Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Researching bookmarks. Part 3. Conclusion

4. I noticed that about 15% of my bookmarks concerning me in person. Mean sometimes I save links to outstanding discussions where I’ve participated, to sites where I’ve done something. And also I’ve bookmarked my accounts at last.fm, flickr.com, plime.com and so on.

So in theory involving people in your blog processes, asking them to do something engaging for your site stimulate visitors to bookmark. Readers may get your RSS feeds, and maybe it’s even better, than bookmarking.

5. Everybody has some just cool links. For example it can be web comics’ page.

If you’ve managed to do something great, and somebody except you admits it, try to reflect it in your blog. You may find some unexpected associate. Well, if you’ve really done cool thing, you’re lucky :) My compliments

You’ve noticed for sure that I haven’t too much shocking facts about bookmarking. But here’s short conclusion. If you follow it you’ll have some more chances to be bookmarked.

1. Arrange useful reference lists.
2. Post concrete and particularized stuff.
3. Keep your blog carefully.
4. Involve visitors in discussions and contests.
5. Write cool :)

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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Bookmarking research. Part 2

Let’s continue bookmarking analysis.

2. Everybody likes entertainments but also has a list of interests. For example, I’m interested in web-development, blogging, Internet on the whole, computer role-playing games, roller skating and so about 70% of my bookmarks are quite particularized. Remaining 30% are quite heterogeneous, mixed and casual.

Resume: suppose people bookmark something of a particular speciality, specific and concrete. I’d rather bookmark some blog on post-rock than just cool music blog without any specialization.

3. I’d say that about 60% of web pages I’ve bookmarked contain articles or stories. 40% are site roots (home pages). The first means I’ll return to particular page once or twice to refresh some facts in my mind. Or maybe I’ll send link to this page to my friends.

The second means I’m interested in the site and its various contents and I’ll visit it again and again without any concrete purpose hoping to discover something worthy (e. g. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com).

I think that the second variant is much better. So write good posts and make your blog history attractive :)

To be continued…

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