Please review my newest website - think this may be a winner

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Makubwa, Jan 17, 2007.

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    Greetings all,

    seeing as you have all been so much help in the past few months which has seen my adsense earnings soar to earnings over $250.00 per month, I was wondering if you could preview my newest addition to the Rockbard Investments family..........

    www.ukartauctions.com

    the concept is simple but I beleive it to be effective.

    This website enables artists to auction their paintings accross the UK and europe. soon I will undergo a nationwide advertising campaign offering all signups £10.00 of free credit with prices as low as £0.10 per listing. I am in the throws of printing letters offering these services to all art/painting related companies all across the U.K and also plan to spend ££££'s on G adwords.

    Any further tips or information on how YOU would market this type of site would be great. This site will have no links page so will need to rely on advertising mostly I think.

    I know CPC is low on this and related topics however I am planning to make this into one of the most visited art auctions webwide.....
     
    Makubwa, Jan 17, 2007 IP
  2. Makubwa

    Makubwa Active Member

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    Any takers????

    BTW - also need to buy links, any one know of any good bulk deals going??
     
    Makubwa, Jan 17, 2007 IP
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    Fwahmi Peon

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    nice site.i do have a suggestion though.maybe you could replace the color tubes image with "selected" images of art pieces that change once every say 2 seconds to "entice" visitors.Good luck!
     
    Fwahmi, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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    johan-cr Well-Known Member

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    where did you get the design from, you made it yourself or bought it?

    Do not think that all parts mix together that well.
     
    johan-cr, Jan 18, 2007 IP
  5. Zerosleep

    Zerosleep Established User

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    To good to be true buddy very much untidy side nothing mix well with each other
    Ads are also not placed well color combination not good
    Many Changes u shld make in ur site
    Good Luck
     
    Zerosleep, Jan 18, 2007 IP
  6. Makubwa

    Makubwa Active Member

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    You see my web design is not that great at the moment, I would like to change a few things including some of your suggestions but don't know how to. Does anyone out there know of any people who may be able to make these changes for me for a low fee???
     
    Makubwa, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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    hello.
    the idea is good but it may need some improvements:
    - you will need a logo instead of plain text "UK ART AUCTIONS.com"
    - try to use other font (times new roman is not the only one available :) )
    - use a css menu : it's way better for search engines and
    for users(it will load faster than pictures)
    - try to use the same color scheme/css styles all over the site : for example
    the auction posting page doesn't look fit

    good luck
     
    Andrei Savu, Jan 18, 2007 IP
  8. Makubwa

    Makubwa Active Member

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    Hi
    I need somebody who is able to change certain things on my site, will pay, PM me!!
     
    Makubwa, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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    johan-cr Well-Known Member

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    A good idea is look in either services for someone who can do this work for you. You could also try to make it an contest in the Contest forum

    Try out one of those, there are a lot of talented people here at DP that work for a small fee.
     
    johan-cr, Jan 18, 2007 IP
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    Do you just need changing and tweaking for creating graphics?
     
    netjunkie, Jan 19, 2007 IP
  11. Makubwa

    Makubwa Active Member

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    slowly managing to change the site myself.

    What I have found about this site is traffic is constant without advertising. reveiving 60-70 uniques a day just through google search as it comes up in the first page of google search : uk art auctions. however nobody seems to be adding art onto my site. do you think I should pay people to do this just as bloggers get paid to post on forums etc?
     
    Makubwa, Feb 3, 2007 IP