first site, please critique...

Hi,

Nice, simple site.

I would recommend that you align left your subtitles under the 'Drop the lazy attitude and motivate yourself!' heading because it compliments your bullets above in the first section.

Good luck with it. You've chosen a VERY competitive niche!

Brian

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Honestly, I don't say this much, but I think the design is VERY good. You have what you need now to move forward with your plans. One small thing I noticed is you need Meta Description and Meta Keyword Tags in your HTML.

thanks guys, yea those pictures don't look like the same people lol, but that's the best banner ad I could find from the affiliate product I'm promoting. I will leave it up for now and change it if I find a better one.

Site looks good.

The plugin I use is Google XML Sitemap for wordpress

You will need to move your site from .com/blog. The other option is just to leave it and do a redirect from the .com. Right now a Gator host page comes up which is not good.

Keep truckin...

If you can offer a free report or something more value added to convince them to subscribe, that would be good. Even if it's just a quarterly newsletter of another product, or tips. That should help you build up your list and allow you to pre-promote your next product.

Otherwise it's a great site, nice work

Looks pretty good to me.

I think it looks good. I am just trying to get some sites up as well.

Can you give some indication of how long it took to get this up and running?

Can you fit in some moving video footage in that coming soon area? The gif with week 1 and week 12 pics are good but throw up some video footage on your niche, imo.

I'm surprised to say but it looks awesome man. Good job doing your research. Is there a reason you didn't install WordPress into the root directory? The only thing I would've changed is doing that.

It looks nice

...HOWEVER...
Is it a website or a blog?

If its a website the formatting needs to be less blogish because it looks like a lot like a blog and people expect certain things from a blog.

If its a blog you need to remove some ad's because its way spammy.

If its a website I see it as a merch site trying to make some sales. I don't trust the information because I know I'm being sold something.

If its a blog, I don't trust the author because the content is not personal enough and its CLEAR they are just trying to sell stuff.

It looks nice but I'm not sure about how well its going to function.

I like it. It has a very fluid layout and it is easy on the eyes to read. I think you did a good job with it. All the best of success to you!

For your very first site, you are doing great!

Good looking site. Much better than my first one.

Anyway, I noticed that you were using Hostgator and that your probably installed Wordpress using Fantastico. You may have did this on purpose but when I checked the root of your site their was nothing there. In case you didn't know you could have added the blog to the root of your domain instead of attaching it to the end.

If you have other plans for the root of your domain, I apologize, but just wanted to make sure that your were aware of the info above.

Good start.

Good effort for your first website. At least you are taking some serious actions.

To get opt-in and sales, you need to put more emotion in your headline and content. You need to "connect" with your audience on an emotional level to make them trust you.

You need to find out why they want to gain serious muscles. Are they going for competition or wanting to impress a girl they just know.

If you can put this emotion stuff on your website, your audience will be shocked that you actually know what they are thinking and they will trust you completely and will buy anything you recommend.

oh, the site looks pretty well put together, i dont see anything that i would want change. color combination is really good, and the white background is perfect , for your content to be easily read.
good work there.

That picture of week 1 and week 12 actually made me laugh, it's so unrealistic!

Thanks so much everyone! I'll definitely implement some of the advice and changes in the site.

Oh, and the coming soon section at the top is for a free ebook that I made and will be giving away for free. I just haven't gotten to aweber yet. I figure I should try driving some traffic to the site first.

Thanks again, you've all been a great help!

hi,
looks nice and to the point.I like "get ripped with these technique" tag under the logo.You could incorporate some affiliate links on weight loss or muscle making machines (bowflex for ex),which is hot area to make money online as we all know.I think some more links to other sites that may be useful on this topic would be helpful.Designwise,looks awsome.

Hey The site looks good.

The copy is a bit long for my taste but its understandable considering your product.

Just don't go over board with google adsense.

Your "first" site? This site makes you look like a seasoned pro

My only recommendation (aside from others here) is that you create a redirect page for your aff links. Create a directory called "recommends" or something like that, and create a redirect page so that your links don't look like affiliate links.

Great job... really this site is nice.

DeShon

Site looks good. I think it would help you in the long run to have an opt in with a "free" give away. A report, cd, or some type of video. This can help you build your list.

Hey mate, I couldn't reply to your PM because I don't have fifteen posts. =( But here's the answer to your question:

Yes, you move everything through ftp. This is the link I was directing you to: codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress (first result on Google.)

Scroll down to the heading "Moving WordPress Within Your Site" and follow the step by step instructions (make sure to do everything in order to avoid any mishaps.) For Step #9, you want to log into your main website (gain-serious-muscle.com/) via ftp and copy everything from the /blog/ directory into the parent directory, which is the root level of the site.

I use HostGator to host, so for me the parent directory of /blog/ would be /public_html/ Make sure you make a backup copy of everything already in there before you copy Wordpress (in case it overwrites anything like index.php)

You'll also may need to update your permalinks (currently I think you use Numeric, I use Custom: /%postname%/ because it's good for SEO ) and some image paths, but it covers all that as well.

Let me know if you need any more help. =)