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Wouldn’t it be great if you could look at your website or blog with a fresh pair of eyes and view it the same way that your visitors do? It would really give you a head start when you were deciding the best place for your Adsense ads, what type of font to use, where to put your banners etc.
Well here’s a great piece of research performed by a company called Eyetrack which will help you to do just that. They tracked web visitor’s eye movements for a number of test sites and produced “heat maps” based upon the way the sites were viewed.
You can see the heat maps here…… - and read the full report here..
The “sites” used were all dummy newspaper sites, but the principles will hold for most types of site. If nothing else, it should give you a good idea where to position your Adsense blocks for the best effect.
Hamish Hayward
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Yeah, that's really interesting
By the way, I also highly recommend you to read the Jakob Nielsen’s (he is a “web usability guru”) article about the so-called “F pattern”: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html (Alertbox, April 17), i.e. the shape that is formed in most visitors’ cases when they were researching their eye-movement.
Ivan Tadej (user: “tayiper”)
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