Keep the number of animated items on your blog to a minimum!
Lately I’ve noticed that there are more and more animated cute items being posted in sidebars as well as animated post siggies being used.
While I can make animated post siggies for anyone who wants them (and I have made them for some by request), I recommend if you are blogging for Business Purposes that you keep the number of animated items to a minimum and be selective with what you choose to have animated.
The reason is that if too many items on your blog are animated, you are not making ANY of the animated items catch your reader’s eye. Instead, your reader will see a bunch of animated this and that and they tend to ignore everything animated as distracting.
The only items on your blog that should be animated are the items you REALLY want your readers to click on!
There is absolutely no good reason for a post siggy to be animated. First, a post siggy can easily end up 3 or 4 times on your page. In general, you don’t click on a post siggy (unless you include some sort of advertisement with it and if that is the case, I still wouldn’t animate it). If your readers don’t click on it, why animated it? (Unless you are a hobby blogger and you want the "cute" effect – and there is nothing wrong with that by the way!)
The only items that should be animated are special offers and invitations to visit a business site for ordering or for more information about ordering or recruiting.
If you stick by this policy of limiting the animated items on your blog to only the items you WANT anyone visiting on your blog to take action on, the readers are more likely to take notice of what is blinking/fading etc. and click on it because they are not distracted from other surplus blinking items.
This is why the buttons that I make for everyone to download for free here don’t have animation other than the ones I make for specials and other important buttons you want your customers to click on.
The project of the month buttons and selected project buttons do not have animation (can you imagine if they did??! If you use them all on your blog the entire sidebar would blink! oh my!!!)
So, it is important to be mindful of the amount of animation of your blogs. Only use animation when it is part of your goal to have someone take action on your button topic!
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