What is Reader Optimization?

Reader Optimization is another term i use for User Friendly but reader optimization deals with more features that deal with features that benefit the readers rather then the search engines.

Nowadays everyone is trying to please search engines, there’s only a certain limit till you can seo your site but after that its all content and user friendliness that will keep the real visitors coming back again and again for more content and more of your blog.

Design

A good design/user interface is the the first step towards Reader Optimization, real visitors want more then content they want flashy content and eyecandy images that make reading the articles so much more pleasing and interesting, many sites with a great design and less content do 4 times better then a blog with tons of great content but a poor design.

From what I’ve seen only 12% of the blogs get away with an ugly design but since their content is so addictive people keep coming back, Smashing magazine published a post on the 45 most attractive blog designs on the net, take a look and check out the competition.

Navigation

Usually people say that navigation and link placement is a part of UI as well but i think it deserves its own discussion here, navigation and accessibility of content (inner pages) is important for both SEO and RO, read up on 30 usability issues once again by smashing magazine they explain most issues that i was going to discuss here.

SEOMoz has included navigation and in-content mentions to inner pages alot in their premium content and various seo articles, and it is a crucial aspect of web design and development.

Friendly Scripting

Using a good platform on which you can make your site has its own long line of rewards, one thing was painfully obvious to me, never use flash to make websites if you really want users to come and stay never go with flash its laggy and slow for most people and there are several incompability issues in my opinion i know alot of people may argue with me on this but i feel that flash is not the right way to make a profitable and user friendly website, CSS is where i like to stay there are so many awesome sites in css and you can see them showcased here.

Be the man

From a blogger’s view, I’d say the best thing in a blog that keeps users there is the personal touch unique bloggers have in their posts, so be yourself doesn’t matter if you curse alot or you have bad grammar, as long as you make a valid and stern point you’ll be just fine.

Madness Erupts - Outage,Downtime,Fever,Bills..all at once

Thursday-Saturday.

These 3 days were hell for me, to start off i had a really bad fever going on since wednesday which got worst on thursday night then the dsl bill came in and it got cut off the next day the dsl office was closed and during all this there was a server migration going on after which there was supposed to be a restore of all sites (which by the way did not go all the way) there are still 10-20 of my sites that are still down or not restored at all, this blog however was one of the lucky ones, not a single post missing, i guess thats an up side to all of this.

I guess today will be one heck of a day to deal with, only after i get all of my sites back up then i can carry on with further development, and this is kinda depressing..look at it go down..eh.. ah well i won’t let it get outta the 100k mark!

Developing further into this blog..

I believe a good design takes you 50% of the way to success for any niche, so I’m getting a whole new design for Blueverse from Unique Blog Designs, they have designed sites like Shoemoney and John Chow and I think they’ll do a kickass job for this blog as well.

Now apart from the design there will be atleast 2 more ebooks one is a sequel to my free seo book and the second will be all about monetization and factors, tips, tricks and articles on how to earn more then you already do using SEO and general Marketing techniques, apart from the more features/articles..etc there will be some free scripts and tools here as well that i know will be helpful to ALOT of people.

And some development news on how i take a site from $0/day to $20/day , personally thats what I’m looking forward to do the most!