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Originally Posted by OnionJack  Hello Jamestl2,
Some of this might sound a little harsh. It's just my opinion with a little review. |
Thanks, I actually prefer blunt criticism, it helps me out greatly and which areas of my site need improvement in.
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Originally Posted by OnionJack Very first, get rid of About Me. You think people may care, but include that in About if you have to. Change About Site to About Us. Your idea is a separate entity. It just happens to also encompass a website and top ten lists.
Change I to Us, or We. |
Actually, with this page, I was trying to follow Steve’s example. Just gave some facts about myself to show I am a real person running the site.
TBH, I do believe that no one really does care, but I just put it in anyway to give guests a sense of humanity behind it. Also, since I am the only one running it, there really is no “we”, just “me”.
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Originally Posted by OnionJack Copyright toptenlisted.com. Do a sole proprietorship, it's cheap, or just copyright it as the web address. Odds of your taking it to court in beginning will be slim  |
Yeah, it is just a sole proprietorship right now, don’t know if I will change it in the future or not though.
In my footer, I do show people that it is copyrighted, which is right above the footer links, if that’s what you were referring to? I ‘m not completely sure what you mean by “copyright the web address”, as I already own the site.
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Originally Posted by OnionJack Get rid of your footers for the DNS, etc. Minimize them all as much as possible. |
I actually have to keep those links that are in the footer, they are required by the author / designer of the wordpress theme I chose to use.
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Originally Posted by OnionJack There's 0 diggs. Don't advertise it.
Be Proactive! Get your web address out there. Any means you think will be effective. Join more message boards. Craigslist. Keep doing what appears as external links. It will only help. |
A SEO advisor from another forum recommended me to put the digg icon code on to attract traffic and show guests that they can digg them, and get involved in other social bookmarking sites.
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Originally Posted by OnionJack Keep creating original polls. But if they aren't getting the numbers. Remove them! 2 of 5 of your polls have 1 response at most on your political polls. PLEASE it's politics make the polls stirring. Intrigue the visitor, or inflame them, produce a response.
People don't want to vote where no one else has. We all follow the leader. If you can get an interesting enough topic to start the responses. Digg will take care of itself. |
My site isn’t necessarily a collection of polls. While they are top ten lists, most of them are just my opinion and trying to help people out. There were never really any “voting options” to my lists, I just wrote them up because I thought people may find the information I provide useful.
The comments are there because it is a blog style site (although not technically a blog). Do you think it may be better to just disable comments for a site such as mine? Or maybe even somehow incorporate "voting" into my site (although I wouldn't know how to do that)?
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Originally Posted by OnionJack I would also try to tie in with other sites in any way possible if you're focusing on polls. Host them, sponser them(maybe), keep posting them as comments to hotly debated topics. |
It is good advice to find other sites with similar activity, but as I said earlier, my lists aren’t polls exactly, although I do welcome debate (Once visitors actually start commenting on my lists, lol) on the order I choose to list the headers in each list.
Once again, thanks for the honest site review.
It seems as if you can never stop learning about web design and administration, then again you could apply that to life as well.