My first affiliate site - thoughts please.

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Hi all, after reading lots of guides etc I took action and created my first affiliate site. It would be great if I could get some feedback to improve on it and take into my next project. The site is:

How To Get Your Ex Back HQ How To Get Your Ex Back - How To Get Your Ex Back HQ

Many thanks

Neil
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  • Profile picture of the author mattverick
    Simple and clean overall.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacky12
    You have done nice work, It's an simple and easy to read. Can You please tell me How much are you making from this affiliate?
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    • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
      Thanks for the feedback so soon - greatly appreciated as there's so much info out there its hard to know if you're doing the right thing. Do any of you have sites up and running I can have a look at for some inspiration?

      Jacky12 the site is just up and running so i'm working on driving traffic > sales to it at the moment.
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  • Profile picture of the author Luvnish
    smooth =)
    I liked the whole design... had I come across your website a year back, i might have been tempted to crawl your site over and out, and... maybe.. even buy one of the books! >.<
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  • Profile picture of the author denysapu
    Looks simple and I get the points!
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    • Profile picture of the author Matthew Jones
      Great looking site How well does it rank in the SERPs? I noticed you may have over-used your main keyword a little too much, and also the site took a looooong time to load on my end. Google takes all these factors into account.

      Good luck man
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  • Profile picture of the author PrestonSr
    I always like modern looking websites and this definately doesn't get my eyes bored

    Unfortunately, I dont want my ex back :p
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    • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
      Hi Matthew - site just up and running so i'm working on the SERP side at the moment. I noticed when I cut and paste the URL into this blog that the keyword was overused and i'll have a look at that on the entire site thanks (I used YOAST SEO and tried to keep keywords around 1-1.5 density in the content).

      I'll also have a look at the loading time issue

      All the best
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Irvine
    Hey Neil,
    I've thanked you for this post not because you've provided me any value, but you've PROVEN that there are still newcomers out there that will follow the proven methods behind site design/layout/eye appeal that actually work in favour of site visitors.

    I love the layout!

    It's clean and fresh, VERY easy on the eyes.
    The optin form is above the fold and sticks out BUT it still merges nicely with the colours and layout of the page.
    The content you have on there seems to be well written (slight overuse of target keyword, will come back to that though)
    There are some ads on there, but they're all relevant and don't interfere with the main content of the site.

    Overall a massive cograts, especially if this is your first site. Now get some traffic driven to the site and make some coin from happy people getting their ex back

    Oh, on the main keyword side of things, take some of the instances of the keyword and shake it up a little.

    Replace it with some related words or phrases that mean the same thing, but are written slightly differently.

    Aim for between 1-3% (3% MAX) overall use of the main target keyword or Google will ignore you for a long time.

    In other words:
    Take the "How to get your ex back" keyword and mix it up, so...

    getting your ex back
    get your ex back
    how to get back with your ex
    getting back with your ex

    You get the idea

    Good luck, you have the makings of a darn good website there that should please your visitors, make you some money and eventually be loved by Google

    Paul.
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    • Profile picture of the author jakejoh10
      I really like the design, as everyone else said; it's very simple and clean.

      The only criticism I have is that all of your posts are very similar, especially the titles. Remember to not neglect the visitors in favor of pleasing search engines with titles and post content.

      Think outside the box a little bit, and be more diverse and have more variety with your content.

      Just my $0.02.

      I wish you the best!

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      • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
        Paul and Jake - thanks so much for taking time to look at my site and for the feedback. I'll definitely look at the keyword issue and make some changes.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          I think you've got off to a great start, with this site. It's really difficult to find anything to criticise, here. Which makes my post useless to you (especially since I don't know the niche), as you're asking for constructive criticism and improvement suggestions. But I'm only here to say "Well done - highly promising", and to wish you good luck with your traffic generation and list-building.
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          • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
            This is a great site-definitely nice. I dont really have anything to add which isnt common..
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  • Profile picture of the author tlangdon
    Hi,

    I really like the site but for my i would change the footer to same as title area on the website as its a bit random the colours in footer and bit in your face but otherwise looks good. What theme is it?
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    I also think that you got yourself into a very good start. Your site is very clean and easy to navigate. I have nothing to say that can improve your overall look and feel of your site. Way to go. You did a great job.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
      Hi tlangdon - the theme is called Modernize.

      Thanks to everyone for your comments
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  • Profile picture of the author qsilver
    Your site looks very good, very clean.
    Here are some suggestions:

    I see your privacy policy includes a terms of use and a small blurb about earnings.
    I would separate these pages and make an "earnings disclaimer page", a "terms of use" page as well as the "privacy" page just explaining what is done with the information you gather. You should also list a physical address ( a PO Box will do) in your footer as well as another form of contact (phone number).
    I see your products are sold through clickbank, so you maybe alright for now, but if you sell any products through paypal or any other merchant account, these will be necessary to keep you out of trouble.
    Great job on the site design though, if you did this yourself, you could certainly sell these as a business on it's own.
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  • Profile picture of the author webproishere
    Yep clean

    By the way, i'm so suprised that the "get your ex back" niche is working hehehehe
    People are desperate i guess, so they'll get anything. As long as it works (or could work)
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    • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
      Jim - great advice thank you. I'll certainly put those into separate pages and add contact details.

      I'm a designer by trade but hadn't thought of offering this as a service so thats REALLY got me thinking.

      All my sites will be responsive so that might be a good selling point as well.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Sadds77 View Post

        I'm a designer by trade
        "The truth emerges": I was just thinking that it's a looo-o-o-oong time since I've looked at anyone's "first affiliate site" and found something as good as this!

        I only wish mine had been like that when I started.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vimal Gobin
    Your page title is "How To Get Your Ex Back HQ How To Get Your Ex Back - How To Get Your Ex Back HQ". Maybe it's a liiiiiiittle bit over-optimized?
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    • Profile picture of the author HKSEO Jonbones
      Originally Posted by Vimal Gobin View Post

      Your page title is "How To Get Your Ex Back HQ How To Get Your Ex Back - How To Get Your Ex Back HQ". Maybe it's a liiiiiiittle bit over-optimized?
      I was thinking the same thing--

      overall the site looks good, pretty basic, but it doesn't need to be complicated. Good work so far.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
      Alexa - thanks for that. My designs should be ok so I just need to sort out my research, niches, content, SEO etc etc etc!!!

      Vimal - ha ha yeh the over optimized URL is first to sort on my to-do list!
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  • Profile picture of the author Christophe Young
    Looks pretty good. Now you need to drive traffic to your site.

    The only thing I'd do is capitalize each word in your header. I think that would look better.

    This is a pretty tough and competitive niche so I hope you have a plan in place to get targeted leads. Nice start though.
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  • Profile picture of the author vivo
    Nice design. The only thing I might suggest is moving stuff on the right hand side to the bottom maybe. Maybe not AT the bottom, but I just get distracted by it, and it create conflict on the page. Otherwise good design!
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  • Profile picture of the author zeus001
    i think this is really pretty site and you need to work on it to drive traffic on site , you can use seo to drive traffic on site
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    It's fairly clean and attractive. What's missing is a compelling reason to sign up. There is none. The copy is pretty generic, like thousands of others in that market. Put a grabber of a headline up there, something that will resonate with your market. Then you need to insert a strong call to action. Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrelk159
    Simple and clean, nicely done definitely has potential, good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author pteller
    Okay, just thought I will put in some feedback.

    1. You are overdoing on the keywords. It's actually a case-by-case scenario and in this case, I suggest you use the keyword only once in the title. Add some other non keyword text to make it look better (stand out).

    2. Design is good but the CTR will be low. Try adding some call to action links / button in the text content.

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author shaunfm
    Like the clean WP theme.
    Simple opt-in form.

    Good stuff!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sadds77
      HUGE thanks to everyone who took time to look at my site and get back to me. I've learnt a huge amount from your comments to take into my next projects Nice to know there's a place I go for help and honest feedback. All the very best.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashley249
    love it! Good job!
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    • Profile picture of the author gyantastic
      The site looks awesome. Nice work!
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  • Profile picture of the author advancedmile
    Add call to action (button or something) at the beggining of each article. Use pretty links plugin to make nice looking links.

    Also you should add some benefits/features of the product:

    Click here now for a book about on how to get your ex back.

    Here is what you will learn from this book.
    1) Benefit 1
    2) Benefit 2
    3) Benefit 3
    4) Benefit 4
    5) Benefit 5
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  • Profile picture of the author nawshale
    Hi Sadds77.

    All I can say to your site is, A W E S O M E!
    All nice and neatly organized. Very well presented.
    Nice and informative content.
    A work from a professional.

    Keep it up man!
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Nice site. Consider including a lightbox hover ad ONCE for every visitor that visits your site. You'll capture more leads this way.
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  • Profile picture of the author kumarvijay
    Great buddy , nice to see your website , again good work .
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  • Profile picture of the author Hilal Shakarchi
    Nice website and clean design! It's great that you put both text and video . Also.....great niche! Hope it works out for you! Now people......go get your Ex back!
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    • Profile picture of the author Prady N
      Its nice & clean...good work!
      In my opinion if you will have optin box on header..it will give you more optins
      If you see frank kern blog , Russel brunson's dotcomsecrets has optin box in header
      just a thought...you may want to split test
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  • Profile picture of the author wilsonbar
    nice work
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