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Review my site

by Ryan Sterling
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I am looking for some honest reviews for my site.

Please include any constructive criticism as my feeling will not be hurt!

Our team started MatrixExplosion a couple months ago with excellent success. After each Explosion Time (you will understand after viewing the site) our Freeway To Success sign up ratio has dropped.

We need some ideas, pointers and some harsh criticism to improve an almost great system.

Advertising isn't the problem. Just content and some help to improve signups on Explosion Time.

Thanks for your time and thoughts!
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  • Profile picture of the author brag
    Dont really like the navigation. There are way to many navigation elements. Its a little over whelming for a first time viewer IMO. Use drop down menus..

    Your slider could have some 'back' and 'forward' or some buttons that let the viewer know which slide they are on.

    Why have the news ticker? Just to let people know how many members there are? You could just list a number.. Its pretty fast...

    Make your CTA more noticeable. As of now it just blends in with everything else and you dont really notice it.

    Why is your content on the homepage in an image? This should be HTML/CSS so SE can crawl it..
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  • Profile picture of the author Daverz
    First thing that pops out at me is the navigation. It looks out of place, and as brag said, overwhelming because of the amount of tabs.

    Your images all seem to be pretty low quality. All of them are slightly fuzzy and pixelated. It seems like you've saved the images as .jpgs first at around 60% quality then re-saved them as .pngs.

    There's no reason for the content to be an image. You can easily position text on to a background image. It'll look the same (or better) and is better for SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author aucora
    I think site is a bit complicate to understand and navigate.
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    • Profile picture of the author LakiPolitis
      Your site is just a bunch of images. Google doesn't see images. You will get 0 traffic from search results if you don't write readable content for the search engines. How is it going to index and image? SEOMoz's basic guide to SEO
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    • Profile picture of the author sud825
      First i'm french and i'm sorry for the grammar and spelling errors.

      I feel the member text slider is not a good idea and may distract visitors and some of those will close the site before reading any content.

      I have a 30 Mbps internet connection and the loading time was too long. Here is why;
      Slider image's 616 kb
      Text content image 162kb and I agree with brag (use text)


      Here is some advices
      Add a contact form
      Add a footer
      Use a separated css file instead of in page styling
      Add relevant atl text on image (ex: the join now button show "picture") and seem to be the same for many image on the site.
      On the freeway to success page they have a "click here picture" but we can't click at all
      Avoid using image for content
      Try to name item more relevant for you and you will save a future headache. Ex: 1602775 mean nothing, maybe you probably know is the join now button but in the next month , year ?
      Create a separated folder and put all images in.

      I don't know what is "editsite" in the code but according to google search it seem to be a free "website" builder and in my opinion can hurt the credibility of your product or service.

      Use wordpress instead and will save you a lot of time and they have so much plug-in, template and more easy to set-up and maintain your website.

      Hope this help and good luck
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      • Profile picture of the author Azarna
        You mention one of the benefits is that you are a reputable company.

        I poked about quite a bit but couldn't see your company's name anywhere, let alone evidence of where it was or why it was reputable. Reputable company's show their contact details, as they have nothing to hide.

        As this is quite a complex service, and all the pages are stored as graphics, coupled with no company name or details, I would see this as a probably scam and just avoid. Sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan Sterling
    Thanks everyone for their honest opinion. When you ask friends or family you always get "looks great".

    I will be making the changes soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    When you ask friends or family you always get "looks great".
    You are asking the wrong question

    Let them sit in front of the site, don't tell them anything... and watch what they do: how they navigate (do they find the links easily?); where they go; where they stop etc. - it can tell you a lot about functionality when visited by non-marketers!
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  • Profile picture of the author Quiksilver8
    Don't like the navigation, site feels too crammed as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author AllyChurch
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    I'm not sure if you have changed it since you received feedback but generally it looks really clear, uncluttered and professional. I would suggest you slowed down the list of names as you can't read them without getting a little bit dizzy. Other than that, I think it's really easy to use. All the best!
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