Thread: Critique my web site

Originally Posted by DrivingForce

you mean the first 2 small introductory paragraphs? I disagree, on this type of website, don't forget it's primarily aimed at women and they love that sort of little seemingly insignificant banter (to us men) and story between mothers. You're thinking too much like a man DD you need to get in touch with your feminine side a bit more

Actually research has shown that this is not the case. DD is giving you the straight poop. People searching on the internet tend to want as much information on the product they are searching for in as few words as possible. Men and women show very little difference in preferences. I spend alot of time readin marketing research papers and books on this subject.

To answer your question on positioning your page content in the center of the page, I looked at the code. Almost every element of the page is positioned absolutely. This means moveing each element individually. You could probably wrap the page in a parent div and define it's position as 'relative' give it a fixed width and define left and right margins as auto. Due to the way the page is laid out, this may not work and fixing the code in this page would be a nightmare. I certaily wouldn't want to, be mush easier to rewrite the thing.

On the 'code;' this is important as excessive markup dilutes keyword density and your page is rife with inline style, javascript, uneeded comments and tons of redundant markup. This is the problem with many code generators; online generators in particular.

Optimizing a page is all about getting the proper keyword density with certain keywords emphasized with tags that flag them as important details. having those block images linked to themselves is counter productive.

The site is not a bad first effort. and I could spend hours going over the site pointing out where teh code is unnecessary & counter-productive SEO-wise. But unless you are going to learn HTML & CSS it really isn't goig to help. if you want to get above the fold on the first page of Google & Yahoo where you will be assured of getting visits from the majority of people searching for your product type, you might consider hiring someone to build you an optimized page.


The idea behid a website like this is present your product to as many people onteh planet as possible and generate sales. These websites must be planned with SEO in the higest priority. Without this planning how are you going to get them in the door to read your sales pitch? I've got the figures for search results position and clicks from the results page, after the top four; things begin to drop dramtically, and for second page results for products click through it practically nil third page?

Your page is OK for a personal vanity site, but to sell a product it needs a lot of work. I would look at getting it off yahoo ASAP. I would also recommend a professional web coder even a designer. At the very least start fresh with a code generator like dreamveaver. The excessive amount of inline style, javascript and all that markup are not helpig you. You may also give thought to going after a more common search term such as "maternity clothing" or "maternity clothes" while still focusing on your "maternitiy panties."

Searchign in Google I cannot find your site on teh first three pages using any of the above terms.
Be aware that what you link to on the page gives some hint to SEs what the page is about as much as the unlinked content.
Lose the Google search, why send them elsewhere from your page?
Layout is kind of helter-skelter, Makes reading the content difficult.
And lose that irritating roaming baby pic willya? Adds a huge amount of unnecessary code and does nothgn to enhance the page.
Try to go with a simpler layout, maybe even break up the content into a couple of pages getting some onsite links with nice keywords in them.

You've got a good niche market and you should be able to hit the first page with a little effort for your terms. Your current page is counter-productive.