Comments on: Niche Blogging: Limit Visitor Choices?

By: Gotafish

Gotafish — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:51:22 +0000

Very Interesting, From past experience in retail marketing the general rule was to only offer the customer two choices of products to purchase, three at the most. When a consumer is confronted with to many choices they tend to get frustrated and often talk themselves out of the purchase completely. I dont see why this principal shouldn’t apply to the internet surfer as well.
Thanks,
Gotafish

By: jfc

jfc — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:52:51 +0000

Hi Y.S.,

I think part of it is that it can’t look like your typical “Made for Adsense” site, with ad blocks overwhelming the content and scrapped or Markoved content. The content has to be good but lightweight reading that leaves them hungry for more info. The more you can make the site look like a reference site, the better.

By: jfc

jfc — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:45:34 +0000

Hi RT,

I hope everything is going well for you right now.

Hopefully I’ll have some more performance data in a few months to see how different approaches are working.

By: YC

YC — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:25:58 +0000

Hi Frank, I never really thought about it but you’re spot on about this. When I think about it, my better performing blogs ad-wise have very limited choices in terms of things to click through once they have visited, and the choices are usually restricted to ads. Great writeup.

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:59:19 +0000

I think your ideas are spot on, Frank. In fact, that’s the route I intend to go when I start on niche blogs (April/May).

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By: Saedel

Saedel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:09:03 +0000

Hi Frank,

Your post is convincing, and to be perfectly honest I haven’t thought of a niche blog using a minimalist approach, despite being minimalist myself.

I will try another niche using this method.

By the way, excellent post, as always. Interesting and engaging; I read everything from top to bottom straight.

-Saedel

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:47:42 +0000

Actually I think you ramble quite well - perfect serp food. You’re a very good writer Frank, don’t change a thing.

By: jfc

jfc — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:26:17 +0000

Hi Aaron,

I’ve seen your blog a few times on EntreCard dropping runs as well as from Blogging Zoom entries. I think it works well since you’re going for a minimalist approach. It’s always good to see a different approach rather than the “same old, same old”

By: Aaron Anderson

Aaron Anderson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:11:07 +0000

I love the minimalist approach. I have my blog setup so that I have a sidebar on the homepage but when you click through to one of the articles it disappears. But I do have a few links for navigational purposes.

People think they like options but in most cases they really don’t. Given to many they end up doing nothing at all. Where if you would have only given then one option they would be more likely to do it.