As the title suggests, id like some opinions on marketing my site. The URL is http://getcredit365.com The forums and blog are a bit barren as I lost the databases for both in a server move. The forums werent a big lass as I didnt have a post by anyone but me which was outlining the rules of the forum... According to Iwebtool the domain has a predicted 3 PR I am not indexed on Google, I am however on Yahoo, MSN and I believe a few other search engines as well. My rankings on those engines seem pretty dismal. Im not sure, but I believe im in the sandbox on Google... My average Uniques come out to about ~500 a month So far I have done: Submission to directories, mostly free, a few paid Unique Articles for my Site (I submitted a few to Ezine and other sites early on, but since my site isnt indexed by Google I think I was probably getting a dupe content penalty) A few link exchanges Posting articles on Digg and Reddit (I actually got over 700 Uniques in one day from an article I posted on Reddit - The story was from CNN Money and was posted on my blog, doubt I got many people going to my main site) Ive tried PPC Campaigns with Adwords, Adcenter and Ask Sponsored Listings for a few Affiliate Landing Page offers im running with 0 success. Adding a tools area to my site to increase user activity, I only have 2 tools on their, if anyone knows of any other tools that you as a visitor find useful, please let me know. Tried making posts on the main area of the site, forums and blog about asking users to post in the forums on what topics they would like to see articles written about with 0 success What im asking for is ideas, things I can do to obviously increase visitors, site popularity, forum participation, etc. Any ideas, suggestions, comments etc are very welcome. I am having a new template made for the site as that one is well..Ugly...
Have you done any keyword analysis? This is a pretty competitive field and you may be getting butchered by all the common phrases you are optimizing for. Try to find some keywords with low competition and high searches and focus on those.
So, im not sure how this thread managed to get moved to website reviews considering its a marketing question but hey.... Icubehost, I havent really done any work analysis, can you reccomend some sites or tools designed for that purpose?
Hi Your domain seems to have been created on 08/15/2006 (WHOIS), it"s young. For that, you can only wait... Links pointing to domain source yahoo : 236 (SEOMOZ), it's still weak. So you must have to work hard in this way. Search "credit card" on google. Just compare on SEOMOZ the diagnoses of your site and the one which arrives first Think you're in a very competing market. It won't be easy.
sites good... design and layout better... SEO Score: 94% Meta Relevance: 78% Terms: 980 (Unique: 379, Linked: 0) Images: 6 (Alt tags missing: 1) Links: 65 (Internal: 60, Outbound: 3) Alexa Trend/Rank: 344,887 (1 Month) 578,453 (3 Month)
Good colors, but the bold links in the left section do not look god. Make the links size and weight equal to the rest of the text, it is better to the regular text in black. In the header use the smaller fonts leaving more "air".
looks nice. on the header logo you should improve. try to put the picture as background and write the text over using css.
Ive been looking around for ages to find a new graphic for the header, I havent been able to find anything I like, im a horrible graphic designer...
Im starting to get the blog going again, this time with unique content. 90% of the content I had on it last time was copied and pasted from CNN Money or another site similar and I just had a link at the bottom of it back to CNN. I'm also going to push to get the forums really going though I don't personally feel that I am knowledgeable enough to answer certain questions etc. I'm waiting for a designer to finish up a new design for the site, i'm planning on skinning the forum and blog to match once the new site design is done. That will also be nice because I can then clean up the code, do on page optimization etc.