An Easy Way to Improve User Experience

Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by jasonkester on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:24AM (#2138533)

Conventional wisdom is to drop the ads from a piece when it first goes live so that Reddit/Digg/HN/Stumbleupon can jump on it without distraction. Those sites come with a 0% clickthru anyway so you're not losing anything.

Then, a week later, you can put the ads back in place. All the linking has been done, so now you get people flowing in thru organic SEO. Those people are more likely to stick around and possibly click ads.

Done right, everybody is happy.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by sovande on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:52AM (#2138578)

> Those sites come with a 0% clickthru anyway so you're not losing anything

On the other hand most users from these sites will not see the ad in the first place because the use adblock

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by jasonkester on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @06:49AM (#2138738)

Percentage of people that people using AdBlock think are using AdBlock: 100%

Percentage of people actually using AdBlock: Much less than 100%

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by coderdude on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @07:18AM (#2138780)

I've never heard that put so elegantly before. I just quoted you on my Facebook. I've never used AdBlock and I never have, but I've always wondered how many people actually use it because the people who do use it would have you believe it's the majority of people on the net (from our demographic, at least).

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by aerique on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @09:15AM (#2139076)

I'm curious about the numbers as well. I couldn't imagine surfing without it (or Privoxy or Junkbuster in the days of yore) although I do disable it for a few sites I support.

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Re:An Easy Way to Improve User Experience by DougBTX on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:30AM (#2138647)

The only reason I would click on an ad like in the example is by accident. (I'm not using adblock by the way.)

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