Help Needed With My Site

12 May 11 3:05 pm

In your all in one seo title I would use the maximum of the 60 letters, you should try and target about 2-3 keywords in your title it will give your site more chances of ranking for other phrases. Unfortunatly as I'm my iPhone I can't view your page sources.

Hope this helps

13 May 11 5:37 am

The site is too busy
Ads above the fold scream junk
A series of 500 word articles with aff links just does not work anymore, they will use for info and move on
People are visual show graphics with small descriptions that make up your 500 words for the page
You have between 2 and 5 seconds to capture attention

As you said they are there for weight gain, show them how to do it
As for the survey try a bribe of a free ebook to get their email instead

Which site would you stay on, yours or this one, bodybuilding.com
Have a look at your competition

14 May 11 11:30 pm

I have changed it... have a look now....
http://howtoincreaseweight.com
Thanks for the pointers.....Hope it helps....

15 May 11 11:06 pm

Hi Sammy,

Your site looks a whole lot better now. :)

31 May 11 12:12 pm

Hi there,

Just an opinion from a potential buyer. You've got some great content on there, there's a couple of things I think could be improved in terms of appeal:

The first thing I see is ads. Not only that, but there are heaps of things competing for my attention and the buyer can get confused as to what to click first. What I think could be improved is having less options of what to do initially. If you've read "The Science of Influence" by Kevin Hogan, more choice actually makes people more confused (ironically). So it's better to have the perception of 2 choices, rather than 20 if that makes sense?

What might work is a clear set of instructions that are the focus - Click here, enter name and email address, get your free report. Something like that.

The other thing I might alter is the header - How To Increase Weight. It's a little hard to read the red text, and the text doesn't have the kind of emotional impact that would 'grab' my attention. Maybe the picture of weights in the background can be changed to a ripped muscle-man, the kind that your customers might want to be like?

And there's an awesome paragraph you have further down the page that I think something like this would work really well near the top, ie

"Let’s face it; nobody wants to be skinny and weak. Deep down everybody desires the ripped, muscular physique of a UFC fighter or an NFL running back. That’s the kind of look that attracts the ladies and earns respect from the guys. But the question that perplexes many of you is “how do I get that look?”

That paragraph is Gold, if it was my site I might use that at the top.

There's a couple of spelling errors as well here and there, but I think the content is absolutely great. I just think you need to hook them in to want to read further, and you can do that by making a bit more of an impact at the beginning. My 2c :)

11 Apr 12 8:05 am

Hi SammyJayJay,

How are you? How's your site doing these days? I visited it just now and was surprised to see this block of ads right after the header. I must say it's a big turn off. I have to scroll down your site to get through the content. You might want to place these ads on the sidebar instead so that your articles can be higher up the page.

Google has added an algorithm recently which targets sites that are heave on ads above the fold. I suggest you change the layout of your website, or change the position of the ads.

Have a good day!

19 Jun 12 3:11 am

In your all in one seo title I would use the maximum of the 60 letters, you should try and target about 2-3 keywords in your title it will give your site more chances of ranking for other phrases. Unfortunatly as I'm my iPhone I can't view your page sources.