Comments on: Stumble Upon taught me I judge a book by it’s cover

By: Best Travel Tips

Best Travel Tips — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:05:29 +0000

That’s the reason probably I have chosen the current template. It’s so tempting to have that colorful template for travel website but it’s not that friendly for widgets… so I am little confused whether to take benefit of the cover or build a good book with quality papers.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:18:59 +0000

I mainly use Stumble Upon to discover new websites within my areas of interest. I’ve gotten into the habit of spending at least 30 to 60 minutes a day just clicking on the Stumble Upon tool bar and seeing what pops up. I’ve come across a ton of very cool and interesting sites I never would have come across otherwise.

By: seo hat

seo hat — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:03:26 +0000

I can’t remember the exact url but one of the blogger managed to increase his revenue 2 times as well as his bounce rate by simply making a professional looking header.

By: Frank C

Frank C — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:34:12 +0000

I wrote about this a while back myself .

I think one of the problems is that people tend to put big, elaborate, logos, RSS buttons and the like at the top of the page. Your’s actually isn’t too bad. I’ve seen much, much worse. You only have a few seconds to gain the attention of an SU visitor so unless your logo is very visually compelling your content better snag them quickly.

One of the advantage I’ve seen with the magazine style themes is that you can have a different layout on the front page vs. the post pages. While you can do this with any WP theme you mostly see it on magazine style ones. You can go with the big honkin’ logo on your home page and use a more modest one on posts.

By: Make Money Blogging

Make Money Blogging — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:07:47 +0000

I certainly do it with stumble upon, I’m usually looking for something fun so something great but more of a read will get bookmarked rather than me looking at it there and then.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:30:13 +0000

I definitely do it to a degree. If it’s too light, too dark, line spacing or one looooong paragraph, having to scrrrrrrrrol past advertisements.

Etc. Those are the 4 that irk me the most.

By: Adrienne Doss

Adrienne Doss — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:45:47 +0000

Yeah, I do it too. If the design or formatting is so bad that I can’t concentrate on the content, I move on within seconds. But then, maybe I have Adult ADD.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:28:35 +0000

I think it depends on what you’re looking for. I’ve run across some poorly laid out and very rudimentary sites through Stumble that have great content. But as a writer/editor I’m more interested in content than visuals, and I know there are a lot of people out there with great ideas and knowledge who don’t know or care the first thing about design. Sometimes those who are blogging simply because they’re deeply interested in a topic just don’t care about marketing themselves–and those can be gems. I agree, though, that the general tendency as people surf the web is to make decisions at a glance. It’s the general tendency everywhere, actually, it’s just easier to move on when you’re on the Internet.