almstatuesandmore.com please review

larrys2006 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-01-2006, 05:25 PM

Could you look at the site and tell me if this is a better colors for the site. almstatuesandmore.com/1almtest.htm
also I have had this site for 7 years and I get 1 or 2 sales a year and I tryed pay per click google add s and other things but nothing works. I think I am going to shut down this june if I can not make this site at least pay for its self what have I done wrong?

ccera · #2 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 12:15 AM

I remember reviewing this site a couple of months ago. In fact, I noticed you have tried several times to get help. I'm sorry you are not having more success.
I see that you have taken a lot of the suggestions we made in January. Particularly, I like that you have vastly simplified your shipping charges. I see that you have worked on adding further info to your descriptions, as well. I think that the more details you can give for each item, the better your chances of conversion. There is also the possibility that more detailed descriptions will help you get picked up for further search terms as well.
Now for the biggest problem - I got a LOT of 500 errors when clicking on your thumbnails. Some detail pages would come up one time but give an error the next. When I tried to use the keyword search at the top of the page, I couldn't get anything but an error statement.
Unfortunately, I do not know enough to give you an idea how to fix it, but hopefully someone reading this will. You can bet visitors won't stick around past the second error statement! Maybe if you can get this fixed, your sales will improve.
Good luck,
CiCi

webgurl · #3 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 01:11 AM

You are not following any colour principals and the reason why you are not happy with your site.

Pink with yellow - ooohhh! I notice you have green on your main site and again you are having problems with colour choice of your headings.

When someone has problems with colour, I always recommend going monochromatic - shades of one colour, then you cannot go wrong.

As you have lovely statues, increase their size slightly and let them be your colour and even consider something such as:

#D9D4C3
#807D73
#FFFAE6
#BFBBAC

First impressions:
1.Logos to left over dominate. Verisign logo almost as large as your stock photos.
2. I do not like the shadow thing around the images which really detracts from the statues etc

Good luck and post again when you have made your changes.

Easywebdev · #4 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 01:44 AM

You really need to do a lot of work "under the hood" there is far too much javascript, redundant code, and deprecated code.

Your site actually crashes firefox in linux.

When I turn of javascript then up pops the spam links at the top of the page, if your site is reported to google for this then you will find yourself dropped from the index and having to clean up the site and file a reinclusion request. Might as well fix it now.

This sort of thing

Code:

<noscript> 

<h1><span class="style4">Animal Statues for home Decorations</span></h1> 

</noscript>

is asking to be blacklisted. Do not show one thing to your users and another to the search engines. All over your site you are breaking almost every google recommendation for webmasters.

What is the point of this?

Code:

<noscript> 



</p> 

</noscript> 

<noscript> </noscript>

they do nothing.

Code:

<p align="center"></p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p>

a proper mess.

You have a generally nice site and products. Drop the javascript and seo spam (sack your seo firm or if you are doing it yourself then read up on googles recommendations for webmasters) move to a decent shopping cart and you should see sales increase. A lot of work to be done.

larrys2006 · #5 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 08:30 PM

I could not get these errors were you using a mac?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ccera

I got a LOT of 500 errors when clicking on your thumbnails. Some detail pages would come up one time but give an error the next. When I tried to use the keyword search at the top of the page, I couldn't get anything but an error statement.
Unfortunately, I do not know enough to give you an idea how to fix it, but hopefully someone reading this will. You can bet visitors won't stick around past the second error statement! Maybe if you can get this fixed, your sales will improve.
Good luck,
CiCi

larrys2006 · #6 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 08:33 PM

the bink was just to see what it would look like but the menu collors is what I wanted to realy know about the color.

Quote:

Originally Posted by webgurl

You are not following any colour principals and the reason why you are not happy with your site.

Pink with yellow - ooohhh! I notice you have green on your main site and again you are having problems with colour choice of your headings.

When someone has problems with colour, I always recommend going monochromatic - shades of one colour, then you cannot go wrong.

As you have lovely statues, increase their size slightly and let them be your colour and even consider something such as:

#D9D4C3
#807D73
#FFFAE6
#BFBBAC

First impressions:
1.Logos to left over dominate. Verisign logo almost as large as your stock photos.
2. I do not like the shadow thing around the images which really detracts from the statues etc

Good luck and post again when you have made your changes.

larrys2006 · #7 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 08:36 PM

as far as Code:

<noscript>

</p>

</noscript>

<noscript> </noscript>
when I removed it the page did not display, I will try it again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Easywebdev

You really need to do a lot of work "under the hood" there is far too much javascript, redundant code, and deprecated code.

Your site actually crashes firefox in linux.

When I turn of javascript then up pops the spam links at the top of the page, if your site is reported to google for this then you will find yourself dropped from the index and having to clean up the site and file a reinclusion request. Might as well fix it now.

This sort of thing

Code:

<noscript> 

<h1><span class="style4">Animal Statues for home Decorations</span></h1> 

</noscript>

is asking to be blacklisted. Do not show one thing to your users and another to the search engines. All over your site you are breaking almost every google recommendation for webmasters.

What is the point of this?

Code:

<noscript> 



</p> 

</noscript> 

<noscript> </noscript>

they do nothing.

Code:

<p align="center"></p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p> 

                  

</p>

a proper mess.

You have a generally nice site and products. Drop the javascript and seo spam (sack your seo firm or if you are doing it yourself then read up on googles recommendations for webmasters) move to a decent shopping cart and you should see sales increase. A lot of work to be done.

larrys2006 · #8 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by larrys2006

the pink was just to see what it would look like but the menu collors is what I wanted to realy know about the color.

.Logos to left over dominate. what size should it be?

Verisign logo almost as large as your stock photos.
That is not a gif I do not know how to change it.

Good luck and post again when you have made your changes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by webgurl

You are not following any colour principals and the reason why you are not happy with your site.

Pink with yellow - ooohhh! I notice you have green on your main site and again you are having problems with colour choice of your headings.

When someone has problems with colour, I always recommend going monochromatic - shades of one colour, then you cannot go wrong.

As you have lovely statues, increase their size slightly and let them be your colour and even consider something such as:

#D9D4C3
#807D73
#FFFAE6
#BFBBAC

First impressions:
1.Logos to left over dominate. Verisign logo almost as large as your stock photos.
2. I do not like the shadow thing around the images which really detracts from the statues etc

Good luck and post again when you have made your changes.

ccera · #9 (**permalink**) 04-06-2006, 12:08 AM

Larry,
No Mac. I am using IE6.0 & Windows XP. Didn't get any 500 errors today, but the keyword search still doesn't work for me.
BTW, I like the current menu color better than the test page color.
CiCi