Review of New Social networking Wedding Site

Discussion in 'Reviews' started by pstatus, Oct 16, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hello. Here is my New site. Soft Launching very soon.

    http://www.hawaiiweddingspace.com

    I know there are some spelling errors that some people pointed out already. My problem is that i have a decent knowledge of SEO but this site is very complex. It is running DZOIC Handshakes 3.3 as it's social networking platform. It is coded in Smarty, Php and has a really complex structure of pages. The admin section is very complex as well.

    This site does create hundreds and hundreds of site pages. (which is good). However, the page titles are pretty much the same throughout. and this is coded that way. they all are titled: Hawaii Wedding Space:: BLOG or CLASSIFIED or Whatever. except for home page which is Hawaii Wedding Space: Perfecting Hawaii Weddings

    Is this titling repetition good over the span of hundreds and possibly thousands of pages???/ Is there any glaring SEO thing that I am missing???

    Key words targeting: Hawaii Wedding, Hawaii Wedding(s)

    any help would be appreciated! thank you!
     
    pstatus, Oct 16, 2007 IP
  2. jg123

    jg123 Notable Member

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    Looks great, I would tighten up the white space at the bottom (not sure if it will fill up). You could use some more info in the column so it does not look so empty. If possible I would also make the logo 15-25% bigger, it is kinda hard too see but looks like a nice one.

    good luck
     
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  3. pstatus

    pstatus Peon

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    thanks for the input.. any tips regarding SEO?
     
    pstatus, Oct 16, 2007 IP
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    I think there is a seperate SEO review forum, you might want to try there.

    From my limited experience your on page SEO looks ok, you might want to change the text under 'not a member' to include your keywords and so it sounds more like part of the site.
     
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    Pretty cool system and site! Good job, nice colors to! Easy on the eyes!
     
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  6. pstatus

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    thanks jg123... yes that "not a member box" is still pretty much stock text from the software. will definitely change that.


    Thanks to you as well gotlinks.
     
    pstatus, Oct 17, 2007 IP
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    Killer site design.
     
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  8. pstatus

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    Thank you Markab10... any SEO tips for this site?
     
    pstatus, Oct 17, 2007 IP
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    Took a quick look. And I like the design and color scheme. You got to have lots of members. Best of luck! :)
     
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    This is really cool and nice, I would know who to contact if someone wants to go to Hawaii for their wedding ;). Perhaps you want to consider changing your Google Ads background to White and the words to the pink that you use for your title bar for a better blend?
     
    eugenegoh.com, Oct 18, 2007 IP
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    Your logo need to increase in size, also the loading time is a bit long, it might due to the loading of flash content, it is recommended to reduce any script will delay the loading time, visitors will click away if they find it take too long to load the home page.

    I feel like those keywords should be part of the title or description, main keyword use <h1></h1> to emphasize. Flash although attractive but may not help to increase ranking. You should create more theme keywords at the sidebar link to other page. Color of the site is feel plain, so some fine tune is necessary.

    The following sites are for your reference,
    hawaiiweddingcompany.com
    www.bridaldreamhawaii.com
     
    duhkha, Oct 18, 2007 IP
  12. pstatus

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    Did you just pull random sites off the internet for me to reference??? They look nothing like my sites. and hawaiiweddingcompany's site is pretty basic and plain.. not a good example if you ask me... but thank you for your feedback! and for giving my competitors a free backlink and plug in my thread. LOL..

    Yes i know the <h1> tags may help.. i think i have to make a .css file so i don't make the look of my site funny. as far as the title is concerned, I think Hawaii Wedding Space: Perfect Hawaii Weddings has both my main key words in it (hawaii weddings, hawaii wedding).
     
    pstatus, Oct 18, 2007 IP