What do you think of my first established website?

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wll im new to the warrior forum, and this is currently my first established website (which will be linked below). But my main question was what do you guys think? Pros/Cons I would love to know what you guys think I need to change or what i did a great job on (if anything) I completeley designed the website myself and currently Working on my SEO. I offer not only products but on the corner panels of the site I figure not everyone is here to buy something so i throw in some informative information and articles. Look4VGames(Dot)com (I cant post links yet) is the link to my website, and all Suggestions would be greatly appriciated!
Thanks Austin
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  • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
    You could format your articles more nicely, it looks pretty wordy to me... not something I would want to read from top to bottom.
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  • Profile picture of the author pethanks
    You can develop it more but for me it is a good start.
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  • Profile picture of the author taji
    What about an opt in form so you can email them weekly specials? Not everybody uses Twitter. It shouldn't be that hard to offer some special report to get them on your list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Samuel Baker
    If you want to start making money off your website I would listen to taji and implement a lead capture system for emails.

    From their your email subscribers can get emailed whenever new products, offers etc become available to them or new content on your website.

    Not a bad start
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  • Profile picture of the author mikey22
    Looks fairly good, would definitely say get an opt-in box though, it could only help
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    • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
      Well I know something I need to fix its obviously not visible enough at the top of the right border it says free news letter all you have to do is type in your email and hit go and it will sign you up to receive emails about everything in the store.

      What do you suggest I do with the articles? More pictures? Everytime I try to rasterize the picture so its within the text it comes up with a bunch of errors.
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  • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
    Aswell for my first month of the website being open I received 600 unique visits my avarage time on site is 4 minutes with a 25% bounce rate. I know this is not enough info to give a good answer but a basic is this good or not for the first month would be nice. Currently I am working with a seo company on an extremley great niche I researched that will bring in 50000 visitors a month (which is considering I rank #1 and get 1/6th of the search traffic. Also within the first month seo quake I think it is claims that my website has nearly 70 backlinks and I did sumbit it to over 1000 directories. I'm only 18 so I atten highschool but I have been working my ass off to get this done right. Which is why I'm probably asking a lot of dumb qestons, my hope out of these are that I can find someone to regulary turn to for advice. I don't plan on making millions I just love I'M and want to cover the costs of my website so I can continue to enjoy it.
    Thanks austin
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  • Profile picture of the author sparkler1
    Frist of all, good job. Overall it is good. But, a couple quick reactions:

    1. Your newsletter registration is lost because the text is small and hidden by the black background
    2. Actually a lot of your links on the left and right margin are lost in the black background. Can you lighten up the background a bit and make the text size a bit bigger (or maybe a bit more space between the options). It seems a bit crammed in the margins.
    3. There are too many fonts on the same page. Stick to one (easy to read) font on the page. Then the additional fonts in the banners won't be too overwhelming.

    Hope this is helpful.
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    • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
      Going to work n making y free newsletter amd product search texts more visible it should be cmpleted by tomorrow. I'm taking the advice of finding a way to make he articles a little less wordy I don't know how but I'm sure I can find a way. Next step will be to follow the advice of keeping the same tex throughout the whole page so its lss overwhelming. Thanks for the advice guys ill let you check it out again once its complete. Ill also hook anyone from the warror forum up with wholesale prices if your wanting to buy gifts for your kids or relatives during this holiday season
      Thanks again guys, austin
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      • Profile picture of the author janejana
        Wow. Really nice website dude
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  • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
    Originally Posted by janejana View Post

    Wow. Really nice website dude
    Thankyou very much that is encouraging.

    My website has been updated I tried to make the latest article about halo reach more entertaning, tell me what you think.

    Also I updated the free news letter image to increase visibility will you guys check out my store yet again and give me some updated thoughts, it would be greatly appriciated.

    I have another question though, according to google webmaster I had 2000 pages indexed and literally in 1 day I am down to 900 indexed pages therefoe dropping 1100 is this normal?

    Hopefully your guys suggestion wrk, because right now my conversion rate is 0 % :/
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    • Profile picture of the author Look4VGames
      A few changes you guys suggested already led to 2 new news letter subscribers in 1 day. Not great for all of you but considering I only get 20-40 visitors a day a 5% newsletter conversion rate isn't bad
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  • Profile picture of the author helenaldin
    The Free Newsletter doesn't stand out enough. It blends with the rest of the sidebar. Have you thought about putting a graphic with it or a box around it?

    Also, I don't know that "Free Newsletter" is enough of a draw for the crowd you're attracting. I'd wanna know if I was getting some insider tips on secret gamer codes, new gaming platforms, or even rumors of a new game to be released (like Halo or something).

    Give more than just "free newsletter" and see what happens. Maybe "Join our VIP list to get insider secrets, advanced game news, and more" or something like that?
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