Comments on: Ask Kirsty – Please Review My First Affiliate Site!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:01:51 +0000

Hi, the main benefit is that we’ve discovered that by using static pages we can populate the site with our content about 5 or 6 times more quickly than when we use posts. Bit of a downside is that the search engines don’t seem to yum up the content quite as fast, but that may be down to niche rather than anything else. Must investiate that actually!

By: Webdesign

Webdesign — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:00:14 +0000

Hi Kirsty. I was looking at you example landing page on http://www.personalisedgiftsuk.com/ Obviosly that site is a wordpress site, I was just wondering what the benefit of using wordpress in that examples are? It seem most of the pages are static, and the newsfeed doesnt show up on the site anywhere as far as i can tell.

Just curious, Ive never used wordpress like that before.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:09:36 +0000

Ooh, well you’d have to ask Duncan about that! He’s using a bit of PHP fun to assign an image from within the post to be displayed at category level. He’s still trying to work out how he can display them in a nice grid format but hasn’t quite cracked that one yet!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:11:29 +0000

Hi Kirsty
Great blog as always. I have a quick question re your site that you used as an example. Do you set the pages up ie the celtic page you use as an example as page or a post?

The reason I ask is that I would like create a page/post like the following http://www.personalisedgiftsuk.com/personalised-football-books/ which lists all the pages/posts for a particular category. But beiing a non technical newbie I have no idea how its done! How do you do this!!?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:53:00 +0000

Hi Nicola, great info there from Kirsty in the initial post and if I can just add something else. I logged onto the site today after spotting this post in a reader and I don’t know whether it was my monitor or not but I actually found the colours above the fold (above the content units) where you have your paragraph of text a little glary (bright, fuzzy, not easy to read). I know thats not essentially the primary purpose of your site but just thought it may be worth mentioning because some people have very short attention spans and will click off sites with the slightest hint of fuzzy pages Otherwise, you’ve followed some of the suggestions and I think you’ll do pretty well in time, it’s a great little niche youve got there.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:46:05 +0000

Hi all,
Thank you for your further advice it is all useful. I have been working a lot on my site with the advice Kirsty has given me (still working my way down that long list though) I have had another sale which is great and keeps me motivated, and hopefully I’m going to start working on my new site http://www.cool-gifts.co.uk very soon.
Thanks again
Nic

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:47:55 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Thanks for the advice, I haven’t analysed those landing pages, as of yet, but will defo do it over the w/e.

I don’t run ppc, every click comes from organic listings or social media (mostly twitter), perhaps I’ll start a ppc budget and see how we go from there, be silly not to.

Once again thanks,

Paul (shopNbag)

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:06:44 +0000

That’s a cracker!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:02:30 +0000

Hey Paul, that’s a pretty good looking blog site. Nice calls to action. I suppose the question that needs to be asked about the clicks is how relevant were they to the products on the pages they landed on? That is probably an important factor to consider. Also, have a think about how you are targeting your post SEO and keywords.

Well done on 5 sales in the first month though, that is good going for a new site so give yourself a pat on the back and just keep up the pressure with getting new content out there.

Good luck!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:58:40 +0000

LOL, it happens to the best of us