New Site Needs Frank & Honest Reviews

Hi bloggerr,

When looking at the link, I'm instantly turned off. This is my personally opinion. The whole 'diet pill' fiasco is getting old. However, luckily for you, there are many people out there looking for a 'quick fix'.

The site design is nice and looks professional. The logo could use a bit of work, but I really like the color palette, and the layout works well. The only thing that's weird, and this may be because of my 24' monitor, but I'm not fond of the left positioning. I think I'd rather see it centered.

Cheers,
Curtis

Thanks for your comment kcartlidge.
But there is a continuation. The complete sentence is like this:
I put that line ("This is the best diet pills on the market!") for SEO purpose. According to "SEO experts", it's a good idea to put your main keyword at the first sentence.

I understand that some people detest diet pills. Lots of them can be dangerous and have many side effects. But all the side effects are clearly stated in the box. And some people do really need it. For some people life can be unbearable if you are "too different" than a lot of other people. Not to mention direct and immediate health problems. I'm talking about obese people here.

I guess you haven't read all of my reviews there, some products are really effective but have nasty side effects (and I'm not selling it), some products (especially new released products) have no known side effects and contain only natural sources. And many doctors endorse it.

I'm not trying to talk about the products here, it will be OOT I guess , but I think I get the points. Apparently my site hasn't been successful yet to make the visitors reading it (read through different reviews). Or maybe because the visitors didn't go there looking for solution of their problems?

All, please enlighten me.. Any idea to make visitors stay longer?

I would edit your CSS template to center the page. There are some grammatical issues that you might want to take a look at. I would also, question why every pill was given a 5 star rating in every category if this is an un-biased site. What qualifications do you have to review these items. I'm a bit afraid of potential legal backlash on these types of sites. Even with disclaimers.

The layout is fine, the green is a bit to pastel for me though.

This site can make money. I disagree with the much of what the previous posters said.

If I'm a visitor to this site I'm not reading copy, I'm scanning and, I'm looking to CLICK fast.

Put a strong call to action above the fold. Make all the product images clickable. Focus on what you said in your post, "the goal of this site is to send the visitors to my aff site" ... when I hit your site, I'm looking for a way out ... this is a good thing. Give me one, quick.

Install a heatmap so you can see where people are clicking. Put affiliate links there.

Yikes bro. When we see the end of diets being sold, we'll all be broke.

I would give the site 3 stars.

I normally use a wide screen monitor 1680x1050 which affects my opinion, but your website occupies the left half of the screen the rest is solid blank green. Try to get it to center. (I looked at it on 1024x768 and it it much better, but still a little left)

You should go over the copy of all the reviews, many of the articles appear to be written by an ESL person. There are numerous grammar errors.

I really liked it. The layout is clean and easy to navigate through and the graphics are top notch. I honestly like it just the way it is ... good job!

Hi bloggerr,

I suggest you add more 'internal linking' to your pages to increase your ranking.
currently you are BOLDING but not linking for the keywords you are trying to rank for.

secondly, the site 'home' link is only avail at the bottom - add it to the top right colum - I would also like to have the 'Diet pill zone' area changed to a clickable image linked to home page - not a biggie but most people have that 'expectation' to clik on log and get to home page.

Hey bloggerr,

As a designer, I would like you to sugguest on the design. It looks very plain and doesnt catch the eye on the first look, being the reason your bounce rate is alarming.

Probably you might want to look at www .d3sign3r.com/upload/reviewstylelp/ for some ideas on a review page. I did it for a client a while back.

Hope this helps..

Cheers

Kcartlidge is spot on with his assessment. I'm going to focus on how the user perceives your page when they land there.

Your first bolded sentence is "This is the best diet pills on the market." This immediately turns people off because it smacks of sales, overblown results and exaggeration. Yes, the following sentence tells people that you aren't actually making that claim but no one will read that far. I didn't. Yes, it might be good for SEO, but what's the point of great SEO if your first sentence turns everyone away? You need to balance the user and the search engines.

Even if you switch those first two sentences, you'll grab a whole lot more people.
Example:
How often have you heard this line? - And fallen for it?
"This is the best diet pills n the market!"

Your next sentence isn't proper English so will need some cleaning up. "Yet, slimmer wallet and several inches fatter belly..."

I would discuss the embarassment people feel at being overweight. This is an extremely emotional issue, so discuss that to draw people in to reading more.

The second issue is the 5 star ratings. I only looked at the first two and saw they had all 5 stars. In my mind, this site immediately lost value and my respect as it looked to me like you rated everything that way. I didn't go beyond the first two reviews the first time I saw it and I bet thousands of others don't either. I suggest putting a low ranking suggestion first or second so people can instantly see you're actually evaluating the pills and aren't full of hot air saying they're all great. Seeing an honest review at the beginning encourages people to trust your feedback and read more.

The most effective pages keep the user in mind and how they see and interpret your page. You can have all the traffic in the world but if you aren't converting visitors to buyers, the site isn't doing it's job. Focus on the buyers and their needs.

No thanks necessary.

A great tool for testing the effectiveness of the suggestions given on this thread is the Google Website Optimizer (or any other split/multivariate testing tool).

e.g. Test the hypothesis that giving each product 5 star reviews reduces your credibility and results in lower click-through. You can setup a test to serve 50% of your visitors 5 stars and 50% 4 stars (or whatever you define). You can then see EXACTLY which results in more clickthroughs.

You can test multiple things at once as well. Different headlines with different product pictures with different calls to action. Google will run every permutation of those combinations and again tell you exactly which results in the highest clickthroughs.

It's actually really easy to implement too.

Hi there
ok, here goes honest.

• header: using one graphic with just text , even just text if you can't use a graphic
• fonts: would pare it down to 2 or 3 max in the same family if possible
• color: the greens work, but the gradient isn't doing anything for me
• menu text on right is coming across very small
• the english sentence structure needs work
• The article layouts themselves are well done and organized

some simple changes and text updates will finish the site off nicely

Here's a suggestion --- It's probably worth what you paid for it !!!
Why not start talking about the dangers of being overweight --- not a long
peroration, but it seems to me that's the point, huh?

The biggest thing I noticed first was how small each link is. I'm not a pro, but I was just looking at the site as if I was interested in becoming an affiliate, there was no instant, incredibly visible buttons linking to any more affiliate info (registration? tools?). I like the clean light colors and style though.

I suggest using a more eye catching template. The one you have now just doesn't make me want to stay and check out the site. Using a few darker colors would probably hit the spot. Good luck.