Please Review My Site.

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I have a site called inbiloxims.com My goal is to rank all of the subdomains that I have for local business and then lease the site to local businesses and forward the calls to them. I would like for the people in here to give me an honest evaluation and give me advice as to how to get each page on the first page of google.

I bought a warrior special on local lead generation and it had some good ideas in there also.

Please let me know your honest opinions because I do not want to start down this road if it is a loosing proposition.

Thanks for your help.
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  • Profile picture of the author jeverett
    I am really in need of some help with this will someone please help me out
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    • Profile picture of the author JasonJason
      Hi Jeverett! I took the time to browse through your site as you suggested. Here are some issues that jumped out at me at first glance...constructive criticism if you will:

      1. The homepage is confusing. There is nothing there that shows me, as a first time visitor, what the point of the website is. You arrive on the homepage and all you see is a barrage of links. Perhaps utilizing more graphics on the homepage would help to solve this potential problem. And maybe think about creating more space at the top of the page in which you could have your mission statement, or a tagline of some sort. This would clearly indicate to your visitors what you are trying to achieve and how your site may help them.

      2. At top of the homepage you'll notice that the "INBILOXIMS" is written in plain black text. Your goal is to brand the site, which will of course increase its probabilities for success, and this means you should probably think about creating more of a graphic logo for "INBILOXIMS.COM". At very least, a more interesting font.

      3. From a marketing perspective, it is very difficult to be all things to all people, and this site is essentially doing exactly that. There are so many different categories, and there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to why they are all grouped together. For example, I can go to your site and find a catering service, but there are no links to restaurants. I can find a divorce lawyer, but not a bankruptcy lawyer. You get the drift...Notice that I said it isn't impossible to be successful with this method, but do know that it is extremely difficult.

      As for ranking first on Google....well that takes great content, a great plan, a great site, great SEO, and great patience. The pages you currently have in place have rather vague content. This is not good for SEO and you may want to consider developing your content more. The more content the better... Have you ever thought about creating a blog component for the site?

      So, there's my two cents...and I hope that I've at least provided some insight. Furthermore, while I did point out some things that I feel are big negatives for your strategy, I did try to make some suggestions how you may could improve it. I hope I was able to help in some small way.

      Best of luck in all that you do, and above all, never give up!
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  • Profile picture of the author Woodward82
    Cant give you the expertise as most of the warriors here. But I like the idea, will require a lot of work to rank all of those pages to #1 are you going to lease the space as advertising or give them there OWN little website. Have you tried using WP or multipress?
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  • Profile picture of the author JDIZM
    you should try to focus not diversify.
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  • Profile picture of the author RnGWriter
    You should improve the layout of your site to make it more user friendly. And if you want to get ranked#1 in Google then you need to plan on how you are going to get traffic, generate content......yada yada.

    Best of luck on your journey!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dominican
    The homepage is all over the place. At first I thought it was organized by alphabetical order, but that is not even true.

    You need to have some organization, as a directory; and as others mentioned, at least let the user know from the beginning what exactly this page is supposed to do for them. It's not in any kind of order, it's not categorized by niches, nor by alphabetical order.... it's all over the place.

    For example; I see a health and beauty section; well the Day Spa fits underneath that, if you wanted to truly start categorizing it.


    Roofing/painting/gutters etc... are a part of home improvement.

    That is ONE way to organize it, and I have seen such organization on Article Directories which seems to work out well, and the visitors can seem to navigate it.... BUT only though main headings and subsequent subheadings.

    Otherwise, an alphabetic organization may work.

    I would maybe, but this is not a 100% recommendation, (as you still have left out many details as to how people even get to the site, or what you expect them to do once on the website etc...) would be to put at the top, a heading or obvious branding; and then a subheading which would say something like:

    What's In Biloxi M.S.?

    Services Available In Biloxi

    Or something like that. I know the wording can be better arranged, but I am trying to say that you should say exactly what all of those links are... are they services? Are they shops/businesses?

    Another example which you can look at right now, is "TripAdvisor"... if you google ____keyword___ in _____location_____ you will end up finding a lot of trip advisor listings, that may say "things to do in ____location" or "places to eat in _____location".

    That organization is very clear, so even before a person clicks in the search results, they can see from the text on Google exactly what they are clicking into....and once they click in, they see it.

    Since you are in fact competing with Trip Advisor, in this very area that you described as a business venture; I will use "Restaurants in Biloxi" as an example; in google. See the image:




    As you can see from the image above, the way it is organized is by a few different criteria that the consumer could be seeking.... which I am not seeing with your own website.

    Also, the bar on the left, organizes everything for that specific city/location.

    I think this is pretty self explanatory, the parts I circled point out many different ways to organize just one specific part of that location, and something that people are searching for.


    You can also see how many reviews are sitting there.... which may be useful for a website like yours; so people can be recommended something, because honestly, they are probably coming to your site just to be recommended a name, or a business or something within the keyword they are using.

    It doesn't sound like they would be coming to your website, because they know about it all, already. BUT, if they are coming to your site from a specific keyword that they do know about....you still have to organize it a lot better.



    When I see this site, I can't help but think about a phone book, and how phone books are organized for residential and business; and even still, they are organized per service alphabetically, or per type of business... that organization is to help the audience find a specific "keyword", easily... based on the organization.

    That is not available on your website, whatever keyword they were looking for, is lost in the huge list.

    I guess the best recommendation here, is to actually look at what your competition is doing, how they are doing it...and consider why. Some of your competition is very well established, and has a very huge consumer base already existing. Moreover, it is the consumer base themselves, especially with TripAdvisor; who is determining much of the website layout, because it is the consumers who are filling in the website material and who are adding the majority of the content.

    Thus, I think it really is in your best interest to see who is outranking you, how their users are functioning on those sites, what it is organized like; because they did not just get that ranking by doing backlinks alone; they got it by the user activity therein, and by giving the end user the freedom to actually control where the site goes, what should be there etc...


    About the subdomains:


    The same applies as said above, but really, I am just clicking one at random, and chose Florist in Biloxi.

    I am on the page now, and I really feel that your pages are not strong enough, and are very dry. You are trying to sell something, and then I am not sure by the end if you actually have ONE flourist you are recommending, or if you just want people to call you, to redirect?

    If it is getting redirected, is there an in-between process? The customer may get confused if they are suddenly calling an ACTUAL florist shop, and they still don't even know who they are calling, however....

    That process is missing something, from the point where someone is on the page, and wants to speak to someone about a flourist shop...and how they end up speaking to a flourist.

    I don't find the words on the pages captivating or interesting either. They are going all over the place as well, and if that were an article, I would find it to be very weak in structure and purpose. The lead-in to the actual number is not strong enough either.

    I would maybe attack it more like this, though again, that utterly depends on what it is that you are EXACTLY trying to do here; and it looks like you are trying to get someone to call that number...
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