Fellow warrior review?

[Mly2000]

hi all

want to collect a few honest opnions about my website, it is pretty new (two months old) and im no webmaster, so im learning as i go with this one. I have adsense plugged into it and want to know what my placement looks like, and if i should tweak a few things.

anyways the website is: www.thenewtechnologyinfo.com

review site, on pretty much anything having to do with tech, computers, etc.

appreciate your time and input, and dont be gentle, let me have it if you think it is crap. Thanks again

[Wechito]

Congratulations for your site. It is nice and clean. I will suggest you a couple of thing in order to slightly improve it.
- Add a category menu at the top navigation bar. This will both facilitate navigation and tell your visitors more about what they can find in your site.
-Adsenses are nicely placed. The one on the top-right corner is perfect. This is one of the best spots on a page to place them. Adsenses above and in the content also have a high CTR, but they make your posts look less clean.

I don't know where you get the content from, but is case you are not using original content, be careful. Google is closing Adsenses accounts if the sites where the adds are placed have autogenerated content.

[Mly2000]

O no, my content is 100% unique.

i do not use a spinner, autoblog, or anything such as that, and any articles not written by me i have checked for uniqueness. not taking any chances here! lol

thank you for your thoughts.

[Wechito]

Originally Posted by Mly2000

O no, my content is 100% unique.

i do not use a spinner, autoblog, or anything such as that, and any articles not written by me i have checked for uniqueness. not taking any chances here! lol

thank you for your thoughts.

Good to hear.

Have you thought about using, along with adsenses, Amazon widgets? You can earn some commissions from Amazon. I have a couple of technology related sites and I'm having a good CR on the Amazon widgeds I palce on the sidebar.

[Wechito]

One more thing.

The links on your images. If yow want to use them to display a bigger image, I will suggest you to use Lightbox or something similar or, at link open the link on a new page. Some people will not even bother to press the "go back button" and you will miss potencial clicks.

[Heavenstorm]

I had a look at your site. Its well organised but the adsense link colour I am not quite sure. It does not blend in with the overall design feel. I will also recommend to add a link unit above each of your individual post.

[Mly2000]

actually i would like to use amazon but have failed to be able to put it on my site, i have been trying to use CODE to do it, so based on what your saying i need to go for the WIDGET option? your just solved a weeklong issue i have been having lol. Definitaly would love to have the kindle on there. As far as the pictures, i am not really meaning for them to link to anything, or show a bigger image, it is ju8st a visual add on to my posts to catch the eye of the reader and give them at least the basic idea of what they are reading about. should i make the image a link to the post itself?

[Mly2000]

Originally Posted by Heavenstorm

I had a look at your site. Its well organised but the adsense link colour I am not quite sure. It does not blend in with the overall design feel. I will also recommend to add a link unit above each of your individual post.

honestly, i have no friekin idea how to do this. and i was thinking the colors might need to be changed myself.... but not to sure which ones to use. as the little "NOOB warrior" states under my name, im totally new to IM, been at it for about two months now...

i do not expect to be given free info, but if you could give me a guide for a fee?

[xtrapunch]

Don't you think your post titles need to be displayed prominently?

[Wechito]

Originally Posted by Mly2000

actually i would like to use amazon but have failed to be able to put it on my site, i have been trying to use CODE to do it, so based on what your saying i need to go for the WIDGET option? your just solved a weeklong issue i have been having lol. Definitaly would love to have the kindle on there. As far as the pictures, i am not really meaning for them to link to anything, or show a bigger image, it is ju8st a visual add on to my posts to catch the eye of the reader and give them at least the basic idea of what they are reading about. should i make the image a link to the post itself?

Regarding Amazon, you can have both widgets or banners. Go to your Amazon Associates account and take a look at what they have. Take a look at their Banner links. i also like the Deals Widget.

Regarding to the images, just remove the link. If you do not want them to link to anything, just do not place any link on them.

[Mly2000]

Originally Posted by xtrapunch

Don't you think your post titles need to be displayed prominently?

when ni said give opinions, i meant detailed ones... explain your post, por favore.

[Mly2000]

Originally Posted by Wechito

Regarding Amazon, you can have both widgets or banners. Go to your Amazon Associates account and take a look at what they have. Take a look at their Banner links. i also like the Deals Widget.

Regarding to the images, just remove the link. If you do not want them to link to anything, just do not place any link on them.

tried the banner, got the code, tried putting it in on my admin panel, did NOT take, actually kinda just showed the codee on the page when i published it.

ill keep trying to tweak it, thanks again for your thoughts.

[Wechito]

How are you adding the code?
An easy way to do it is to add a text widget (WP widget) to your side bar and paste the code inside.

[Mly2000]

Originally Posted by Wechito

How are you adding the code?
An easy way to do it is to add a text widget (WP widget) to your side bar and paste the code inside.

was trying to do it through the actual code on the page! hahaha shows you how much i know about wordpress, doesnt it?

[Wechito]

Originally Posted by Mly2000

was trying to do it through the actual code on the page! hahaha shows you how much i know about wordpress, doesnt it?

Don't worry. This is how all we learn. You won't do it next time.

[Steven Dybka]

Originally Posted by Mly2000

O no, my content is 100% unique.

i do not use a spinner, autoblog, or anything such as that, and any articles not written by me i have checked for uniqueness. not taking any chances here! lol

thank you for your thoughts.

are you sure your content is unique, your articles have bio boxes on the bottom just like from article directories and I also did a random search on one of your articles "Electric smokers" there are many versions of this article in google