MY LONELY SITE gets little or no traffic at all. it's a perk of a hotline server i have run for 3 years. it gets plenty of hits, but no one seems to take it seriously or find it's too hard to use...

i cannot even express the amount of work i did that went into getting this place to work just right, and hope that it will catch on "some day".

any ideas or hints? should i just trash it, and hang out here instead?!

thanks for any help,
Billy

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I think that the site is very well designed and user friendly. The artist is a very talented illustrator, I feel that the subjects of the pictures (although very pleasant) are quite specialised. You could probably be very sucessful selling prints to local gift stores (were people had visited the bridges and wanted to take something home to remind them of New England). I think that when aiming your site worldwide you may have more sucess if you offered a wider range of subjects (like the church in notecards and the man of the moutains).

As for you scrapping the site I feel that would be a waste, I just think you need to aim for a wider audience. If you are the web site designer I think it is a well designed site. If you are the artist you are very talented - try your hand at some more general landscapes.

Hope this helps

Chris

My sites not nearly as profesional but have a look anyway.

http://auralperception.users.btopenworld.com

I loved your site. Very professional.
The artwork is beautiful.
Suggestions:
Payment options?
Privacy policy?
Keep the site for sure,and hang out here with us too!
Lynn

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i guess it was a bit tricky of me to do, but i will tell you how i wound up here, and in this odd predicament...

first off, i wound up coming here by clicking a link i got in an email, i thought it was part of a completion process for submitting my site "scenesonestore.com"... the site is SLOWLY coming to life, only on for a few months...still not much traffic i guess due to the specialized market (as mentioned by someone before...) HOWEVER, the site that has caused me the greatest of concern , and the one i was hoping people would check, was my personal site Billy's Personal Site

thanks for the replies for the other site, and i am so glad to have found this place...the people here are so friendly! not like other sites where it's all just a bunch of "know-it-alls" butting heads!

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You've got a really nice site. Good work!

A couple of suggestions....break up the text on the index page. A good rule of thumb is to only have the pages be 1 1/2 pages long. People are lazy, they don't want to scroll for long. (I'm one of them, I admit it.) I did however scroll through the entire index page. I love finding information on a site, informationless sites are one of my pet peeves, and you have a lot of information that's a plus. Without reading everything you have on the index page I can't suggest making it more than one page, but you have the advantage of knowing the information. Think about the idea of turning it into two pages or maybe shortening the information in some way. If nothing else add some breaks between paragraphs.

I really think you have a great base and a good idea.

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Thank you for your reply!!

i was thinking it is a bit laborsome to scroll through the page, so i will fix that as soon as possible...

B

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i have re-edited my site, thank you all for your input!

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Hello again, all!
Originally, I had come here getting tips for marketing my Dad's website for his covered bridge drawings, but wound up NEEDING help for something completely different...MY SITE! So I did a few adjustments to my profile and am replying to this message in hopes of it going through the mill again, and maybe find someone who will help me stop agonizing over the prospect of having a 'no good' site. I worked very hard on it, and have an absolute ball there...but it's kinda weird...I am the only one who goes there! Let me simplify this for myself, and post a bit of an email I sent Brittany, the Illustrious...who was patient enough to reply brilliantly!
What I need to know, from you all is this: Is marketing to my Hotline (file sharing software, for those who don't know) server members the wrong thing to do? And where would I go to try again? My site might seem a bit of a rip off of WebProWorld, but really, I just found this place, and have been at my site for three years...of course, it hasn't always looked the way it does now. ANY tips will be greatly appreciated, I hate begging people to use the site. Some have said, "It's too much" and "Can't you make it so it's dummie-friendly?"

Thanks, and hope to hear from you all soon!
Billy

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