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Hi all

Ive been in vintage R/C for a while and I am always looking at ways to improve my site. I am having a contest to see who can help me improve my site with real improvements not a website which can increase hits on your web site but actual improvements. The person that helps me the most will win this Kyosho Scorpion Free.

- increase traffic
- generate income
- improve content
- add or take away thing
- things i can offer
- information
- suggestions
- everything and anything

Best of luck everyone, spread the word.

That's a cool deal! What a nice Scorpion, too!

I was going to say that I could give you traffic until I read on your site that you wanted real traffic. So no Chinese hits? Hey it will improve your Alexa rank.

But seriously, I can submit your site to a couple of hundred places that will help with link building.

Also look into PPM advertising which pays for the amount of times an ad is displayed instead of clicks which no one does on purpose.

Get away from Wordpress as its difficult to navigate, and needs to be more fluid in width. The best option would be to create your own HTML based website

How about a twitter account? You can tweet about stuff to direct to your website. I've actually created an account for that purpose but I haven't started seriously tweeting.

That's funny you say that, someone mentioned that to me and I thought about it.

Thanks
Franco

You could also try Facebook.

Your site looks & reads exactly like the Optima House site:

http://theoptimahouse.blogspot.com/

One thing that's different though, is that Optima House seems to be targeted at the Optima enthusiast community, while the main focus of your site is to document your own builds and sell your stuff.

While I don't have any issue with that, the fact that it feels that way might in itself affect your number of hits. Unless a large audience can feel like they're contributors of a site, and not just reading someone else's For Sale and Build threads, there really might not be much to keep people coming back after the first few visits.

Personally, I even think the "Next page"..."Next page" (links at bottom of a long, vertically-scrolling webpage) method of navigation of Optima House and your site is rather antiquated. Navigation is much improved when you can have hyperlinked buttons at the top, and not require too much vertical scrolling.

Good luck with the site, you've chosen a great domain name.

You know I never thought of it that way - your right though it should be more generalized and feature other peoples cars as my own. I think that was always the thought I guess it just didn't seem as obvious as you put it. Thumbs Up!

Franco

Glad to help, Franco. I would think the best thing you could do for your site is to sit down with pen & paper and plot out how the site should navigate. The sections on the right don't seem to follow any pattern.

Home should be at the top, Contact info at the bottom. Stuff that appeals to the general audience should appear near the top, kind of like a "What's New" section, like Optima House has--but provide better navigation among the What's New pages than they do.

You would probably want to categorize all the For Sale stuff--by you or other site members--in one section, with newest items for sale at the top...assuming you'll offer to let others sell their stuff on your site, that is.

You seem to have a fondness for Scorpions, the main focus of this site seems to be Scorpions, so you should put all your Scorpion-related info & resources in one section dedicated to the--you guessed it--Scorpion. Below that, you could link to your Scorpion builds. You'd have your Scorpion facts & links & other resources there.

Next, you could devote a section to Other Kyoshos (you don't want to dedicate a section only to Optimas because there's already a website for that, Optima House, and they might take issue with that) and again, include a link to your Optima build(s) therein.

I like your Manuals section, that would be best to stay as its own section. Links--along with Contact info--should be near the bottom of that list.

So, I think planning your site navigation more intuitively--like a good, concise Table of Contents would really help.