YOu may not realize it, but there is a special forum "Present your site for review!" which is where all such questions are supposed to be posted. I don't think that a poster can re-postion a post but the moderator may do this.
I don't have much time at the moment, but I did notice that underneath the headline it seems you're using a rather large bolded font for all the normal text, which makes it somewhat harder to read. _________________ New England gardening with roses
I feel like your home page is very lopsided ... a very long navbar but very little text. I would suggest you use the table of content links on your home page as not all SE's wlil follow image links (which is what your navbar is). Don't stop them at the door, invite them in with good quality text links with your keyphrases and descriptions. It will help the PR of your internal pages a lot.
I think you have too many items on your navbar, some of which look totally out of place, for instance Vodka History and winemaking ... those seem more like lower tier page topics than Tier two for the navbar.
Schools, courses, certification belong as one Tier 2 that splits out if enough info is provided. Same thing with Licenses, Resumes, Jobs. I would also review the order of your navbar as I find it confusing ... there is no flow of order at all.
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Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:15 am Post subject:
Debs is touching on a tremendous point I just learned after working on my first site and will be adjusting this week.
-- The niche menu is important to plan from the beginning ---
The sites I see reviewed on here that get instant approval are those with a clear and cohesive set of menu items. Some developers naturally stick to that, but others, I'm one of them, see the big picture and fight to render it to a useful subset.
When I entered your site, I did't have a set agenda to look for anything in particular. As I looked down your menu, I got uncomfortable, because I don't have a clear understanding of what you want to accomplish.
If you started out with schools and Certification and kept it that way, I would have some interest and clicked around.
Same with recipes or Bartending Help and kept it that way.
When I came to resumes I stopped looking. Items like Vodka History are so narrow that I wondered if that's your favorite drink. Personally I'd like to learn about the monks and the history of Frangelica.
Until now I didn't realize just how much the core message gets conveyed to me through the menu items......it's first for me over the headline and first paragraph text. I need to reread Ken's Presell about Tier I and II selections.
I saw a competitor site of yours last month that had many menu items down the left side, but each was a bartending recipe topic:
Cranberry wine
Blueberry wine
Cinnamon cordial
.... more.
I looked through 5 pages on that site and I don't even drink alcohol.
That may not be the niche you want, but you are mixing the menu.
In your mind take out the word Bartending and Bar from each of the menu items. Do the words that remain describe just what you want your reader to understand. The site is already about bartending.
If you're like me, then you'll have a tough time narrowing options that seem logical to offer. That can be the hardest thing to do when everything has high profitablity values and you think the spiders won't find topics buried in your site.
If that's part of your thinking, then create a Site Map text link and put it at the top of the page. It's not classy, but for the next few months it will help the spiders find your pages. You can move it after traffic picks up.
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