If it weren’t for asides, I’d have forgotten this completely. ReviewMe.com launched last Thursday, and I was lucky enough to design the site for Andy “Hater” Hagans and the gang. Be sure to check out the blog, which is home to the “World’s Biggest RSS Button.” You would not believe how many times that sucker has been ripped off…
From the monthly archives:
November 2006
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Back in April, I wrote about how the use of home page teasers was a great way to boost page views. Problem was, I never showed you an easy way to implement them with WordPress. Seven months later, here you go — the 10 second post teaser solution!
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Pearsonified is a year old today. Remember this little ditty? It was my first article, and after getting picked up by MSNBC, it drove over 4,000 visitors to this here domain in its first week of existence. Hello blogosphere!
If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, then odds are good that your archives are stuffed with posts that people might find interesting or useful. Problem is, when your best articles disappear from the home page, they descend into the depths of your site, landing in a lonely place known as the archives.
We all know that people don’t actually read stuff on the Web — they scan it, looking for content that is not only pertinent to them but also offers a clear and distinct benefit. In most cases, this is a rapid-fire process, and if somebody has committed enough time to even get to your archives, you can bet on the fact that their willingness to hunt for relevant content is dropping every second.
Therefore, if you want your archives to be effective (because most archives are decidedly not), then you need to provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability. Fortunately, you can accomplish this with almost no effort in one easy step! [click to continue…]