Brand new site!!!

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    Brand new site Articles Online. Looking for some feedback in terms of general look and feel, navigation, functionality and so on.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    guru-seo, Nov 29, 2005 IP
  2. Colleen

    Colleen Illustrious Member

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    I love it and you blended the ads in so well I. Great work. ;)
     
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    chawlars Well-Known Member

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    Great, it is really impressive. However, you have taken very small portion of article as a teaser, thus giving belief that earning thru adsense is you only objective. Increase size of teaser, as i think
    RSC
     
    chawlars, Nov 30, 2005 IP
  4. latehorn

    latehorn Guest

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    You will get a lot PPC. Great job!!
     
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  5. tommie

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    hey looks neat, good going
    dont know if its my browser(FF) but sometimes theres a big gap between the Title and the first article link, sometimes it shows adds by google, others dont...
     
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    smetten Active Member

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    #6
    Awesome integration of your ads!!
    Altough I don´t have much experience in promoting adsense let alone an article site, I don´t think you will encourage much visitors to bookmark your site due to the lack of content.

    Greetz
    Smetten
     
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  7. smetten

    smetten Active Member

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    #7
    I take back my words,
    I just checked a couple of less popular categories apparently.
    I now saw that you have other categories full of content.

    Scussy

    Smetten
     
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    jawinn Active Member

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    That is a sharp site. I love the ad placement. How long did this site take to build?
     
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  9. guru-seo

    guru-seo Peon

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    Two full days. Everything built from scratch. I intend on adding some other features and make it more robust. It is a bit raw still, but I am hoping to change that soon. This is my first article site so I am using it as a learning experience.

    Thanks all for your time and feedback it is greatly appreciated!
     
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    jawinn Active Member

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    How did you get so many articles on your site in two days?
     
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    guru-seo Peon

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    Bought them. Just to get things started.
     
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    I like it, I found the font size under 'Article Categories' on the home page a little small though, I don't know how you will get around it as you have a lot of categories there.

    On the article pages, I think it would look better and I think you would get more clicks if the text wrapped around the adsense ad. I think you have a problem which tommie spotted

    When google doesn't show the ads you have a massive gap between the title and text of the article.

    On the whole though I like it, well done.
     
    NewBeing, Nov 30, 2005 IP
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    jawinn Active Member

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    Got it. I meant what did you use to post so many, software-wise? I can't imagine you did all those pages manually.
     
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  14. guru-seo

    guru-seo Peon

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    Manually?? What is this the nineties? Kidding. No I wrote a custom app that dynamically generates everything. Its pretty sweet. Basically PHP, MySQL and mod_rewrite thats all you need. And of course some creativity.
     
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    jawinn Active Member

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    what is mod_rewrite?
     
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    Fixed the positioning of adsense. Its aligned right with stylesheets. Looks better.
     
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    Thanks to all for the feedback. I have made some more changes to the site. I have installed an articles forum so all are welcome to post. I am also working on a way where you can copy paste a snippet of javascript code to your pages if you need to have fresh targeted articles for you content pages.
     
    guru-seo, Dec 1, 2005 IP