I have had this site for nearly 3 years its got over 8000 posts and nearly 700 members who post regular. Its a real niche community and is focused on trying to replicate takeaway curry at home. Eveyone who joins loves the site. What i am looking for now is to try and take it to the next level and would like ideas on how to make some revenue from the site. I had adsense for a while (min revenue) but google stopped it. From what i read everyone is of the opinion a Niche, established websites gives the best result.....does mine fit in this category? www.cr0.co.uk
Wow, what a spectacular looking site, particulary the front page. It's really a nice way to enter the site. So, what about monetizing with clickbank? They got lots of cookbooks in ebook format and they even have some on indian curry and so forth? You could figure out a way to have all sorts of links throughout your forum. Also, what about adbrite.com as a replacement for google? With such a long established site, you're sure to find advertisers to advertise on your site. Sunshine
Gorgeous home page! I guess one of the reasons Google didn't like your site are those (annoying) pop-up pages to sites that are completely off-message so far as your niche is concerned and can do you no good at all... You absolutely MUST get some Google PR for the main forum pages. I would lose ALL the links to pop-up advert pages and use the links at the footer to take people to REAL internal content related to your niche. You have actually put up a barrier to both SE robots and people with these irrelevant adverts. When I click a link in the footer to "Madras Curry Recipe" I am mightily ****ed off at being presented with a business opportunity/scrapbook/off-topic page! Lose the outbound links to google, MSN, etc - they offer no value to you and just take visitors OFF your site! You MUST add a sitemap to the homepage so the 'bots can spider the entire site - at the moment they have never got past the home page, being obstructed by some irrelevant pop-page at every turn. That'll do for a start!
I agree with OnlyTopResults that you need add a sitemap. I think that will really help you a lot. Of course this is not a monetizing idea but at least it will help with bringing more traffic to the site. Sunshine
I feel something in ma stomach watching the Home Page The bad things about the site To Much Pop Ups won't appreciate people to come again The inside pages aren't as attractive as the Home Page
Get a mod done were you have a bunch of spices, ingridences ect.. and they can press a "mix me a dish" or they can press out serval pices of the database and press "make my dish" And a recipie comes out, even as a print friendly one if wanted. It could also suggest some other similar recipies who has some of those spices ect into it. This should be a easy programming - and a fun "machine" for your users
Thanks for the replies some very good ideas to consider. When you say create a Site Map, what do you mean by that? Do you have a url to show a sitemap? Stew
They may have meant: XML Google sitemap (output is XML when served to users / robots) HTML sitemap (output is HTML when served to users / robots) Google XML sitemap example: http://www.micro-sys.dk/sitemap.xml HTML sitemap example: http://www.micro-sys.dk/home/sitemap.php Both of the above were created with my sitemap generator program
Hi I have added a sitemap to my site www.cr0.co.uk/sitemap.html Also added the html links into the index page, hopefully this will get me some more hits. I really want to increase my page rank, should i do a links.html page or just keep adding recipricol links to the homepage S