have a butchers at my first amazon site please

you can post a link to your site to make it easy for someone to look at it. no affiliate links are allowed

leafblowers-reviews seems to be dead for me.

I noticed leafblower-reviews is an empty blog that might be buyable, probably a higher traffic KW.

I saw a blower with a muffler in the wand pipe that made it much more quiet, you could write about city noise ordinance conformance, if there are models that are exempt.

That consumersearch site with their multiple hi pr results must haunt your dreams.

sorry my bad updated the link. typo
sorry but you lost me on the rest of what you said. consumersearch?? er lost lol.

Hi Steve,

I can see your site

Nice design...nice niche..well thought out. Should do well.

My only advice -- clean up the spelling & grammar. Leaf blowers aren't cheap, therefore your visitors will be expecting a certain level of professionalism before they trust you and buy from your links.

Remember, you're there to recommend and move them on (as quickly as possible)...so make your words fit as precisely as possible with what they're expecting to hear.

Cheers,
Steve

Ok but room for improvement. I wouldn't have the site go straight to the About section. You need to make the image in the review a clickable link to Amazon. The grey text under Catagories is too hard to read, it needs a colour more visable.

The site looks to squashed and narrow. I don't know how flexible Flexibilty 3 theme is but if you can widen the page, i would. Also, id recommend installing the Clean contact plugin and adding a Privacy Policy.

Gotta love the cockney title of this thread

Site looks ok, but I have no idea why you would no follow the menu links to the other pages, internal linking is powerful and should be taken advantage of

its ok... a little hard on the eyes mind i am not a lover of dark themes though. i built a similiar site today. www.wallmounttvstand.org

i would add a few more reviews and also try and get some ebay in there as well

thanks for all the input and taking it all on board, danny, wow nice site. Ive pm'd you hoping to ask you a few questions.

I just used the about us page will change that to home page soon, ive updated all the colours so should be easier on the eye and will get onto changing the pics to links to amazon.

Thanks all

Overall the site looks pretty good and you might have performed some of the modifications suggested by other warriors. To get better rankings in Google they do look for privacy and ploicy pages etc as part of the quality score.

I notice you do not allow comments or at least at the moment. I shall be pleased to hear what others have to say; I would have thought allowing comments would be adding fresh content automatically. You would have to moderate in the case of bad comments or spam.

Nicely done. It should do well.

those 3 links come with the flex theme... not a massive deal, i hsve ranked many sites using that theme with the links in the footer.


i recently bought flex squeeze... worth its weight in gold.

thats what i love about this forum and most of you being over seas i goto bed and wake up and bang loads of comments, will be sorting them out today.

Couple of questions though
how do i change them to follow links?
would you advise to take the adsense down and put amazon products there aswell.

Ref spelling i picked up on the leafs error in spelling on my last post changed it there and will now change all the words.

Thanks again.

Looks like you've already received some useful feedback. I'd also:

Add some links on the homepage to the reviews you have written using the product names as the links.

Include a clear call to action on all of your pages telling people to "click here to buy this XXX from Amazon" or similar wording. At the moment your links aren't prominent enough.

Add some sub headings to your reviews to break up the text and tell people the downsides to the blower as well as the upsides. The more balanced the review the more people will trust you and click through to buy.

it looks good, but you should try to put more post and also use more targeted keywords on the post for linking other articles .

Adsense and amazon work very well.... despite what people say. having adsense on the top left of a site is the best place for it as most people know whether or not in a few seconds if the page is going to useful and the top left is an adsense hotspot.

I see you have made a few changes...

Design a better header graphic... does not need to be perfect and only takes a few mins

Change the title from Home to a title that includes your keywords and try and make it compelling and interesting :-)

I prefer to have teh categories running along the top and scrap the about us and site map etc and stick them in teh footer as most visitors tend not to care much about those pages :-)

The amazon widgets are pants and dont convert in a side bar... they do ok in posts but I would loook at tryin trying to avoid them... even in ifd you just have some images and link them to amazon... that would work better.

Scrap the archives... no relevence

The adsense in the bottom is tragic... the trick with adsense is to try and blend them in have a look at this wso http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ml#post3029410

zeus is a well respected warrior and makes a lot of cash from adsense and ebay from doing sites just like this. I learnt a lot from him even though I do not build the sites like he suggests what I learnt has given me better conversions.

Ideally the reviews should be 1000 words or there abouts with a fair amount of links pointing to amazon throughout.

Another warrior to check out is Dan Brock I recently did a review of his latest product check out my blog to see how I got on.

Its good you have made a start and that is more than most but just keep tweeking and testing :-)

Good Luck

Danny

thanks again people, implementing as your typing lol.

Danny will try what you said and have a look at the people you where talking about.

so instead of posts you use pages is that right. oops i promised not to pester you again lol.

Thanks all
Steve

no I use posts... I just remove the dates from the posts :-)

Danny

I like the site, but would change the picture on the home page as you look like a 'chav' who would more likely pinch a blower than buy one.

As Steven Fullman said 'Leaf blowers aren't cheap, therefore your visitors will be expecting a certain level of professionalism before they trust you and buy from your links.'

lol i have that or a pic from me all tooled up in Iraq so hmmm better get some new ones.

wahay lets learn together, share ideas the lot if you like i reckon two noob heads are better than none lol.

To me, your "About" section was difficult to read, you may want to brighten the text. Other than that, it looks good! Hopefully that theme converts, it's bold

Put the exact model name and number in your review titles this should help in the search engines.

The site looks good, I'd get rid of the adsense and the amazon widgets cleaning the site up a bit more, this would also eliminate exits via adsense.

I have been using Flexsqueeze themes and you can remove the date and author from that in the settings.

There is also a plugin you can use to remove the date or you can just get rid of the code.

Adsense should be self optimsing based on what is on teh page... I am taking a punt that you saw those ads becasue the site is not exactly optimised and the content is a little thin (no offence meant)

Using exact model is always good as mentioned above

Danny

Another thing the pic does not have to be you... I am rarely in my own sites...

Cool thread.

I'm also just starting out so would be interested in a team up to throw ideas to one another.

The site looks good but maybe the colors in the header could be a little more brighter. Also, the lettering in the header is dark. By the way if you're using Amazon products you may be interested in this new Word Press Plug-in just for Amazon Products. You can find it at my site in the latest post.
Good Luck,
Stew

I second the lettering in the black section being too dark.

And for the love of English - have someone who is competent clean it up. It's barely readable - and I quit reading after the first paragraph.

thanks again all, will spend tommorow rewrighting my pages make them more seo friendly, thanks for all the great input.

I'm going to second (or third or fourth) on the grammar. Get someone to proofread for you. Poor spelling and grammar represent poorly to the prospective buyer.

I don't know if this has already been said or not, but I would have your main picture clickable with the link going to this product on Amazon. The one's on your pages are but not the one on the home page.

I would also have some more 'call to action' links other than just the 'here' word highlight with the link. I would have something like:

"Click Here to get a discounted price on the blah blah blah blower"

and have the whole link hyperlinked.

Nice theme though, good site!

Oh I will also second what Danny said about Deadbeat Super Affiliate product - it's not very expensive and really teaches you everything about how to set up your review sites for Amazon!

I have to say that review of about 1000 words is what converts best... and you will see when and where you neeed to put links to amazon... I normally just scroll through the site and make sure that at any one time there is a link to amazon visable :-)

Also I would look at making a folder called recommends and have your affiliate links in there that redirect to amazon... this will then mean if for what ever reason you have to change the links to amazon to some thing else you only have to change one php file rather than links righ accross the site.

Just google php redirect code failing that drop me a PM :-)

Danny

PS I am going to stop now as I have given away far toooooo much :-)

ah ok... never heard of that... mind you I have never looked :-)

Thanks :-)

1000 word reviews now i see why people outsource. busy day today then. thanks again all

yeah sod doing it yourself when you can pay someone next to nothing to do it :-)

Danny

Nice site for a first go. Well done.

I notice two major issues that others probably mentioned already.

1) you have no call to action. You need to tell people what to do once they are on your homepage. Tell them to read a review, or tell them your top recommended electric vs petrol models.

2) grammar. Make it rock. It's not good as it stands now. It will create bounce.

Now fix this, create a process to define what you are doingband then start outsourcing. I suggest you do your niche research and outsource the reviews for now. It will free up a lot of time to grow. Then outsource all wordpress stuff and promotion.

If your going after the U.S. market no uses...........

lways go for a petrol one as it

"petrol" they use gas......

After I took a look at your site and clicked on one of your Amazon links, Amazon sent me an email:

"Customers who have shown an interest in leaf blowers or vacuums might be interested in the following products"

And sent me info on leaf blowers!

Wow, Amazon really do go to bat for you!
(Although, of course, these aren't your affiliate links. Still, it shows their marketing powers.)

Sibster, good start, taking action is the 1st step.

1 point and 1 question:

- the spelling man, as many have said get someone to spell check it or copy and paste it into microsoft word and spell check it there

- the grey box 'testimonials' look good as they draw attention of the reader, does this come with the theme or from somewhere else?

Cheers