berlin mai 2010
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Slides from presentation given by Ove Dalen and myself in UXCamp 2010 in BerlinTRANSCRIPT
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Why content strategy is essential to the user experienceBerlin, 28th May 2010
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Long neck - long tail
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10 million pages
3 million pages have never been
visited
1 % of the content represents 99 % of the page views
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Don’t hide the important stuff in crap
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Statistics from Mars 2010
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What is a kindergarten?
Kindergarten is an educational activity designed for children under school age.Kindergartens are approved according to guidelines in the Act relating to kindergartens, Act of 1 January 2006
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The web editor
• web secretary
• publish stuff when they are told to
• they publish a lot
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Norwegian client
• Knew their content wasn’t good enough
• Needed an analysis/audit of their content
• Important to do something that was management-friendly to finance an increased activity in content
• Turned to Netlife Research: can you help us??
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Content analysis
• The roots: the classical content inventory
• An opportunity to weed out bad content• Combines quantative and qualitative
methods• A method to prioritize which content to
improve• And at last: gives you a status of your
current website(s)
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How we did it
• Two persons evaluating 4 big sites i 2 weeks
• First two days: working together side by side•Reading existing documentation on
webstrategy and guidelines for web content
•Establishing a common platform for the analysis
•Evaluating content together
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Simple: just a spreadsheet
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Quality
High
Medium
Low
Delete?
Site 1
High
Medium
Low
Delete?
Site 3
High
MediumLow
Delete?
Site 4
High
Medium
LowDelete?
Site 2
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Reasons for low/medium quality
46%
18%1%
9%
26%
Text difficult to un-derstand
No unique selling points
Bad call to action
Lack of user goals
Bad prioritized
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Explanation when medium/bad content quality• The text is not understandable
• No unique selling points
• Bad prioritized
• No obvious user goals
• Bad call to action
I don’t understand the product or sloppy explanation
I do understand the product but the selling points are no good
Several good points buried in the bottom of the text
Is this page really needed for the user?
”Click here” What??!!
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Examplify the bad
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Key findings in the analysis• The design template is a
straitjacket for the content• Difficult to find the ”right” product
– too many pages• Addon-services who get their own
page are filling up the website• Many of the products are difficult
to understand• Lack of prices creates uncertainty
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Pitfalls
• The method for evaluating content is not in any way realistic
• It’s easy to get lost in the website• No common platform on what’s good
content• It scares the hell out of the webwriters
(at least when the analysis is done by someone outside!!)
• Don’t evaluate your own content
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Don’t just evaluate the bad• Make a top 10 list of the best content on
the site• Examplify what’s good
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So, did it help?
• They’ve got the money to improve their content
• They’ve got a mandate to heavily delete productpages – Yiha!!!
• Soon to develop more content-friendly templates
• The templates will be developed by designers and webwriters – together
• The webwriters need to be stalled in wait for better templates
• They are soon to arrange writing sessions – with the whole webteam
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Our new approach
• Approx 10 positive statements about quality
• Approx 10 positive statements about relevance
• Answer: • Yes
• No
• Partly
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Statements about quality
• Text is organized for web reading
• Text is understandable for the target group
• Page has relevant and clear calls to actions
• Page is visible in search engines SERPs
• … and so on
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Statements about relevance• Text support 1 of the 3 most important
user goals
• Text support 1 of the 3 most important strategic goals
• … and so on
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Thnx
Eirik Hafver Rø[email protected]
00 47 92 40 31 65
www.netliferesearch.no www.iallenkelhet.no
www.twitter.com/eirikhafver
00 47 918 59 180
www.netliferesearch.no www.iallenkelhet.no
www.twitter.com/ovedalen
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Appendix: important sources • Killer web content – Gerry McGovern• The Long Tail – Chris Andreson• The Elements of User Experience - Jesse James Garrett• Content strategy for the web – Kristina Halvorson• Information is a task – Gerry McGovern• Don’t trust your gut instinct – Gerry McGovern• The real difference between Google and Yahoo – Gerry
McGovern • Building Respect for Usability Expertise – Jakob Nielsen• The Discipline of Content Strategy – Kristina Halvorson• I’m not an idiot, but I play one online – Jeff Sexton• You’re so not welcome - Erin Anderson• Where’s the beef? – Kristina Halvorson
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Examples - quality
• Good title - NO• Clear CTA – YES/Partly• Sufficient content - NOOOOO• Text design – YES• Understandable – NO• Human voice - Partly
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Relevance
• Does it inspire users to contribute – partly
• Easy to get a clear overview over the WS – NO
• Easy to plan your day – NO• Does it inspire people to join the
conference – partly• Easy to contribute - partly