/> Teasing your curiosity

"Do Not Click Here". How many of you have seen this slogan in a banner? What did you do when you first saw it? If you are like most people, when you first saw it, you clicked on it. What makes this simple sentence so powerful that it compels the visitor to click on it? The answer is curiosity !!!

Copywriters and web designers are always looking for ways to arouse the website visitor's curiosity. As banner designers their goal is to attract the visitor to the banner, usually completely ignoring the other elements on the web page that are more important to the website owner. However, because the "Do Not Click Here" slogan tells us nothing about what is on the next page, it arouses the visitor's curiosity and makes it almost impossible not to click on this banner to see what's behind it.

Simple integrated design

When Larry Page and Sergey Brin first introduced their product, "Google", to potential investors, they mentioned Adwords as a backup option in case they didn't make any money. We all know how lucky they were that they eventually needed to use that backup plan. What made these "boring" ads such a great success?

Unlike other ads, Adwords neither arouse the visitor's curiosity nor disturb the main flow of the web page. In fact, the opposite is true. Adwords are meant to look like part of the search results

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