Please critique my website, Quality Traffic Supply

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I have been working on this website for a while now, and would appreciate any suggestions or comments you have.

Be as harsh as you want, I'm looking for your viewpoints as a website developer and as a potential customer.

http://www.qualitytrafficsupply.com

Thanks!

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Original stile.
And simple to navigate.

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One of the better, simple websites I have seen today. Here's what I suggest:

Where the banner, image of a sign, navigation, and all that, try to get the background colors to be the same. This will add unity to the piece as a whole and get rid of the uncertainty it creates psychologically. (Yes, now I'm a psychologist)

Also, I would suggest lightening the background. It's very dark and depressing. A lighter gray would probably be the best choice. The links at the top should have the same properties as well. The row that starts with "Terms" is not displayed the same way that the row beginning with "Order Traffic" is. If you don't want the large button look for the top row, I'd suggest moving it to the bottom of the page instead.

On the front page, you have displayed the most pertinent information, which is wonderful! However, I can't tell what is a link and what is not. You should add some sort of distinguishing property to the links. At least add a rollover effect to them to make it more obvious.

Other than that, I can't think of anything else.

Good luck with your website/business!

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Hi there,

Design is simplistic and very basic, though this wont detract from site navigation so this is only a critisism if you put enphasis on the visuals.

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One problem is the valid XHTML image when you have 4 errors, your page doesn't validate.

I like the clean simple design, it's not cluttered and it does the job without getting in the way.

From your article: "Many of the sites had numerous spelling and grammar mistakes on thier site,". I hope that spelling mistake is intentional, there's nothing to indicate either way and it certainly gave me a chuckle at your expense. Slipping into my grammar nazi mode for a moment I'd like to recommend the adjective grammatical instead of the noun grammar and losing the repetition at the end of the clause, in fact killing the unnecessary comma wouldn't hurt either. "Many of the sites had both numerous spelling errors and severe grammatical mistakes indicative of bad translation from another language." scans much better but you may disagree. At the very least you should fix the typo, remove the comma, and kill the repetition, the rest is just linguistic pedantry.

Grammar nazi moment aside, quite a nice little design and the validation errors are 5 minutes work to fix.

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Yeah, I made a few changes to the site last night. It used to be vaild! Thanks for reminding me!

I'll also go about fixing that sentence!

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I think using the blue colours is a good idea, but the background looks too dark for me, its a bit dull.

I would also add a few pictures of business people, or just happy people on some of your pages to give it a more personal feel (maybe the about us page). Visitors like to see a real face so it feels like they are dealing more with a personal business than just a machine.

There are also a lot of F.A.Q's on the F.A.Q page, all the text can make your eyes get a bit tired. Maybe you could break it up with little coloured lines between questions or shorten some of the answers.

Apart from that I think your site looks very proffessional and should earn you some good sales!

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ccsthefuture wrote: I think using the blue colours is a good idea, but the background looks too dark for me, its a bit dull.

I would also add a few pictures of business people, or just happy people on some of your pages to give it a more personal feel (maybe the about us page). Visitors like to see a real face so it feels like they are dealing more with a personal business than just a machine.

There are also a lot of F.A.Q's on the F.A.Q page, all the text can make your eyes get a bit tired. Maybe you could break it up with little coloured lines between questions or shorten some of the answers.

Apart from that I think your site looks very proffessional and should earn you some good sales!

I changed it from dark grey to the bluish grey that ity is now, but I'll try some other colors!

Also, do you have any idea where to find these pictures of "professional people"? I've seen them, I just don't know where to get them.

.and I'm going to breack up the FAQ.

Thanks!

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I think you an excellent choice of colors. The site is very simple to navigate. This site is very difficult to offer you suggestions.

For seo purposes, you may wish to consider adding alt tags to some of the images to include your keywords.

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At first the layout looks wrong, the blue horziontal is under the login etc so looks weird.
As the blues don't match I guess you could get away with it, I'd probably put a slightly darker grey or off white up there (or even blue).

Your use of the red icons is wrong, you use them for the page title and for links and for lists (non linked), makes finding your links guess work, and the read link at the bottom about reading your article doe not look like a like, though your list does. Use a different colour icon or different style.

On your about us page you have you'r in Philadelphia, PA. I know where that is because I have been there, people in America would know but the rest of the world ... PA means nothing to them, at minimum add USA.
On your FAQ page you have "Beware of other traffic websites, many are based in foreign countries and will scam you! " You are based in a foreign country to me, so I guess you will scam me huh - Might want to reword that Wink Unless of course you only deal with Americans.
You also might want to mention the pricing is in USD

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Busy wrote: At first the layout looks wrong, the blue horziontal is under the login etc so looks weird.
As the blues don't match I guess you could get away with it, I'd probably put a slightly darker grey or off white up there (or even blue).

Your use of the red icons is wrong, you use them for the page title and for links and for lists (non linked), makes finding your links guess work, and the read link at the bottom about reading your article doe not look like a like, though your list does. Use a different colour icon or different style.

On your about us page you have you'r in Philadelphia, PA. I know where that is because I have been there, people in America would know but the rest of the world ... PA means nothing to them, at minimum add USA.
On your FAQ page you have "Beware of other traffic websites, many are based in foreign countries and will scam you! " You are based in a foreign country to me, so I guess you will scam me huh - Might want to reword that Wink Unless of course you only deal with Americans.
You also might want to mention the pricing is in USD

Thanks! Lots of great tips, I'll try to implement as many as I can.

About the whole foreign countries thing... I meant unreputable places like Russia and China where it is known for scams. I mainly advertise to the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

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I enjoy the simplicity and neatness of it.

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I really like the design. It's simple yet clean.

As a potential customer, I would want to see testimonials from past customers, along with their web site address.

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timjpriebe wrote: I really like the design. It's simple yet clean.

As a potential customer, I would want to see testimonials from past customers, along with their web site address.

Thanks! I'm glad you noted the testimonials part, because that was an idea I was considering.

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bluecircle wrote: Thanks! I'm glad you noted the testimonials part, because that was an idea I was considering.

As someone that may be interested in your service, I also agree that testimonials would do wonders for this site. However, in order to be believable as opposed to appear made up, you would probably need to inlcude the website link with the testimonial.
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Janet wrote: As someone that may be interested in your service, I also agree that testimonials would do wonders for this site. However, in order to be believable as opposed to appear made up, you would probably need to inlcude the website link with the testimonial.
Nice design, I like the site. Sticking out tongue

Great, I am working on the testimonials page now, and should have the page up in a week or two.

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Testimonials is a really good idea, although a little harder for a new company to pull off!

I didn't pay much attention to the color scheme and graphics since it looks like you got enough feedback on that. What I was interested in was the content. Your page flowed nicely and led me down right to your article linked at the bottom. After getting there however, I didn't seem to get the info I was expecting. I really wanted to see HOW you direct traffic and from where, with specific points about how your way is different or better than all the rest. The way you detail your personal experience is useful information but it could be cut down to a paragraph and really doesn't stand well on it's own.

Your FAQ however, is great and has all the information I was looking for. Maybe you should add some of that to your article? People may tend to hit that first like I did.

Still, you guys have a great site and service. I actually bookmarked it for future use!

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Color scheme is good. Content on the first place, clean and simple. One suggestion, make the logo and text "QualityTrafficSupply" little bit bigger as this is what the user first sees and that should tell him what the site is about.

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I just thoought there were too many font sizes on the page. Keep it to 2 or 3 fonts and sizes. Accent the price and value of your services. Make the prospective buyer feel comfortable with the purchase.

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Testimonials alway work well in convincing people....what exactly is this type of traffic you are sending?

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Too many font sizes. Nothing really stands out. I would focus on the price and benefits...my 2 cents.

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hurricaneshutte wrote: Too many font sizes. Nothing really stands out. I would focus on the price and benefits...my 2 cents.

What kind of benefits? And what would you do to the price?

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looks like a nice site. well-designed. Its just the product that I'm abit skeptical about. I take it these are bulk visitors? You should try to branch out into offering more targeted visitors, at least bulk visitors from websites in a specific category.

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I think, that site could be 100% wide, not only 780 px.

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actually I liked it so much that I decided to see if your traffic program works for me and bought in for the trial offer..

I will keep you posted as to what happens.. Smiling

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I've made a lot of new updates since the last post. Any suggestions? Smiling

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I noticed on the order page (as I am considering give this a try) that the prices don't appear until you hover over the dropdown boxes, the prices should probably be populated on load instead of on hover/onchange.

Other than that I like the site, and the concept.

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I was reading the disclaimer and became very wary by 2 statements:

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Stats, Data and other information from third party counters (e.g. Extreme-DM.com, hitbox) are not sufficient to establish a claim. These counting systems tend to yield an improper count. If we dispute your claim, you must provide us with RAW server logs from the site and time period in question - this is the only reliable method of counting a visitor.

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In the event that there is a discrepancy between the amount of traffic delivered by Quality Traffic Supply and the amount of traffic delivered to the client, on their behalf Quality Traffic Supply and the client both agree to use the report prepared by the traffic supplier

Those to me screams botted traffic, as most external counters will not see bots because they are based on Javascrript or image loading (neither of which (most) bots do) and I really don't buy into the 'can't handle the huge amount of traffic' as we have a few sites that get far more than 10,000 hits and are recorded accurately by our 3rd party stat counter. Or would Google AdSense impressions count (those are raw hits/pageviews, but I think the IPs/Uniqueness is still tracked).

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CptAwesome wrote: I was reading the disclaimer and became very wary by 2 statements:

Those to me screams botted traffic, as most external counters will not see bots because they are based on Javascrript or image loading (neither of which (most) bots do) and I really don't buy into the 'can't handle the huge amount of traffic' as we have a few sites that get far more than 10,000 hits and are recorded accurately by our 3rd party stat counter. Or would Google AdSense impressions count (those are raw hits/pageviews, but I think the IPs/Uniqueness is still tracked).

No, that's just put in there to protect us from an error on their/the counters end. Maybe I should make it more clear.

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Personally, I don't like the red bits other than that, I think it looks really nice! Good work!

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