Comments on: are you driving people away from your blog? http://www.grechenblogs.com/2010/03/are-you-driving-people-away-from-your-blog/ living, blogging, & surviving online Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Sonja http://www.grechenblogs.com/2010/03/are-you-driving-people-away-from-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Sonja Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:15:13 +0000 http://www.grechenblogs.com/?p=195#comment-754 I read something about this recently too and have been giving it some thought. But I'm not quite sure what to do. I think it's interesting to see what FMM did and how much impact it had on traffic. Definitely need to figure out a way to promote more subscriptions. .-= Sonja´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.hellobeautyblog.com/2010/03/lorac-spring-2010/" rel="nofollow">LORAC Spring 2010: Surprisingly lush, vibrant color</a> =-. I read something about this recently too and have been giving it some thought. But I’m not quite sure what to do. I think it’s interesting to see what FMM did and how much impact it had on traffic. Definitely need to figure out a way to promote more subscriptions.
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]]> By: grechen http://www.grechenblogs.com/2010/03/are-you-driving-people-away-from-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-745 grechen Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:51:27 +0000 http://www.grechenblogs.com/?p=195#comment-745 i love that you were able to see direct results after changing your design (it looks great BTW) - it's so important to continuously define and analyze goals. congratulations!! i love that you were able to see direct results after changing your design (it looks great BTW) – it’s so important to continuously define and analyze goals. congratulations!!

]]> By: Macala Wright Lee http://www.grechenblogs.com/2010/03/are-you-driving-people-away-from-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Macala Wright Lee Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:21:47 +0000 http://www.grechenblogs.com/?p=195#comment-741 It's hard to balance blog bling and content. It depends on the goal of the site. We've recently revamped FMM to be the magazine it once was and took out most of the social widgets and other web attributes. The focus of our site is knowledge, not to show how "cool" we are by all of our extra links and widgets. We've integrated a facebook fanpage and we have a TEXT link to our two most recent tweets, but that's it. Since we've streamlined our appearance and defined our purpose, we've seen traffic increase 25%, RSS feed subscriptions go up 200% and email subscriptions go up 300%. Our gut feeling was correct. It's also brought on three new writers that we never would have thought would have wanted to be a part of our site. We also made comments more engaging and interactive with popularity ranking and Disgus about six months ago, it doubled the participation on the blog. The less distraction, the better. .-= Macala Wright Lee´s last blog ..<a href="http://fashionablymarketing.me/2010/03/fashion-marketing-interview-daniela-zeltzer-xcvi-clothing/" rel="nofollow">Interview: Daniela Zeltzer, Marketing XCVI Clothing</a> =-. It’s hard to balance blog bling and content. It depends on the goal of the site. We’ve recently revamped FMM to be the magazine it once was and took out most of the social widgets and other web attributes. The focus of our site is knowledge, not to show how “cool” we are by all of our extra links and widgets.

We’ve integrated a facebook fanpage and we have a TEXT link to our two most recent tweets, but that’s it. Since we’ve streamlined our appearance and defined our purpose, we’ve seen traffic increase 25%, RSS feed subscriptions go up 200% and email subscriptions go up 300%.

Our gut feeling was correct. It’s also brought on three new writers that we never would have thought would have wanted to be a part of our site. We also made comments more engaging and interactive with popularity ranking and Disgus about six months ago, it doubled the participation on the blog.

The less distraction, the better.
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