Comments on: Where Should You Put Your Opt-In Box? http://www.homesweethomepagebook.com/600/where-should-you-put-your-opt-in-box/ The 5 Deadly Mistakes Authors, Speakers and Coaches Make with Their Website's Home Pge and How To Fix Them! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:02:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: cspothitt http://www.homesweethomepagebook.com/600/where-should-you-put-your-opt-in-box/comment-page-1/#comment-61 cspothitt Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:46:32 +0000 http://www.homesweethomepagebook.com/?p=600#comment-61 From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for March 22, 2010: "Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold." This is why I say you need to get your opt-in box above the fold if growing your list is the main goal of your web page. For more: <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html</a> From Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for March 22, 2010:

“Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.”

This is why I say you need to get your opt-in box above the fold if growing your list is the main goal of your web page.

For more: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html

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