Website Review of: Duckeldannys Money Blog
Getting To Know the website.
What is the purpose of this website?
To teach other bloggers on how to make money online. Topics range from Affiliate, seo, money, blogging and others.
Who is the owner of the website?
I was not able to find any information on who the owner of the website is. All I can guess is that the owner’s name is Duckel Danny. Although after doing a small search on google, I was able to find out at that he is an 18 year old from Germany.
Honestly, there really needs to be an about page. Readers of the blog are very likely to want to know more about Duckel danny.
Recent Blog Posts
How to Hide your Affiliate Links
How to Hide your Affiliate Links - An excellent post that highlights some of the ways how users can hide affiliate links. Danny explains the methods of meta refresh, php 301, .htaccess 301, JavaScript redirect, and then he adds on his own personal method that he enjoys the most.
Entrecard Me! Plugin for Wordpress - A post that gives reference to a useful wordpress plugin, for bloggers who use entrecard.
SEO Elite Review - A review of the SEO Elite software, a software that helps you to submit your Website into Search Engines and Directories. Although to be honest, the post doesn’t really give a review on the software. An extensive and personal review by Duckeldanny would go a long way.
Useful Free eBooks by Chitika - Just a link to a free ebook. Some comments on Duckeldanny’s opinions on the ebook would be very beneficial to the post.
Make Money with BlgAds - A short post about a blog advertising network. The post needs more though. The post is about “make money with BlgAds”, however it does not really identify how to make money, or how other webmasters have made money with BlgAds.
Final Thoughts Comments on Getting to know the website
In the description meta tag for the blog, you say that you are a teacher, trying to help other bloggers learn how to make money online. However, to be perfectly honest, there is a lack of teaching. Perfect case in point is the ‘Make money with BlgAds’ post. You point to the website for the opportunity, however, you make no mention on how bloggers can make money with Blg Ads.
The ‘Seo Elite Review’ post. When I first clicked to read the post, I thought I would be getting a review. However, there isn’t a review. Just a generic message promoting your own affiliate link. If you want to have better sales rate, and conversation rates. You really need to do a serious personal review of the Seo Elite program.
Theme / Design Critique
Header
The header image is alright, but the biggest current problem that I see, is that it takes approximately 537 pixels in height to get to the content to read. The most common resolution users currently use on the web is 1024×764 pixels. So you have 764 pixels in height, then you have to reduce the pixel height for the browser header and information. So do you see how Users of 1024×764 might not even be able to see any content when they land on your page? Not good.
One note about the archive page. It is very hard to see the history of the posts. When you click the archive link, you can only view 5 at a time. Thats not good. As a reader, I want fast and easy access to be able to read the archive page. What I would recommend, is utilizing a similar archive page to mine.
Pictured below are the settings I am using for the archive plugin, in order to get a clean feel for the page, otherwise the default feels way too spammy.
Sidebar
It is way too busy. Information overload, and the other thing is that the more things you have in yourside bar, the more time the readers needs to wait for the website to finish loading. If the user is on dial-up you can forget about them staying and reading the website. Unless they are very patient on website loading.
An example of something you can eliminate, the Alexa rank tool bar, theres no real point to having it in the sidebar. Most readers reading the blog, don’t really care what your Alexa rank is. If they do care, they probably know how to check it themselves.
Final Comments
Considering that you just started your blog, about 2-3 months ago, it is just my personal opinion, that your blog is way too spammy, way too early. It almost feels like you are putting more emphasis on generative some quick money, over creating quality content that will make readers want to come back, again and again. Focus on creating rich, and original quality content, and the money will come later.
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