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By: Spyre Studios » 7 Ways To Get Traffic To A New Blog

Spyre Studios » 7 Ways To Get Traffic To A New Blog — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:33:25 +0000

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By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:39:06 +0000

Ty,
Ah, yes, I agree. 960 is definitely the safest route for now.

Alen,
Yeah, I’m like you. I frequently hover over links to see what URL they’re heading to.

By: Janko

Janko — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:15:29 +0000

Great, just great! I agree completely!

By: TK

TK — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:22:23 +0000

so true! i’m amazed how often i come across these mistakes when viewing blogs. you hit the mark, thanks

By: TVSpy

TVSpy — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:29:26 +0000

Popups and Popunders are worst, followed by contextual ads.

It depends on what industry you’re in, if you’re in website/webmasters – popups are quite common and somehow accepted. If you’re dealing in selling a service – any ads are tacky. Using Google or contextual or popups will detract from your services and make you look sleazy. Believe it or not but I’ve seen web designers using google adsense and contextual ads on their portfolio pages.

By: Alen Grakalic

Alen Grakalic — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:56:59 +0000

Contextual ads are the worst… I still have a habit on rolling over everything that is underlined and when I see an ad like that I go nuts.

By: ty.Gossman

ty.Gossman — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:36:59 +0000

By scrolling I meant a design that is wider than 1024, can create problems for quite a few people. I’ve been designing at 960px width.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:16 +0000

Ty,
I think the scrolling issue is an interesting debate. Personally, I hate the small movement of horizontal sites. While I think it is cool to be creative and push the boundaries, I just find it annoying as a visitor. I’m sure it’s just a preference thing though.

Spam comments are also another issue. I hate deleting comments if they’re not blatantly spam, but I also don’t like seeing the end of a post with 10 comments and none of them more than 3 words.

By: ty.Gossman

ty.Gossman — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:42:04 +0000

Invite participation, if commenting is a major portion of where users can contribute, don’t allow there to be more spam than legitimate comments.
Some people paste in a comment and link it to there site in non-english, and they just ctrl+p, ctrl+p, the whole comment from some other thread. How bogus…

By: ty.Gossman

ty.Gossman — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:35:47 +0000

The first thing that comes to mind is “Excessive scrolling…”
Up and down scrolling is pretty much ok, just consider page length and findability, but side scrolling is definitely a no-no unless it’s a side-scrolling only design, which can be pretty cool!