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Opinions on my amazon review blog

by idlplumb
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Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Please let me know what you think, what you'd change, if it is just plain garbage. I just need to know I'm going in the right direction.

Thank you in advance!

Professional power tools
#amazon #blog #opinions #review
  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    Gonna need lots of work. The domain name is poor and the aesthetics are poor. It also looks like you are largely just pulling Amazon descriptions. Would you buy something from a site like this?

    Don't mean to beat you up but it needs lots of work if you want it to be taken seriously.
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  • Profile picture of the author idlplumb
    I appreciate you being candid with me. Being that this is my first site, I know that I have a lot to learn so I figured I'd let the pros give me some constructive criticism.

    While I understand that the domain name is poor, I wonder....how would google react to me moving the site to another domain?

    Aesthetics will be upgraded...I'm looking for new themes as we speak. (Any suggestions?)

    As far as the content goes, I didn't spend as much time as I should have. I figured I'd get it all up there just to get the indexing process started and then go back and add to each product's review/description.


    Thanks again for being blunt and to the point...I prefer my work be fixed rather than go on thinking "it's not that bad".
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    First things first: get rid of the famous quotes bit. That's just garbage, and completely takes away any credibility that your content might build. It just rubs me the wrong way, and I know I'm not the only one.

    The main problem is the content. Those articles do not seem like actual reviews, but some kind of vague filler. I know nothing of this field, and even I'm so underwhelmed that I'd make sure to not click your affiliate links. Take a short review template from somewhere, and see what kind of information is usually available. It doesn't necessarily need to be much longer in my opinion, as long as it doesn't feel like an advertisement. These reviews do not stand out at all.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lares
      Its pretty bad. You should probably start new website with unique content if you plan to drive traffic with SEO. This already has 2k pages indexed and most are error 404.

      And i would avoid using associate goliath and similar plugins that pull content from amazon. Make it unique and do it manually.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    I'd be worried about your backlink profile. There are backlinks, but it doesn't look too good (according to Majestic SEO).
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    • Profile picture of the author shahriyar
      * Too much italic text, not good for reading
      * Use a good image logo, you can still have your keyword in alt
      * Welcome text can be made more professional & credible
      * Instead of just using "Welcome" as title, use an interesting title. Or just completely replace that first post with most popular tools in a slide show.

      Remember, the top part of the website is what catches a viewer's attention, if you can't impress your visitors using that area, you will see a lot of bounce traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cruella D
    I would talk about the design I saw alot of comments about the content above.
    I get that the theme is free but Im sure something can be done to make it look more attracting for visitors.
    Im not sure you have a plan getting more traffic!? the domain is very hard to remember!!
    Suggestion:
    toollook.net
    toolslook.com
    toolrev.com

    short and east to remember if your willing to pay for logo will look good.
    also adding ads would be a good idea!
    Goodluck
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    You want it to be about professional power tools, and on the front page you have 9 tool listings only 2 of which are not basic hand tools, or kits/collections of hand tools.

    What is the site about?

    You are doing little more than showcasing products collected from Amazon.com, why would anybody come to this site before going to Amazon?
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