Please review my site, i'm new to all this

Discussion in 'Reviews' started by phaseman, Sep 11, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello fellow DP members, could you please review my site, my site is 5 months old and my forum is 3. I'm new to all this webmaster stuff, and yes that really is me on the home page.

    Thanks for all those who review my site.
     
    phaseman, Sep 11, 2008 IP
  2. remoradea

    remoradea Banned

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    Hello phaseman,

    From a designer point-of-view looks good.
    From a SEO point of view it looks bad. But with some work it can be improved.

    The first thing that I think you should do is drop the "bodybuildingarea.com" suffix from your homepage title. It's just usefull there, it may even diminish the power of the other words from the title.
    The second thing is the menu -> it's made out of images -> bad from a SEO point of view. If you link with images in your internal linking structure it's bad, you can't rank for anything this way. Do another footer menu with whe words you want to rank for.
     
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  3. phaseman

    phaseman Active Member

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    Thank you for the suggestion I shall do as you say, I'm new so i'm still learning about this SEO stuff, my wife made the web site for me so I will pass on the comment. :)
     
    phaseman, Sep 12, 2008 IP
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    redink11 Active Member

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    oh my - those are BIIIG muscles! site looks OK, in line with audience I think. text could do with bein a little bigger I think
     
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    digitalfans Banned

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    Hi, your website looks very good
     
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  6. phaseman

    phaseman Active Member

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    Thank you all , what I need to do now is learn SEO and get more traffic, right now I get 500 to 600 unique,what I see from others post thats very low, thats why these tips will help.
     
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    i also think the site looks quite nice
     
    tmontana, Sep 12, 2008 IP
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    tradeya Notable Member

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    I'm using IE and your site is over my screen (i'm using 1024x768) maybe you should try to make it fit first.
    good blending ads and nice design. I like arnold's image. hehe
     
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    if there was any way to make the "latest posts" box on the right a little larger so it didn't have the scroll bars, that would look better.
     
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    really good design man !! Good niche,photos n useful contents..But footer u have ther is not up to the levels..try to add a solid footer
    best of luck
     
    semfan, Sep 12, 2008 IP
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    The overall layout and design is nice but there is a bit of negative
    space in the header I think it would look great if you added
    a graphic into that space.
     
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  12. phaseman

    phaseman Active Member

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    Sounds like I need to fix my header & footer, cool I'll work on it thanks guys...................
     
    phaseman, Sep 12, 2008 IP
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    Your site looks nice. However, I think it is not good to put URL in your title of website, I think you should remove it. Its not good for SEO.

    Besides, nice workout
     
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    Yes some one else mention that too, just to clarify I should remove .com, correct?
     
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    phaseman Active Member

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    One more question to anyone, my source code is it ok? Like i said i'm new, this is my first web site.

    Appreciate the help all.
     
    phaseman, Sep 12, 2008 IP
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    dota Banned

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    #16
    Good design
    Good Content
    No comment!!:D
     
    dota, Sep 13, 2008 IP
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    Looks great, good luck!
     
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    phaseman Active Member

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    I have taken the suggestion given and made the changes, thanks all..................
     
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    #19
    you need to add a privacy policy as per googles tos

    I don't really like the gray text on black background, maybe you should lighten that a bit (like on the about page etc)

    looks good overall though
     
    Jackie_W, Sep 14, 2008 IP
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    #20
    need to improve the theme more dude
     
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