Comments on: 3 Steps to a Better User Experience on Your Site https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/website-user-experience/ SEO and Internet Marketing Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jessica Lee https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/website-user-experience/#comment-108258 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:21:13 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/?p=22402#comment-108258 @Keri: Thanks for all the great info; super helpful and appreciate it! See you in SF?

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By: Nick Stamoulis https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/website-user-experience/#comment-108250 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:10:32 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/?p=22402#comment-108250 404 errors not only ruin the user experience but are also bad from a search engine trust perspective. A great tool to find broken links is Link Tiger. It’s a manual process to go through and fix the links, but it’s worth it.

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By: Kent https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/website-user-experience/#comment-108236 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:07:38 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/?p=22402#comment-108236 Hi Jessica, using eye tracking software to track is the most accurate way to check if a website has better user experience or not.

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By: Keri Morgret https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/website-user-experience/#comment-108220 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:37:46 +0000 http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/?p=22402#comment-108220 I took over operation of a forum, and discovered that on the home page of the site (that I never visited because I went straight to the forum) there was a bad typo! I used a free scan from CheckDog (http://checkdog.com/) to scan a few of my static pages for typos.

A cheap-and-dirty spell-check that I did on the forums was to go into Google Analytics and export the titles of all of the pages with traffic in the last year or two. I put the titles into Word in plain text and used its spelling checker. I went ahead and fixed forum thread titles so the site looked better at first glance in the SERPs and in browsing the site. Because that site was user generated content, and I didn’t have the time and money to run a scan of all the content, I only fixed the titles and static areas and left the rest alone. Not something that can be done in every case, but it worked for me.

Xenu is just for the PC, so Mac users may want to look at Screaming Frog as a crawler. There’s a nice outline of what both Xenu and Screaming Frog do at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog.

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