Full adsense opt. reviews for free in DP here for today!!!

Hello people of Digitalpoint.

I'm Lacey and a lot of people around here know me for my blunt, but honest comments on reviews for various idea's people have about their sites.

Every quarter or so I start a topic in this section offering free reviews to people for adsense, onsite seo, and anything that catches my attention. I've decided that today I will be offering a review to random sites by people who post here asking.
There are no strings attached. I am just trying to waste some time because I'm stuck in a 1680sq/ft building for the day and my sites are all established so I generally just sit around DP daily commenting anyway.

My experience:
-Graphics - I've won several worth1000 contests now. I can do photo manipulation, as well as graphics banners.(I particularly love merging two diff. cars to make one new car, but that's a hobby)
-I'm a semi-professional SEO specialist along with a website optimizer for SEO
-Adsense is my specialty. I earn a solid strong living through adsense.
-I've got a degree in Business and marketing so I know how to hold the Cash Cows, bring the rising stars, and drop the skunks in both online and offline retail stores.
-I own a retail store which I completely run with my partner along with a network of 16 websites and sub-contract 4 websites in which I consult for.
-I know robots, hosting, domains, forums administration, HTML, JAVA, PHP, SQL, Metatags, Content, etc. The list goes on.

What I will review:
-adsense banners and how you have them setup and see if they can be optimized for your clicks to be worth more
-Other ad systems you have such as adengage or Kontera
-see what can be done to get you More total clicks, more value for your clicks, and more traffic
-I'll probably do a onsite Optimization look to see if there is anything in your site that is hurting your rankings or a recommendation on something you should do in order to rank better.
-See if something can be done to get traffic to hang around longer
-site layout, graphics, functions, and whatever else I see.


There are a few rules to get a review:
1. This review is only for beginner to mid level webmasters. You must earn less than $5 per day with adsense
2. I will not be accepting private messages so if you are hoping to not reveal your website url in the open then you might as well leave now. Unless you are making over $200 per month this shouldn't be a problem anyway.
3. Only ONE site per member.
4. I do not review blogs because 99% of them are low quality. If you want a review for a blog then just take this advice: -Quit copying content, buy a real domain, don't have a Zillion links in your blogroll, and add more than 10 articles in there for goodness sakes! lol.
5. I do not review Forums. Hey, make it look full, make sure there are no broken images. Forums are all the same!

 

Plz Review My SIte www.teenstarsworld.com, i get 1000+ UV

 

If you've read the very last sentence of my topic post, you would see this:
3. I do not review blogs because 99% of them are low quality. If you want a review for a blog then just take this advice: -Quit copying content, buy a real domain, don't have a Zillion links in your blogroll, and add more than 10 articles in there for goodness sakes! lol.

I'm sorry. That is a blog. I don't review blogs.

 

Hey, would you mind taking a look at my site dialseo.com?

It's an SEO glossary and FAQs. It's still new but I'm getting 5-20 visits a day. Unfortunately I haven't made ANY adsense profits yet

I'm still playing with the design, but I'd like to stick with what's there, if not loosely. I would especially appreciate any help with the homepage.

Thanks for your time!

 

You own an SEO site and can't get visitors? lol. This is going to be easy. lol
That's a blog as well. I don't do blogs. Read the topic!

 

Hi,
nice support

 

It's a new site, and I don't claim to sell a service, ebook or anything just collecting information.

I did read the topic twice and didn't think it's a blog. It's a wordpress glossary and faq. Cammmann!

 

but i update daily ok as your wish

 

hi,

can you please check my website?

mysoftskill.com

and let me know your review.

Thanks.

 

Sure thing. Finally someone without a blog.
Adsense:
1. Your link unit is not badly placed. It was a little tricky, but still I believe it should be moves. Even though you are probably getting a lot of clicks from it most of us know that link units need to be clicked then you get to a list of list and have to click again. The bad click prices you get from it isn't worth making it your Number 1% ad. Move the 728x15 link unit right above "All games and descriptions copyright © to their respective owners". You won't need to change the colors since it's still on the same color background
2. Make a 728 x 90 image/txt ad unit a put it directly where that link unit you just moved is. Center it of course. I realize that you'll be over your 3 ad unit but you won't once this is done.
3. Remove both of the 300 x 250 banners that are side by side. I know you must have heard from a bunch of places that the 300x250 & 336 x 280 banners pay the most. Well its true that there are more advertisers that pay for that size however because you have them side by side the only clicks you are getting are accidental clicks so therefore you will be only getting like 1 cent a click. Accidental clicks are BAD.
4. Right above those 300x250's I noticed that you have LATEST ZUMA ONLINE GAMES & PLAY ZUMA DELUXE ONLINE . Its centered for each of those 300x250 banner ads. I recommend not doing that again. People read that then click directly below on the google ad. That will cause even more accidental clicks and you could be banned for it. Google won't care if your nothing, but if you start getting say 30 clicks per day you'll never reach another paycheck from them because they will ban you on a day or two before your check is due
5. I would move your left panel games list to your right panel and take the Right panel 120x600 ad and move it on the left side. The reason I say this is because several researches have been done and its a fact that more people visually have more focus on the left side of a site.

Last but not least. You need to make sure of the following:
A) ALL ad banners Are using image&text ads. Not just image one's
B) Use the multi-color patelette system on your adsense account. Create 4 different colors that match or blend into your sites color and then modify your ads by changing the Patlettes and chosing "Multi-color patlette". This will allow you to make it so it swaps the different ad colors you have made. It really helps a lot

SITE:
1. There is a stupid script in the site that seems to be uncompatable to Explorer. I know there are a lot of firefox clowns around but Explorer is around still. The site runs slow and needs to be refreshed or it really locks your computer. you are losing like 30% of your visitors from it. Fix it!
2. "This is a dedicated zuma online website. Here you can play the newest logical games like zuma deluxe online." Instead of that write an entire Article. Make it a nice size paragraph. Doing spam your keywords in the article but do mention them all. Your site is lacking in content which is making SEO and click worth LOW and powerless.
3. I'm not sure if you can change the game descriptions because maybe you are using Mochi ads or something but if you can then instead of them being the same as all of the sites with those games write them out yourself. This is a lot of work but once I owned an arcade that had 1300 games and I re-wrote all of the descriptions and a month later I went from 200 visitors per day to 1000. I also went from making 30cents a day to about $3.50 then a couple of months later I sold the thing for about $4000. EFFORT IS THE KEY.
4. Site looks nice. Nothing wrong there. I guess you could make the zuma games list and the online partners titles underlined because it looks a bit too blended
5. in your Metatag title and keywords you have the same words duplicated EX: "zuma deluxe online, zuma deluxe free online". Too many times, I guess you can duplicate it once, but you have the word ZUMA like 30 times in the title, description, and keywords. You are probably getting an infraction for SEO for that. Its called Keyword flooding and SEO does not like that.
6. Your description in your Metatag is too short. 2-3 sentences is good but yours is tiny. Its not helping a bit.
7. You have no ERROR redirect files. Basically The error file is a simple file you have and if a person accidentally gets to a inner url that doesn't exist or a forbidden spot then it automatically redirects the person to the homepage. It throws an extra impression and keeps visitors on track. I'm not going to tell you HOW to make one. just go to google and search "how to make an error 401 redirect" or something like that. There are a few you need to make. I don't know how but visitors seem to always hit error pages. I think its 1 out of 200 people hit it and 1 out of 320 just hit the X button when it happens. By having the files you won't lose em!
8. Woo-hoo you have a sitemap. Good for you. Make sure its currently updating. A lot of people whine about how sitemaps do not help SEO but they are stupid.

There, this should help you in the long run and now you have solid ground that visitors come into.

I can't really review you because forums are all the same. The adsense is fine the way it is. Just an FYI though. You can fix all of the busted images and make it load faster because its dead slow.

 

Thanks for full website review

 

@ Leceygirl.

Thanks for your review.i will try to fix it.

 

Didn't think it was a blog? What file script is used for your site. PHP? lol

Unique or not unique updated. 99% of blog are all the same. LACK OF EFFORT. If people use unique content then that make the articles tiny and use large pictures, if its not unique then you get a billion posts and none of them are worth jack. The rare blog it good but there's not many. I've only known personally one person who had a unique idea and it was worth something. Blogs are a dime a dozen.

 

I don't think it's reasonable to say a site is a blog because it uses PHP, or even WordPress (which is a PHP driven CMS). Not all WordPress sites are blogs, it's a versatile system that's capable of far more.

Also in my defense, I don't follow your other criteria for blogs; LACK OF EFFORT, plastered advertising, etc.

I'd sure love one of your reviews, you definitely have the talent and insight I need!

 

PHP, no. Wordpress Yes.
All wordpress driven sites have one thing in common. You publish in articles and it shows up as a list, and there's a reply thing for visitors to spam.

I'll take another look and think about it for a couple of minutes then we'll see.

 

Thanks for reconsidering. I like to think I've done a better job than most, but unquestionably have room to grow. WordPress can be changed upside down to get away from the out-of-the-box blogging setup.

Either way, thanks for taking the time to lend your expertise to all the sites you have/will review!

 

Alright I'll throw down a little review. It'll take a little while through.

 

please review www.dropshippers.co.za

 

Lacey,

Can you lift your $5 per day restriction?

Thought I'd ask.....

 

Adsense
Well, you BLOG(not site) is a pretty clean layout so you can't really go crazy with ads or it'll become a spamming pile of junk like every other blog. Luckily I always sound like a broken record and say the same thing to everyone so there is some advice for you.
1. All ads do better up top but you shouldn't do that on the main page because it will destroy the credability of the quality of the site but you should switch your ad to image & txt ads and like always use the multi-color patalette system so the txt ads switch colors. Some people like to Blend the txt ads in the site and others like to bold. I do both and choose it carefully. You need to blend with the same background color you have on the main page.
2. Consider a 468x60 banner(only txt format) ad between the welcome paragraph and the SEO FAQ. I'm not too sure on this one but its worth a shot to see if it looks good.
3. Make all of the ads with ROUNDED EDGES. You can easily modify an ad you've made in your adsense account. Rounded edges will look better on your site.
4. make sure that new 468x60 banner does not show on your inner pages because you are only allowed three and you will have 4 if it shows in the inner pages.
5. The inner page adsense layout is good. No problems there other than you need txt and image ads and with round edges. On a third look, I think you already have text and image for the inner pages.

Site:
1. I really don't think the logo should be lined up with those three links. Usually a logo that size will go in one corner but that probably won't work because it will be still the same size and parrellel to those links at the top. Do you even need those links. The two are directly under on the main page. I figured the third one would be there as well but its not. It makes no sense to me but you may be stuck with it that way. Its not a huge issue.
2. The welcome message: Add a few more lines in it. More content is better. Extremely important on the index too. Personally I would make it 6 times the size it is, but other people don't like the busy-ness it has if you do.
3. Inner pages: closing the gap!
We got a problem here because you go in an article. First you have the title & article. That ok. Next you have a seperate bordered by the Person who asked the question(at least on this page. Ok, ok, no the split took a second but I get it. Its part of the same article. Now here's where it gets dirty. You have a social network button list, then random inner links for people to go for, and then a framed message that shows on all pages, and finally a comment section.
The problem is the gap between the article and the comment section.
3 A) That "Dial SEO is the culmination" article that is on all pages and doesn't change should not be in the middle of the content. If you can move it right under the first side panel banner.
3 B) Take that random links that is also in the middle and place it under the comment section.
That should clean it up. The way that it is it's hard to tell if the article is continuing or what's going on.
4. The text color you have chosen (example: in the footer). That is the really light gray you have. I would bump it a hair darker, not too much. Just a tiny little bit. I am talking 2 points darker.

That's all I can give you. Not much to work with. Its pretty clean.

I cannot review that type of site because it is what it is. A total clutter of a mess. It doesn't have adsense, isn't really meant for SEO. You can fix the images because they are all broken though. lol

Everytime I review people who make more than $5 per day with adsense they always refuse to believe me and never take my advice. Also 40% of the advice I give people who make more than $5 know anyway.