Usability-question on 2 of my websites
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Hi all,
It has been a while since I have been in this forum, but that's normally a great sign
Anyway these days I'm work on a "face-lift" on a couple of my sites (www.krydsord.dk, www.bingoforum.dk and www.alutagrender.dk), but also this face-lift should be more than just that. Hopefully it will help the usability to be better, and as a result of that - I hope it will make it easier for my visitors to easily find what they are looking for.
The question is: I would like to ad, say, 25 words of description (mouse-over) in my top menu buttons.
Why? Because, I believe that it's a possible problem that the menu just says "krydsord" (crosswords) in stead of a describing text saying something about "Push this button and you will see a complete list of all the cross words on Krydsord.dk). This way, I get the chance to add more text (for the Search Engines) and to guide my visitors in a way that I'm not capable of with the limitations my top menus give me as they are at this moment.
Naturally, my visitors should be able to easily decline this "extra information", once they have got it once.
Is this completely way off, or do you like the idea? More specifically: Will this be annoying for the visitors, will it have any positive effect on SEO matters?
Actually I got partly inspired during a SEOmoz webinar (http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/designing-for-seo), even though it's not exactly what they are talking about in thwe webinar. For anybody who are curious (or just need to kill some time), you can have a look from 19:00 and watch it for about two minutes.
Thanks a lot!
Nicolai
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Ops, I made a mistake in the first link - here is is: www.krydsord.dk
Thanks - and good day!
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