review my site please...new to IM

Your website seems very nice.
Keep up the good work!

The site looks very nice and you are paying people to post success stories?

Looks good, and good move by already including some aweber form. But try correcting the opt in box that does not appear the way it should, or so it seems.

I wouldn't use a .info domain myself though, especially if you want to make this one a popular one.

Did you choose it for the price tag or due to domain availability?

The real photos improve your credibility, so good take on that

Now try improving SEO by adding permalinks %postname%
and maybe with the use of other plugins.

Keep it up

brit16,

I feel that personal pages are the best way to build a relationship with your readers. You have a winner there.

As far as monetizing your site, if you want to be descreet, you should push and build a mailing list where you provide some great content on a regular basis to your subscribers and every once in a while throw in a product marketing campaign, you will find some great conversions.

I am looking to work with a one or two folks to help them build up their sites. I am doing this as a free service with no financial intent other than to build a reputation for building successful marketing sites.

There is a lot we can do to improve your site on an SEO standpoint and if you are serious about improving your site, please let me know.

Look forward to hearing from you.

I think a slideshow of some sorts would look nice. You could then include more photos of people that are posting their success stories.

I agree with Victor. Place a slideshow or something changing on the website. I am talking about the features posts which usually appear on blogs. You can get this idea from Arras theme. There are many plugins which can do this job for you.

Overall, very nice work.

Overall, I would say your website looks fairly professional. It doesn't have that same feeling of "unattendness" that a website whose owners clearly doesn't work on it has.

Everyone is giving fairly good reviews of my site. Now that I know it looks ok, will I be able to get it making money?

I'd say try to get a better header. Its still good, I'm not asking you to change it. Just make it more quality. The pics look a little pixeled so try to use HD images.

And the two books "IVF Success Program" and "Pregnancy Miracle" on the rights, instead of putting up directly your affliliate link, use a redirect of your own domain. People are likely to click less when they see that the link takes them to another site. A redirect makes them feel that they are visiting another page of the same site. So instead of "http://xxxxxx.hop.clickbank.com", get a link like "http://ivfsuccessstories.info/recommends/pregnancy-miracle.html"

Cloak your clickbank link with this one. You'll see significant rise in the CTR.

You can learn how to cloak a link from the following video

As you say, you are experienced in your niche, offer writing articles about it on fiverr. There are many people looking for medical writers. Even if you suck at writing, you can earn some at least at fiverr. Its insanity to expect quality at $5.

Get a good design that gels with the subject of your blog. The stories are of joy and parentinf and the theme is dull--grey and white. Also, add a few banner ads at the top, side and bottom of the site.

Use your real name on your blog or at least something that's more personal than brit16. You need to be seen as a friend, not someone in a chatroom.

You can surely make money with this strategy. The tried and true method is to create for yourself a subscriber base. There are several ways to do this

- Twitter
- Facebook Fan Page
- Google Groups
- Aweber or Amember email capture
- Bookmarks
- Bookmarklets
- YouTube Channel subscriptions
- Apps for smartphones and websites

All of these are ways that people can easily keep coming back to your site. Every week or so, send people a message through each of the platforms I listed above. Inside that message will be a helpful article with an affiliate link placed subtly inside the content as a text link, or a product review with. A good percentage of those people will end up purchasing because the see the value you have given the products. You can scale up this operation by continuing to get more subscribers.