New sports related niche site. Been online a very short time.

My goal is simple - monetize.

Please share your opinions.

Rookiestars.com Free Online Sports Card Price Guide

Thanks,
Ken

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I didn't like the background at all.
Overall it looks okay, but nothing more.

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

Ken

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Looks like a "gamer" site to me.
I don't collect baseball cards, but I suspect that the average age of those men who do is over 40.

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You should format your links so that they change in some way when moused over.

Baseball is misspelled in the link that's about halfway down your home page.

You have no links back to your home page from the other pages.

Is your site solely a directory to sites that sell the items or do you sell items? It's not clear to me from looking at your home page.

Tried one link to another site and it opens in the same window and wouldn't let me go back to your site using the "back" option in browser. Perhaps it would be better to have links to other sites open in new windows. Do you really want people to leave your site?

I'm not crazy for black backgrounds with light colored text. Harder on the eyes to read, especially if you are over 40. I agree that if your target market is older adults, then the design will not especially appeal to them.

The upper ads are always on the left while they should be centered for consistency with everything else.

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I spent about 5 minutes on your site. Your home page says you are a reference site for current values, not a seller. You might want to give a little information about how these values are arrived at (asking prices on other sites; prices at brick & mortar stores; auctions) -- basically, why should someone consider you an authority? The Upper Deck link went to an under construction page. The 1980s football rookies page was asking for suggestions. Basically, your site is not ready for the role it apparently aspires to have.

Thanks for the straight forward opinions. You are correct that it is not where it should be. It is basically a work in progress.

Thank you all for your constructive criticism. It is much appreciated and I do value your opinions.

Ken

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Sorry man, this is the typical case of great content packaged wrong. I'd highly suggest a template to start from. Depending on your skill level, software.

Hate to see you spend so much time on a site using really old school setups and there really is no theme "skin" looks to the site.

I think if you packaged it right you would be way ahead of the game.

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Hi, this site is built with net objects fusion, which is shit. You are still using tables for layout purposes, nowadays we use CSS and XHTML. This makes it easier for the search engine bots to crawl your site and to index its content. Otherwise you will need thousands of backlinks to have the same effect. I'm missing the meta tag "description" which is very imortant for search enginge results as well. Actually this site should be rebuilt from scratch with CSS, if you haven't any idea of it you can use WordPress.

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Why do you implement Basketball Rookies menu tab twice?

Very retro. The circa 1999 buttons are groovy.

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The trick to making money with content on a website is not looking like that's all you want. You need to package the content on the site to provide information to the visitor, details, photos and then if something is related in a google adsense ad then possibly click.

You don't want to shove everything into a visitors face when they show up

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I made a few changes. Adds are still pretty much in your face.

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