Newbie Requesting Site Review, Please

[Linda Buquet]

I'd just use the free Wordtracker and/or the Google Adwords free tool here.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

For what you are doing right now I think that's all you need. I'd only buy a KW tool if you were doing extensive research on KWs every day and needed to save your searches and/or analyze more than the free ones let you OR if you ever started doing PPC.

[DMCyrus]

Originally Posted by minstrel

First impressions:

• the marquee ads are annoying and distract from the rest of the page... nothing wrong with ads, but stick to banners or text links...
  
• consolidate your categories into half a dozen categories with subcategories
  
• make the top product images a little bit larger
  
• expand on the text on that main page content
  
• move the mailing list information off the main page to a subpage, with an unobtrusive link to "subscribe to our newsletter" somewhere

I've gone ahead and removed the marquee ad and am working on removing categories (you're making this one hard on me. )

If I make the top product images a bit larger, it will also make them larger in the category/subcategory that that image appears in. Should this be something to worry about, or could all the pics that appear no matter where one sees it be a bit larger? All Images are currently 175X175.

I'll expand the text as soon as I am ready to really launch this puppy, and figure out what I want it to say on that page. (not good at this so it'll take some time) That's just some filler for now.

Not sure which page to move the mailing list to and also not sure where this newsletter would come from. (again, not another one of my strong suites)

Thanks again for everyone's help. Truly appreciated!

[DMCyrus]

Minstrel,

Looks like I will have to make a separate page for the newsletter link because I cannot move the mailing list from the homepage to any other page. It's built into the homepage alone.