Use Images To Get Your Best Posts Noticed By Your Visitors
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Many of us link to our blog’s most popular posts in the sidebar or in a separate page to show visitors that our blog is worth reading. WordPress users mostly use the Popularity Contest plugin or the Top Posts by category plugin to do this.
But how many visitors do you think will notice these text links on your sidebar? The best way to draw your visitors attention to your best posts is to replace the text links with images.
I have wrote earlier on how using images on blog posts can help grab the attention of people, the same idea can be used to get your visitors to check out your best posts too.
Skelliewag.org and Cybernetnews are some of the blogs that use this technique. They made small images and added the title of the post as text over the image and then linked those images to their best posts. Skellie currently has four static images on her blog’s sidebar with heading ‘Reader Favorites’ and Cybernetnews has many images rotated just below their main menu.
I liked the idea of rotating the images as it can help you drive visitors to many of your posts that are buried in your archives. Using static images will get your visitors to visit your post once and then they get used to the image and may never visit your best posts unless you update the posts you are highlighting.
Cybernetnews also has these images put up in a place all visitors will notice - the header.
What are the methods you apply to get your visitors to check out your best posts?
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Posted on November 20th, 2007 | Category: Blogging |
David Bradley
November 20, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Yep, a few nicely chosen images can boost click through traffic on sub-sections. In fact, if you don’t have fresh pictures that change frequently in your sidebar, the sidebar effectively becomes invisible. I know a few regular visitors to my site, who didn’t realise I had all those extra features in the sidebar, they simply hadn’t seen them…
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Wayne Liew
November 20, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Putting these images to show what is popular in your blog sure will attract more clicks than those using text links and this is why having Photoshop or Illustrator skills are very important if you want to survive online.
It is not necessary to show popular or pillar articles in image form though. The links, if placed in a prominent place like the header which is like what you are doing can get readers’ attention as well.
Manas
November 21, 2007 at 10:04 am
That is really a good idea John. Will surely try to implement it.
Madhur Kapoor
November 23, 2007 at 1:42 am
Nice way John. I will be implementing this too.