Purchased Joel's ebook about 6 weeks ago and....

[ahurley]

am wondering if anyone can provide some feedback on my site. I feel like I've implemented most of his suggestions, but may have overlooked something along the way. I had NO experience with adsense prior to purchasing his book so I have nothing to compare my income to. I would appreciate any and all criticism. Thank you in advance.

http://www.agreatgiftidea.com


Thanks again!
Audrey Hurley

[RAD]

I think I see one problem. You hav eso many ads by Google it is hard to figure out where to go to find your product.

Try adding a "Learn more about our products", "Click here for products", somethign so that people can find them.

Add a little text explaining your products. Take off some of the adsense stuff. It's overwhelming.

Add some content. Write some articles or get product testimonials from clients.

RAD

[ahurley]

Thank you for your response and opinion. I'll take it all into consideration.

Does anyone else feel that my use of adsense is overwhelming?

Please provide some input. What other changes can I make?


Thank you!
Audrey

[dragonsage]

Audrey,
To me, it's not that your use of Adsense is overwhelming, it is that your use of your regular links is underwhelming.

Try matching font sizes of your links with those of the Adsense. The difference is very obvious and so the user has to focus on your links. It doesn't look like you can do the trick of merging the look and feel of the Adsense ads into your links. I would change the font size and then experiment with different colors on the title line of the adsense ad.

Think of it as focussing at different distances. When you focus for one size print, you don't see the other sizes. But, you would see both matching and a contrasting ads.

If you are getting activity on your links, that's good. If you are not getting activity on the links or the adsense, but are having visitors to the home page, you would need to uncomplicate the page. In that case, I'd cut back on adsense on the homepage.

[ahurley]

Terry,

Thank you for the reply. From what you can see on the home page, it is just the right hand set of ads that is out of proportion font-wise (that's how it looks in my browser)? I wouldn't be opposed to removing those since they don't generate a ton of hits anyway. What about some of the other pages? I don't mind changing the font size of my links -- the only reason I made them so small was so they'd fit on one line -- but I might just need to expand my table sizes to enlarge the font.

I really appreciate your time and efforts in helping me!

Thank you again!
Audrey
http://www.agreatgiftidea.com

[ezymoneyathome]

Hi

Im new to The Adsense Thing!! But I see that your page is regulated to the left. Im sure if you center it on the page it will be easier for others to read. As for smaller screen sizes we dont all have 19 inch screens. I found this a problem with one of my sites. If people have to use the side to side scroll they soon get frustrated and leave the site.

Kevin