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Hello everyone,
I know that I have posted a few times for reviews, but the content was not quite there…
I have more content now and the home page is more fleshed out.
Please give me some great feedback!!!! I am finally on my way to getting this thing going.
PS – I have had signups and a minor profit!!! Woo Hoo! This is just a comment for the newbies who are dissillusioned (as I had been many times during this process) :tongue:
The site looks good. The blue background made the text slightly hard to read, but it wasn’t unreasonably difficult.
I’m not sure if I like the links page. It looks you may be using a redirect to count the number of clicks on each link. Depending on the type of redirect, PR may or may not be transferred this way. You also have another link for each link partner there, but this link is the actual URL of the site (no specific anchor text), and this link is not counted when people click on it. So, really the only way the click would be counted is if the user clicked on the link with the anchor text, and not on the link with the plain URL.
Some people won’t want to exchange links with you if you redirect their link this way. They may feel that they won’t gain any PR benefit from the exchange. Yes, there are ways to redirect links so that the PR does transfer (using a 301 permanent redirect is one way), but even so, people will have to take your word for it.
At the bottom of the links page, I see a few buttons — start, previous, next, and end. Presumably, when you get enough links, those buttons will become active, and they will lead to other links pages. The problem with this is that certain links will exist many clicks away from the home page. When this happens, the “far-away” links pages won’t have any PR.
If you have, for example, a home page with PR4, pages that are one click away could have a PR of 3; pages 2 clicks away might have a PR of 2, and so on (these are only rough approximations). A very “deep” page, that is 6 or 7 clicks away from the home page will most likely have a PR of zero.
The solution to this problem is to have links to ALL of the links pages on a single menu page (here is an example). Or, if you don’t want to have a menu like that, you could place hyperlinked numbers across the bottom of every page, like this:
All of the pages will be connected to each other this way, and each page should receive an equal amount of PR.
Overall, I like your site — it looks nice. I didn’t mean to focus so much on the links page. Aside from that, I have no other suggestions except to keep up the good work! :bigsmile:
Excellent reply! Thanks so much.
I had previously created a link page specifically designed with no redirect and formated how I like it with CSS. However, I liked the features of this link exchange ‘component’, so I went with that.
I like the way you explained the deep linking. I can specify how many links I have on one page and I plan on having 50 per page with no more than 50 total reciprocals.
I will purchase other links that I want to the site and have already used some of my other sites to link to it as well.
As far as the hard to read text, I will probably change much of the text coloring to black instead of the dark grey. This should make it easier to read. If that doesn’t work well, I will have to consider a slight re-design with a white background for the middle area.
hi kwblue,
i know your site is focussing on progressives, but another thing you might want to do list all the various slot games offered, along with the progressives you have.
Yes,
I was actually thinking the same thing. Good to hear that it makes sense.
Thanks!
kw
kwblue,
What about a live feed of the most updated progressives for your users?
Regards,
Great idea…
I had thought about that. I am not sure about the work it would take to do such a thing. When I began looking into the programming of it as an automated RSS feed, then I worried a bit that other sites would use it to publish the same content that I have on my site – making mine a bit less unique.
Anyone think I would have to worry about that?
Otherwise I would go ahead with it as a benefit to the users.
kw
