Please review my joke site

I bought this site awhile back and haven't done anything with it yet.

http://jokemadness.com/

I'd like to know if I should keep the design it came with or make a new one?

Any other advice would help, I don't know a lot about SEO yet. So any tips and comments would be great. I plan to get some backlinks and adsense on it, get it listed in directories etc, that type of thing, but no other plans as of yet. I hope it wasn't a waste to buy it, lol. I am learning the hard way.

 

Although it is a common turnkey site (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46687&item=7516758579&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW), I haven't seen that design before.

What you do need is to change those horrible urls into something search-engine-friendly.

And get loads of new content... there are millions of joke sites out there, you will need to offer something different, something unique to be able to stand out

 

Work on the titles: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:jokemadness.com

And all metaTAGS are the same actually. Bad news for SEO.

The pagecount doesn't seem to be up to its full potential either. On further investigation this is the culprit: PHPSESSID=2b28909037d04c3325c6f1bda170dd0b try and prevent session id's from being prepended to the URL and you'll be fine.

Add content: http://www.jokemadness.com/top10.php Links only isn't content.

 

Thanks, both of you. I wanted to get the SEO and design work done first and then I will work on content and backlinks, I just want to make sure it looks and works right first.

Yeah, it is turnkey, but the guy who sold it made his own design I think.

I wonder if changing the url's will cause the script not to work, I will have to look into it and learn a little something more about php then.

 

I guess some simple mod-rewrite will do the job. And when you start gathering backlinks pick your anchor text carefully. Don't use something like "jokes", that would be a waste of time.

 

Ok, thanks fryman, this is going to be my first time making a site where you make money off the ads and not selling something, so I am not too sure how it's going to go, hopefully well, and I will learn some stuff along the way.

 

Your site's crappiness is no joking matter. You need more jokes and the color scheme is uhhhgly. Try hiring a web developer to rebuild your site.

 

LMAO! That was good. I can fix it myself. I didn't make it incase you didn't read that part, it was purchased as a complete package, that's the design it came with.

Thanks for the feedback Delong, much appreciated.

 

lol!!

I reckon you can do better C Your designs are great!!

 

Thanks Stephen, I will never know until I try I guess.

 

I reckon a joke site would be a cool thing to show off your skills on. None of this corporate nonsense!! Have loads of fun stuff for people to play with. Might be worth while going for something in flash?

 

Yeah but I still haven't mastered flash and I also haven't attempted my own design cause I don't know if it would be good enough for a joke site, I think more professional but not too professional, a joke site isn't professional at all. I have a dilemma.

 

Just keep it simple and you won't go wrong

Can anyone give C a few ideas to get started?

 

nice layout, keep with it, it is simple, easy to navigate.

 

1st impression is simple, but can make visitors boring.

 

Why are you answering a five year old thread? SY

 

just tell the truth BOY ^^ haha

 

Pretty good site, I like it and the jokes are ok but the spacing between periods and first letters of next sentance are sometime off.

-sgt

 

This is a very rare, I wanted to create it for my own. +1 For your site.

 

good site but your topic will have very low ctr
seriously low