Need help with my website !

Hello Michael. Welcome to the Warrior Forum!

I skimmed through your site, and it has a nice, simple-to-navigate design ...
As I understand, you placed your affiliate links in the pages of your site, which is your main monetization method ...

First off, you need to try and convert your viewers into mailing list subscribers ...
So, your opt-in offer can be something like a downloadable content material with the headline "17 Interesting Facts You Probably Don't Know About Marijuana" ...
Or a video compilation with the headline "12 Mind-Blowing Marijuana Recipes You Probably Haven't Tasted" ...

And, your homepage can have an attention-grabbing, enticing and compelling video about the value of your opt-in offer for your viewers ...

An attention-grabbing banner headline with interesting overview text in your homepage (for your opt-in offer) could also help ...

And, I think you need more engaging, interesting content for your site ...

For example, content about the history of marijuana is good and educational ...

However, I don't think your target market would find it attention-grabbing, interesting, engaging and compelling ...

So, how about "Interesting Facts About the History of Marijuana", where small snippets of interesting and controversial facts are displayed, one at a time, each time a viewer presses a "View Next Fact" button?

As another example, why not add controversial viral news and provocative feature stories about marijuana to your site on a regular basis?

Newsjacked content can drive organic traffic, especially if you also share your newsjacked content across relevant social networks and niche blogs ...

More importantly, timely and relevant newsjacked content can grab the attention of your viewers, keep them interested in viewing more of your content, entice them to engage with your content (especially if you ask them to leave comments), and compel them to share your content across their social networks (especially if you ask them to, and if you provide convenient ways for them to do this) ...

As another example, relevant tutorials, guides and so on could most likely be more interesting and engaging ...

These can be written content materials and videos about top marijuana recipes, tutorials and guides on how to grow marijuana indoors / outdoors, how to select the most suitable seed strains for various preferences in terms of taste and high, and so on ...

Well, I think those are the essential things that your site needs at the moment ...
Keep in mind that the main objective of your onsite and offsite content is to inform, educate and entertain your viewers; and
The main objective of how you package your content is to grab the attention of your target audience, keep them interested in viewing more of your content, entice them to engage with your content, and compel them to do whatever you want ...

And, you can use Google Trends, Youtube Trends Map, Twitter Search, BuzzSumo, What's Trending, SocialMention, SpyFu, Keyword Snatcher, Social Lead Freak, the Google Adwords Keyword Planner, the Bing Keyword Tool, and offline media sources like TV news and top selling offline niche magazines in your target areas / countries (like High Times if you're targeting the US), in order to do the following things:

• Generate ideas for topics, news stories, keywords and so on for your opt-in offer, follow-up emails, onsite and offsite content;

• Accurately pinpoint offsite locations where you can actively participate and contribute valuable content so as to strategically position your brand;

• Identify online advertising platforms where you can promote your opt-in offer;

• Identify the target keywords of competing sites in your niche for their paid search advertising and organic SEO campaigns; and

• Formulate effective concepts for integrating the 6 scientific principles of persuasion into your opt-in offer, onsite / offsite content and ad materials (these persuasion principles are reciprocity, social proof, authority, likeability, exclusivity and commitment / consistency) ...

Hope this helps. Cheers!

You have one page of content and the rest of the site is ads.

I would bounce off that site instantly.

You need something to engage visitors.

You do not really care about your audience it is obvious you are trying to milk them for cash.

You need to offer some real value. Help them get from point A to point B where they want to know the best weed, how to grow the best weed or even how to become a top drug dealer (I'm joking)

Just help them move somewhere

Try creating videos to provide valuable contents to your website visitors. Include an email signup form and offer a short report/ebook (with useful information) would generate some subscribers to your email list.

From what i see your problem is in monetizing the website content right? if so, then let me tell you the best way ever to monetize a marijuana website.

As you know you can't use Adsense on the site because it's against there T.O.S so the best way is to use "Adistry" Adistry is a new ad network located in Colorado, specializing in the marijuana niche. They also accept advertisers and publishers in a bunch of other unorthodox niches ranging from tobacco to gambling. Basically everything AdSense doesn't allow for, minus adult content, and trust me it will pay off very well.

You can sign up directly from this link : https://adistry.com/publishers/

and please remember don't use Adsense! you will get BANNED eventually.

Or as another monetizing technique you can utilize the Amazon Affiliate Program to make some income from the site as well.

And let me know if you need any help.

Just as a side issue, can anyone see any legal implications with this? Just thinking that all of the effort it takes to build an online business, branding, content traffic etc...doing all this based on a drug that is in the main illegal?

So that's a site you made? to me it looks like the default WordPress theme with some text and images slapped together, not really impressive or engaging.

I'd recommend hiring a web designer because it's pretty clear that design isn't you specialty. No amount of advice here will help you magically become a better web designer. Unless your willing to put weeks/months into learning coding and how to customize a WP theme.

Just my opinion.

Try to write some words on every image and videos, Do proper SEO and follow online marketing strategy. You have too many category but less content for per category. Please update your site regularly. Sometimes you need more times to make money by blogging. Don't become frustrated continue,,,, Continue,,,,, and continue,,,,, that's all

Never quit from blogging, Quitter never win.

Hi nice website in fact

especially the template and navigation .You should advertise it to get more leads and sales.Another solution is you can boost your social media presence .Be active there .You can get better and serious people from twitter as well.

Starting a website and building a business are two very different things, you can offer a lot of interesting information that people will stop and read, but if you don't know how to build a product line, and build the next step, where people cross the line from being readers if your site to customers, then you're not going to be able to make money off your website.

Unless it has old a lot of visitors and you can use AdSense, But even then it's not a guarantee, and in your case with the laws surrounding marijuana, Google probably isn't very helpful.

What you need to do is product model, and go from understanding how to write a blog or write articles to how-to build a business and organize a product line, and transform your content into marketing, where your content becomes something that promotes your products.

The trick is to make sure you don't turn your content into value lists sales pitches were all you do is try to sell a product, and you still focus on the quality relationship with your readers, and offering value.

For your next step, figure out how you can expand upon what you do - for example, you know your customers pretty well, and are probably able to think like them.

Figure out what kind of product you could offer next two educator help your customers further their knowledge or skills at something they're looking to do, And offer something where you say, "if you find this content useful, and would like to learn how to X, you should also check out my product, where I teach you x, y, z.

Just focus on hot offers much value as possible to your customers, and what you can give them based on what their needs are that they would want to purchase,

Then you just need to learn how to write marketing pages that offer that value and package in the way that looks appealing, and would make them want to purchase your product.

Awful site, awful theme, layout, obvious links, does nothing for customer, the "people" that visited were probably bots

stop thinking about making money.. keep in your mind to give the BEST of your visitors. Best of information, best of knowledge, best of service.
try to grab a little corner in your visitors heart and they will return you in sales.

Do GOOD to get good in return from visitors.

Biggest thing is like most people have described here is to add value to your visitors and customers life;s.

Most def. collect there email and use a auto responder like awber/get response to this

Then build build build that relationship with them