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exite2010

13 years ago

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Seriously cut back on the top banners. I mean 5 banners

The ones in the side don't bother me that much and I know they also do get lots less attention but 5 banners is really overkill and makes me want to leave the site immediately.
Also yes your site loads slowly (at least on my connection here in India).

Other than that I'd consider adding some content. If you only want the forum then thats fine but making a blog or something would definitely add to search rankings and also offer more value to visitors bringing in more repeats. Also you have 7 links in the top and I really only want to click on the forum one so thats a hint that some other content might be needed. If you don't plan on adding anything else to that menu, maybe you should actually get rid of it and just put the other buttons as textlinks at the bottom of the page. That way it will look more like its meant to be just a forum and thus look more professional.

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ITM

13 years ago

Hmmm Thanks for the insights..

But then again the main business on the forum comes from those banner ads and thus i pay to the members who posts as per their posts quality on my forum.

If i remove the banners , i may not have money to pay to members. This is kind of a baffling situation , but again i appreciate your suggestion

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Shirlyn

13 years ago

I like the color combination and CSS. I found it unique with easy navigation.

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Peter Gehr

13 years ago

First impressions are key, and upon opening your site I probably would have left as soon as I arrived with all that "noise" going on at the top of your page.

I'd much rather see some content explaining a bit about what's going on.

Cheers!

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merlincat

13 years ago

Many people would leave very quickly because there is nothing to read, no content before the fold.

When I switched on, my first thought is what is this, just adverts and I clicked off!

Think about having one revolving banner at the top, so you can show say 3 promotions in a smaller space.

On a plus side your load time was fine on my computer, using firefox.

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Jill Carpenter

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ITM

Hmmm Thanks for the insights..

But then again the main business on the forum comes from those banner ads and thus i pay to the members who posts as per their posts quality on my forum.

If i remove the banners , i may not have money to pay to members. This is kind of a baffling situation , but again i appreciate your suggestion

Thanks

OMG, Banner central all above the fold on the front door. Nothing to lure me in really.

You could be saving a ton of money by not having to pay people to post if they wanted to post naturally. What would do that for me?

If I saw some interesting conversation going on when I hit that page - not the whole thing but perhaps a teaser.

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exite2010

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ITM

Hmmm Thanks for the insights..

But then again the main business on the forum comes from those banner ads and thus i pay to the members who posts as per their posts quality on my forum.

If i remove the banners , i may not have money to pay to members. This is kind of a baffling situation , but again i appreciate your suggestion

Thanks

Ah ok I wasn't aware. To be honest I didn't give the site much look (just 2-5 minutes navigating around). But still could you at least remove 4 of the top banners, keep one there and then just rotate between the 5 banners? If you don't scare away visitors immediately theres still a big chance they will click the banners. Of course you shouldn't take my word for it but what you should do is go and test it out with just 1 banner and see the results.

But the concept sounds pretty fun. Also if people really like your page there is a good chance some will click banners even if not really interested. I know I do that sometimes on a few forums I really like, just to support the forum basically

Originally Posted by Peter Gehr

First impressions are key, and upon opening your site I probably would have left as soon as I arrived with all that "noise" going on at the top of your page.

I'd much rather see some content explaining a bit about what's going on.

Cheers!

Yeah exactly. Same thing I felt when opening the page. Look a how they did here on warriorforum. They're so good at making the ad blend in that id doesn't feel like an ad. It feels like an integrated part of the site. And yes I often click those ads

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HigherPrThanGod

13 years ago

Originally Posted by ITM

Hello All dear friends.

I am a new member here and though i have read all the rules but still if i am breaking any rule , please do let me know so i can improve upon and stay a part of a happy Warrior Family .

Well I am running this site for past 1 year now and i am making good money with it for myself and also i have been paying my members on the forum to post.

The Site is - www.italkmoney.com - It is a Paid to post forum where i pay upto 20 cents to people for their post.

Well few point i want to ask from you where i need Help.

1) What you all think about my Site ?
2) How can i improve it ?
3) The site loads very slow now a days , i do not know why ?
4) Recently the traffic has improved on my site but still the ranking is falling .. which is the major issue of concern for me .

So i have come here to ask you all the opines you can give to help me and make money with me

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You need more banners at the top.

That was sarcasm.

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ITM

13 years ago

Wow so many people has come to my help

Thanks a lot guys !

As far as banner is concerned i will surely remove some of them or put them in ROTATION

I too was wondering how to manage them. Wish i had some professional to help me out

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iaroca

13 years ago

glad you have advertisers but i think it is way to many on the landing page

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sufian991

13 years ago

it look good i like color combination

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rain21

13 years ago

I think your site has too much advertisements and banners, need to remove some. Just a suggestion

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mlcmartin

13 years ago

Maybe you can have all the ads as vertical banners to the left and the forum to the right? That way you can have the ads right where the visitors can see them while at the same time not making them as intrusive as they are now.

Also what's that green thing doing there at the top? It doesn't seem to be an ad scroller so to me it's just wasting valuable space. Take a look at WEBHALLEN.com. To me these guys are excellent in using their website space for the right purposes.

Also you could change the home title to something more informative and keyword rich than "italkmoney.com sponsored by..".

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