Any suggestions to improve site please

by Donard
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Have created a few blogs using wordpress but got no results with them. Have now created a totally new site and would appreciate any feedback or advice on changes I should make to improve site layout or SEO .
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Also I have a few similair url's registered, is it advisable to use fresh content or is it ok to copy content from this site.
Thanks
Wilson
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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Barr
    OK - first thing that smacks me in the face is the low quality header graphic. That needs some serious work.

    Your title tag is repeated which looks spammy.

    You start your main post with "Friend" which immediately makes me think I'm about to be scammed.

    Your grammar is not right in your first post which also puts me off.

    What is the purpose of your site? To drive signups for the card? In that case, where's the link?

    I see your site's only been up about 20 days - I'd suggest adding around 15-20 new articles written around the keywords you've chosen to promote. It's very hard to rank new sites when they have so little written content. remember Google won't rank posts with embedded videos unless they have a ton of backlinks, because it can't read the content.

    Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Donard
      Thank you Karen I will act on your advice.
      I had bought a plugin which was supposed to insert the name but it's not as good as I expected and simply inserted Friend - just disabled that one.
      Will get more posts made over the next 2 weeks and hopefully get comments. will certainly have to check out my grammar.
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  • Profile picture of the author DianaHeuser
    Hi Donard,

    You need to check your spelling too e.g."wWuld you want to get ". You are trying to send a professional message and that would just turn me off.

    Also there this "[wpgetpersonal] get a card so you too can ". I would imagine you are trying to insert the viewer's name? Rather take it out.

    It's very difficult to see what I have to do to get the card. No clear call to action.

    Instead of the history of the card etc, rather put a list of benefits. WHY would I want to get this card? WHAT would I miss out on? HOW will I save money?

    Just some of the questions I would want answered before I 'clicked'.

    Just my humble opinion

    Di
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    Speaking as a proofreader, I agree that you really need to get your spelling and grammar sorted out. I would never buy anything from someone who had errors like that on their site. It shows that if they don't care about that, what else don't they care about?

    I would also move your first video clip down and the writing up. I find video clips that take "pride of place" on a site gives me the impression that the person doesn't want to actually tell me anything...but that's a pet peeve of mine.

    On the right above your opt in box, the LYONESs seems to be losing the final S on the end.

    The statement "together we are strong" needs to be a bit bolder as the writing is too faint.

    Also your posts seem to go from oldest to newest and it's more common to go newest to oldest as the newest posts are what people want to read first.

    I think that's enough for you to go on with for now.
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  • I suggest that you learn CSS more throughly. You can make wordpress do anything that you want it to. I can tell right off the bat that your using the twenty ten theme. Spend some learning it will def. payoff!
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  • Profile picture of the author ldiaz117
    I want to talk to you about Lyoness. PM me your chat/skype ID
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    • Profile picture of the author pinewater
      Originally Posted by ldiaz117 View Post

      I want to talk to you about Lyoness. PM me your chat/skype ID

      are you in lyoness?
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    • Profile picture of the author pinewater
      Originally Posted by ldiaz117 View Post

      I want to talk to you about Lyoness. PM me your chat/skype ID

      are you in lyoness?
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  • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
    There's not any space between paragraphs, making your articles difficult to read. Get rid of the <br /> tags you're currently using between paragraphs and wrap each paragraph with <p>|</p> tags.
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  • Profile picture of the author webpeon
    I have a broken link on the image in the top header, i'll assume you have removed it for editing purposes which in itself probably isnt a good idea having a live partly finished site...

    since the content and grammar has already been addressed I'll reserve comment on that section till youve had some time to make some changes

    i would like to comment on the right column section, its just not working...
    firstly its distracting, while attempting to read the actual content my vision keep wanting to view the right column which had me jumping all over the site without really taking much in, additionally its a bunch of divs inside other divs for no real apparent reason and you should always aim to use as little divs as possible, consider splitting the content between the header and footer sections instead where id expect to see those types of links and make more efficent use of that area

    good luck and all the best,
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