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But I just have to say when someone visits your blog for the first time it's best for them to see your posts right away, not "Subscribe to Me" first. I'm just saying. The subscribe form and web aggregators would look better on a left sidebar, with your article in the middle. Your great writing is the first thing I want to see when I visit.
But I just have to say when someone visits your blog for the first time it's best for them to see your posts right away, not "Subscribe to Me" first. I'm just saying. The subscribe form and web aggregators would look better on a left sidebar, with your article in the middle. Your great writing is the first thing I want to see when I visit.
My primary goal on this site, at least currently is to grow my subscriber base, and the good news for subscribers is that they get to read all my content without the subscription boxes, widgets etc.
I offer full feeds, and even allow people to re-purpose my content, as long as I get credit (such as a link back to the original article)
I am tracking various elements all the time - not quite as much as I would possibly like, but then this site doesn't have enough traffic yet to make it worth tracking between small adjustments.
One thing I haven't yet written about is the effect of social networking and images of readers in social proof. By seeing the name of someone you recognise in the sidebar, it shows that obviously your blog is a worthwhile read, and so you sign up.
I still need to add more subscription options in some way at the bottom of each article, but I have other things to tweak first, for instance subscribing is still an exit from the site, and I would love people to hand around and leave a comment.
I actually like criticism, because it makes you question your ideas from a different perspective. Whilst I am maintaining a 5-10% growth in subscribers daily,
I don't think there are too many problems with the positioning of the subscription boxes, especially when many of my visitors are used to entering their details into a squeeze page to get information, or even to just a sales page.
I might also start varying page elements depending on the source of traffic. As an example I have a lot of traffic coming in from Google atm for my Day Job Killer review. I am highly tempted to stick a lighbox popup on that traffic with subscription information.
My primary goal on this site, at least currently is to grow my subscriber base, and the good news for subscribers is that they get to read all my content without the subscription boxes, widgets etc.
I offer full feeds, and even allow people to re-purpose my content, as long as I get credit (such as a link back to the original article)
I am tracking various elements all the time - not quite as much as I would possibly like, but then this site doesn't have enough traffic yet to make it worth tracking between small adjustments.
One thing I haven't yet written about is the effect of social networking and images of readers in social proof. By seeing the name of someone you recognise in the sidebar, it shows that obviously your blog is a worthwhile read, and so you sign up.
I still need to add more subscription options in some way at the bottom of each article, but I have other things to tweak first, for instance subscribing is still an exit from the site, and I would love people to hand around and leave a comment.
I actually like criticism, because it makes you question your ideas from a different perspective. Whilst I am maintaining a 5-10% growth in subscribers daily,
I don't think there are too many problems with the positioning of the subscription boxes, especially when many of my visitors are used to entering their details into a squeeze page to get information, or even to just a sales page.
I might also start varying page elements depending on the source of traffic. As an example I have a lot of traffic coming in from Google atm for my Day Job Killer review. I am highly tempted to stick a lighbox popup on that traffic with subscription information.
*BTW--to reduce the 'white' space produced by your "Technorati Fav, DiggIT, Stumbleupon, Bumpzee" block, go to the CSS and shrink the "height" of the .mybot___ class to 197px.
And thanks for your post on how to get the block like that. I've already implement it. Check it out at my blog =).
O.K. I've gotten to go--set up more sites.
*BTW--to reduce the 'white' space produced by your "Technorati Fav, DiggIT, Stumbleupon, Bumpzee" block, go to the CSS and shrink the "height" of the .mybot___ class to 197px.
And thanks for your post on how to get the block like that. I've already implement it. Check it out at my blog =).
O.K. I've gotten to go--set up more sites.