Comments on: How Design Impacts Social Media Success

By: The #1 Factor For A Successful Blog: Consistent Frequency of Posts | Real Time Marketer

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:18:29 +0000

[...] Blog Design [...]

By: nicky

nicky — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:42:00 +0000

Yes, Layout of the blog or site will often influence the users because first impression is the best and we need to take care while designing the layout.

By: What’s Involved in Social Media Marketing? | Traffikd

What’s Involved in Social Media Marketing? | Traffikd — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:02:24 +0000

[...] arrive at a page that is attractive. While they aren’t really voting based on appearance, the look of the page will have an impact on how they vote or if they vote. Users who find a well-designed page will be more likely to give [...]

By: Avoiding Social Media Irrelevance | Traffikd

Avoiding Social Media Irrelevance | Traffikd — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:02:24 +0000

[...] Design and appearance does affect the results you will get with social media. While the design is not as important as the content, it certainly helps in terms of first impressions, and first impressions frequently influence voters. If you’re using a free blog theme try to find some ways that you can customize the theme to make it a bit more unique. Also, for targeting social media audiences it helps to have content start high on the page, at least above the fold. [...]

By: How To Use Social Media And Social Networking To Popularize Your Blog And To Increase Traffic To Your Blog! A Comprehensive Guide To Increasing Traffic With Social Networking And Social Media Marketing! | Rajiv's Blog!

Thu, 01 May 2008 11:28:35 +0000

[...] How Design Impacts Social Media Success. [...]

By: Lid

Lid — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:12:42 +0000

It was…wasn’t it

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:06:24 +0000

Good point Wayne. I agree.

That’s a good idea Vinh. I’ll be interested to see the results.

By: Vinh Le

Vinh Le — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:12:47 +0000

In regards to how design impacts social media success, I agree that it has a huge impact and I plan to test it. I plan to create a special landing page that organizes a series of posts I have made in a different design than the rest of my blog and testing it. I think my blog design works fine, but trying to organize the series in the same layout as regular posts I feel would be less successful then if I were to design a special page that is organized a lot better.

The trick being that it has to have the same consistent feel as the my blog design, but at the same time be much better at organizing the series of articles so that it increases the number of page views. This is going to be fun.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:45:55 +0000

I’m sure we’ve all seen articles with a cluster of social media buttons at the top of the article, which sort of puts the cart before the horse — why would I vote when I’ve not yet read the article?

And the usability implications here are that having to scroll back up to the top of the page to vote, assuming we like the article…

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:20:56 +0000

Lid,
You really didn’t sound defensive, I just wanted to be clear that I wasn’t intending anything negative. I singled out that post because it was such a perfect example.