Comments on: Spiders and sweethearts

By: Jon Butler

Jon Butler — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:29:49 +0000

Much prefer the image of the sticky burr, though not afraid of spiders.

Good metaphor either way.

By: preachersa2z

preachersa2z — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:33:36 +0000

Sound and helpful comments as ever, Pam. Someone tweeted me this little gem earlier: “I will cling to God as the burr clings to clothes.” Katharina von Bora (Martin Luther’s wife)

By: Pam Smith

Pam Smith — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:22:00 +0000

We keep any eye on how ‘sticky’ our pages are on i-church, simply because we put a lot of information about Christianity online and there’s not much point producing pages that people don’t want to look at.

I don’t see this as particularly predatory TBH – if people leave the site within seconds of arriving it means they haven’t found it interesting so we need to up our game.

I do agree though that unless people retain something helpful or useful it doesn’t matter how long they spend on your site. So ideally I would hope for ‘sticky’ pages *and* ‘sticky’ content.

I don’t think site stats should be used as a PR thing – they provide useful information for the site owners about reach and effectiveness but I don’t think numbers on their own make a site worthwhile or useless.

By: Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:30:04 +0000

Probably wont surprise you, but I like spiders lol I dont over analyse what I do – I just know my material goes out across the globe and the figures are consistent… But I am a simple person and thats good enough for me…