Review my site please

[alpalino]

My site about SEO and Web Site traffic Tips (http://getfreewebtraffictoyoursite.blogspot.com/)

Thanks for this service

[rjp]

Your site is terrible.

[alpalino]

Thank you for your comment. But i wish you had the brain to explain what you had found terrible so i could change it make it better.

[rjp]

I'm pretty sure it has to do with you first post being a "review my site" post.

Is this spam? Probably?

[boron]

Here's my try:

1. Site size: ~ 37Kb. Site speed: moderate. Check (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://getfreewebtraffictoyoursite.blogspot.com/) exact speed on various connections and recomendations.
Tips:
- consider to rempve some scripts from the Home page
- Blogger.com itself is not the fastes place, so you can consider about moving your blog On Wordpress.com or othe site of your own.

2. First look impression:
Title breaks into a lower part, tip: shorten it: Free Website Traffic is more than enough words.
Subtitle: Long, repeating words. Shorten it to minimum. Google will understand current subtitle as spamming and visitors don't need so long description.
The width of the main posting area is pretty narrow which makes the right "advertising" part prominent. Maybe you did it on purpose, but Wordpress can look better.

3. Design: Green is OK for me, try to find some other templates though. You can search for "custom blogger templates" in Google or ask someone to redesign it a little. To give it some life.

Look of your site in Mozilla, Firefox, I.E., Opera, Safari (http://browsershots.org/website/http://getfreewebtraffictoyoursite.blogspot.com/). Enlarge all screenshots to full to see some "issues".

4. Navigation: Set categories and place them on a top.

5. Content: Make a short introduction (there is a "square" feature in Blogger to do so). Place it on the top, you can add a "contact" (mail...), if you want. You have to have some "Free website traffic" content otherwise people will only leave your site.

6. Statistic:
- PR = 3.
- Alexa ranking: 347,738.
- Search Engine position: Not among 500 or 1,000 in Google/Yahoo or MSN for keyword phrase: Free traffic.
- Backlinks: 1,599 according to Yahoo site explorer (http://sitexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fgetfreewebtraffictoyoursi te.blogspot.com%2F&bwm=i&bwmf=a&bwms=p)
- Indexed site pages in Google: 12

7. Spell check (http://www.siteowner.com/system/socheckspelling.cfm?url=http://getfreewebtraffictoyoursite.blogspot.com/&RequestTimeout=1000) of the Home Page

8. Keywords (http://www.seochat.com/?go=1&option=com_seotools&tool=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.siteowner.com%2Fsystem%2Fsoch eckspelling.cfm%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fgetfreewebtra ffictoyoursite.blogspot.com%2F&termno=100&include_meta=1&include_alt=1&include_title=1&numerals=0&words=2&imageverify=RHY8P&timehsh=x67Oprc%3D&submit=Analyze). There is only two word keyphrase regarding traffic on your home page. You should mention "free traffic" or "free website traffic" in the posts or in internal links (also in anchor text of backlinks).

Keyword competition in Google for
- Free website traffic: 93,000,000
- Free traffic: 195,000,000

No comment.

9. HTML validation:
There is 1,071 HTML errors (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgetfreewebtraffictoyoursite .blogspot.com%2F+) only on your Home page, this contributes to slowness of your site.

11. Server speed (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstime.ch?name=getfreewebtraffictoyoursite.blogsp ot.com&type=A) seems to be excellent but my experience with Blogger is it can be really slow sometimes.

Conclusion: You have to change title and subtitle, you need to decide if you realy want compete for Free trafic" in search engines and if yes, you should build the site according to this.
You have very many backlinks, few good ones and many with appropriate anchor text..

[camuk19]

Blogspot gives it a cheap image, will not retain visitors.

[Mystic]

The header doesnt look very attractive. Could be worked upon.
In single post view, put an rss feed icon below the post, so that its prominent and there is a better chance that the reader will notice it. Currently, you subscriber count is 0. May be its just me, but I wont be showing that off. Instead, I would use the traditional feed icon (http://www.feedicons.com/).

Next thing, if you want to blog for profit, its always recomended that you have your own domain name. If possible host it yourself (blogger allows that). It looks more professional. I personally prefer wordpress over blogger.

What I like about your writing style, is that you use paragraphs and bullets (lists). But, use target="_blank" for external links. You dont want to loose your readers to other websites.

I couldnt find a meta tag. Replace default feed with feedburner feed url (by modifying your header). So that when you click the rss icon in address bar, you get feedburner feed. Consider widgetising the blog (http://widgets.opera.com/widgetize/).

Another small thing, I would like to point out is the font size. The post headings should have larger font size (compared to the date of posting).
Also, allow people without blogger accounts to post comments.
Silktide Report (http://sitescore.silktide.com/index.php?node=716984&form_refresh_single=0&form=1&form1=1&f1_url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetfreewebtraffictoyoursite.bl ogspot.com%2F&f1_ok=OK&s_f1_noPages=5&s_f1_isTechnical=on&taosIgnoreCache=1&pagetree=&taosIgnoreCache=1)

[alpalino]

Thank you guys. Very good reviews above and I will certainly work on that. But onething I want findout is, if I change myblog platform and host it let say wordpress, wouldn,t I loose my PR and current SERP.

At the moment, I am 44 in free website traffic. And I belive it would increase, when the PR updates. Also have good positions in few other keywords.

So I am worried that if I start hosting my blog on anoter platform, that means I will loose the current URL and rankings. Also the visitors. :(

I am not happy with blogger myself, but the above reasons are the only thing holds me back from switching.

Please comment ...

[rjp]

Hey you're not spam, your site doesn't suck as much now! I'll try and give it a look over tonight.

I do, however, think the other guy that posted near the same time as you is SPAM. :D

[Submerge]

Isn't much to critique, other than the content and ads, it looks like the same old blog spot template. It's a little jammed tightly it seems to me, maybe move off of blog spot?

[Mystic]

Yes you would.
The only way to change domain without drastic reduction in search engine ranking is to use 301 redirect (http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm). But, I dont think Blogger allows you to modify the .htaccess file.

But, moving should provide long term benefits.

[alpalino]

Isn't much to critique, other than the content and ads, it looks like the same old blog spot template. It's a little jammed tightly it seems to me, maybe move off of blog spot?

That is what I'm trying to findout. By moving i can loose all my backlinks and current rankings. And I don't think I can use redirects for blogger.

Well, I really like wordpress templates and they provide more functionality.

[alpalino]

Yes you would.
The only way to change domain without drastic reduction in search engine ranking is to use 301 redirect (http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm). But, I dont think Blogger allows you to modify the .htaccess file.

But, moving should provide long term benefits.

Mmmm. Maybe I can just put a massive link in that page and hope for users to click on it.

Also I expect that site to have PR5 in next update as I bought some quality backlinks.

[SgtRumble]

Ive seen better but its no worse than the other million or so out there. As for moving your blog to another provider, I would suggest getting your own domain to host your blog on.
I would also leave the one you currently have up and link it to your new one as a good backlink.

[boron]

By switching on a new domain you lose PR fo sure. But there's some time until April to build it on a new domain before PR update.

Making a redirect in .htaccess file would require that you contact Blogger staff, since they can do this from their File manager only. But this way, your current site will be hidden away.

So you can also just have two sites for a while and continue to build this one as well and have it as a "sister" site.

[Submerge]

I would just point a link to the next site, that way you're still able to bring the traffic, that's all should matter as PR can be built again and isn't as important as visitors.

[alpalino]

thank you guys

I will definetly switch and host my own domain.

I will probably will ask you to review that one as I got really useful information from you all.

So please don't label that one as SPAM :p.

[rjp]

Just a comment: I think there is too much green. I'm no color guy so I have no idea what would work better, but I'm on green overload (and it's my favorite color!)