Can I Please Have Some Feedback, Comments And Constructive Criticism?
Hi Folks
Can you please offer me me some comments, questions or opinions on my Getting Started page for my WA site here at
http://learn-to-earn-online.com/getting-started
Constructive criticism is most welcome as I'm always keen to improve, so don't feel obliged to say 'Great looking site' or whatever just for the sake of being 'nice'!
Many thanks for your help and I'm happy to return the compliment :-)
Can you please post any comments on the page itself, rather than as a reply to this
post though?
Many thanks :-)
Rich
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Have left a comment for you, you have done a good job with the post, though I read it all not sure if readers will do so you could do with having you images all to the right side I feel like the sentences kind of move around as the formatting varies throughout the page have a wee look at one of Kyle's sites
http://waystoavoidscamsonline.com/
well done you have covered the main points of wealthy affiliate wish you every success with it, also consider going to site rubix and select comments if you have credits you can ask for the community to comment there to
Thanks, Katie - it's still a 'work in progress' so I'll certainly take what you say on board. I based the site on Kyle's as per the Bootcamp lessons. :-)
Cheers
Rich
I agree with Katie. The images you have are small and would fit nicely flushed right and letting the text wrap around them. If you need help with that I can instruct you on how to do it.
well Daniel mine has not been short I am 3 years into all of this lol hope all is going well for you , enjoy your weekend
Hi Rich, I think there is a little too much wording. Your Readers
may not want to read al that, and get lost half way.
I would try to minimize it. I would bullet point your main points.
People ill lose interest if there is too much to read.
Just my opinion. I wish you the best.
Thanks, Syliva. I did wonder if there was too much wording which is why I've interspersed with pictures. I've tried to do it so that there is no complete screen roll without a picture to break up the text. I'll see what I can remove or abbreviate :-)
Cheers
Rich
Hi Rich,
just left a comment on your site but it wouldn't let me post it - don't know if this is meant to happen.
Great content! As I said in the comments on your site, I would 'tweak' the layout and appearance slightly, but I'm a novice at this game, so what do I know! I tried to look at it from a visitors point of view and I do agree with some of the other comments, that is, it could perhaps be a bit shorter - I'm one of those with a short attention span! I personally don't like being reminded about all the reasons why I need to earn money, and for me, too many questions in relation to this is can put me off.
Alarm bells start ringing and it gets my mind running on 'is this another 'get rich quick' scam. Having said this, I think the overall content about W/A is Top Notch! The great thing about this platform is that we are all learning and we all have different ideas and opinions, so take on board the comments and then progress with your own intuition and heart!
Much appreciated, Debbie - thanks :-)
A bit odd that you couldn't post your comment. Maybe there was a 'gremlin' at work in the system when you tried....
I'm a novice too - this is my first ever attempt at building a website - so I took Kyle's advice on the appearance in doing it with black text on a white background. I want to focus on the content first and can make it look a little 'sexier' when I'm a bit more technically adept!
I get where you're coming from regards over-emphasis on reasons for joining and it does seem a bit 'wordy' and long as others have pointed out too.
I've got to try and balance that with finding the reader's 'Hot Button' though. I want the reader to think 'Yeah, that's me' without making it too 'salesy'. It's a difficult balance to find and again, I've based it on Kyle's 'Getting Started' page.
I also hate long winded sales pitches that take ages to get to the point and I rarely get to the end of them before I switch off, so if I can keep the same amount of info and engagement whilst shortening it a little then I'll be happy.
Cheers
Rich :-)
Hi Rich,
I too am following Kyle's getting started advice and I am trying to keep it as simple and straighforward as possible. I'm struggling a bit with the design and layout. You are doing really well - I haven't got a clue how to add things yet i.e. links etc. I'm still learning facebook (only been on it a few months). I was left behind years ago! I will tell you something really uncanny though, the name of my website is very very similar to yours! We'll be competing for keywords and rankings soon - ha ha!
Hi Rich, good start, but it looks a bit jumbled. Some of the text is centered and some of it is not. I would use subheadings to partition the text and make it more orderly. I would use bullet points for the section starting with "Do you crave..." and the section starting with "No I.T...." oh and change "take a deep breathe" to "take a deep breath." Hope this helps. All the best.
Thanks, Peter.
The centred text is meant to be a sort of sub-heading to intersperse the main text and make it easier to read.
I agree with what you say about bullet points and will go in and amend this bits as to your advice.
Thanks for pointing out the 'deep breathe' spelling error whcih I'd missed. And to think, I'm normally a bit of a 'grammar nazi' who checks his spellings more than he checks anything else!
Cheers
Rich :-)
Perhaps make the centered subheadings a bit bigger (like using Heading 2) and maybe capitalize the words to make them stand out more. You decide.
Rich, I really think you did a good job with your new site! It reads well, and the pictures enhance what you are talking about.
I will just suggest to you what was suggested to me: edit out the just another wordpress site off the top of your page.
Best of luck to you, keep pressing forward. Pat
Hi, Pat
Glad you like the site and many thanks for the positive feedback. I did fill in the Title box to get rid of that 'Just another WordPress Site' but I obviously didn't update the changes. Thanks for pointing that out :-)
Cheers
Rich
I went over and took a look. As is already said, I find that it flows well, from questions you pose to the readers to the problem(s) that face people, to their solution. I would do these...
1. You may want to make the WA advert clickable. However, I know you may have it the way it is for specific reasons that I might myself.
2. Consider the following excerpt:
~~~
“Despite being a very diverse bunch, they all have one thing in common...
They weren’t happy with their situation in life and so they decided to do something about it rather than simply contemplate their navels, wishing that life wasn’t so complicated and unfair.”
~~~
Why not include yourself here? "we all have one thing in common" and "We weren't happy with our...so we decided...contemplate our navels..." The way it is now almost implies separation. Change 3rd pers. pl to 1st pers pl. down through the rest of the page where this applies.
3. You have two great places on the page (the blocks of eight questions and five critical factors) to place bullet points. It will pull these closer together, make for better organization of them and more aesthetically-pleasing.
4. On the part about the free/Premium memberships, please consider this. It's pretty interesting and lots of discussion if you've not yet seen it... Please Don't Say WA's Free, It's Not I hope my suggestions are worthy of consideration and that you can use any of them :)
Great suggestions about changing 'they' to 'we' Daniel and about the bullet points. I'll definitely do that and take on board some of comments Marcus1978 makes in his post too. Thanks for such constructive and helpful feedback. :-)
Cheers
Rich
You are gratefully welcome. Things are on the down for me right now and this has been positive for me and helps offset what's in front of me right now.
Sorry to hear that, Daniel. I hope things come good for you soon, and I'm sure they will. What goes around comes around and what you do for others will always be re-paid even in unexpected and indirect ways.
Cheers
Rich :-)
Thanks Rich. I appreciate that. Hey, I just left a comment (not a reply) on your website. It's geared to support your article. I hope you like it :)
Hello, Rich
I think you're on the right track. The content flows. The pictures you chose are interesting. The one item I found that you might want to adjust is the membership options. It seems too small. For me being an older person my eyesight isn't great. So I might make it a little larger.
Well done!
Kevin
Thanks for the great feedback, Kevin. I did play around with adjusting the membership options screenshot but when I expanded it, it just blurred. I'll have another tinker and if I can't do anything with it I'll remove it and just explain the different options in the text :-)
Cheers
Rich
I'm fairly new and I think it looks great. It's good to be in a position to be able to have other people's opinions; if you like it and are comfortable with the outcome, run it! Like
Kyle says don't wait to have perfect content! You can always edit again, and again. Plus, you get a feeling your a pretty nice guy through your dialogue! Way to go!
Thanks, Becky
You're right about the content. I've done 28 edits on that page so far and will be doing a few more when I follow up on the excellent feedback I've had so far! :-)
Cheers
Rich
RichB your site is looking good, but I want to show you the site I found that linked me to sign up with WA. My search in Google was to check on another course I was considering. In this site WA is under Novices. Take a look.
https://stoppingscams.com/
Thanks Richy - that's a brilliant looking site, but I'm nowhere near technically advanced enough to put something like that together just yet. In time......
Cheers
Rich :-)
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Text and readability are good. font and text color are perfect, The font size is good, do you use 14 for font size/ this would be perfect people love good readable font size.
The hyperlinks to your WA sign up site are 4x placed throughout your article, this is just the limit. Google doesn't like too many of them in a single article. Just a reminder :)
But, make sure when a visitor clicks on one of these links that they open in a new window. I tested all 4 of them and they will lead me back from your website.
Just hover over them and click edit and put the check mark on "open in a new window" save and you are ok.
Content is perfect, good work, keep it up :)
Sylvia
Thanks for the advice on the links, Sylvia. I'll do what you suggest :-)
Rich
Glad I could help :)