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Old July 2nd, 2004, 01:13 PM
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http://www.virtual-wine-guide.com
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This is my first attempt at putting together a website. It is designed for people
to learn about wine. I have a lot more content to add, but I'm looking for some
feedback. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

http://www.virtual-wine-guide.com
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Old July 2nd, 2004, 01:41 PM
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Looks Great- a picture of wine/ vinyards would really enhance it
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Old July 3rd, 2004, 02:29 PM
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First attempt? Nice work...I am a fan of wine (or drinking it more accurately), especially red wine, so I like your theme. I would like to see more detailed descriptions of things like, for example, how a good cabernet is distinguished from a merlot, vs. pinot noir, zinfindel, chianti, etc. in terms of taste characteristics (dry, fruit tones, whatever) as well as origin, region, etc. I know you mentioned that you have more content, so you may already have this covered. And by the way, I mention this because I know little to none of the answers to the above questions..I am enough of a dilitante to know I like merlot slightly more than I like cab, and a good chianti, yet I know little in the way of finer details, and would like to learn more.

I noticed your link to SiteBuildit, as well as a link to a site about tea, which I suspect may be another of your sites, and at that, built with Sitebuildit - I mention this in the spirit of "Great Minds Think Alike", because I actually very closely considered investing in Sitebuildit to do themed sites for .... you guessed it, both wine and tea, among several other possibilities. I assume I missed the boat on those ideas, but I would be very interested to hear any feedback you have on your experience with Sitebuildit, the tools they provide, and how well your sites perform in the search engines and in terms of conversions with affiliate programs. Feel free to send me a private messege via this forum if you wouldn't mind, or click my details for my email info.

Anyway, As for SEO: I am still inexperienced, but I wonder if the links on your navigation menu are gerated by Javascript, and therefore are not readable to the search engine spiders? On those same links, the text looks like it could be image based rather than actual text, and thus not credited by the search engines as linked text for the keywords contained in the links (again, double check me.) Also, as another post mentioned, images throughout the site would really accentuate nicely, especially where you mention regions, that's an opportunity to really bring in some nice looking images of France, Italy etc., not forgetting to ad Alt text to the images with valuable keywords.

Thats all I can think of.

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  • Center your content. The page is set towards the left side. Short solution, below and above the body tags place center tags.

Example

<body>
<center>
<tableborder="1"width="100%">
<tr><
<td>
Everythingonyourpagegoeshere. TheContent
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>



  • You need to have some pics on each page. Be inventive with them. Look in magazines to get ideas about where to place pics.
  • Your navigation is image based so you defently need to place some text links at the bottom.
  • You need to put the google ads in there own table column.
  • The site looks good but it could look great with more pictures and a good banner.
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Old July 10th, 2004, 03:57 AM
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I would definately agree with every point the above poster made. It does need some pictures - although with an information site rather than a shopping site its not horrible. The frame of your site is the nav bars on the left and the google ads on the right. On my monitor this makes it very cramped. Are you able to move the google ads over a bit.


The content is great so far which is a big plus.

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A picture -- thousand words.

Nice play of making the url with your keywords. The hyphen separator is also good work.
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Thank you all for the great suggestions and encouragement. I'll definitely look to add some pics. Anyone have suggestions on where to find good ones to use?
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