jaschen
@jaschen@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Well, the majority of people do.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Chrome. You’re likely using their product. They know everything.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Not all, but I have plenty of 1 or 2 people sites that are purely ad based for income.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Ahhh, I think you might be an edge case. The users we tested this on all understood what was going to happen after.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
I started my career in SEO and moved into web Manager because it was just too tiring keeping up with Google. I think my last update that I could remember was called “Panda”. This is when they named their updates.
My current SEO strategy is super simple. Have the content you’re writing for relate as much as possible to the user intent. Give the user what they are looking for FAST and then crosslink, cross sell after. You will have a good page.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
What you’re talking about is called lazy loading. It loads text first and CSS and then images after.
Most modern sites now do this along with needing to load it at all until you hit the continue button. That not only reduces your browser load, it also reduces server load as well.
There are many other reasons to have the continue button, but the positives outweigh the negative. It’s not considered a dark pattern and helps the content team improve on their content.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
It depends on the site. A recipes site is trying to get as many impressions as possible so they can either turn a profit or keep the lights on.
If your company doesn’t rely on ads to stay afloat, the site experience is better.
If you dislike the page, exit the page within 10ish seconds without clicking anything and you will hurt the page’s SEO ranking.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
As I mentioned, small mom and pop shops can’t afford to give you free content without ads. So they prioritize the ad so they can get paid for the impression.
Unfortunately the content is not free to create and maintain.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Some of my clients do not have the budget to give you free content without ads. Even a (usable)shared hosting server costs around 25 bucks a month. Add in dev time and design, small mom and pop sites can’t afford to be ad free.
Only the big dogs do paywalls.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Then the article isn’t strong enough and will be rewritten. The more relevant it is in your search, the higher chance you will continue reading.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Web Manager here. Some good answers here. Let me add a few more.
Engagement. If you land on a page and don’t engage on the page and leave, Google doesn’t even count you as a User. The more things you do on the page, Google will rank you higher.
Data analysts: we are testing if the article is valuable or not. If nobody is clicking continue, we know that we might need to rework the article.
Page load: The biggest and I mean biggest reason someone leaves a page is page load speed. If you’re deep in researching some information, regardless of your internet speed or if the fault is on the user side and your page load is over 3 seconds, you will leave the site. Loading only 1/4 of the page helps with this along with other tricks like caching at the CDN and lazy loading.
There are tons more reasons, but we found that with the “Continue” button, it wasn’t detrimental to the site performance.
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 10 months ago:
Sounds like you might have lead paint or thick cement in the walls.
I would just add another node using a powerline near your most popular spots. I would limit it to 2 max.
- Comment on BIG GEOLOGY 10 months ago:
Looks like the Pompeiians figured it out before we all did.
- Comment on The more you know 10 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on How to make two groups of fanboys twitch simultaneously. 10 months ago:
No, you’re thinking Starfox. Def Starfox.
- Comment on How to make two groups of fanboys twitch simultaneously. 10 months ago:
Wait, is this the ship from Firefly?
- Comment on The more you know 10 months ago:
All the 3D printer software, Z is vertical. But I only used a couple so I am not an expert.
- Comment on The more you know 10 months ago:
Isn’t the Z axis vertical?
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 10 months ago:
Wired + Mesh Wifi is the best combo. House not wired? Try powerline Ethernet. It does degrade the more you have so I only have it for my computer and PS5.
- Comment on puzzling 10 months ago:
I don’t know. I did a reverse image search and didn’t come up with it except for the meme. It would be a lot of work to find a partial of fighting space like that
- Comment on puzzling 10 months ago:
Looks pretty real to me.
- Comment on we need better hobbies 11 months ago:
As someone with ADHD with severe hyperfocus, I feel you. Just once I want to think about nothing. Even with meds, it only helps me defocus. Doesn’t stop the thinking.
