Need An "Advisor", Will Pay, Please Step Inside

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Sands
    Confirmed User
    • Feb 2007
    • 3134

    #1

    Need An "Advisor", Will Pay, Please Step Inside

    Thank you for reading this post. Let me clarify what I mean by "advisor". I'm looking for an experienced adult webmaster to look over my website and to basically point out/outline/report what my site's flaws are. To put it simply: I need someone to look it over and tell me why I'm not making any conversions and what I can to do reverse this trend.

    To be frank, I do not operate on the premise that making conversions on a site is a matter of "the law of averages", meaning that if you push enough traffic into it, you'll eventually start to attract surfers who will want to click on ads/subscribe to your sponsors. I feel, and I understand if you disagree with me, that even if the traffic is sparse or plentiful, the selling power is found predominantly in the site. Therefore, despite the fact that my site is relatively new, I believe I can be and should be making sales.

    I'd like to make it painfully clear that I'm not asking for someone to do the work for me outside of assisting me in analyzing and creating a great strategy for my site. I will implement, myself, whatever needs to be done. I simply need someone who has much experience under their belt, not to mention a great track record of making sales, to push me in the right direction. The "teach a man to fish" proverb comes to mind.

    As far as payment is concerned, I cannot dish out large sums of money because, well, I'm not making any but I'm not against investing money into this the same way I would a hosting company, a site designer, or any other similar cost of creating/running a website. I am willing to negotiate an amenable sum for the right candidate.

    I'm guessing that if you've read this far, you're interested in the job, so I will now list some candidate-qualities I'm seeking.

    1) Experience running blogs. This is a must since my site is a blog and because I plan to start other blogs. I would also like to see what blogs you're currently administering.

    2) Success with sales. This probably goes without saying, but it never hurts to repeat yourself on important issues. I will require some sort of proof of your marketing skills and salesmanship. Something like yearly sales stats for your best/worst sponsors, or an equivalent. I'm not sure what evidence you can provide, or what evidence you're willing to provide, but I'd really appreciate if I could see something that would prove to me that you have demonstrable skill.

    3) Patience with a noob. I will make no bones about it: I'm a noob and I will probably hound you with what seems like an endless amount of questions. Please take it in stride.

    If you're interested, please contact me through ICQ (418194907). I hope that I don't come across as a lazy individual because I have put a lot of time and energy into the ventures that I have going right now. At this point, however, I'm spinning my wheels and I require some intensive outside guidance. I thank you for reading this, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
  • Fat Panda
    Porn is Dead. Move along.
    • Aug 2006
    • 13296

    #2
    welcome to gfy...what is the url to your site?

    Comment

    • Sands
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2007
      • 3134

      #3
      Hiya SAC. The address is shootsandsplatters.com (can't post a full link just yet).

      Comment

      • Linkster
        Confirmed User
        • Feb 2003
        • 3216

        #4
        The first thing you need to do is fix your site so that Google sees it correctly - they have put every page in your site off to the supplemental results - and are evidently having real trouble with the setup as they return many results but are erring in their reporting:
        http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...dsplatters.com
        note the number of results at the top (4) yet they show many more than that - which indicates some sort of indexing error
        That and the first result is: Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/s/a/n/sands82/html/index.php

        Second - just a recommendation - and it may go against your concept of adult sites - but you need to get rid of the warning page - a blog should open up to the main page as the first page or it loses all effectivenese

        Third - get rid of all those little chicklet button advertisements and let text links and your writing promote the sites - you look like a shopping mall billboard which will cause the surfers to turn the other way
        Porn Links Crak for your bank account - Get Addicted
        FREE LIVE CAM SHOWS

        Comment

        • Sands
          Confirmed User
          • Feb 2007
          • 3134

          #5
          Hi Linkster, thank you very much for the advice.

          Many of the pages that Google is currently indexing is from the domain's old owner. I bought it off a friend who had used it as a news/ranting blog site before I turned it into an adult site. Some of those results, especially that first one, were indexed at that time. I'm not sure if there's a way I can have Google "un-index" them? I'm under the assumption that once it's indexed, it's in there for good. I recently applied an SE Management plugin so that all of the /tag and /feed and /comments and /whatever else would have "no-index" tags. Unfortunately, I didn't implement that from the start, so I believe that many of the results are from those indexed pages.

          As per your second recommendation, I've been struggling with that decision. I think that it would be better to err on the side of caution for now. I've noticed, through Google Analytics stats, that there are very few visitors who are deterred by the warning page. However, if it becomes a problem, I will seek other alternatives.

          As per your third recommendation, you are absolutely correct. I think implementing all those small buttons was a bad decision. Replacing them with text links (as I had them before) would certainly look more attractive, and would decrease loading time.

          Thank you again, Linkster. I really do appreciate your advice.

          Comment

          • Darkhorse
            Horsing Around
            • Sep 2002
            • 5879

            #6
            http://www.shootsandsplatters.com link for you, will take a look at the site bit later gotta run atm.

            Comment

            • Sands
              Confirmed User
              • Feb 2007
              • 3134

              #7
              Thank you kindly, Darkhorse.

              Comment

              • Sands
                Confirmed User
                • Feb 2007
                • 3134

                #8
                Bump.

                I'm still looking for a consultant to help me out.

                A big thank you once again to Linkster for his advice, and to Darkhorse for the link.

                Comment

                • dRI-X
                  Confirmed User
                  • Feb 2006
                  • 372

                  #9
                  bumperoo


                  ICQ:327383017

                  Comment

                  • Darkhorse
                    Horsing Around
                    • Sep 2002
                    • 5879

                    #10
                    Just going to give you a few thoughts on what I think you need to do.

                    Lose the enter page.

                    Color scheme needs totally re-doing, the pink makes it very hard to read the text on the sites also the graphics are very hard to read.

                    Consider linking your blog images to the larger version, and your keywords (like your already doing) to the paysite.

                    Thats about it for now good luck.

                    Comment

                    • crapola
                      Confirmed User
                      • Nov 2006
                      • 233

                      #11
                      good luck! I guess that you can finish what people just said, and look how google eats it... then just come back for more feedback
                      liquidizing all my adult biz

                      Comment

                      Working...