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CrazyEgg To The Rescue Again

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I'm conflicted here: I'm really happy that folks find my blog valuable, but I would strongly prefer never seeing two posts from it on the front page at once. (It just strikes me as... unseemly.)

By now you've probably got bots watching your blog and autoposting new entries to the queue upon publication.

You could spread your new posts out by a day or two if it really bugs you.

If its an adwords landing page and everyone that is going to the site probably wants to download it if you click it why not make it one big image and have it all link to download?

Google disapproves.

I like Crazy Egg, but when I used it it the scripts absolutely killed my site's load time. That was around a year and a half ago, I don't know if it has improved since.

I wonder if this experience is suggestive of a not-quite-CrazyEgg but still useful technique: add a default click-handler to the whole page, that (in the absence of any real outlink) records the location of the click, and sends visitors to a plausible default 'second page' (or 'third page' if enacted on the second page, etc.). You get the illusion of responsiveness for any click, and capture the regions-of-most-confusion in a log somewhere.

I guess you're not one of those people that selects text as you're reading. :)

Only as a bookmark before adjusting text size, or to copy-to-clipboard. But that's a good point; intercepting those clicks would be annoying to the readers. The handler could distinguish point-clicks from click-drags.

Add doubleclicking to that list, because that's my preferred way of selecting a line of text. Unfortunately a lot of people also doubleclick on links.

I guess there's a lesson here: don't try to chase a higher conversion rate by getting in the way of "savvy" visitors. Still, it's a good idea once you cover all the edge cases.

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