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Indy
06-25-2006, 09:46 PM
Hello to All Forumers,

I am a new-bee here. I reside in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I joined a week ago, but I have gone through almost 1/2 of all posted messages in this forum. I am excited and ecstatic after my accidental discovery of this forum through yahoo search engine.

Honestly speaking I have learned a lot from the contributors here and I sincerely extend my divinely blessings to all those who have shared their expertise comments, critics and also to those who have suggested many wonderful, informative and innovative ideas to the ones who had been seeking not forgetting the moderators of this forum.

I for one strongly believe in this Universal Law ‘Do Unto Others As You Would Be Done By’.

As like anyone else I would also like to get feedback on my website i.e. www.ozemarketing.com.my

Explanation in brief.
This website was created 7 years ago and I have updated the website with new look and incorporated new links. After doing so I attract approximately 120 Unique visitors only per month. I am using Advanced Web Statistics 6.4 to track. I have also tied up with our local merchant TMNetmall, which is some sort of E-bay of Malaysia. But the tying-up hardly brings in sales.

Q 1. How do I improve OR need to do to bring in more visitors? Currently I am running ads on few of the city taxis which displays my website URL on the rear of taxi which is quite taxing. With that move I only manage to improve to 180 to 200 visitors per month.

Q 2. What can I do to make my visitors stay longer?

Q 3. Can I join any affiliate programs that could generate in some forms of revenue? If so, suggestions would be much appreciated.

Q 4. Would it be appropriate to display Adsense or Amazon on the website.
I would really appreciate for your favourable opinions and constructive ideas.

Million thank you in advance.
Regards,
Indy

KDLA
06-26-2006, 09:11 AM
You need some descriptive metadata, to go along with your page's title when your site is among search engine results:
Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp

The ability to not be able to purchase online (within the site), I'm sure, keeps visitors from staying. The site you link to has the same information. Your viewers, once redirected, may look for products within it, rather than come back to yours.
Also, the photos are not that good, which give the site sort of a "homemade" look. This might cause viewers to wonder about the site's legitimacy.

KDLA

Indy
06-27-2006, 03:43 AM
Hi KDLA,

Thanks for your comment. Appreciate it. Will rectify the metadata.

Western Digital
06-28-2006, 05:40 PM
Nice. Like the buttons

wh666-666
06-28-2006, 06:07 PM
Welcome Indy, always lovely to see more people on the forum. Big welcome and i have a few friendly and constructive comments.

Totally agree with KDLA on metadata as its very important for websites and on the images and not purchasing within your site. Why not try something like paypal. There the best priced gateway for taking card payments (about 3% of your product in a fee but no running costs) and you can use it in auction sites and KDLA is right, if users get taken to a different site it is unprofessional and people may purchase the product if offered on the other site. On your mainpage you have the navigation panel on the left wider than on your subpages, wondering if its supposed to be like this?

To make visitors stay longer you could try adding user interactive features. Like a page "whats wrong with me" lol maybe more sympathetically worded where a user could take an interactive quiz on troubling ailements/problems answering several questions and then get through to a result page with recommendations for better lifestyle and for a selection of your products for their problems. Bit of extra work but customers like the extra touch especially some who get confused and dont know what they need to sort their health problems and might appreciate a section on your site like this.

As for advertising it can be pricey but try targeting other webmasters. I.e. If you find a website of someone elses suggesting ways to deal with stress or lack of sleep for example and they sell things like stress relief toys, contact the webmaster and see if you could provide links to one another. So long as it isnt a directly competing company many webmasters might be interested in linking with your site and vice versa and gets you more visitors, especially more visitors interested in your products and make sure you and the other webmaster agree in mutually placed links relevant to your business (lets say there were two search results in a search engine for example, yours and this other business, then even if the user goes to that business they may still click through to you). Its worked well for me in the past.

As for onsite advertising i think your site looks nice and professional (although it could do with a touch more colour and life because its a bit too plain, but not too much as to make it eughhh). Amazon/google/etc adverts say to me "Im a useless muppet company" and i think you would spoil your company image doing that. I would strongly advise caution as first impressions count.

Indy
06-29-2006, 08:42 PM
Hello wh666-666

Thank you for the thorough comments n suggestions given. Appreciate it.