Adding a related-posts plugin can reduce your bounce rate by around 3% if my site is anything to go by.
In the two months before I installed the Yet Another Related Posts plugin my bounce rate was 84.3%. In the two months since then, my bounce rate has averaged 81.6% – a drop of 3.25%.
Carousels (sliders as they’re sometimes known) are a good way to promote several items of content without using up too much space on your homepage.
Here’s a roundup of sites using them – and how successful I think they are. Having studies several, I think the best ones.
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Newspaper websites are failing in some obvious ways to make their stories readable. Too many are using small fonts, long off-putting paragraphs, no subheadings, no in-content boxes or pictures, and no in-content links.
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There are several ways to make your copy readable on the web. Yet I see sites ignoring these simple tips, all the time – especially newspapers.
At the botom, you’ll find this article repeated, breaking all these rules …
Choose a large font size
Fonts that are too small are hard to read. Obviously. However, people often think [...]
What makes a good Twitter avatar – with examples of good and bad avatars and lessons you can learn from them.
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