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Voasi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 895 Location: California, The OC

I have been an avid reader here at the associateprograms.com forum for some time now and have finally finished "one" of my websites!

http://www.guitar-resource-guide.com

I am continuing to write more articles all the time. The affiliate links are not put in there just quite yet.

I want to thank everyone who posts on this forum. I definitely would have not done, or known, anything about affiliate and how big of an industry it really is!

Any comments, questions, improvements or anything you can think of would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for all your help!
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Debs · Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 4296 Location: NY

Voasi, nice site, clean and very nice graphics.

Just have a minute so couldn't review much. The only thing that really stuck out at me was the underlined headlines. I don't recommend you underline anything except links. People are used to seeing links underlined and may be confused. No sense confusing your visitors ... having the color and size of the font stand out the way you do, there is really no reason to underline headings.

Debs
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Tgorman · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

Voasi,
I looked your site over and liked it. Very clean and quick loading on my system. I saw 2 small spelling errors on the home page. Check your last 2 paragraphs. In the next to the last paragraph you have the word wand I think you mean want.

In the last paragraph you have this sentence: And if we don't know you guitar related question, we'll find someone who does. The you should be your.

Good Luck with the site and I hope it makes you a million $$$$

Tim
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Voasi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 895 Location: California, The OC

Tgorman and Debs,

Thank you for checking over my site.

Debs: I made those changes that you said. That is a good idea and I never reallly thought of that Smile

Tgorman: Good looking out! I'm pretty good at grammer but never proof-read...I think now, doing these affiliate websites, is a good time to start!

I'm a graphic designer and I'm a marketing specialist for a large web design company as my day job, so i'm hoping that will bring the right mix to get me to the top of the search engines.

Now my only problem is I need Idea

(ideas) for affiliate websites...which seems to be the thing that i'm lacking.

Thanks for all your input! Very Happy

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Debs · Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 4296 Location: NY

For ideas ... look through the news ... what's hot? Is there a merchant providing it? Are the keyphrases profitable?

Do some generic searches on Wordtracker using the "Comprehensive Search" feature in the paid version ... use one word to start ... random, generic words, and see what comes up for profitable keyphrases, then look for merchants to provide the solutions.

If you have a passion, hobby, family interest ... this is a good way to build interesting content that you can convert to affiliate programs and Adsense.

Debs
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OleTom · Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 86 Location: Jax Beach FL

Nice work Voasi Exclamation

What impressed me the most was how fast it loads .

The only suggestion I have is to add a news letter on new products or what ever so you can build a relationship with you visitors Very Happy

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Voasi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 895 Location: California, The OC

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kidino · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 213 Location: Malaysia

Voasi

I think your website is great. The design is simple and clean, the way it should be. And the content are informative ...

I do think that you can have more content or be more elaborative with your existing content. For example, the article about how to tune ... I know abit on how to tune and I do think that you can do more than that. If you really provide good quality content, incoming links will pour in.

Apart from that ... hmm ... I think your site is fine. When you start to get search engine traffic, I think you will start to see sales.

All the best ...
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sophist · Joined: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 570 Location: Kamloops, Canada

Voasi

Your site looks good. I would change one thing though.

I would suggest setting your background color to white. (if that is the color you want.)

I use a theme that doesn't show backgrounds as white. You background shows as meduim grey in my browser which is the default for the theme I am using.
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Debbi · Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 259 Location: USA

Great site! Clean design, but rich content! It's a great start! Very Happy

I did notice a typo, though. On the home page, the general checklist for choosing a guitar, 2nd bulleted line: "Thick and thin strings when you snap you strings "; Did you mean "snap your strings"?

You'd really be better off if your links to zzounds opened in a new window. That way your visitors don't leave your site when they click the link. Wink

Also on the guitar tuning equipment page, check the wording in these two lines - a wee bit awkward...

"Thin, light, and convenient is key to have for when you onstage or at home to just pull it out tune real quick before a performance."

"A built in MIC is pretty standard is you should definitely have it."

That's all I got to for now...if you read my post in the AdSense section, you'll see I've had a LOOOOONG day! Laughing

Need to shut down pretty soon... Wink

I hope I helped, I think it's a really promising site!

Good Luck! Very Happy

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Voasi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 895 Location: California, The OC

sophist,

Thanks for the look-out with the gray background. I had no idea. I will definitely change the background to white.

Debbi,

Thanks for the proof-reading. I still need to do that!
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StrayPixel · Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 48

Looks good. VERY clean looking. Very Happy

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Voasi · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 895 Location: California, The OC

Just wanted to give a little update. My site has been doing great so for on a day by day basis for adding traffic

Stats:

01 Mar 2004 0
02 Mar 2004 11
03 Mar 2004 24
04 Mar 2004 27
05 Mar 2004 23
06 Mar 2004 73
07 Mar 2004 81
08 Mar 2004 109

I have been using some great advice from this forum...like posting in newsgroups. You can see the change once I made a new post in a news group! Who would've thought people look at those?

Thanks for all your advice!
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Mantius · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:16 am Post subject:

Keep it happening buddy! Anytime numbers start to increase like this I get highly inspired and motivated. Perhaps I'm not the only one. Smile

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