Can anyone tell me why my website bombed?!

Well, first impressions - not meant to be harsh, but it's the truth.

No EMD, so that's harder for the search engines to find.

The floating "share" button sits right above your main logo on the homepage when I load the page, so I can't even read the title of your page, nor the subheadline, and that looks pretty unprofessional.

The other first thing I see is a huge ad for an ebook which, to someone like me, screams spammy and I want to click away.

And the first thing I see on the right side is a huge sign-up box. But I don't know what kind of updates I'm signing up for, nor any reason why I should sign up, so it's likely that I wouldn't.

Well, my site is not necessarily attractive, but for a Thesis theme, that is pretty horrid looking.

You need a nice looking fitness theme. Search around. There are nicer looking ones.

Check this out: Fitness WordPress Themes

You may have to pay for one, but its well worth it...

Definately everything GobBluth noted - especially the not knowing what you are signing up for.

I would also invest the ~40 odd dollars in a professional theme from somewhere like themeforest etc, will make it look 100x more attractive with almost no effort.

First impressions are very important. Yo site is ugly, it's ugly, yo site is goddamn ugly. Seriously though. It took forever for the website to load. It's very confusing. The text is hard to read. When the website finally loads, I have no idea where to look. Everything seems scattered, it needs to be clean and simple. With so many other great websites in this niche, I see no reason why anyone would stick around,

It's not all bad though. A few simple tweaks here and there will make a big difference. Your site should be attractive to the eye and your content must be of a high quality. I didn't read the content so I have no idea whether it's quality or not. You see the problem there? If people are hitting that back button before they even read the content, you really are wasting your time. Make the site look more professional and your content equally so.

Oh yeah, I hate that bloody floating button

Deleted all plugins. Hopefully it runs faster. Now for a new theme. There is still hope!!!

Here's one: Blue Health Wordpress Theme - Test and Download Blue Health Wordpress Template.

If you want it to run faster, get a caching plugin: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugi...-cache.1.1.zip

Good. Now all you have to do is stay on it...IM is an endurance race...not a sprint.

Also, always check to see how your theme looks and functions in:

1) Firefox
2) Google Chrome
3) Internet Explorer
4) Safari

You'd be surprised...see you around...if you ever need anything PM me or contact me at the site in my sig.

Just what is a visitor supposed to do when they get there? Read the article? Click on Awesome Images, a link that points to stuff that's completely unrelated?

People don't want to have to think. They want direction. Did it ever occur to you to put some kind of compelling headline up there to give them direction? The site is screaming amateur all over the place. I didn't read any of the content because there were no teasers even suggesting I should. Even the article title on the home page is boring.

You might have a lot of great stuff there but no one is going to know unless you showcase it better. Fixing this might be as simple as formatting what you have better.

One more thing. In the OP you call fitness a niche. It's not a niche at all. It's a multi-billion dollar mega market. When I point this out people will often say, "well, you know what I mean." No, I don't. People are here all day long saying they're doing everything right and still failing while many don't even know the difference between a huge market and a small subset of that market. If you're going to be successful it might be wise to actually know what you're talking about on this level. Otherwise people won't take you seriously. Good luck.

I'm on it . I'm going to be buying a new theme soon. Because it's obvious the theme is absolutely destroying my site lol. Had some school shit to do so for now it will just have to sit and marinate as a shitty lil ole site lol.

Why is there a picture of a chick in lingerie there in the top piece? Yeah, I know...sex sells. I don't see any relevance at all to the article, though, unless I missed it all in there. Will weight training get you chicks? Is that why you're not getting rest? Try to use relevant pics to enhance the story.

Also, if you are going to use dates, republish the ones on the first page or write new ones. At this point the dates are from August. I'm going to figure this site isn't being updated and lose interest, possibly.

Work on improving the content titles a little bit, "Overweight People Are More Likely to Die in an Car Accident" This is the first title I read and 'an' should be 'a'.

Quick Tip: Tell 'em what you have for them. Tell 'em why they need it. Tell 'em what to do now.

That's it! (you also need to provide interesting content, obviously)

Good luck! Don't stress over this, though. It's a journey, so ..... have fun!

GobBluth got it right on the first go for sure.

You said you never got comments, never got subscribers. Do you get traffic at all?

Keep working on producing helpful and valuable content. And then find targeted traffic to read your content.

I don't mean to sound overly abrasive, but the site just looks like a common hack site - kind of trashy looking. You need to use a different theme without a doubt. Hard to take the site seriously.

I didnt read all the comments in the thread so forgive me if Im repeating what others said .. but that theme is not so good. the content portion is far to small .. who wants to read a website that is basically 550px wide?? The far left column has nothing in it but a single button .. such a waste of space. Better to have a two column theme.

Also you have the code highlighted to embed the image .. but no description of what thats for or why I would want to do this. Actually I dont see why anyone would want to do that anyway. Also the code itself is wrong. There is an empty <div></div> with no content .. makes no sense.

Your footer is not centered and it has the powered by wordpress message on it (indicating it was a free theme) .. to me this just looks like you were to cheap to buy a theme.

because you are not offering quality advice on fitness, that's the truth. it is harsh go to fitnessblackbook.com and see how a pro does it.

You've created a virtually empty site with a poor design and what, maybe 20 articles and 0 backlinks?

The site DID NOT BOMB AT ALL. It didn't even launch.

You can't get rich online doing stuff half-assed. That's a half-assed website.

You need to put some serious time, energy and effort into it and create something people actually want to read and visit. Otherwise, you're just fooling yourself.

What can you do to improve?

1) Write more articles and fix your formatting / html errors in your posts.

2) Create site navigation using your top panel bar and sidebar

3) New theme/layout/feel of the site

4) Start guest blogging to get backlinks

5) Take this seriously if you want to make money

It's because you don't know how to market to people.... Read up on marketing and advertising and you'll be able to help your business grow.

You have to do the work if you want to get the goods!

Ask people you know in real life, who aren't big on the internet or into internet marketing (friends and family) to have a look at your site and give honest feedback about the layout, design, content etc. Should give you a fairly unbiased review of how your website is.

I know a lot of people here have focused on the design of the site and whatnot but don't forget about branding yourself and putting yourself out there to build an audience.

The more people identify with you and want to know you, become like you, and achieve what you have achieved, the more that you'll get comments and subscribers. Though it's a completely different niche, look at the success of the mommy blogs out there. These are women who are branding themselves, building relationships, and as a result, being targeted by large companies to review products, making them some sweet profits.

Don't be afraid to become the face of your business. This will help a lot with the engagement on your blog.

Your pictures are linking to other large and well known fitness sites. This is just directing people to better sties, once they get there they won't come back! The images you have chosen are pretty awful too, they sort of weird me out and just make me want to leave as soon as possible.