News!! Mousetrap Or Gourmet Cheeseboard - How Are Y'all Treating Your Readers?

This article is pure self-indulgence as well as doesn't say y'all how to produce anything inward Blogger or whatsoever other tool.

But mayhap it's a skilful hateful solar daytime to inquire whether your weblog is a murderous mouse-trap, a grotty greasy-spoon, or a luscious gourmet cheeseboard.

Confluent: real cool Blogger-users

I receive got a lot of fourth dimension for David Kutcher, who has a real useful blog-about-blogger (Blog-Xpertise) as well as offers to a greater extent than full general blogging as well as web-consultancy from his company, Confluent forms.

They produce some very cool things amongst Blogger.

They sympathize that for people who aren't either super-techs or large scale publishers using Wordpress simply isn't realistic.

And they've proved that while Blogger is a non bad tool for getting started, it tin live on configured to produce simply well-nigh anything that needs to live on done.

But they mean value your readers are mice!

But today I mean value they got it wrong.

"You involve to mean value of your website every bit a digital mousetrap ... y'all involve to instruct the mice to your site, encourage them to accept the bait, snare them inward your trap".

Initially, this sounds cute.

But halt as well as mean value well-nigh it for a moment.

How produce people react when they're trapped: they panic, prepare real negative emotional reactions to the house they're in, concord on to their valuables, as well as struggle to escape. If they produce escape, they say their work solid unit of measurement as well as friends to stay good away.

And what's the end-game for a mouse that get's caught inward a trap?  Best case, it's released somewhere inward betwixt the common downwardly the route as well as the depths of Connemara - a long agency from friends, work solid unit of measurement as well as familiar surroundings. Most likely, it meets an untimely decease from eating poisoned cheese, or a blow to the head.

Is that actually what y'all desire for your customers  / visitors / readers / subscribers ?

If y'all desire the "mice" to stick around, offering non bad cheese

Personally, I mean value of my website every bit an elegant cheeseboard - designed strictly for human visitors.

It offers a arrive at of flavours as well as textures - the ones my visitors want, as well as some that stretch their palette a little.  It includes some pieces especially for visitors who are just getting started.

It's restocked regularly, amongst mode as well as giving private "cheeses" plenty space, as well as hence visitors tin find what they're looking for, as well as also notice other interesting tidbits spell they're there.

It's open as well as accessible:   mice - as well as web-crawling-spiders - tin watch whatsoever fourth dimension they like.  More importantly, they tin leave. And when they produce leave, there's a squeamish sense of savor inward their mouth, as well as salubrious cheese inward their bellies (don't cry the cholesterol!). So they tin instruct elsewhere, as well as tell their friends well-nigh the non bad alternative over at my place. They're probable to watch again, too, because I made certain that they felt skilful when they left - the cheese was tasty as well as the surroundings pleasant.

There are a arrive at of tools available - as well as I cutting some of the the cheese into real accessible slices for those visitors who are simply getting started, as well as instruct out some to a greater extent than robust chunks out for the mouse-about-the-town who's looking for more.

I receive got a warehouse of interesting ideas (in my pre-publication blog) simply waiting to live on finished as well as added to the platter.

No i dies at the halt of a visit.

And I'm confident that, i day, I volition live on able to offering my ain gourmet cheese inward an exclusive section, that the mice volition pay to arrive to based on the trust that we've developed inward the free-cheese paradise.

What form of weblog are y'all building, a mouse-trap or a cheeseboard?

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