Comments on: Don’t let SEO and UX take precedence over a common sense approach http://www.benbarden.com/dont-let-seo-and-ux-take-precedence-over-a-common-sense-approach/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://www.benbarden.com/dont-let-seo-and-ux-take-precedence-over-a-common-sense-approach/#comment-93 Ben Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:51:14 +0000 http://www.benbarden.com/?p=126#comment-93 Hey Tim - no worries. My first tip for you would be to lose the splash page, why not put your blog there instead? Or just set up a redirect straight to your blog. You could always set up a landing page as part of your blog, but I would strongly suggest adding quite a more info than your splash page does now. It isn't massively compelling - it's like having to sign in to view a post - many people won't bother to click through. Hi Gale - thanks for stopping by. I agree completely - building a site that's easy to browse and that doesn't block you from doing standard things means you won't confuse and annoy your visitors. "No right click" is something I rarely see these days, but I remember it well from the late 90s. Hey Tim – no worries. My first tip for you would be to lose the splash page, why not put your blog there instead? Or just set up a redirect straight to your blog. You could always set up a landing page as part of your blog, but I would strongly suggest adding quite a more info than your splash page does now. It isn’t massively compelling – it’s like having to sign in to view a post – many people won’t bother to click through.

Hi Gale – thanks for stopping by. I agree completely – building a site that’s easy to browse and that doesn’t block you from doing standard things means you won’t confuse and annoy your visitors. “No right click” is something I rarely see these days, but I remember it well from the late 90s.

]]> By: Gale http://www.benbarden.com/dont-let-seo-and-ux-take-precedence-over-a-common-sense-approach/#comment-92 Gale Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:45:50 +0000 http://www.benbarden.com/?p=126#comment-92 Yeah, one of the easiest way to ruin "user experience" is to make some flashy something that not all users can use (say, if they have an older computer or run linux or have a mac and not a pc or a pc and not a mac) and make it the gateway to the rest of your site. Oh, here's another way to ruin user experience...put a right click blocker on your site so people can't open up links in new tabs, grab your e-mail using right click, etc. Then have something insulting like "stop trying to steal my stuff" pop up when all they were doing was right clicking to bookmark your page. :-) Yeah, one of the easiest way to ruin “user experience” is to make some flashy something that not all users can use (say, if they have an older computer or run linux or have a mac and not a pc or a pc and not a mac) and make it the gateway to the rest of your site.

Oh, here’s another way to ruin user experience…put a right click blocker on your site so people can’t open up links in new tabs, grab your e-mail using right click, etc. Then have something insulting like “stop trying to steal my stuff” pop up when all they were doing was right clicking to bookmark your page. :-)

]]> By: Tim Blackburn http://www.benbarden.com/dont-let-seo-and-ux-take-precedence-over-a-common-sense-approach/#comment-91 Tim Blackburn Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:02:49 +0000 http://www.benbarden.com/?p=126#comment-91 Hi Ben, really appreciate the support and comment on my blog. Not sure if getting the demo in the magazine will get me anywhere, but the plays on my soundcloud page have gone up since the mag came out, so at least it's a bit more exposure! I really need to re-read all your stuff about websites and user experience and get some tips for my blog and website. Although I can "do" websites, I'm still relying on WP themes and addons too much and not thinking about what actually works. My hosting stats show I'm getting lots of traffic on the site but according to analytics and blog stats, people aren't even clicking the "enter" link... Hi Ben, really appreciate the support and comment on my blog. Not sure if getting the demo in the magazine will get me anywhere, but the plays on my soundcloud page have gone up since the mag came out, so at least it’s a bit more exposure! I really need to re-read all your stuff about websites and user experience and get some tips for my blog and website. Although I can “do” websites, I’m still relying on WP themes and addons too much and not thinking about what actually works. My hosting stats show I’m getting lots of traffic on the site but according to analytics and blog stats, people aren’t even clicking the “enter” link…

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