Comments on: Getting inside your Blog Reader’s Mind

By: Simona Rich

Simona Rich — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:44:43 +0000

I think it is important not to copy just any successful blog’s advertising. It is much better to see very similar successful blog’s strategy on placing ads, then place ads in similar places and see how they perform.

By: The Daniel Richard

The Daniel Richard — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:21:40 +0000

Great idea! I’d ask my friends for their suggestions and comments and to my surprise (not really), all of them have different views about the blog design.

Some gave it a rating of 6/10, some say 9/10.

My main objective is navigation and usability. Will it be possible to do up a design to cater to most people? :)

By: Ari Dubov

Ari Dubov — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:44:21 +0000

Great tips, I just dont understand how you can review how someone has navigated your site

By: Creative Mind

Creative Mind — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:01:28 +0000

I do tested out this technique and found that my blog could be improved.

By: Glen Farmer

Glen Farmer — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:11:00 +0000

I like these tips but I have no idea how you would watch someone navigate a site.
I have a personal site. The second and third tips are a good idea.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:55:56 +0000

The title of the post “Optimum Placement of Google Ads” is a little bit misleading.

I thought I would get some advice on the best locations based on user surveys or personal experience.

Anyways, Darren’s tip on ” Watch someone surf your blog” is pretty useful.

I religiously follow the Google Heatmap for my blog and results have been nice.

By: Jennifer Apple

Jennifer Apple — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:52:11 +0000

I think that when you are looking at “Optimum Placement of Google Ads” and thinking of your regular visitors, you are probably missing the largest potential for your ads. You should be looking at how people bounce off your site.
Regular visitors become blind to the ads, that’s been proven time and again.
But someone who gets to your site through a key phrase search, and does not see what they came for, and does not have time to investigate your site more carefully, is very likely to click an ad if that ad helps them solve their problem.
We do usability studies on how people bounce off our pages, and place ads accordingly.

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 05:03:16 +0000

I like the idea of watching someone surf your blog. I did it with 5 friends at different times and boy did I get a migraine ;-) They all did different things, some scrolled, some viewed the sidebar first, some tried to click on un-clickable graphics and so on …

It was a real eye-opener, because with your own blog you can get at times too insulated with your ‘baby’ and forget that people come and visit you for the first time so you really got to think like them. See it from their perspective.