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14 years ago

Think it looks ok - however stick some calls to action on there.

Big banners that say "CLICK HERE" or you might not get many clicks.

Also go through some free Wordpress themes and pick a better theme - that is ok but you need it to "stand out".

Hope this helps.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Chri5123

Think it looks ok - however stick some calls to action on there.

Big banners that say "CLICK HERE" or you might not get many clicks.

Also go through some free Wordpress themes and pick a better theme - that is ok but you need it to "stand out".

Hope this helps.

Chris

Thanks chris yea i did wonder regards the theme :rolleyes:

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Tom Oxby

14 years ago

I would get rid of the adsense ads, it distracts the visitor from your main mission which is selling Amazon products.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Tom Oxby

I would get rid of the adsense ads, it distracts the visitor from your main mission which is selling Amazon products.

Another very good point thinking you will gain actually can damage the mission itself

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PhoebeSmellyCat

14 years ago

You also have a typo in your header:

"Any think kindle related is here"

I would also change the header. "Kindl Review Site" sounds a bit generic. I don't have a suggestion for you though, sorry.

I would also make your images link to your Amazon affiliate site instead of the image file.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by PhoebeSmellyCat

You also have a typo in your header:

"Any think kindle related is here"

I would also change the header. "Kindl Review Site" sounds a bit generic. I don't have a suggestion for you though, sorry.

I would also make your images link to your Amazon affiliate site instead of the image file.

Thanks for that was unaware the images were not linking :confused: all fixed now

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Wechito 14 years ago

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Kindle review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Kindle Review Site

Use Call to action buttons in your reviews. Buy It Here, Learn More... They will increase your click though rate.

The store is too wide and does not show up well (at least in Firefox).
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bay37

14 years ago

Sorry Mike, but I don't like it.

Not sure what it is... More likely than not it's the theme. Too many Adsene ads.

Me not liking it does not mean that it won't convert for you. Get that website to page one and see if you get sales/clicks.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by bay37

Sorry Mike, but I don't like it.

Not sure what it is... More likely than not it's the theme. Too many Adsene ads.

Me not liking it does not mean that it won't convert for you. Get that website to page one and see if you get sales/clicks.

Hey no worries

Adsense will be going now i can see that as a deterant from the actual mission itself.

Changes will be done

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blueboy9

14 years ago

See if your theme has the option to "sticky" a blog post. If it does, I would sticky the actual Kindle review as that's the main subject of the page and most likely what people will be looking for. It's fine to review accessories and software for the kindle, just make them go below the actual Kindle review.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by blueboy9

See if your theme has the option to "sticky" a blog post. If it does, I would sticky the actual Kindle review as that's the main subject of the page and most likely what people will be looking for. It's fine to review accessories and software for the kindle, just make them go below the actual Kindle review.

Hey this sounds interesting im going to change the theme anyway.

Could you elaborate on "sticky" please not heard of that term before?

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pankajguptag

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mike gregory

Hey this sounds interesting im going to change the theme anyway.

Could you elaborate on "sticky" please not heard of that term before?

I think this post will be helpful for you: How to Show Static Front Page on the Home Page of My WordPress Blog

Create a review post and made that post as home page then your current blog posts will not appear on home page.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by wedost

I think this post will be helpful for you: How to Show Static Front Page on the Home Page of My WordPress Blog

Create a review post and made that post as home page then your current blog posts will not appear on home page.

Thanks for this, makes perfect sense to have your main offer seen straight away

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marketwarrior06

Banned 14 years ago

for me horizontal banner would be more beautiful. it will increase your probability to go to amazon from your site as well as increase the rate of conversion too.
thanks.

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Steve Wise

14 years ago

I'm not keen on the Getresponse banner it wont be relevant to most visitors and the header is bland imo. Also are you allowed to use the product name in your domain?

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AndhikaWijaya

14 years ago

Hi Mike, that Great Amazon Review Site..
But my suggestion is you need Banner or some Call To Action picture like "Click Here" or "Buy Now".

Thank you,

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Benjamin Ehinger

14 years ago

I like it, however, the sidebar has a lot of junk going on if you ask me. I would make the reviews of the products longer and add some reviews from actual people.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Benjamin Ehinger

I like it, however, the sidebar has a lot of junk going on if you ask me. I would make the reviews of the products longer and add some reviews from actual people.

Benjamin Ehinger

Just changed theme trying to remove whats there at present but keep what i had before being a little difficult :confused:

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Benjamin Ehinger 14 years ago

Originally Posted by mike gregory

Just changed theme trying to remove whats there at present but keep what i had before being a little difficult :confused:

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I like the new theme it looks cleaner and more geared towards the products you are working with. However, it now looks like you could use some more content with the reviews.

Benjamin Ehinger
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Michael Franklin

14 years ago

Attractive theme!

One suggestion...Incorporate paragraphs no longer than 6 lines and line space betweeen your paragraphs.....Ok, that was two suggestions!

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Thanks guys for help so far

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pankajguptag

14 years ago

I think you should make a sticky page of home page related to kindle review and keep blogging as usual. Potential buyers will get your review on first page without moving to any post and hence you may get more sales. Continuous blogging will help you to get more reputation in google.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Think i have found a winner of a theme now guys just concentrate on the reviews and call to action now

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blueboy9

14 years ago

Some themes have the option to sticky a blog post in the same way threads can be stickied in a forum. In other words, they stay at the top and everything else starts below them.

The new theme looks great, I think that's the keeper!

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NateRivers

14 years ago

The site is decent but I think you've chosen a brutal niche to try and compete in.

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Ntech25 14 years ago

Originally Posted by NateRivers

The site is decent but I think you've chosen a brutal niche to try and compete in.

I agree with Nate. This might be a tough niche to get into it. Amazon has so many different products you can sell.. They really do have everything to A-Z. What I have been doing lately is building a lot of small stores with like 50 to 300 items focusing in a single product with accessories and addons and it has been working out very well for me... I have also done some big shops like 1shopelectronics.com but this domain is very old and had a crappy script installed before so it lost a lot of ranking but I have seen some improvements with this new script I am using and so far its looking good..

How long did it take you to build this wordpress site? I would try and get a better theme maybe something more flashy.
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  this site only took me a couple of hours to create.
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Ben Holmes

14 years ago

I'll echo what Nate Rivers said - you picked a product that 347,234 other marketers are targeting (and at least half of them know what they're doing) Of course, I'm making up numbers here, but really, this is a tough product.

Another thing you might want to consider - you'll never get more than 4% because it's electronic...

Scratch that... just checked my list, and I sold a Kindle this month, and I'm sitting at the 6% level right now ... I'll hit 6.5% in another few days - but I'm confused... I thought electronics were limited to 4%???

Another idea - load in the 'Pretty Link' plugin - run all your affiliate links through it, so you get pretty links - and you also get to see stats on how often someone clicks through.

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Lee Wilson

14 years ago

You haven't fixed the typo that Phoebe pointed out.

Using a brand name in your domain could get your site pulled. Just making sure you're aware of that?

The site looks fine but where's the reviews? You don't have a review site for the Kindle, you have a multi-page advert. Amazon already have this themselves. Anybody looking for a review of the Kindle will still be looking for a review after they visit your site, you lose the cookie!

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lee Wilson

You haven't fixed the typo that Phoebe pointed out.

Using a brand name in your domain could get your site pulled. Just making sure you're aware of that?

The site looks fine but where's the reviews? You don't have a review site for the Kindle, you have a multi-page advert. Amazon already have this themselves. Anybody looking for a review of the Kindle will still be looking for a review after they visit your site, you lose the cookie!

The main reviews are being created now whats up on the site at present is just a base

Thanks for pointing out the typo again completely forgot :rolleyes:

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cjm18

14 years ago

I have to say I am impressed, the amount of "simple" or "clean" sites that I see that are just boring, dull and make me leave the page in seconds is staggering.

It is nice to see you able to pull off a design that is simple, clean and suits your product. Most of all it is visually appealing and the onyl criticism I have is the the widget on the top of the right sidebar with the amazon ad looks liek it should have a title.

Then again I am really obsessive about certain aspects of web pages.

All in all I like it good work.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by cjm18

I have to say I am impressed, the amount of "simple" or "clean" sites that I see that are just boring, dull and make me leave the page in seconds is staggering.

It is nice to see you able to pull off a design that is simple, clean and suits your product. Most of all it is visually appealing and the onyl criticism I have is the the widget on the top of the right sidebar with the amazon ad looks liek it should have a title.

Then again I am really obsessive about certain aspects of web pages.

All in all I like it good work.

Hey thanks for the kind words yea i feel the site does exactly that

lol yea looking at it i see what you mean with the widget title.

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donhx

14 years ago

I generally like the monochromatic look, in this case it makes your site look dreary, I'd say. A color background (no dots) would make the page pop and would enhance the visitor experience.

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Martin Avis

14 years ago

Hi Mike

The typo is still in the headline, and you should also capitalize the word Kindle as it is a proper noun. Also in hte headline, 'non biased' sounds awkward. I'd suggest unbiased.

I understand what you are saying about the reviews not being done yet, but the few you do have might be better either run under that main stickied one, or at least have 2 or 3 of them linked to at the bottom of the main article.

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Myles Sinclair

14 years ago

Hello Mike,

You might want to take a look at your contact page. At the moment the message is showing as being signed by "Real Play Poker Site Team" It might confuse people a bit.

Hope this helps,

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Myles Sinclair

Hello Mike,

You might want to take a look at your contact page. At the moment the message is showing as being signed by "Real Play Poker Site Team" It might confuse people a bit.

Hope this helps,

Myles

LOL yea that would do it :rolleyes:
that was the copy and paste mistake there, thanks for pointing this out

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alexmw106

14 years ago

Look pretty good. You should use the Wp Review Engine plugin.

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Sarah Harvey

14 years ago

The best sites in my opinion, are the ones that can review the product and compare it to something similar + being able to highlight all the good things about it. The site makes the Kindle look boring to be honest.

A bit of colour, some creativity and thoughtful criticism in a positive/negative way will definitely be welcomed. To be fair you are listing all the features of the kindle on the main page, but realistically what you need to do is link to the specs on amazon so they can read it there for themselves. Make it open up in a new window.

Rather give a good review on the main page under the picture. Perhaps test the two side by side. Have the one with bulleted benefits and the second page, with your own review written out. The more thorugh you are, the better chance you have of selling it.

As for books in 60 seconds. Illustrate in more detail the type of books they can get, have a few available to download yourself or even better... offer them the chance to subscribe to your list to get a good book once a week for free download. Things like that will get people interested and coming back to your site. Offer more information on different applications that might compliment it etc. Perhaps offer a comprehensive and advanced FAQ of the Kindle.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Thanks sarah that was very helpful like the list building tactic there

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Ian Jackson 14 years ago

Hi Mike - just PM'd you..

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Marketing Cheetah

14 years ago

Mike, the website looks fine. I don't know how it looked when adsense ads were there but now it looks fine.
I think a button to amazon saying "Buy from Amazon" will be nice too. As i can see text only.

Overall I will rate it 9/10

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7eclair

14 years ago

I agree that you should change your background theme and remove many links. You will get only clicks and no sales, so a link or two are enough for someone to buy.

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Ehsan_am

14 years ago

Your reviews seem to be very short. The exact same information you share can probabaly be found on some other website to some extent. I would rather write longer reviews that give an honest opinion about the product that you are targeting. You want to make sure you are giving a lot of value to your visitors.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Wow this thread is back to life

thanks guys for your views greatly appreciated, I have not worked on the site in a little while to be honest, other things have got in the way :rolleyes:

Yes the reviews and content does need to be improved, and made better but the site itself im happy with.

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Marketing Cheetah

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mike gregory

Wow this thread is back to life

thanks guys for your views greatly appreciated, I have not worked on the site in a little while to be honest, other things have got in the way :rolleyes:

Yes the reviews and content does need to be improved, and made better but the site itself im happy with.

One more thing which I just noticed:

KINDLE Review. Here we are reviewing the new kindle. Any thing kindle related is here. We look at each new and upcoming kindle product then give it our fair and unbiased review.

This is simply not good. It is broken in too many small sentences, not at all appealing and not delivering any kind of information. You really need to change it.

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jugroo

One more thing which I just noticed:

KINDLE Review. Here we are reviewing the new kindle. Any thing kindle related is here. We look at each new and upcoming kindle product then give it our fair and unbiased review.

This is simply not good. It is broken in too many small sentences, not at all appealing and not delivering any kind of information. You really need to change it.

Thanks again for this, as i'm no longer Physically working on this site i will pass all the info you guys give onto my partner

as he has recently took this project over.

Again thanks guys, as usual great advice.

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Serenity090

14 years ago

increase text size..........

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robgee123

14 years ago

Hey Mike you're site looks great but it's not ranked in google?
What Keywords do you plan on targeting?
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Jason Perez O'Connor

14 years ago

Any conversions? What amazon plan are you following. Don't give up on something until you are ca$hing in.

Your reviews aren't detailed or long enough. You have to provide the user with as much detail as Amazon, and then some more! Look for things Amazon may have missed and so forth..

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor

Any conversions? What amazon plan are you following. Don't give up on something until you are ca in.

Your reviews aren't detailed or long enough. You have to provide the user with as much detail as Amazon, and then some more! Look for things Amazon may have missed and so forth..

Thanks, I never give up

i have simply had to send this project to my partner to take over the content side of things. So as i said please any comments are very much appreciated and will be forwarded on

Yes there have been conversions from the site:

Clicks & Conversion Summary

December 1, 2010 to March 12, 2011

Glossary
Product Link Clicks 171
Other Clicks 75
Clicks 196
TOTAL CONVERSION 4.04%

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Ian Jackson 14 years ago

Originally Posted by meenutotalk

Your website is good looking and really it will get sales as you wish. If you want to make it more effective you can choose word press theme.

It is a WP theme
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Jason Perez O'Connor

14 years ago

So roughly 7 sales. Atleast it's making sales, I think with more in-depth reviews and a few how-to's your site could do better in conversions.

I figure since you have an assistant or partner in which you send details to that you are already successful, never hurts to give advice anyway

keep going!

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mike gregory

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor

So roughly 7 sales. Atleast it's making sales, I think with more in-depth reviews and a few how-to's your site could do better in conversions.

I figure since you have an assistant or partner in which you send details to that you are already successful, never hurts to give advice anyway

keep going!

Thanks Jason, as always all the advice i get is amazing and really love to hear the views from you guys on how to better our marketing project, the advice really is priceless!

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kevintg1

14 years ago

text is to small, go for size 15 or 16, also put the privacy policy & about at the bottom of the page out the way, you don't wont to many distractions in the header