Gurlztown, bet you are getting a high bounce rate where people visit then just leave?

Try making a friendlier colour than black, with purple text that people can actually read easily as well as trying not to spread it all the way down the page in zigzags so that each story can be followed without struggling...not really sure what kind of site you are trying to make with it all over the place. If I saw that maybe I would read some of it on occasion, but it would not especially entice me to read until it is cleaned up and it wouldn't really entice me to at least bookmark it for another visit later

Your page 2 is also a direct copy of wiki, this is not good and will penalise you in the rankings most probably...not to be overly critical, but it just seems all over the place with far more emphasis on adverts that actual original content.

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It is the same for luvthe90s.com, it simply runs off the layout and halfway off the right hand side of the screen and the links on the left with dark navy blue background and black text...what were you thinking? :confused:

Fansion and fads page, just way too cluttered, it needs to be nicely spaced out I think, something like this quote:

This could've been expanded greatly to cover at least 2 page lengths with photos and maybe a video, not squashed into a couple of lines...

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You coldsore blog is far better, easy to read yet not much information there...the commandments page is brilliant, you really must make your site original, copying directly from another site is a big no no and I found it by taking a huge block of text and it wasn't even changed in any way:

mycoldsoreblog[dot]com/Page_2_D5BW.html
Found it on another page and though you did credit them with a backlink I would've changed it so it at least doesnt compete directly with them from google and give them a backlink with an actual message stating where you found it.

Have you started Back linking? What is your Niche? Who are you specifically targeting?? These questions you might need to answer before you will start making money.

Hi,i visited your sites and let me inform you that one of the above mentioned site mycoldsoreblog is really good but it needs to be improved a little bit.But gurlztown home page color is very bad,try to change it.

There is way too much going on in each of those sites. You can't tell who you're trying to target.

Also, I had to look around for things to buy...your ads are not obvious.

You need to make the sites easier on the eyes and easier to navigate, and also lay them out in a way that makes more sense to the reader.

Clean them up and think about who exactly it is you're targeting.

What are your target keywords?

All I can tell you is to keep going and not to give up. Try different approaches and see what can work for you.

That is all I can say.

Tal

My first observation would be that I didn't see any way in which I could interact with anyone on the 3 sites. I could watch movie clips, listen to music....but I couldn't find anywhere to post a comment.

The lesbian site was a bit too disjointed for me..................scrolling up and down too much with large gasp in space. The 90s site was too busy for me. Lots of things to read but not much to 'do'. The cold sore blog was.....well. it is what it is, a blog about cold sores.

I think you should keep at it........perhaps you could find a way to solicit feedback on the lesbian clips and music..............and the 90s isn't that far back....perhaps go back further to the 50s?

.02c

WTF, is this a joke???

Those site suck, plan and simple. You should give up and go work at McDonald's rather than posting the same "why me" crap over again. Why did you not listen to the advice the first time around?

Hey man it won't be wise for you to give up now you have invested alot into it. i would advice you to have a review of the possible steps you have taken i believe you must identify your mistake. keep the ball rolling don't give up. best of lucks....

I would design it as a direct-response website. (I'm not sure what the heck you're even selling on gurlztown.com) But create a headline that states a specific problem... "Got Trouble Finding Your Special Kind of Girl? Discover How A Shy Male (or Female) Now Gets All The Babes (He or She) Wants....

Check out how most of the sites are set up on clickbank.com Good Luck.

Deb without sounding too harsh

1st site.. holy cow colors ( im blinded).. most of content is way down the page, not above fold

2nd site. Loading ( a big no no, making people wait ) plus links on left black on blue.. eek i can barely view it )

3rd site.. created 11 jan 2010 - still early and needs some work on the site.

Its not the economy.

The only one that is close to be on the right track is the cold sore blog. Girls blog looks like a bad page out of Myspace. I'm on dialup so the 90s site never loaded at all. If you want to salvage the first two, or at least the one I could see, you need to put the content into a blog, rather than the crowded, poorly designed scattered mess that it is right now.

On your cold sore blog, get rid of the visible counter. Webmasters don't use that. That's 80s stuff. Use statcounter to keep track of your traffic and use the invisible stats. Put some more content in it. The header could be better. The image of the skull and pills are not very relevant to cold sores.

the sites need alot of work. WHat i would do is just completly start from scratch, find somehing your good at, and go from their.

Your sites are OK and I'm inspired by the fact you took action to set these up.

My question would be, how are you monetizing these sites ? If you are getting traffic, here's a tip....

Put an opt-in box on your page (right hand column looks good), and give your visitors something free. Find out all of the questions people in your niche are looking for i.e. coldsore remedies, and create a product for them, something that shows you are there to help them. This could be new material or re-hashed from your own articles.

Once you have a list of people in your niche, thats when you start opening the doors of opportunity into making significant money.

I agree with most of what I've seen here.

I think if you really want to regroup and have another go at this you should focus on the following with one site:

1. Focus on getting people to that site (forget about making money to start with)
2. Once you have people going to the site, work on getting them to click on a call to action
3. Once they they are clicking on the call to action, work on them converting.

Just like oils aint oils.. traffic aint traffic. You said you're getting traffic, but how much?

When I look at any of these sites there seems to be a 1,000,000 things going on. What is the business model?

Hmm I couldnt actaulyl get any of the sites to work all 3 of them were down, and the first one gave an error when the homepage loaded !

Woc

Using WIX for a website is a mistake because it took about 7 seconds to load up the site and the 3 more to load the video.....the busy-nes on the site speaks for itself, annoying. The Cold Sore blog is your best bet.

I don't think its the economy, and are you sure of who you are marketing to?

At any rate, good luck to you.
T

To make money you have to be patient. You have to get your rankings up, I have noticed that all of your websites are still pagerank 0 and all are above 2 million in alexa ranking. So you have to do some SEO work. But make sure your affiliate links are related to the niche of your site. Because if it is not how are you suppose to target people to buy the product.

I personally think affiliate marketing has seen its best days. Commissions are too small and too much work to make any real money. I know there are some people doing very well but for the beginner.....its a long road that is getting narrower for affiliate marketing.

Your Trafficking ( Sorry, couldn't wait to use that one.)

Your traffic might not be "buying" traffic. If whoever is sending it to you is not targeting the right people, you could have high traffic but no sales. If your affiliates are mass trafficking people over without any thought to their interests, it's pointless traffic.

Your Site Design

luvthe90s is very slow for me. It opens to a black page with some weird gray lines scanning across, then I get a notice to "maximize my screen" and finally, your content appears.

The buttons on the left are unreadable, black on dark blue?
The page runs way off to the right of my screen, which is set small, but still... even with the right size screen I'm not sure it would fit, but I don't know. I see others have commented on this though.

Too cluttered - with paper in the background, huge graphic (which I see is actually a video - but not easy to tell that it is), bold print running across the dark gold and paper background is difficult to read.

I wouldn't spend any time on this page. I wouldn't even have waited for it to load if you hadn't asked for an opinion.

It's unclear why people would visit - what are you offering? A list of Super Bowl winners? Personal videos? Who cares?

Sorry I don't have time to check your other sites, but that gives you an idea for one. But remember, people won't wait more than about 10 seconds for a page to load. It took all of that for me.

Sylvia

From what I know, you would not hurt your sites at all by simplifying them. That doesn't mean reducing content or making them less fun, but just eliminating the distractions that potential buyers may have on their way to your sales links. Allen Says, founder of this forum, said in another thread "Funny thing about us humans, give us too many options and we will pick none".

Another important point: readability. That may involve changing some background or font colours, particularly (1) the black background on your first site, as it is no longer favoured by webdesigners, and (2) the tabs at the top left of your second site.

Also, try placing your sales links on the top end of the screen. Surely, you do have to appear informational and not sale-ish. For each product, a short review followed by a few testimonials and the sales link would suffice.

All in all, try finding a few commercially very successful sites in your niche and model them. To start, we don't have to invent anything, just model what is already working.

Best of success

Not saying yours does or doesnt but just food for thought, all the traffic in the world doesnt do a darn bit of good if your sales copy sux.

Ive made that mistake before,thinking to just drive more volume of traffic to the site,then realized that was insane, as it would just multiply failure.

Did some research on copywriting with kern and joe vitales stuff, and boom,same traffic,more sales.