On 20-Nov-2009, at 12:49, Brian Butterworth wrote: > As I pointed out if you calculate the reading score for these longer > headlines, they score higher, meaning they are less good to those (unlike > ourselves) who have lower reading skills. > > For higher skilled people, they just take longer to scan. > > If you said it was for SEO, that would be fine. But for usability, it sucks. >
errrrr, you’re missing the point: the short headlines remain on the “section” pages. It’s only the article itself which has the long headline, by which point you’ve already clicked through. the other use-case is arriving at the page via a search engine—in which case richer titles are helpful (you’ve already told the SE what it is you’re looking for in any case). -- mo mcroberts http://nevali.net iChat: [email protected] Jabber/GTalk: [email protected] Twitter: @nevali Run Leopard or Snow Leopard? Set Quick Look free with DropLook - http://labs.jazzio.com/DropLook/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
