Comments on: Strategy for maximizing page views

By: the english guy

the english guy — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:51:28 +0000

I have been using the excerpt method for one of my blogs too, very useful. I tend to put a lot of my advertising for that blog in the sidebar, to show up in “single” pages (I use WP), but keep AdSense on all pages in the main code.

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By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:07:00 +0000

I’ve got the full text of the most recent posts from all my niche blogs in a sidebar down the right hand side of my personal blog. At the moment I don’t have enough volume of traffic to tell if this makes a difference.

By: nickel

nickel — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:44:51 +0000

If you have WordPress set to notify all linked sites, it’ll ping your own linked entries gving you a trackback from the older article to a newer one. If someone hits that older entry from, say, a search engine, there will be a trail to your newer post. This increases the value of linking to your own entries, as it creates a two-way street.
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By: Moms Free Traffic Tips

Moms Free Traffic Tips — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 01:40:01 +0000

Is there an easy to install script that would rotate articles (maybe 10) from your previous posts?

I like the idea of new articles being rotated each time a person visits. Does anyone know of a script that does this?

By: Jim Bob

Jim Bob — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:45:17 +0000

By: Vix

Vix — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:57:19 +0000

One thing I’ve been toying with for longer articles is the paged solution. Rather than have everything be on one page, I’m thinking of separating content across several pages. Makes it easier to read and increases page views

By: Josue

Josue — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:07:38 +0000

I’ve been using the excerpt method for a while now and it increases dramatically the page views. Plus, which is more important for me, I get to know if people are really interested in my posts or not!

The “next” button idea… I don’t like it. I prefer either to scroll down or to have a handy drop down menu, which is what I do in my blog. There is a drop down menu for the last posts, with the number of comments in each. Also, when you go to a category, it appears a related drop down menu with a list of all posts for that category, again with the number of comments. That way, the readers have two choices: to scroll down or to click on the menu.

By: Josue

Josue — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:07:19 +0000

By: JohnO

JohnO — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:57:59 +0000

Nice drop-in with the categories. You’ve just given me a good reason (aside from the ‘tag-cloud’ idea which I agree with Zeldman is over-used) to use them on my blog.

Although I’d like to draw attention to what you posted about the excerpts. You want to list 10 per page, with a “Next” button. Wasn’t the “next” link something we all agreed we hated in one of your posts. You have to decide, are you serving your users, or yourself :) (Always controversy!)

How about.. excerpt’s based on articles viewed or not (attach cookies when someone views an article). So if you haven’t seen an article, you get an excerpt. If someone is brand spanking new, they get a custom welcome message (then perhaps a list of the favorite posts with that). Damn, I like that idea.. you’re all free to steal it if you’d like.. I’ll race you!

*Disclaimer: comment cross-posted with the cross-posted blog-post*

By: Craig McGinty

Craig McGinty — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:39:01 +0000

Having recent posts and recent comments above the fold is also very useful.
It is also worth writing your posts to mention past pieces you have written, allowing you to link to them directly.
I have never experimented with many Categories, but one thing I’ve discovered is to thing hard about the name.
Many people search for product names, company names etc. and I spotted Google hooking straight into the index page of my Categories on a site I have, despite it only having a couple of stories.

By: Heat

Heat — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:44:56 +0000

Well, I already use excerpts for my blog, which i found pretty useful when posting a long interesting Interview for instance…about the archives, i don’t know…maybe i’ll try it later…

Thanks,
Heat

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:16:14 +0000

I personally have an infinite number, myself, and add more all the time. And when I have a spare cycle, I try to go through and add multiple categories to each article, based on oblique relationships — and yes, sometimes I do push the envelope for relevence.

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:13:25 +0000

I personally suggest many Categories with each article being given liberal categories for two reasons: more links (connections) within the site, like a neural net) and because Technorati recognizes categories as Tags which aid in the SEO and BEO.