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Hey... the matter i getting a bit hot here,
Dear FannyStice, The post is about MY site and Ryan is just one of the contributors.
The forum is made and maintained by members and every one is entitled for an opinion. It is not a representation of a single individual. I would love be connected with you, so would request you to stay on.
Just a sweet request, I would definitely be requiring your inputs from time to time.

Anyways, your link request is already approved and the additions are doen... you'll soon see the site updated and added on with a lot of new stuff.


Cheers and Regards,
Cipher

Phewww.... exhausted after a complete re-do.
I hope this time I have kept into my mind all the points that I have learnt from all your suggestions and comments.
I am still open to more learning so please edify my with your thoughts.

he he.... suuggestions again please....!

looking much much better you're doing great

I agree with Elizabeth, consistent navigation is highly important. Along with this you should also have consistent design.

I did find a few problems for ya to take care of

Not getting all the images on relationships/index.htm

Different design on sculpture/sculptures.html

non-existent page dimension/games/Games-menu.html from the poems link on decipher_it/Sphere_theory-How_prayers_work.html

Little short on time right now. More later.

Your website looks so much better now! I am glad you took our advice and criticisms and applied them well. I wish you the best cipher!

cipher wrote:

why does google and yahoo don't send people my way. I am getting just 15 visitors from search engines per day on my site. I have more than 300 pages and there are so few visitors.
Would anyone suggest, what would be the best marketing strategy for me? Where should I concentrate now?

Hello Cipher

What keywords are you focussing on to attract people to your site?
I couldn't find any meta description or keywords in your source...

ER

cipher wrote:

Hi ER,
so good to see you again,

Nice to see you too!

It's a funny thing about BIG sites...from my experience, they don't get the specifically targeted traffic that several smaller ones will...that's why I broke up one of my sites into 7 smaller ones....MMMMuuuuuchhhh better.

Keep the pages short - you can only have 3 google adds on one page anyway.

Make each website about a specific topic - a niche site, so to speak.

These things work for me anyway.

Having appropriate meta keywords seem to help with the type of adsense that shows up on the site too.

cipher wrote:

I am thinking of removing the art section as a new site has come up with the same content (visit the new project in the signature).

Good idea - better insert the meta tags there too.

from what I gather you have made some improvements on your site.   I just got through reviewing it. 
You still have some minor corrections to make on your grammar.  I like your articles although one thing I didn't like is the ad you have on the right-hand side 0f the page that keeps flashing back and forth.  That will distract people from reading your articles.
We're all  use advertising to make money.  You don't want to distract them with flashing advertisement pop-ups they will lose interest in what you are trying to say and move off your site.  You better off using  arrows that they can click on to view more ads.
If you going to have astrology on your site then it should be on a daily basis or a monthly basis instead of the yearly basis. That'll draw people back to your site to check on your chart. All in all I think the site looks pretty good it easy to read.

Now I don't know if you're working on your site now and took it off line.  But after I get through reviewing it I couldn't get back into the site. I thought it might be me. So I copied your URL and pasted it on the top of my page. Still got the message couldn't find your site. I don't know if this is first-time this has happened to you. but I would definitely look into  it.


  Don
D & C Discoveries

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cipher wrote:

...around 20 Search traffic each day... and most of it coming for either the horoscope pags or a specific game... these pages have no backlinks and no special keywords too but still they manage hits, wheras my articles, poems and other content pages get nothing.
Surprisingly, horoscope and games are the most fought after keywords and I am getting that traffic even when my site's theme is not that.
Can any one suggest the cause?

Cipher...the horoscopes and games are what people want!

Your articles and poems might be better utulized on a blog - I suggest wordpress (only because I use it and find it excellent)

I use the FREE dot.wordpress version to post articles, photographs etc and then use links to send traffic to my sites.

Wordpress (and probably most bloging software) has an automated system that submits to the search engines imediately you make a post...so no waiting around for the S.E's to find you.

I had a local newspaper find my photographs after only 3 weeks...and they visited me the next day , then published a feature of my work in the following weeks paper.

You can use the hosted version of Wordpress (which is still free) at the domain of your choice.  The advantage of hosting your own blog is that you can use adsense to make some money directly from the site.

Whatever you do, people will only come if you have something they want.

All the best,

ER

All I have to say is WOW!!!
I love the site and really can't do a review on it.


The stuff between Ryan and the other guy is going to keep things a bit unsettled for me.  I love Ryan's opinions and constructive criticisim.  At lest when he tells you something stinks he tells you how to fix it and doesn't show off his knowledge or ego or jealousy.  Haven't seen any thing bad from him in this topic, but I guess when someone is not ready to listen they won't.

Keep up the good work .

Last edited by ninak (2008-08-16 07:33:20)

Hey thanks for that Nic,
It is good that the comments are filtered now, as I also have a link from my site to this page... just to let the visitors know how the site has transformed from time to time.

@Ninak : Thanks for the review, Yes I agree Ryan's contribution towards the development of this site has beeen substantial. infact everyone who has contributed here has done so, very beautifully.
Even the blunt reviews work very well if they are a bit constructive and show you the deficiencies. One has to be positive and keep on working for good. Even your crticics will love that attitude and that is how I have tried to incorporate the suggestions.

I am not able to work at a great pace at present as net in unavailable to me. But soon I will be back with something wonderful that I have in my mind.

Waiting to get back on track...