4 Ways to Improve Page Views - Intriguing branches

People are curious and it’s a fact. Web browsing would have never become so popular if it wasn’t for the natural curiosity and willingness to follow links into the unknown. If we know how to make use of this “intriguing branches” we can direct our users into a more fun and interesting interface

Here are some ways I tested successfully:

1.Friends Feeds on Social Networks

One of the reasons I visit Facebook so often is because I can’t wait to see the latest events around my circle of friends. And they do profit as much as they can from this natural tendency. Now social networks and websites copy this type of “friends feeds” on user pages to increase their page visits. And it works

2.Make things simple

The behavior of your application has to be predictable and correspond to your users expectations, leading them to trust the navigation and their own way of working with it. This is important to make the visitors curious to explore more

Example from the design I did for Frogtek Android App

Don’t you just want to open the store?

3.Persuasive labels

How many times did you click on a link that says “Help”? Let’s admit it, we don’t need any help, we’re smart enough

But here’s how Google makes its users click on the help link

It’s so well dressed up it doesn’t even cross my mind it’s the help button

4.Visual Cues

No matter how much we rationalize and read, we are still turned on much more by visual clues then we are by text.

Photo- Example on Flickr and its side strips. How many times you haven’t clicked on those?

Movies - Youtube, Boxee and many more under this category make our life more enjoyable providing social videos that make you explore. But movies on websites are just getting cooler and cooler

Here’s how Sokoz presents itself. Don’t you just want them to launch already?