[adrenalinfeed]

Hi there!

Running this website, adrenalinfeed, which we started about a half year ago. So far we´re at 1500-3000 visitors per day, and as good as no money spent on advertisements. All time high, so far is at 25K a day, because of one awesome snowmobile video.

But, taking one step back. What´s missing on the site, and what could be done better? The reason for the low text ratio, is because we target traffic from the whole world, and don´t want to take focus away from the main content, which is awesome extreme sports videos.

Thanks in advance for any ideas on improvement, or other tips on what we could do better!

This post has been edited by adrenalinfeed: 29 June 2011 - 10:21 AM

[prmguy]

Well you can PM me and I can advice you to earn money as well as conver hits into valueable ROI.


cheers

[enni]

For improving your site you have to design your site well, you have to put the link of your site in other sites with doing SEO techniques and social sites are also going to helpful in improving your site.

[Monie]

What about the Search function? By category, by month, year, etc...

[Webrevolve.int]

prmguy, on 01 July 2011 - 08:06 AM, said:

Well you can PM me and I can advice you to earn money as well as conver hits into valueable ROI.


cheers

How about adding a spell checking function...Oh...wait, these already exist you say?

[Gibson]

Monie, on 10 August 2011 - 07:47 AM, said:

What about the Search function? By category, by month, year, etc...

This. Also, how about a description and explanation of the videos e.g. "Bruce Forsyth is performing a Superman in this video and is riding a 1cc 2 stroke Diesel 1949 Norton Motorcycle Sidecar combination". Then if you had this description, it would expand your search function and they could bounce off each other.

[Gibson]

Also - any chance of getting rid of that annoying google ad on the left?

[adrenalinfeed]

So, I´ve been doing some quite drastic redesign. What do you think?

[zed]

just looking quickly and the logo looks a little lost.
Is it meant to have a hover to show information? I don't see the point/benefit of that. I only rolled over it by accident.

Ad doesn't show in IE9. Not a bad thing.

[Ilse888]

All you need is excellent content!

[palmgeo]

Hello I think you should improve your website design and put unique and interesting content. It really helps you a lot and get quality backlinks.

[adrenalinfeed]

palmgeo, on 19 September 2011 - 08:08 AM, said:

Hello I think you should improve your website design and put unique and interesting content. It really helps you a lot and get quality backlinks.

So, how do you think I can improve the design? In the content part, unique content is coming along in the future.

This post has been edited by adrenalinfeed: 19 September 2011 - 03:38 PM

[Tomorrow People]

Your website visitor and potential customer doesn’t want to be slowed down with an online manifesto about your company's products or services. They’re looking for punchy, accessible information that they can take in quickly. It’s been proven that web visitors scan information rather than reading it, as they do with print.

[zed]

Tomorrow People, on 20 September 2011 - 01:41 PM, said:

Your website visitor and potential customer doesn’t want to be slowed down with an online manifesto about your company's products or services. They’re looking for punchy, accessible information that they can take in quickly. It’s been proven that web visitors scan information rather than reading it, as they do with print.

WTF does this have to do with the OP's site? Please explain or your post will be deemed spam and dealt with accordingly. 'Tomorrow' may not happen.

[Tomorrow People]

zed, on 20 September 2011 - 01:44 PM, said:

WTF does this have to do with the OP's site? Please explain or your post will be deemed spam and dealt with accordingly. 'Tomorrow' may not happen.

What I meant is, content is king!

[zed]

and in relation to the OP's site that means what exactly? They don't have content?

[ayoungh]

I think that the redesign needs a little bit of a redesign. I would say that the button items in particular need some work. I would add some lightness into the design. Maybe add some light flares into the background?

Overall the site is good and the content. I would maybe say that you feature a video on the homepage as in most viewed etc?

[adrenalinfeed]

ayoungh, on 20 September 2011 - 02:22 PM, said:

I think that the redesign needs a little bit of a redesign. I would say that the button items in particular need some work. I would add some lightness into the design. Maybe add some light flares into the background?

Overall the site is good and the content. I would maybe say that you feature a video on the homepage as in most viewed etc?

Thanks! The buttons could be done better. And some lightness might be good. I agree. Flares is also cool, and might look good. I´ll see what I can make on the next round.

Also, featuring videos on the front page is a good idea. Maybee in a carousel somehow? Or do you think it should belong in the right column?

Anyway, this is great. Thanks alot for the feedback!

[richardtj]

I'm going to go in a totally opposite direction to the usual SEO on this one. This is a trending website and not something that people necessarily search for in the traditional sense of the word. I think you're on track with the Share idea, making that the point of the site and creating a buzz around the site- which will work. The downside is this site is slow, very very slow and I suspect it's served from Continental US. Optimise this site for speed, use a CDN and Sprite out all standard images (logo etc). Host this from a CDN. Site is still loading a fresh page even now. You could change out the wordpress super cache for W3Cache, which allows you to deploy via a CDN. Set up caching (read up on it), it'll shave 3-4 seconds off page load times. The reason I'm pointing to all this is it'll allow you to extend your visitor base outside contiental US and take it to other states as well, simply because page load times will keep your visitors interested.

[ayoungh]

adrenalinfeed, on 20 September 2011 - 04:26 PM, said:

Thanks! The buttons could be done better. And some lightness might be good. I agree. Flares is also cool, and might look good. I´ll see what I can make on the next round.

Also, featuring videos on the front page is a good idea. Maybee in a carousel somehow? Or do you think it should belong in the right column?

Anyway, this is great. Thanks alot for the feedback!

No worries, Anytime I think a slightly bigger video at the top of the page spaning accross would be good as the feature one. This could be the newest, most popular or you could set it? I duno.

[adrenalinfeed]

richardtj, on 22 September 2011 - 08:33 PM, said:

I'm going to go in a totally opposite direction to the usual SEO on this one. This is a trending website and not something that people necessarily search for in the traditional sense of the word. I think you're on track with the Share idea, making that the point of the site and creating a buzz around the site- which will work. The downside is this site is slow, very very slow and I suspect it's served from Continental US. Optimise this site for speed, use a CDN and Sprite out all standard images (logo etc). Host this from a CDN. Site is still loading a fresh page even now. You could change out the wordpress super cache for W3Cache, which allows you to deploy via a CDN. Set up caching (read up on it), it'll shave 3-4 seconds off page load times. The reason I'm pointing to all this is it'll allow you to extend your visitor base outside contiental US and take it to other states as well, simply because page load times will keep your visitors interested.

Thanks! Very good point around the speed. I´ve been tweaking this quite much. The only graphical elements in the page are 1) logo, 2) background and 3) a sprite for the dropdowns, rss etc. The rest is pure css3. I´m also using WP super-cache and serving from Dreamhost. So it should ideally not be a problem.

But, I need to fetch the views/likes. Therefor, some page loads are very slow. If the page hasn´t been loaded for a while, the page is checking both Google analytics for hits, and Facebook for likes. Plus those goddamn social sharing counters are fetched externally in all cases through javascript calls. Page speed actually sais it´s not the server side things (fetching and calculating), but the sharing icons, plus the video(s). So I guess I´m a bit stuck.

[adrenalinfeed]

ayoungh, on 22 September 2011 - 10:55 PM, said:

No worries, Anytime I think a slightly bigger video at the top of the page spaning accross would be good as the feature one. This could be the newest, most popular or you could set it? I duno.

I´ll do some designing when I have the time. I´m not sure weather I should use the top space on the front page for the best video ever, or the newest featured one. But, a carousel might make both options possible somehow. The design process will hopefully bring a good idea or two that will make me decide on either, or both.

[Rashmi]

see..Content is king of SEO,Google want informative and relevant content.. if you are giving something new and good info then I dont think so, you will face any problem.

[Web Crest]

I noticed you need to promote the links for the video. once user find the links on different posts or sites and follow them here, search engine will boost up that link. an seo professional can it in a better way. there are other lot of the things can be done with the site.

I am seo professional and can help you if you send me pm here.

[Web Crest]

I noticed you need to promote the links for the video. once user find the links on different posts or sites and follow them here, search engine will boost up that link. an seo professional can it in a better way. there are other lot of the things can be done with the site.

I am seo professional and can help you if you send me pm here.

[adrenalinfeed]

Web Crest, on 28 September 2011 - 02:53 PM, said:

I am seo professional and can help you if you send me pm here.

Pardon me for not sending you a PM.

[Avena]

Well..


I suggest you the few points while you are going to re design your site...

Your content should be unique, Your design should be unique,You have a complete stuff related to your product or services...These few points are very important for your good site..

[rallport]

Avena, on 30 September 2011 - 10:05 AM, said:

Well..


I suggest you the few points while you are going to re design your site...

Your content should be unique, Your design should be unique,You have a complete stuff related to your product or services...These few points are very important for your good site..

Wow, what compelling information, straight out of the big box of copy and paste seo quotes.

Quite ironic really, you cite unqiue content, yet you're just quoting copy and paste crud.