Comments on: Blog conversion: Twelve highly-detailed suggestions

By: Blog Conversion - Three Important Things To Consider

Blog Conversion - Three Important Things To Consider — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:59:25 +0000

[...] Blog conversion: Twelve highly-detailed suggestions | Increasing … – At least three of my friends have started blogs in the past two weeks. Every time I read one, I start to compose an email with suggestions and then I remember that not everyone likes unsolicited advice. So (for those three friends and everyone else who has a blog): here are my thoughts on how to increase your blog conversion (assuming you define conversion as getting your audience to be more involved with your blog. [...]

By: Increasing your Website’s Conversion Rate » Blog Archive » Two more thoughts on Blog Conversion

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:34:21 +0000

[...] this week, I wrote twelve tips on blog conversion. Here are two additional [...]

By: LunaMetrics Blog

LunaMetrics Blog — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:03:00 +0000

Hi Joseph. Here is a better explanation for #7: On the left hand side of my blog, at the top, there is a note that says, "Subscribe to the Feed." Under that is the orange icon and then icons (or chicklets, if you like that word better) for Bloglines, NewsGator and MyYahoo. When people click those chicklets, it enables them to subscribe to my blog really easily. If you use FeedBurner, it becomes trivial to create those chicklets. So I am encouring blog owners to make it easy to subscribe if they want subscribers.

#12 is just the ability to scan a whole page of text and pick up the important points quickly. So in this current post about blog conversion, I put the headlines in boldface. But I wrote a follow-up post where I only put a sentence in the middle of the paragraph in bold. And not every post is easily scanned.

Robbin

By: Joseph Carrabis

Joseph Carrabis — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:23:00 +0000

O’ My Queen…
Thanks for this post. I’ll need to explore how to do that #5 “author” thing you mentioned, I think your #6 is my “Author Profile”. I don’t have a clue what #7 is about and I’ll need an example of #12. – Your Liege, Joseph

By: LunaMetrics Blog

LunaMetrics Blog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:28:00 +0000

Hi Mattys. Xavier Casanova did an 11 part piece which included this issue last year. However, I am not finding that exact part of the posting, I will send hiim email. As I recall, his audience really asked him in a big way to stop sending them back to the blogsite (because clicks are precious, and they didn't want to click.) If you have a blog, you might want to test - it is hard to have a really scientific test, can't think of how the split-path testing companies can help but maybe others can. Certainly, you can alternate formats every two weeks and then re-evaluate after a couple of months.

Justin, I only had you in mind when I wrote #11... Those four posts were fabulous and I have yet to really make the fourth one happen. Although, I don't think it is that easy to save your Google Spreadsheet to a hard drive, I had to cut and paste. Leave a link here if you can so that everyone can see your post and they will understand why you wouldn't want to publish four great posts in one day. Robbin

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:10:00 +0000

Hey Robbin,

This is a fantastic post. I’m guilty of a number of items on your list! Guess I have some work to do.

Justin

By: Mattys

Mattys — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:04:00 +0000

I am curious how you feel about blogs that only have a teaser (not sure of any official term) in their RSS feed, forcing users to return to the Blogsite to read the entire Blog?
In the case of a website with multiple Bloggers or other content, this seems like this is a good way to get visitors to pay attention to that.