An Easy Way to Improve User Experience

Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by mmaunder on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:57AM (#2138326)

Everyone who needs to pay rent has ads in some form, and ads always suck:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/627097/how-to-tell-if-a-b...

Unless of course you're a bubble company building to flip before you're profitable, in which case you get to point fingers and laugh at the rest of us while we spend hours wrenching the last dollar out of our cash flow plans.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by cparedes on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:08AM (#2138346)

In some ways, reddit gets it right - they put games in the ad space, which trains the users to look at that area a bit more often.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by pistoriusp on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:22AM (#2138446)

Correct me if I'm wrong, haven't they been having issues with money for servers recently?

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:07AM (#2138606)

As far as I can tell, you're wrong, but only on the "recently".

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by bradleyjoyce on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:43AM (#2138295)

yes, but my opinion is that ad placement is doing more harm than good. for the site's audience, I think it's a safe assumption that they are fairly web-savvy and able to detect ads without too much effort. As a google adsense block, it's a cost-per-click ad. You see where i'm going with this... savvy users, poor ad placement = very few clicks = no revenue.

of course, that is all anecdotal... I'd be really interested to see real performance numbers on it.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by NZ_Matt on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:03AM (#2138340)

Those ad placements above the content get very high click-throughs when someone arrives at the page via search. One technique that I've used is to only show the adsense to search visitors. Regular visitors tend not to click ads so chances are you won't lose much by doing so.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by patio11 on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @03:37AM (#2138475)

This technique works in other contexts, too, and is extraordinarily underutilized. (Other options include displaying "house ads" for e.g. pitching "Join our mailing list to get X" or "Our best articles" or "Subscribe to our RSS feed" to convert search-driven transients into recurring visitors.)

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by dkersten on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @02:01AM (#2138336)

You are right. When I first saw the page earlier, I closed it again without even looking at the content because I wasn't bothered scrolling and all I saw was a dirty, ugly page (google ads - a bunch of random links - are ugly as hell). Only after you posted your image did I actually look at the content.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by pvg on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:02AM (#2138511)

'in tension' is one thing. 'in ugly contradiction to your message' is another.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by Neputys on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @01:46AM (#2138299)

mostly when users are not paying ones ;)

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