HOW TO: Get Traffic to Your Website Part 10 - User Experience

(This is an excerpt from the book Internet Marketing for Newbies - read the whole book for FREE)

Have you ever been frustrated when visiting a website because you can not get the information you need? Getting people to your site is half the battle, getting them what they came for is the next step. 

 

How easy is your site to use once they get there? Is your content laid out clearly and properly labeled? Does your navigation make sense? User experience design is now a major industry in the web world. Consider getting help, but if you do it yourself or you are not sure you can’t go wrong by keeping it simple. It works for Google.

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Comments

[Gal]

Hi,

How would you organize a blog efficiently? In my blog, you press a category and see the list of all the posts there. That's really not convenient, especially if you have a lot of posts.

Do you expect the user to search for posts using a search engine, or look for them manually?

Cheers,

Gal
Newbies Internet Marketing

[Michael Daehn]

There are four ways to find content:
Manual browsing - randomly clicking around and reading
Tags - many tags should be on your posts, highlighting keywords
Categories - a few broad categories, maybe 5 or 10 that cover your main topics and group posts
Search - looking for a specific word or theme

All should be available on your blog so that people can choose how to find content. It is up to you to make sure your tags, categories, navigation and search are all organized and working properly.

[Gal]

I still haven't put the tags out there. Will try it out.

Thanks,

Gal
Newbies Internet Marketing