TAFE » Blog Archive » Do Busy Readers Dig Deeper Into Our Blogs? http://suewaters.com/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/comment-page-1/#comment-672 Mobile Technology in TAFE » Blog Archive » Do Busy Readers Dig Deeper Into Our Blogs? Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:50:04 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/#comment-672 [...] What I like about this week’s challenge at Better Blog community set by Simon Thomas (Oak Innovations Blog) on Mobilize your archives is I have already done it for my Day 4 task of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. The task involves going back through your old posts and looking for opportunities to link to new posts mainly in the hope of driving readers deeper into your blog. As Darren says “One of the challenges that faces blogs that have been around for a while is that they end up with a wonderful collection of posts in their archives that are rarely read by readers.” The other 31 Day task aimed at driving readers deeper into our blog was Day 18 Create a Sneeze Page and propel readers deep into your blog. [...] [...] What I like about this week’s challenge at Better Blog community set by Simon Thomas (Oak Innovations Blog) on Mobilize your archives is I have already done it for my Day 4 task of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. The task involves going back through your old posts and looking for opportunities to link to new posts mainly in the hope of driving readers deeper into your blog. As Darren says “One of the challenges that faces blogs that have been around for a while is that they end up with a wonderful collection of posts in their archives that are rarely read by readers.” The other 31 Day task aimed at driving readers deeper into our blog was Day 18 Create a Sneeze Page and propel readers deep into your blog. [...]

]]> By: Gary Barber http://suewaters.com/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Gary Barber Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:27:00 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/#comment-558 I strongly believe Darrens Squeeze Page is a waste of time. Consider this, if people can't find the information in a well formed index (navigational) list then how are they going to find it if its a click away on another page. Its just against all the Information Architecture techniques. Have you consider sub categories etc. It all comes down to the categories and the label you use. I strongly believe Darrens Squeeze Page is a waste of time. Consider this, if people can’t find the information in a well formed index (navigational) list then how are they going to find it if its a click away on another page. Its just against all the Information Architecture techniques.

Have you consider sub categories etc. It all comes down to the categories and the label you use.

]]> By: Michele Martin http://suewaters.com/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Michele Martin Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:01:21 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/09/09/can-you-find-me/#comment-555 Great article, Sue and good advice on looking at Technorati tags as a source for your tags. Makes me realize that I should change my "blog" tag to "blogging." :-) Have you considered also adding Google Customized search? I added it to my site and it makes it very easy to find content as it runs a google search of only my site--very accurate and I use it frequently to find info on my own site. When I did my reader analysis, one of the things that I found was that people weren't using tags frequently and some didn't know how to actually use tags, so I actually got rid of tags in my sidebar and started using search. According to my Crazy Egg heatmap, the search gets used frequently. I have <a HREF="http://michelemartin.typepad.com/thebambooprojectblog/2007/08/want-to-help-vi.html" rel="nofollow">info on customized search here</A>. Great article, Sue and good advice on looking at Technorati tags as a source for your tags. Makes me realize that I should change my “blog” tag to “blogging.” :-)

Have you considered also adding Google Customized search? I added it to my site and it makes it very easy to find content as it runs a google search of only my site–very accurate and I use it frequently to find info on my own site.

When I did my reader analysis, one of the things that I found was that people weren’t using tags frequently and some didn’t know how to actually use tags, so I actually got rid of tags in my sidebar and started using search. According to my Crazy Egg heatmap, the search gets used frequently.

I have info on customized search here.

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