Free Site Review #9
Review of bigdogbiker.com
Domain Name – Good name, I think you did the right thing in choosing something viral over a keyword stuffed domain. Not much else to say, it works and sounds good. I think people will remember it fine.
Design – Too much red man, it sort of works but too much of anything will hurt your eyes eventually. I think you need a contrast of some sort, I bet if you get some white and other colors on some of the backgrounds to make it more aesthetically pleasing that you’ll get a higher sign up rate from your traffic. Well… I wont ‘bet’ just sort of metaphorically bet as in not put any money on stake. But it’s almost like you love red and are forcing it on your visitors, your forum needs a color theme to define it’s atmosphere definitely but it’s just too much red man.
Ads – Top unit = good, bottom unit = opposite. There is almost no point in the bottom unit man, surely your CTR for that is near non-existent? it’s a waste of a unit. At most the average person will scroll down to the ”previous” and ”next” buttons to also glance how many pages, alot of people wont even see that ad never mind have a chance to contemplate clicking it. The top ad though I think is good, nice position but I think you should try a targeted affiliate there, rotate a few. Also try A/B testing on that with AdSense, there is an official way you can do that which I explain here.
Conclusion – Overall I think it’s a pretty good… site / sort of just forum. Not much else I can say, good domain name, half decent design and OK ad placement (color scheme could maybe use some tweaking). Also maybe an ad after every first post.
