In six months time, when you have defined your audience [shouldn't take 6 months by the way] you will also be making improvements to your website, either on the SEO front or content front or both.

A little bit every day can add up to quite a lot over that period of time

Great advice.

And you are so… right, the name sucks.

But Eamon, maybe keep the site name:- Red letter days, bandits at 6 o’clock high! They’ll never take us alive. Arrrr……….

Well, I must say I didn’t think I would get so many responses. lol.

On the basis of what Kirsty and you guys have said, which I do agree with, I have decided to almost call this site a practice run and go back to the drawing board. I have agreed about the name for sometime now, but… originally there was a concept behind it, method in my madness. It kind of fell flat on its face though. lol. You’ll laugh when I tell you BodyShop actually rejected my application to list their products as – while they liked the site – they couldn’t be seen to be associated with a website with a name like that!!! That should have been a wake up call, eh? lol

So my plan is to spend the next 6 months actually researching my target audience. I did throw myself into it full throttle at the beginning, not really thinking about that side of things. The most important thing is that I have the functionality of the site sorted, so going back to basics and taking my time with it should hopefully get results when I launch my new website.

What I am really happy with, and what I think is important, is that I felt like I had plateaued in a way and didn’t know what else to do. This is something I think anyone starting an affiliate site can feel like at times. And Kirsty – and you all – have given some sound advice and “support” – which is seriously lacking on internet, so for anyone else feeling in a similar situation, there is hope for you. Take a step back and re-evaluate. It all comes together in the end! Promise!

Thanks for all your kind words and honest critique.

Cheers!
Eamo )

there is no personal and direct communication to your customers so your site is impersonal and to be frank, id rather use one more professional looking because a professional looking site makes me feel like im going to get a great service and therefor I want to buy from that site

People want to find a user friendly site BEFORE they notice the advertising. And you advertising wont get noticed if theyre too busy trying to figure out how to navigate your site.

A lot of jumbled info hits you at once on the site also, its not concise and needs organising.

I hope that helps, I have no qualifications, but I have a talented eye for good design and useability!