Why do you have a QR code on your website...?

[Ashley_Price]

Two quick questions:

1/ Why have a QR code on your website which, when you scan it, takes you to the website?

2/ Why, on the "Contact us" page of your website, would you have the address (with a hyperlink) of your website?

At first I was doing these questions in a sort of sarcastic way, but I thought there maybe a valid reason for doing it.

 

[astutiumRob]

1/ Why have a QR code on your website which, when you scan it, takes you to the website?

Possible answers would be ... because ...
* you dont understand what QR Codes are and for
* you want to 'print' a copy of the webpage as the back of your business card
* some designer thought it would be 'cool'
* you expect people to download it, print it or do something else 'off-site' with it

2/ Why, on the "Contact us" page of your website, would you have the address (with a hyperlink) of your website?

Similar answers to the above, with the additional one of the 'widget'or code-block being used on multiple sites but ultimately always leading to the main one

 

[10032012]

Two quick questions:

1/ Why have a QR code on your website which, when you scan it, takes you to the website?

2/ Why, on the "Contact us" page of your website, would you have the address (with a hyperlink) of your website?

At first I was doing these questions in a sort of sarcastic way, but I thought there maybe a valid reason for doing it.

1) Its being clever with thinking QR codes are cool. All barcodes are old not sure how it could ever be hip in this age
2) Absolutely no idea lol

The only reason you would want a QR code on your website to take you to the website is if:-
a) You are selling a website template and you would like people to see how mobile friendly it is on their phone/tablet (i.e. rather than typing in the address manually with long urls!)
b) The QR code actually takes you to a different page, as an easter egg, still not sure why, possibility perhaps
c) You actually have the QR code going to a tracking link (perhaps short url) that instantly redirects to the website, so you count how many idiots have tried it and lose faith in humanity! lol

 

[Pressure Hosting]

QR codes are meant to be new and 'cool'. However you don't know what they are linking too. They could be linking to anything.

 

[Darren Street]

QRs were a brainchild of a marketing person and a fad which for the most part has gone away.

I am not sure you were ever supposed to put them on your website. A few years ago when everyone stopped buying Nokias and bought Iphones and Samsungs the QR was quite a fun way for marketing bods to flog promotions to the punters.

It all seems long gone now though.

 

[Mad Frog]

I've seen websites where scanning the QR Code takes the visitor to a special discount/offer page, not sure how effective that would be though.

 

[BustersDogs]

I was going to put a QR code on my van with maybe a competition on the web page if they filled in where and when they saw the van - just thinking of ways to check what my drivers are doing. Decided I trusted my drivers in the end.

 

[fisicx]

This is how to use a QR code:

 

[InTheCloud]

@BoredomBusters not to mention the difficulty of capturing the QR code on a moving vehicle. Its hard enough when you're standing still .

I think its was just a phase. People found it quite cool to scan something and be taken to a website/app. Not very functional compared to its rival technologies

 

[UKSBD]

2/ They may have the address in microdata format and have the web address as an itemprop=url