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Wow Paul, either you dont get it yet Or you do but there is something keeping you from admitting it ... Personally i think you do get it, and its nothing but pure pride in you screamin for you not to let this thing go "My Precious!"

Let me make it clearer for you.

Your header which you are so proud of looks f***ing cheesy dude. Its fake. There is nothing real about it. Im pretty certain you dont own a ferrari Paul.

The third and fourth paragraph say this: "
There are two ways of making money in this world.
One is where you are stuck in an office or some place even worse!" & "The other is where you can earn your cash just sat at the beach or a peaceful garden, with a drink in your hand and a laptop by your chair."

Again, as the image in the header, it is fake, its insinuating that you actually dont work and that you are laying on some beach (which ive heard are cold, wet and boring in England anway ) But yet your honest here on the forum and say your stuck at work for too long to focus 100% of your efforts on the site "as I don't have enough free time to work on it" ... "they all know that I still work long hours at my normal job".

Mate, im not even going to waste mine and your time picking apart the site. Some of the stuff makes no sense at all and no i wouldt care to enlighten you because i personally dont like being a mean spirited prick. But 'cmon man, just take a look at some of the obvious flaws'.

Like i clearly stated not once but twice!

If you cant walk the walk dont get into MMO.

Lemme give you a hint: Why do most mmo sites show proof of earnings? Its cos as the guru you have to prove yourself to the student or clients. You have to show them you are the real deal.

Maybe its my fault for not explaining what i mean.

Talking about internet marketing, and actually living it and earning (Thats the keyword here) a living from it a 2 totally different things.

You ever been to the gym Paul?

I have (not often though :rolleyes. If you have ever been to the gym, you'll notice every gym has a guy, a self proclaimed expert! This guy walks around and talks to everyone, he give them advice, he talks himself up, he drinks the right protein drinks, he knows the best techniques and he knows a guys who knew a guy who was around at golds gym back when arnie was there.... Hes a very likeable dude...

But there is something not right about the expert. He short, hes pale, he's skinny and has man boobs, his arms look pretty beefy but then again you would expect more from an expert body builder, and your pretty sure you have even seen him light up a smoke on his way out a few times.

Essentially. The expert is full of ****. He a nice guy. But he IS full of ****. Maybe he would like to be the big bad ass body builder but in reality he is just a jive talkin human turd.

Now look around the gym, see the dude in the back corner pumping iron on his own, see how massive he is?

He never talks to anyone, he just walks in, warms up, does his hour and a half long routine, makes some blood curdling war cry type of screams, warms down, makes everyone looks small and then goes home. Now this dude... He has traps bigger than brock lesnar and a back that would intimidate a t-rex. He has bowling ball sized muscles on his arms and his chest looks like one of those ancient greek sculptures, you can only imagine the washboard 6 pack hes packin ... Basically this dude looks like he was one of the warriors in the movie 300.

Who would you want advice from?

Do i really need to keep going paul?

Make a decision mate. keep going with the site that aint workin and that wont work for you simply because its not a true indicator of you being a good make money online teacher because you have not done it yourself.

OR

Put the business skills you have from your current day job, and the skills you have learnt building this site to research another niche and then build a real sustainable business from it.

I could give you a hint at what you could do, but id rather not...

In fact ill leave you a crumb trail... .... your 'recommended products' are just ads and you have not said why you recommend them.... Maybe your site users would appreciate a review or two.

I personally think that what i just said there is worth thousands to you, you could totally build your own niche out of that without even going for a full 180 change and instead just change a few things on the site...

Ill leave it up to you.

Andrei

Im gonna be the one to call you out bro.

You have no idea.

Exaggerating, is one thing. BUt, you are totally full of it mate and you know it.

Gillette sell razors, gillette can prove their razors work. You sell dreams. Exactly like you keep admitting. you are trying to sell stuff that doesnt exist and your not even good at it.

One thing i cant stand is when someones head is so far up their rear they cant even realize when they are being given pure golden advice from someone that actually cares.

Your going no where with the current attitude. And someone needs to inflate your head.

Good luck.

Hi sbucciarel

Thanks for your comment.

I see that you have a lot going on yourself, and I appreciate you taking the time to comment here.

(I will probably be back in touch with you again sometime. Your niche blogs look really interesting; both for me and the members of my site would like to hear about it too)

I am beginning to wonder if my website looks as though it is one of those that are selling something offering massive wealth.

I have to admit it doesn’t really look like one where everything is free, but that’s due to the type of market I am aiming for.

I should explain that better really.

Years ago when I had a really terrible job I was stuck in a place where all we did on our breaks was discuss what we would do if we ever had enough money to escape the "work until your 70" life.

None of us had a clue back then what we were going to do online, we just knew that the online world was our only way out.

We also all knew that our lives would pretty much end up consisting of little more than sitting resting somewhere, drinking and being surrounded by beauty.

When I started this website I realised that people like we were back then, were exactly the market I wanted to reach.

Anyone who already knows what they want to do and how to do it will not benefit from visiting my website, only those who don’t know where to start will get any help from it.

I wanted to grab all those dreamers and get them actually doing something that works and benefits them, rather than let them keep on dreaming.

Anyway that’s my long winded explanation of how the site started looking the way it does now, and also an explanation of the market I am aiming for.

Perhaps I should get the website redesigned so that people know two things immediately when they first visit it:

1. They will have to work for their living (although that’s mostly going to be done on a laptop, as I’ve always said)

2. They will not be expected to ever buy or pay for anything to access the website.

First impressions are so important, and I don’t think I have been giving enough consideration to the impressions of other markets.

Anyway, thank you once again for your comments, and I will be in touch.

Hey sbucciarel.

You are right that there seems to be much more interest from my members when they first visit the website and sign up to my emails, than after they have received a few of them and realise that they actually have to do something online to make money.

That probably is down to the initial impression I gave them when they arrive at the website.

For example my first few emails are fairly easy going stuff, like welcoming them and showing them their free downloads and letting them know they can email me with questions etc.

After that there are a few letting them know about various free services they can use online, and other tools that can help them.

Once it gets past this stage, I start noticing a drop off in my email open rate, and once it gets to recommended products and tips on how to use them the email open rate really does drop off a cliff.

That would seem to go along with the general feeling that dreamers only like the easy stuff, buy the first product they see, and then give up without really trying it.

Which of course is a shame because they would start making progress if they would just continue putting in some daily effort.

Most of my emails that generate a commission are in the beginning of my email queue, and those generated from web content seem to be from people that never even invest the time to join the email list in the first place.

So I guess I must grudgingly accept that you are right with your interpretation of both my website impression to new visitors and the target market I am currently attracting.

This also brings to mind some research I did a couple of months ago when I was concerned about the effect that "email no opens" would have on my overall email deliverability rate.

I was very concerned that there were some people on my list that received emails they had no interest in, yet simply deleted without opening to unsubscribe.

When this happens it does harm the overall email deliverability rate, as emails are more likely to be marked as spam automatically by ISP's if that senders emails are generally not getting opened.

Aweber confirmed this with a direct answer. They said if a subscriber cannot be reinvigorated, if all else fails they should be manually unsubscribed from your email list.

They would have to be manually unsubscribed, as they will not open an email to do so themselves, and it is unlikely they will open one telling them they are about to be removed from the list.

All of that sounds harsh, as I did not want to stop helping those on my list, but Aweber state as a last resort that's all you can do.

I did not want to risk the new subscribers not receiving the emails because they were automatically sent to spam folders, simply because of the problems caused by old members not opening the emails and not unsubscribing either.

Anyway sbucciarel, thanks for your comments, you have certainly given me food for thought, and I am starting to realise that all is not well with my current setup after all.

Hi Mar.

I am having a look at a few things you mentioned in your post.

I guess that left aligning my text would be better, but with the way I have been working with my site I often don't see it visually, if that makes any sense at all.

I have been putting too much effort into keeping the search engine robots happy, rather than the human visitors.

Not that it has harmed my commissions in one sense, but in another it has. So this requires a bit of explanation here.

But it's worth reading this next bit, as it's a good trick for generating higher commissions you can try yourself.

Essentially, I have many articles and press releases out there that can help to drive visitors through my affiliate links, which in turn creates the commissions.

Now obviously at the time the articles and press releases are submitted, the links do just come back to my site, as that is the best way of getting them all approved.

It's only after they have appeared on multiple articles sites or press release sites that I change the destination of the actual link.

Of course that might leave me open to having the article or press release removed from a site, but I have never noticed that happen yet, and because they are already all over the internet at the time I do it then it does not really make a difference to my traffic through the link.

I have used both the Meta refresh and JavaScript redirect for the links, but finally settled on the JavaScript redirect as this works better for my needs.

I don't like having just the plain affiliate link in the redirect link, so these were the options I considered.

Anyway the point I'm making is that no one needed to even see my website during the redirect, so it is possible I became a little oblivious to the visual effect of it.

I think it was well worth explaining all of this though, as changing links after article publication is quite a good method of generating commission.

Of course it should only be done to the actual product that suits the article content, as this generates the highest commissions. Plus the product owner's website is of course designed perfectly to sell it without them being distracted by my site.

You are right about the website navigation panel - it is old looking and is split onto two lines.

I can hardly remember why this happened, but I think it was due to the amount of buttons on the panel at one point, plus the way it was displayed in various environments.

Whatever it was, the panel eventually became split like this and simply remained so ever since as SEO became the priority at the time.

The design of the navigation panel in the first place was only chosen because I wanted to show my members just starting out how simple it was to have some sort of navigation system in place without it requiring hardly any effort to implement.

Frankly it was the simplest free one available at the time, and it has been there ever since. I have no real feelings about the navigation system, so I might consider changing that at some time.

I have been advised about wordpress earlier, and I am seriously considering it, but again my mind is still considering the impact on my SEO.

Without making this post too much longer, my rather simple site has achieved pretty high up rankings for some phrases, which I want to improve further still.

It will be some time yet before I can go for the king of phrases, which is "Make money online", but I aim to do so as soon as I can.

It's been a lot of work the way I have done it, but it has paid off when you look at it from a ranking position.

I treat each page on the site simply to target the individual keyword phrase.

I then have this keyword phrase in all Meta tags (Title, Description, Keywords - even abstract and classification)

The keyword phrase is also used in the main heading tags (H1 etc) and also highlighted in several ways and used throughout the page a few times.

Each page also ends with the keyword phrase, and has enough alternative meaning phrases to boost its position still further.

Additionally every graphic on each individual page is named with the keyword phrase for that page, has the keyword phrase for that page as its title and even uses it for its alternative text.

Even the header and footer images of each page are renamed for every other page on the site - so it's technically not the same image on each page!

Finally I try to have as many anchor text links to each individual page as I possibly can with the correct keyword phrase for that page as the linked text.

As you can see this method of gaining higher position in the search engines is quite time consuming, but creates a lot of benefit when you consider the search engine placement for a site no one likes!

And here's one last interesting thing I have only recently noticed. Google have decided to upgrade my page rank for some of my pages, including my home page which has now risen from 3 to 4.

Now I realise that page rank is not as important anymore, but it is interesting that Google should bother to do this at all.

I must be slowly getting the SEO right in their eyes, if nothing else.

Only one tiny thing I need to tell you though - I am not selling anything myself, I am either giving away stuff for free, or simply promoting other peoples paid products.

Anyway, thanks Mar for your comments. I hope some of my information above is of benefit to you and that you can run with it for your own websites.

And those sentiments also go for anyone else that want to make a (better looking) website and get it as high up into the search engines' as possible.