Review of Credit Card Industry Site

They have: 4 posts

Joined: May 2007

Just looking for some tips for our site. Anything to make it more appealing to other webmasters, and public alike. Thanks

i-want-a-credit-card.com

travelagent's picture

He has: 26 posts

Joined: Dec 2004

The site isn't too bad, but you didn't start your code with the mandatory -- therefore, you may wish to fix the following 182 code warnings:

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He has: 20 posts

Joined: May 2007

The navigation is a bit funny, to me it looks like too much SEO with the link anchor texts. You should perhaps put more time on the site's graphics and look rather than to SEO at this point. The color theme is a bit strange for my taste, orange and blue don't usually mix well. You should also maybe get some better graphics to the header, it looks a bit cheap right now. Also, it's not very easy to navigate back to the front page from the sub pages.

Your headings again look like they are written for search engines, not human beings. Maybe you could change them a bit?

You show the people behind the business, that's very good! It's very rare and it works, people love to see faces of people even when they are browsing the web. But you should maybe get some better photos of your employees, these look a bit cheap as well. They don't have to be done in a professional photo studio, but you could spend about an hour to read about photographing (composition and posing, for example) and take much better pictures.

I don't honestly quite understand the beginning of your copy. Now I'm a foreigner, English is not my first language but for me "Meet the crack team" sounds like you are a team doing crack cocaine, that's might not be the best impression you can give me about you.

You should be careful with the wording such as "We are a young group of", the word "young" can easily convert to "inexperienced" when someone critical about you is reading your copy. Also, your copy has a bit too long sentences, it's difficult to read, and it it's difficult to read many people stop reading it and leave.

Also, you don't really tell what exactly you do. You introduce yourself, but you should focus more on what you do rather than who you are, and especially focus on the benefits of your service. Can it save my time? If so, say it. Can it save me money? If so, say it.

After reading the short copy there is a long list of credit cards for no apparent reason. Are these the recommended cards? The most popular ones? The latest in your portfolio? I don't know since your site doesn't say it.

I can't find any real contact information from your site. That's very bad, everything relating to credit cards and money requires that your visitors can trust you. You show your faces, that's great, but now when I don't find any street address or phone number I could start thinking that maybe the photos of your team are just stock photos since you don't give any contact details other than the online form. Where are you from? Do you have an office or not? You must have a phone, why not give the phone number? Are you a registered company? If you are, what's the name of your company? Are you a member of any organization, such as the Better Business Bureu? How long have you been in the business? I can't find any such information from the site.

Summary: In my opinion, you should put much more effort and focus on the contents and the quality of your website, and on how to convert your current visitors to customers rather than overdoing the SEO as you are doing now.

They have: 9 posts

Joined: May 2007

At least there is not much to tell since you all found the errors but I can say at least we have a place to apply for credit all in once. About the Website is not but at all.

Thanks

Joel Rivera
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