I need opinions.

[Michael Havens]

Thank you for the tip Sam. I'll look into CSS.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Sam Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Mike,
>
> Not a bad start, nor a bad idea. I would drop the "Pay me $5 for the
> link," though. It really sounds like you're doing something underhanded. I
> would seek out alternative ways to market the site and pull some revenue.
> It looks like you have Ad-Sense or something similar running already. As
> long as you're bringing people in, you'll make a few bucks off the
> click-throughs.
>
> My advice for getting people to stay is to bring a forum into the website.
> I use phpBB on a website I started recently (http://whoarethedead.com/),
> and it's about as easy as it gets. Boards are a great way to give people a
> fun distraction while they're at the site. For your purposes (community
> building, I presume), it would seem almost essential. PhpBB has plenty of
> free tutorials, templates, a massive community and easy session
> integration, which allows for some cool things. Dealing with spam bots
> takes a little work, but google has plenty of help (though you might want
> to keep them. Sometimes they're hilarious). FTP it over to your web host
> and go through the install.php script to get it going. It's mostly
> point-and-click (your web host does have PHP on board, right?).
>
> I peeked through some of the source on the pages. There are a TON of lines
> dedicated to style. Have you considered referencing a style sheet? You can
> do a lot with CSS, and it's a massive time saver for changes across
> multiple pages. I didn't use a CMS for my site (addicted to rolling my own)
> and found that formatting with style sheets is actually pretty easy. You
> can check out mine if you want an example of what they look like
> http://whoarethedead.com/WATD.css. Basically, I define classes in CSS and
> then identify <div> blocks with those classes. Ultimately, it's the same as
> what most toolkits would do. As long as you have a good reference guide,
> you should be able to do just about anything.
>
> And my (from limited experience) SEO info-nuggets:
>
> 1- Good tags, clear formatting, etc. are nice, but they guarantee nothing.
> 2- Without regularly updated content, you'll get deindexed. Heed the words
> of E-40 and Scrape! Scrape! Scrape!
> 3- Back-links. Get them. Do whatever it takes that is still cost-effective.
> 4- Rate of change in traffic is more important than total rate (think
> trending).
>
> Probably not as tasty as chicken-nuggets, but born from experience. If you
> get the first 3 locked in, you might look into traffic sharing, buying out
> competing niche-sites and such. Good luck!
>
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