It's the Click that Matters Most

in by Bryan 4 comments


We can argue all day about whether a beautifully crafted web page is important to your brand. Your customer, however, won't care about your web page unless the click before arriving to the page met their expectations and the page after it fulfills the promise of the click.

Your online brand thrives and dies in the void that is created between clicks.

4 comments

Simon Dexter says

Very thought provoking! Do you have a good and bad example of a situation that supports this? Nice post.


Bryan (ZURB) says

Simon- Sure, here are a couple of bad examples:

  1. Page before is Google- click to your page takes 10 seconds to load. (Google typically removes these pages)
  2. Hyperlink on page before says LOW COST TIRES- and you end up on a used tires page.
  3. Page before is interrupted by an interstitial ad.

The page before doesn't even have to be a page you own. Your customer visualizes what they expect to read and see before arriving at a page. Sometimes it only takes one bad click. Repeated clicks....you start to see the pattern.


Steve says

I like it! Good, short, spreadable message


SImon Dexter says

Yes, thanks. A couple of concrete examples helped a mid-tier / back end developer clarify the post very nicely.