Please help me review or give any feedback on this website

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I feel the site is getting low traffic for its age. please advise me on what I can do to improve on it.most of the services are free but I still dont have free sign-ups and I have few uploads yet I think it would be a great free marketing platform for any online niche. Your advice is highly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author abcblogging
    You can try Buysellads as a paid traffic method.
    or you can buy solo ads from udimi.com (it's effective )
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  • Profile picture of the author Yosheena
    Yes, you need to invest in traffic if you want quick visitors. Otherwise, start with social media advertising if you have enough time for makreting and promotion.
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  • Profile picture of the author discrat
    Originally Posted by thellen View Post

    Hi
    I feel the site is getting low traffic for its age. please advise me on what I can do to improve on it.most of the services are free but I still dont have free sign-ups and I have few uploads yet I think it would be a great free marketing platform for any online niche. Your advice is highly appreciated.
    Looks pretty professional. Although having a free Site myself ( with Free in my domain), it can be tough to get people to fork out money for paid services.

    Thats why I only promote free CPA offers and Adsense

    You might consider Adsense Advertising or even a few of these CPA offers.

    Bottom line is you are going to attract Traffic that is bent on the KY " Free " which can be tricky



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    • Profile picture of the author Pradeep Bhagwat
      Hi,

      I will suggest you to Craiglist like platform to promote your website. You can concentrate on certain cities and get signups fro free if you use Craiglist classified website. You can also post your services at other free classified websites like ebays classified website. You just google and you will find many more classified websites. In this way you will not loose money and get result fast. I hope it will help you.

      - Pradeep
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      You're dealing with one of those nasty chicken/egg scenarios. Without the visitors, it will be hard to attract uploads, but without the uploads, it will be hard to attract visitors.

      Robert is right. Your site looks "professional". I'd say downright corporate. I'd keep the design.

      I never made it past the home page, though.

      What do you want visitors to do? Keep in mind that you are aiming at two distinct markets, product promoters and freebie hunters.

      In my opinion, your slider is on the right track with separating benefits for buyers and sellers. I would make the home page simpler, starting with a question like "What do You want to do today?" Offer two choices - "I want to offer my freebie to more people" and "I'm looking for a product or service, and I want to learn about it before I buy" - something like that.

      When they make a choice, they go to a page (or section of the home page) with options specific to what they want to do.

      Right now, people have to kind of guess where stuff is and click around until they find it. More work than most will go through, when the back button is so much easier.

      You may want to consider hiring Captain Obvious to write your calls to action. Make the site a little less "professional" and a little more user-friendly.
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  • Profile picture of the author kk075
    Nobody has really been honest with you so far because they don't want to say what I'm about to say- what the heck is a free imo?

    Oh, it stands for Internet Marketing Online? Because those three words are NOWHERE on your homepage, meaning that Google has no idea what your site is about either. All we keep seeing in IMO, IMO, IMO and it makes me wonder if it's an exotic version of an Emu.

    Likewise, your sliders are packed with words that don't really say anything...they're just poorly written power statements that you're not backing up. Because once I click through the links, there is 1-2 sentences on each page that don't tell me anything about what you're even trying to do. There is just nothing there to help anyone and that's why the site is failing.

    So let's recap-
    - Google doesn't know what niche you're in.
    - Customers wonder if you're selling exotic Emus.
    - You break every promise made on your homepage.
    - There is no actual content anywhere to be found.
    - Your sliders are overcrowded and make no sense.
    - There's very little imagery anywhere (except ads)

    To top it all off, that particular template is used a lot, so real IMers know you have less than a day total on developing this site. Combined with all the other issues, there's just no reason for anyone to take it seriously. It's a junk site with a nice template that you haven't invested any real time in, so that's what you're getting back out of it.

    And just to be clear, I know I'm being harsh but hey....you asked for an honest review to get the free traffic. But because you haven't put in a single bit of hard work it takes to impress your visitors, it is a complete waste of everyone's time. And honestly, that's offensive- you had to see these massive issues were there before posting this topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    EDIT: kk and I were writing at the same time. Looks like we're on the same page.

    Hmm.

    Something appeared...then the screen changed size...then elements started popping in.

    "What the hell am I looking at?!" I thought.

    Some kind of freebie giveaway site?

    What does "IMO" mean?

    Get an English language expert to go over your copy. There are grammatical errors aplenty.

    I, too, did not get past the home page.

    The headlines did not make me want to watch the video.

    I still have no idea what the site's purpose is.

    That being said, I do think the appearance is professional and I wouldn't change the look.

    For my own blog, it took six months before I started seeing some visitors coming in from search term results. And that was with consistent effort of putting out content.

    I would clear up the What and Why of your site, so that new arrivals will quickly understand what they're going to get there and why they should stick around.

    And then I would investigate your traffic sources. Hopefully you hooked up Google Analytics and can see where referrals are coming from. Some may be spam sources with high bounce rates, and you can block those.

    The bounce rate may be another factor. Since people may not, like me, understand what the site is about, they may be leaving quickly. That bounce rate will of course hurt your rankings.

    Overall, I do get the feeling that you have something here. I'm just not sure what it is. In any case, keep working on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    Yeah you can do some ppc, banner advertising. Maybe even a solo or two.

    Also try adding quality backlinks to your url and related pages. Increase with a variation of anchor text links. I add googles webmaster tools to everything and that will tell you a lot of how your site is doing in the serps. Of course analytics is good to have as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author kk075
      Originally Posted by abcblogging View Post

      You can try Buysellads as a paid traffic method.
      Originally Posted by Yosheena View Post

      Yes, you need to invest in traffic if you want quick visitors.
      Originally Posted by discrat View Post

      You might consider Adsense Advertising or even a few of these CPA offers.
      Originally Posted by bhagwat68 View Post

      Hi,

      I will suggest you to Craiglist like platform to promote your website.
      Originally Posted by EPoltrack77 View Post

      Yeah you can do some ppc, banner advertising. Maybe even a solo or two.
      By the way, this is all HORRIBLE advice since these folks either didn't spend enough time on your site or they're just trying to be nice.

      Do not do any of these things until you fix the content issues on your site, give visitors a clear directive, provide all the guides you promise on the homepage (or stop promising them) and get some images in place. Because honestly, you could spend fifty million dollars on advertising over the next five years and never make a single penny with the website the way it is now.....you never try to monetize until people are already finding value through your core content.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkTMS
    From purely a traffic point of view, your keywords (free ....) CPC is low compared to your competitors who are not offering free stuff. You can SEO the hell out of it using free... as your keywords and your competition (more than likely) will not be that strong. If you have the money, I would do a PPC campaign because again, you your bids will be lower for some your keywords due to the fact that the word "free" is in there.

    Oh and like kk075 said, fix your site first.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    The first thing that hit me was no headline, and alot of text that couldn't immediately tell me who the site is for. I would fix that first. Move your opt-in form to the top of the page, and consider incorporating a hover ad for people who first visit your site. Offer them a freebie.

    Traffic is easy. What kind of paid traffic have you done? If you can sum it up in 1 sentence, exactly WHO are you targeting with your site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Minds Eye
    As the others have stated:

    Unclear value proposition: What are you promoting and to whom?
    IMO means different things to different people. Internet Move Opinions? Invalid Motor Options? Interested Male Opportunists?

    Also, looked at your source code keywords and they are way too generic.

    "free pdf downloads,free stuff,free giveaways deal of the day,freebie marketing"

    But, your description is pretty good IF you're optimizing your page for any of the keywords or the phrase itself.

    "The leading source and distributor of online freebies and free giveaways in the internet marketing industry"

    Keep refining.

    I wouldn't spend money on paid traffic until your home page had a better value proposition.
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