Jan 31
Tim Linden over at StartXchange has added another great feature. You can now rate the pages that you see while surfing. As an incentive to do so, you will get activity points added towards your rankings.
What truly makes this feature great is that you can see how well your peers rate the websites that you are promoting. If the people you are advertising to don’t like your ad, it is vital that you find out so you can improve your pages. If you enjoy surfing at StartXchange, please do others a favor and rate their pages. You will benefit with activity points (which helps your surf ratio) and help someone else at the same time.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:55 am
I’m interested to see how this plays out.
Firstly, it has it’s advantage. This will get people’s eyes on the web sites instead of just looking for an image to click and continue surfing.
Secondly, it will let users know which pages of theirs are more customer friendly.
However, I wonder if users will be clicking a rating just to get activity points and not actually looking at the website.. artificially inflating or deflating valid rates for that web site. And also, if they are looking at the site to just give it a rating, will it decrease clickthrough rates of splash pages et al? Click to surf, click to rate, click through to the splash page.
I like the idea, and glad to see some innovativeness. Very interesting!