WoooHooo My First Site is LIVE!

Good job in taking action. What I read of the content looks good. I would add a pic to at least some of the posts to break up the text some, plus dog lovers love adorable dog pics.

Congrats! I think the story you have on the top homepage is great, good way to presell the product.

26 visitors already! That's pretty good - if you just put your blog up where are you getting the traffic from?

Hey There;

First of all congrats on taking action. One of the big problems, in the IM world, is the amount of people who want to get started, and can't take action. I admit, that I am the same, at not taking action on some things.

Now, I had some thoughts on your site, and how you could improve it. One secret, that I'm going to tell you is that I find conversions with anything INCREASE a ton, when you have a design that is compelling enough to keep visitors on your site.

The first thing I see when I get to your site is your header, what bugs me is a have white text on a blue background, then a picture of a dog on a white background. It would look so much nicer, if you had a logo, that fit in with the dog picture to make it flow.

Caleb

LOL! Well I'm thinking if you got 26 visitors to the product that probably means you have a lot more to your blog. If you have cpanel, you could check your stats from there just to see what keywords you are being found for.

Lee

Hi Helicopterplt,
As mentioned in a previous post, the header needs some improvement maybe some blending of clours and images in photoshop. Think about adding some google adsense to the site as well for extra revenue.

Good though. It's a great niche market.

All the best,
Mark

Congrats on taking action!

Here's my contribution...

You should create a category for your posts and put them in it. Right now your showing them all as "uncagetorized".

I just generated about 100 backlinks for ya with this super cool tool I recently picked up. Should help with you getting indexed pretty quick.

Good luck! Keep building on it.

Rich

yeah, that Pretty Link rocks. When you start doing some off page stuff with links back to your site, send them to your pretty link and not directly to the product. This'll give you some control over your links that come in. Some day you may want to promote your own product and this strategy will allow you to easily reroute those incoming links to your product instead of someone elses when the time comes.

Rich

Needs a lot of work in regards to SEO.

But good job and whatever you do keep the site going and going.

Hi there, I am a newbie when it comes to IM, but I think i spot a potential trend that may scare off potential buyers:

I noticed that all of your blog entries is dated 31st July. I think u need to backdate them, or else, people are gonna think u plucked the entries off some random blog.

Just my 2 cents worth

Some comments/thoughts:
- maybe add newsletter page, so when asking people to "join my newsletter"
- replace rss box with newsletter box and have that "get free report" thing there
- more pics would be nice. somehow when it's about dog training, I'd like to see more pics inside posts

you can remove the date by editing index/single/comments (there's "the_date" or something similar inside php files) php files.

I think easiest way to add the opt-in box is in wordpress is adding a Text widget (not sure if your blog template has them in use already) and simply copy & pasting the code from your newsletter provider.

Hi man, congrats on taking the action, so many people out there who decides to start but couldn't make it. Well you have done a super job as a beginner.

As other friends suggested, you should put some small doggy images here and there to accompany your post. So people won't get bored by reading long pages.

I also see you have masked your aff links with TinyURL, I suggest you to get a plugin called: PrettyLinks, it will help you create your very own masked URL's under your domain such as: simple-dog-training.com/dog-training

You are doing it great, no one can say that this is your first site. To your success!

waao! must be exciting to get the first site launched. actually, it doesn;t look bad at all for the first timer. keep up the good work

1. image posting: when you upload images via wordpress (you gotta create "uploads/" folder and set permissions 755 or 777), it gives you option to "align the image to left" for example.

if you want to do it manually, type something like (in html editor, not in visual editor):
should do the trick.

I like the site very much actually. It has a very simple design and very informative. Maybe a background image or a video to get some more interaction from the viewer instead of just scrolling down. But just my opinion.

I wish I knew how to remove the dates, I had to hire someone to do it. Good job on the traffic, it's likely to be the result of good on-page SEO. Scatter some pics and videos in the content, it'll be nice.

I wish I got half as much help when I started putting sites up, it was a lot if work figuring some of the stuff out.

Good theme and domain too.

Few suggestions:
1) Change default category name and slug
2) If you don't have any blogroll links, remove that widget from Appearence menu
3) Move search widget on the top, after About me

Hope it helps...

That's a really good looking site for someone who's just starting out. Well done.

google will probably find it on its own

good call on adding the link to your signature.

not sure, but have you added analytics on that site already (there's wordpress plugins available btw...)? I think that's also one of the things to do right in the beginning

I believe one visitor can visit on several pages... thus generating 1 visit and 7 pageviews (or whatever).

You'll find plenty of information about unique visits / visitors / pageviews at analytics site. they have pretty good docs there i believe.

your site looks really good, let us all know when you get your first sale

I just checked out your site and I can't find what your selling without clicking your link! If I were you I would use the panel on the right for your product you're promoting. You should be able to get a banner or some graphics from your affiliate. That way your visitor will find what they are looking for straight from your home page.

I would also include an opt-in for a free guide or a newsletter (just send copies of your posts). Once again you might be able to get that stuff from your affiliate. You need to capture emails addresses if you want to grow your business.

People love graphics and videos so I would at least (minimum) add more graphics to your posts and side panel.

If you do just those couple of things I guarantee you'll get your first sale soon.

Good Luck.

I think your site looks professional and very well done! Keep doing what you are doing and you will be making the bucks!

That is a very well written website. We have been hosting websites for over 9 years so trust me when I say; thats a good one!

As your blog grows, it will automatically attract more visitors which will eventually lead to more sales. I wish you the best of luck!

@helicopterplt

Congrats on taking action! I understand the "info overload" situation you had, I was in the same place at one point; you try to learn everything at once & you end up delaying forever or just not doing anything at all. I think most ppl who get into I.M get to that point & just end up throwing up their hands at it all. I'm a perfectionist myself (which is sort of a curse bcuz it holds me back alot of the time) so you just have to get in their regardless of whether everything you want to do is going to happen right away or not...

I have a couple of suggestions for your site tho...

1. If you're using Google Chrome, you can download this browser tool called SEO Quake, very awesome & helpful tool, gives you everything from PR to keyword density & link info. I think its compatible with Firefox but I haven't checked up on that yet...

2. Also, you can use Alexa.com to check traffic stats/rankings & see the demographics of ppl who visit your site & what keywords they've come to your site off of searching, as well as a bunch of other indepth tools. I'm a total Alexa addict myself because its so helpful & FREE!

Obviously keyword density is everything, as well as the RIGHT keywords; you can't sell a dog training product when you're talking about cat juggling (just an example, lol :-p )

In regards to Alexa, I'd suggest you use them sporadically at the moment just to check up on things because you don't seem to have enough info in the search engines as of now to be ranked yet on their site, but keep it in mind once you start getting more traffic...


Good luck!
C. Willis :-)

I have seen your blog. It look good. It is an average blog. It is not so bad and not so good. You have placed good content there which is nice although but overall look of the blog is not so attractive. Please work hard more unless you do not get an sales. You can grow slowly and wait for the moment.

Site looks really good, not seeing those where you building a list or offering anything where you make money those.

Might want to put that high up on your list of things to do.

Good Job mate! Yea Buddy...

I think every website should have a "Contact Us" as well as a "Terms and Conditions"

The site looks good though, get an opt-in in there and you'll be sweet...

Good job on taking action! and good luck with your niche and sales!