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[dependx]

Hi,

My blog: www.wcb.shorturl.com

NOTES: I am not interested in Wordpress or it's options so please don't recommend it. Also, I intentionally decided to skip fancy images and CSS stuff in contructing this site. I want it to look almost as bare as Craigslist,Google in that respect. So I am not asking for an opinion on how pretty it seems to other sites that use bandwidth for those purposes.

here are all the URLs for the online resource:

www.wcb.shorturl.com
www.winning-closes.blogspot.com
www.wcb-home.blogspot.com

By the way, I am considering an INFO. URL but I do not care about a .COM so you can save the suggestion.

Thanks so much.

Dave

[TWD-Tony]

Okay Cokey...

You don't want telling that Blogspot site's are very hard to get ranked in the search engines - so I won't tell you that.


You don't want telling that the tiny URL redirect isn't the best way of presenting a site - so I won't tell you that.


I also won't bother to tell you that Google has been targetting .info domains recently and effectively wiping them from the SERP's (because .info domains are so cheap they are considered unworthy of having decent content on them - that's Google's opinion and not mine)


You don't want the site design reviewed so I won't bother with that...


So I have to ask myself - WHAT exactly do you want except to post your links?

Please let us know what you want us to review!

[dependx]

There must be hundreds of ideas that I havn't excluded from the review process as.....

Speciality articles can draw veiwers from search engines (with blog) but mainly my blog is search friendly because I've pinged it with blog searchers.

I never said "tiny URL redirect isn't the best way of presenting a site, " actually very concrete studies have proven people use a memorized URL vs. search engines (in aggregate numbers) - if that is what was meant. The process of redirect is automatic and painless too!

"Google has been targetting .info domains recently and effectively wiping them from the SERP's " - that's fine. My new .Info URL isn't for search engines usage so don't sweat the problem.

"You don't want the site design reviewed so I won't bother with that..."
that is poppycock, actually, everone who's read the notes would understand that I am seek a site that has design of larger and successful websites, but I don't want to include pictures,fanciful,CSS stuff. Got it?

So I have to ask myself - WHAT exactly do you want except to post your links?

Sorry you are so confused and roughed by the posting, its clear that you don't have anything else to offer me. Here are few things that could be noted about the site.

Choice of Blogger plug-ins
Choice of Articles
Choice of Blog header vs. picture of tropical island
Choice of URL's
Choice of Asking for backlinks in header (very neat)
Choice of Affiliate offers
Choice of Offering free websites and links to them
Choice of advertising
Choice of keywords throughout article
Choice of </h1> emphasis
Choice of having the Start option go to a second blog
Choice of traffic methods (what are they before you guess about Search engines that are usually not best, initially)
Choice of Blog template
Choice of Search engine homepage

Which part doesn't somebody get or should I continue in this fashion?

Thanks.

[dependx]

It's always amusing to say the least, how forums are targeted for that sort of stuff.

3 things that i am comfortable with:

1. no .com
2. no fanciful images,css
3. performance of .INFO not important, on search engines (PPC yes!)

What else could we really get negative about?

[fisicx]

As a potential customer I found very little to pique my interest. The blog entries look very sparse, more like link drops than serious articles. The long list of links on the left have the same feel to them.

You mention blogger plug-ins - as a potential customer, I don't care. Along with all the other offers, it's no different to thousnads of other similar sites. If I were into the whole affiliate thing then maybe I'd find something of interest but I've seem far more thoughtful and insightfull sites than this. Write some good content and maybe I'd read what you have to say but a post with 10 lines and 7 links doesn't make for interesting reading.

And in any case, I don't know how important you consider search engines to be but using frames effectively cuts you off from any indexing. But if the PPC works then good luck.

You mention no fanciful CSS - well I can see a couple of hundred lines of CSS in your source code so not quite sure what you mean.

BTW, if you are Dave, who is Brian Tracy?

[TWD-Tony]

I'm sorry you feel that I have nothing to offer you - as a web developer I would have thought that I would have something...

Just to make things 100% clear here, the website review forum has a sticky at the top that all members should read before posting a review, for ease of use the contents of the sticky are:

Please tell us the following about your site before you ask for a review - this lets us know why you are asking and what your objectives are:

General
Is this site completed or under construction?

If completed:
How long has the site been up?

Optimisation
Do you have incoming links?
What keywords are you targeting?

Do you want your code reviewed for errors or improvements?

Marketing
Who is your target audience? Think about:
Gender
Nationality
Age Range
Income/Education level
Likes/Dislikes

Why is your site different from sites selling/offering similar info/goods/services? Why will someone want to do business you?


How important is usability?

What is the purpose of the site? (inform, sell, online community, support B&M business, contact info only, etc)

Design
Do you want design suggestions?

The point is that we get a lot of people just posting links and "doing a runner" hoping that link dropping into a forum with <nofollow> tags on it's outbounds links will somehow improve their SE ranking. That is why we ask YOU what YOU want reviewing - a list if things that you DON'T want reviewing isn't much use to anyone.

I hope you get the review / constructive critism you want - I will add just one thing though...

actually very concrete studies have proven people use a memorized URL vs. search engines (in aggregate numbers)

This is true, but www.wcb.shorturl.com isn't very memorable, it's probably more memorable than say a-really-long-group-of-words.com but it doens't say a lot about what the Blog is all about, get a short URL with a good keyword (instead of wcb) and that would make it more memorable.

[dependx]

#5 inquiries: "You mention no fanciful CSS - well I can see a couple of hundred lines of CSS in your source code so not quite sure what you mean."

the CSS was introduced by blogger.

Brian Tracy has a click message, but thank for heads up.

Articles are more than average for similar sites and I even have an entry listing of my competitions links and their articles. Try pulling up other affiliate blogs and see them at random -- most are click through sites with one article. and.....

I try to keep articles intentionally to the point because I believe that long articles are just electronic ebooks full of words. Yes, I need to work on my conciseness and if I were really interested in trying to just put filler I would have spent much more time saying what could be said -- so I would have attracted search engines in the process.

example of a site that keeps its content lite: drudgereport

[dependx]

General
Is this site completed or under construction?

Still adding short articles, best if they are a few lines and links. But, I will host others articles (which will hurt me in SEO) however, I only want short articles that are concise -- people aren't reading long articles in general on the web.

If completed:
How long has the site been up?

Since last OCT.

Optimisation
Do you have incoming links?

Yes, one major affilate site has add me to his site, but my site is different that I don't want it to be more than a quick reference site.

What keywords are you targeting?

I trying to promote several different concepts -- 'winning-closes' (unique at search just like no boddy cares -- but I am first at search and plan to make the phrase a search engine thing), 'Scrapblog' is a term that defines what this blog is -- scrap that I've picked up along the way on the web and in the library. etc.

Do you want your code reviewed for errors or improvements?

Marketing
Who is your target audience? Think about:
Gender
Nationality
Age Range
Income/Education level
Likes/Dislikes

My target is anybody who's interested in EBay, Affiliate, consulting and profit improvements -- but the goals is to keep entries vague but beneficial

Why is your site different from sites selling/offering similar info/goods/services? Why will someone want to do business you?

My site is open to the public (this is a major selling point) unlike the thousands of landing pages (one page sites) on Google PPC saying that they will send information about money making break throughs -- I don't charge a dime. But, I expect that people might be interested in some of the offers found through the links on the site. (good question)


How important is usability?

I am not sure what this means!

What is the purpose of the site? (inform, sell, online community, support B&M business, contact info only, etc)

to emphasis 5 P's of online marketing and to keep people informed w/o long draft. I cannot stand going to website to website trying to find information and reaching long pages that aren't too helpful. Time is very valuable on the internet and people get inundated with lots of time consuming theories and gargon. Sorry if my site might seem to have some nonsense but I have had others in the field read the material and wanted to continue a relationship. And there are companies that understand what I attempting to do and permitted an ongoing relationship with my services. You will seeing more of that soon -- other companies connecting with my blog.

Design
Do you want design suggestions?

Yes, but I don't have the same aspirations as some of the people who post their sites on this thread -- they are so much more advanced. I want it to stay as simple as Craigs,Google,Ebay (links and sparce images). Think about what I am suggesting when bandwidth is an issue. Google is my hiding skirt, I will stay there.

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the 5 P's of my marketing philosophy(i will write a short article explaining this better - stop back at my blog before the weekend, I really like the site Drudgereport.com because it is informative but he doesn't write long tedious drafts - he provides links. That's my inspiration! But, I do expect to add small articles to get my personl opinions,observations across. I am not very good with english, but I have the ability to share ideas. Here are my 5p's to affiliate marketing. I rec. tons of free newsletters -- they don't have this down to the points):

Purpose - why you are affiliate for a speciality product
Position - where do you advertise the affiliate links on you resources
Proposition - what is the advertiser saying about the affiliate product, what do you say about it on you site
Promotion - are you using links or banners to advertise the product
Product - what will somebody get? ebook or newsletter or tangible article etc.

email questions - thank you for the template to fill out - dave

[dependx]

"As a potential customer I found very little to pique my interest."

sorry you felt that way, I don't think that the thirty plus articles are duplicates to what you find on the web, and there are other blog entries that offer information about sites and online resources. I don't believe that I could have mustered those things in a week or even a month -- if I were a new affiliate. Further, most people in the affilate field would have a hard time naming a few free resources that they could use -- but my site offers forty plus links just as a bonus. I really like the one link - find a toilet. lol

thnks.

[ivertise]

Dependx,

I've always been amazed at how some people are able to build up content density easily on their blogs or websites. How do you build up momentum and stick to your commitments on content population? How often do you write or do you have a library where you draw them out from? How do you organize your thoughts and interests. Just out of curiosity, I know there are a lot of entities who are very interested with affiliate marketing from government institutions to privately operated organizations, which segment of your market do you think would benefit the most from your consulting services? Bare is good but maybe there is a certain bare look and feel that would be inline with what appeals most to the type of audience you are concerned with. Other than that, I think blogging is another way to the future and you are on to something good.