My New Website

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Hello everyone

I recently decided to make the plunge and get my own ".com"

It's really cool to go to my site and not see someone else's banners flashing at the top of all my pages.

I did a complete overhaul to the site and I would really appreciate any feedback you all could give on the new design. Posiive or negative doesnt matter so long as your honest.

Thanks David

Link below:
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Congradulations!!!

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Getting your own domain and identity is definately the first step. Looking good so far. Nice layout, easy navigation, you're definately on the right track.

Here's some advice to help you out.

On your survey page, the links to the survey sites you have listed take you away from your page completely. Add the "TARGET="_blank" tag to the end of your links so your page stays open.

Look into signing up for OffersQuest. You'll be able to make more referral money if you use them. an NFO referral pays $4.20 each and you'll find quite a few others on there as well. I'd appreciate you using my referral link above should you decide to join them. They have a lot of sites that I wasn't getting paid for before and really boosted my earnings. There is a minimum traffic requirement, so I'm not sure if you'll qualify right away, but if nothing else you can use the traffic exchange system that I set up on the site to reach that requirement.

You'll want to retool your keywords a bit. I would highly recommend downloading this program AddWeb. You can get a free 30 day trial. You'll definately want to buy something like this eventually, but for now, you'll be able to make a lot of improvemnets to your site in the 30 free days. You'll find lots of good tools within the program, but on of the most useful is the "keyword finder". You can type in a keyword and it will go out and find variations of that keyword and tell you how many times that keyword was searched for in the previous month. If you'd like to see a sample of what I mean, send me an email with a couple of keywords that you'd like to target, and I'll send you back a couple of sample reports.

You'll want to be a bit more specific in your keywords, especially when you're first starting out. For example, the keyword "affiliate program" was searched for 124,384 times last month. That means that every affiliate program out there is going to be using "affiliate program" as a keyword, which basically amounts to your site being lost at sea. Now the keyword "affiliate program directory" had 3,757 searches done last month. Now, this keyword applies very well to your site and probably applies very little to very many affiliate sites (remember with affiliate sites EVERY person who signs up for an affiliate program gets there own website, of which I'm sure "affiliate program" is on their keyword list, but there's a good chance that "affiliate program directory" is not) so by being a bit more specific in your keywords, you can eliminate a lot of the websites that you are competing against for search engine placement. It will be much easier for you to get some kind of decent search engine ranking because there will not be nearly as many sites with that keyword, remember even 2% of 3,757 is much better than 0% of 124,384. Once your site becomes a powerhouse on affiliate markieting, then you can take on some of the more competitive keywords.

Also, make the keywords on your other pages more specific. For example, on your suvey page you have keywords like "cash", "money" ect... These keywords are not going to do your page any justice at all. If you go to Yahoo and type in the word "Cash" you are going to get a kazillion results of which a kabillion of them are going to be more popular thatn yours for the word cash. If you make your keywords more survey related, you'll not only be competing with a smaller number of sites, but you'll know that if someone does find your survey page when searching for surveys, that it will be of interest to them. I would recommend the same for your other pages, make your paid email page keywords specifically "paid email" related.

Use the AddWeb program to look for keywords that express the uniqueness of your site. For example, your site name is Honest Information, so you may want to run a check on, let's say, "honest survey information" or something else that adds some uniqueness to your site, and see what comes up. If you can find something like that, that really fits your site well, you can reach the top of a search engine for that term much easier. Even if, for example "honest survey information" only gets searched for 100 times in a month, if you're number one for that term (which is not that unrealistic for something unique) that's 100, specifically targetted hits, just think about if you were searching for "honest survey information" and you pulled up a site called Honest Information, with survey info in it, are you going to take a look? Absolutely.

Once you have keywords that you are happy with, use them in the content of your site. Keywords do no good unless they are repeated in the part of your page that the user sees. Your "Freebies" page has multiple banners on it. Search engines see words, so basically they will see nothing on this page. I would add a short narrative describing each Freebie program either before of after each banner, with some of your keywords for that page in the narrative. Not only will search engines like it a bunch more, but from a visitors perspective, if I just see a bunch of banners, there is very little chance that I will actually click on one. However, if you tell me a bit about it, I just might.

Make sure you submit your site to the search engines once a month, no more, no less. Your webhosting should provide you with a free submitter, if not AddWeb has a submitter built into it (of course you'd have to buy it at that point, but believe me it's worth it). Once you submit it, expect it to take 3 or so months before it shows up anywhere. You can check to see if your sites been indexed by typing your domain, without the http:// part into their search, if it doesn't come up with anything, your site has not been indexed. Once you get your site up there, AddWeb has a Rank Checker that will check your ranking for your keywords in the search engines automatically, very handy.

If you'd like to add a link to Free Paid Surveys somewhere on your survey page (after your referral links of course), I'll give you a link on my survey links page. I don't normally ad links that have no ranking, but since you've been a member of this board for a while and seem as if you will stick with it and have some ranking after a while, I'll make an exception. This will help you out in several ways. First, by linking to a somewhat well ranked survey site, it will add "points" to your survey page. It will give your visitors an additional survey resource, therefor increasing your credability and since Free Paid Surveys is already indexed by the major search engines there is a good chance that they will find your site through my links page (of course this might already happen because the link is in the forum).

Well that's about it, sorry for writing a book on ya.
Congratulations and good luck
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Hey Chris,

Thanks a lot for such a great reply and such good advice! I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to write so much so dont apologize for that. But I do want to apologize myself for taking so long to reply to this. I have been to the forum quite a bit but I hadnt checked this topic in quite awhile.

In the meantime I have done a lot of changes to my website. Though the surveys page doesnt have a google PR yet some of my other pages do. I have learned a lot about SEO in the past couple of months and am still working on changes and updates. I do expect that PR to start going up in the near future.

I will definitely consider your offer for a link exchange if it is still open.

David
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