Site opinion

bbrock32 · 02-03-2007, 05:05 PM

Hi ,
I created today my first website and i would like your opinion on it : http://www.ebooksarchive.net and also advices on marketing , SEO , PR or anything that can bring me more visitors.Thanks in advance!

digitalracks · 02-03-2007, 06:22 PM

Maybe change the homepage so rather than displaying a whole list, display categories in maybe 3 columns and have newest items, top rated items, mostly visited items ect...

Maybe makethe blue links a tad darker!

webtech · 02-03-2007, 08:37 PM

Use some SEO tools to check pages to optimize , create google sitemap.xml using free site and submit it to google,yahoo .do w3c validation etc.

bobchrist · 02-03-2007, 10:54 PM

I think you need to add some good content on your homepage rather than just putting the outgoing links there.

bbrock32 · 02-04-2007, 12:37 PM

Thanks everybody for your responses.About what webtech said , what are some tools to SEO optimize my web page and also what is google sitemap.xml.Thanks in advance.

Sadu · 02-04-2007, 03:43 PM

Read up on on-page SEO. Your "finance" category should be optimised for "finance ebooks" or "download finance ebooks" or similar. Likewise for every other page on the site.
Make the titles unique on every page, add a relevant H1 heading to every page (your site name should not be the H1). Add a paragraph of unique content to every page. Make the meta description / keywords unique on every page, or don't use them at all.
Many more on-page changes are required for this site, but I'm not able to list them all in a forum post - plenty of good online resources for this.

Ask yourself, does my site add value? Google is getting better at giving out bad rankings to sites without much unique content. Make sure your site isn't one of those sites.

Add value by having user or admin reviews of the downloads, a user-rating system, links to similar resources etc etc.

Decide what phrases you want to rank for - do this first. Then do the on-page SEO required for those phrases, then build links with those phrases as the link text.

If you are serious about learning SEO, I would shell out the $80 for SEO Book from www.seobook.com (no affiliate link, honest) - you can get the info for free, but SEO book has all the info in one place and is free from BS often found in forums etc.

bbrock32 · 02-06-2007, 06:21 AM

I've inserted goodle ads on my website , but would like your opinion on their placement.Thanks

Sadu · 02-06-2007, 11:05 AM

Hmmm, always best to leave the ads off completely while you are getting started. It won't bring in much $$$ at all, and it will just scare off people that might otherwise link to you.

tdd1984 · 02-10-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bbrock32

Hi ,
I created today my first website and i would like your opinion on it : http://www.ebooksarchive.net and also advices on marketing , SEO , PR or anything that can bring me more visitors.Thanks in advance!

not bad, not a graphical website, but seems to be informational type website, and thats what people like the web is about learning

mhmdkhamis · 02-11-2007, 10:24 PM

i think u have many link in footer and i think that is no good

Janna122003 · 02-13-2007, 12:41 AM

I think it can be attractive if each ebook has a preview. And put some description of the ebook so that visitors can have an idea.

lizza · 02-13-2007, 01:58 AM

It is very simple but looks very professional.
You can add some graphics to attract visitors

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbrock32

Hi ,
I created today my first website and i would like your opinion on it : http://www.ebooksarchive.net and also advices on marketing , SEO , PR or anything that can bring me more visitors.Thanks in advance!