[mdlug] OT: Web site critique

[Terry Freeman]

So your talking a drop down sort of thing on the left that would say
something like "What games would you like to play' then it would drop down
to moves, tv etc? Or am I completely missing what your saying?

Thanks

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com> wrote:
> > Terry Freeman wrote:
> >> I got bored awhile back and started building a web site for
> entertainment,
> >> the wife likes it because I don't bug her as much. I opened it up not to
> >> long ago and wanted to know if anyone here could give me there feed
> back.
> >> I'm just now starting to work on the SEO side to see if I can get it
> >> listed. Haven't done much with the whole SEO thing so pointers are
> >> welcome.
> >>
> >> http://drinktothecredits.com/
> >
> > Interesting site.  At first look I wasn't sure what I
> > needed to do.  It took a minute to figure out that I
> > needed to click a letter to get a list of movie titles.
> >
> > My suggestion would be to make this more prominent
> > somehow.  Perhaps a list of popular, recent or random
> > titles, followed by a search field, followed by the
> > alphabet.  And this in a distinct section to separate
> > it from everything else.
> >
> > SEO?  My advice would be to register it at the various
> > search engines and then blog about it at appropriate
> > websites.
>
> The best thing you can do with SEO is appropriately-named pages, good
> page structure, good metadata and good content. Then get people on
> social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus to
> talk about it. (I.e. I just tagged a few of my friends and pointed
> them to it on Facebook)
>
> Perhaps mention it in a blog you maintain. Perhaps put twenty dollars
> or so into a Google text ads or sponsored search campaign.
>
> The biggest things: Do *not* fall for anyone who will sell you SEO
> services, and do not try to game the system. The more you try to game
> the system, the more services like Google and Bing will adjust their
> algorithms to bury sites using your technique. The more people simply
> start talking about you, visiting your site and using it, the better
> your rankings will be.
>
> Oh, and keep the site up and operating for a long time. The longer the
> site appears up and vibrant, the more weight places like Google give
> it in their rankings.
>
> Probably the best way forward is to keep the site up, develop it, add
> content, add a way for users to compete with adding, improving and
> rating content. This is called "gamification." The more people's
> participation improves your content quantity and quality, the better
> off you are. The more people *enjoy* participating, the more content
> and review they contribute.
>
> In short, community first, content second, explicit marketing last.
> Community can be built from knowing people who'd enjoy the thing.
>
> Good luck!
>
> (Oh, and yeah, my wife didn't realize how to get at the movie lists,
> either. Perhaps an expandable navigation list/tree on the left would
> be best.)
>
> --
> :wq
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