Please check me out. Where are my Profits?

jcap1p · #1 07-17-2007, 04:28 PM

Hello all I started the site about 2 months ago with design help from a very generous member of these forums, and I realize it is extremely hard to get traffic to a new forum or blog, but the site is filled with self-written content. I have had no bites on any of the ads yet though. I have a couple of questions

What Do you like?
What should be changed? Any Feedback is greatly appreciated.

How long did it take for your first click-through sign up? How much traffic was your site getting when it happened?

Why doesn't my page have a PR yet? I have worked out some high quality link exchanges with PR 4, 5, and 6 sites.

Thank you all for any feedback, suggestions, etc.

-Jay

www.poker-speak.com

kaus · #2 07-17-2007, 09:19 PM

I am not trying to be rude. It may be just my monitor but I cant read it. Seriously The black background with the white text everywhere just goes fuzzy on my eyes.

I think you need soemthing else in there and also some space between some of your topics. That could be one of the problems you are having.

If you stareted your site two months ago than you would not have PR as it has not gone through any updates. HOwever you dont need PR....I personally think its of little use to anyone unless you are selling ads in which case that is about the only time anyone ever boasts about it.

Work on some backlinks. Join some other chats in blogs and leave behind an educated response meaning dont spam the hell out of them. I am sure if you answer or reply to posts without teh intention of posting for a link they wont mind you leaving yours behiind.

Myself I am heading into my 4th month. Traffic is incereasing but no where near what I want. I am seeing targeted keywords coming in but again no where near what I want. I do talk to others here who 's sites are roughly in the same age bracket as mine and we are all pretty much in the same boat

I think it is a long term idea that takes alot of patience and persistance. 2 mths is not going to show you any satisfactory response. Not yet. Be patienet keep adding your content

Just some ideas and thought I hope some of this makes sense. As far as the design I think its good just needs some work to make it more user friendly

jcap1p · #3 07-18-2007, 08:16 PM

Thank you for the input Kaus. I keep writing every day. I'm not sure why you weren't able to see the page as I have tried it from numerous different browsers and computers, and never had an issue. Thanks for the great tips though. Patience is not one of my strong suits, except when it comes to actually playing Poker. lol

Anyone else? Anyone, anyone?

kaus · #4 07-18-2007, 09:38 PM

I can see the page I just cant read it

The white on black is really hard to read.
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Maybe its just me though

smackinyaup · #5 07-18-2007, 10:00 PM

No, its not just you Kaus. In most presentation situations, its not good to go with the dark background and light text. Keep it simple and readable.

I am a noob to the poker affiliate business but, as a normal web surfer, I can say that your site could use something to keep people coming back. All I could find easily were news reports. Get a solid strategy section going, or talk about bonus whoring or freerolls. I'm not sure what, but ask yourself what you can do to get people to bookmark YOUR site and not the competitors'.

jcap1p · #6 07-18-2007, 10:58 PM

Hmmm. I try to write a strategy article for every news article but I guess 2 news in a row looks like I am trying to have a poker news site.

What should I do for the text on the layout?

kaus · #7 07-18-2007, 11:43 PM

NOt sure if this is possible but I do like the layout and the colours with the pics. Is there anyway that you can incorporate a grey background around the sections of content and than choose maybe even a blue for text. That way it doesnt make you go bug eyed. Each will fit nicely with the other!

Jordan · #8 07-18-2007, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kaus

NOt sure if this is possible but I do like the layout and the colours with the pics. Is there anyway that you can incorporate a grey background around the sections of content and than choose maybe even a blue for text. That way it doesnt make you go bug eyed. Each will fit nicely with the other!

My forum uses a grey background with a blue text.. you can check it out to see how it looks if you'd like mate, the links in my sig.

losercore · #9 07-25-2007, 02:43 PM

I must agree the black and white is hard on the eyes. i would only stick around for a minute or 2.

jcap1p · #10 07-25-2007, 02:53 PM

What about now? I have spaced it out more.