Web usability is a practice to improve an end-user experience, by making your site content easy to find, and understand, usability of your website very strongly affects the number of return visits and the overall size of your audience base.

Given Below are 15 tips for batter Usability and end-user experience.

Blog Identity:

When someone first comes to your site they try to figure out who are you? , What do you do? , what the site is all about? It’s vital to answer this questions quickly to engage reader with your Blog.

Let’s See How To Do It

• Logo/Branding: Put your logo or emblem where it’s easy to find (Usually the Upper-left of your Header section)
• Tagline: Like mine under the logo, it makes things clear for my 1st time visitor about my blog and its niche (What the site is all about)
• About You/Company: Your about page serves as resume of your company or you (in case it’s a personal page), it makes things easier for people who need to learn more about you.

Blog Navigation:

Once your reader know who you are and what you do. Next thing they want is clear paths to the content that interests them.

Let’s See How to Improve Your Navigation

• Navigation bar: Make your main pages like About, Contact, FAQ, Disclaimer, easily spot and accessible (just below you header)
• Sitemap: Much of your site’s traffic comes from search engines, and 80% of that traffic is 1st timer on your blog. Sitemaps make navigating your site easier for them,
• Link Your Logo To Home Page: This may sound like stupid advice, but people anticipate logos to link to home-pages, (and when it doesn’t the confusion follows.)
• Use Breadcrumb Trail: Breadcrumb is a secondary navigation that shows people their current location in relation to the Web site’s hierarchy, it offers one click access to higher site level, and it is particularly useful for visitor who arrives on page deep within your blog via search engine or deep link from other blogs. It helps users learn the structure and hierarchy of the website
• Internal Linking: Users are more likely to click on a link in the text of a page than those on a navigation bar, because it feels more relevant. When done right Internal Linking can improve both search rankings and usability.
• Search Form: It’s a life saver for user like me who lack patience, Place it above the fold (preferably on navbar)
  Subscription Option: Make it easy to subscribe by placing your subscriber widget in highly visible location (Above the fold on sidebar)

Content writing:

If you have read my post about Reader’s Online Behavior And Attitude, you will probably know that everything you have read so far (and what coming next) will do you no good if your visitors are navigating around badly written/formatted content.

How To Improve Your Content For Batter Reading Experience

• Write simple: Heavy or sluggish words scare people who do not speak much English, Use words that are very common and require no endeavor on the part of the reader.
• Most Important thing 1st: Deliver your most important information in first two paragraphs to keep you reader rooted.
• Use h2 and h3, tags often: Highlight your keywords and main points, so a reader can pick out the main ideas right away
• Be Descriptive in Headline: Don’t be cryptic in head line, Use brief headlines use conveying words
• Don’t Try Anything Fancy (Fonts and Color): Stick to true type font and light background, Choose color combinations that are easy on the eyes.
• Use Numeral list: Figure represent facts, its batter to say to 7 Ingredients Of Magnetic Blog, than seven Ingredients Of Magnetic Blog.

This 15 tweaks will making it easy for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.

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