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Okay. Contact me on +2348147018718. Keep in mind though, it's going to cost you.

billionvan:
would be grateful if you'll mentor me
billiongist..com

Whatup, your site review is ready- http://500nairawriter.com/janded-gist-the-review/

GodsLastBorn:
www.jandedgist..com bro..

Okay. I don't think that's a strong enough reason to buy a site, but then again, put it up on Nairaland. You might get someone who wants to buy.

Sapiosexuality:
I mean if he needs a new site and instead of asking a web developer to design one for them at a high rate they simply buy mine and start blogging immediately. You get me?

Whatup.. Your review is ready. Follow this link- http://500nairawriter.com/the-blaze-zone-site-review/

aimst1:
http://blazezone.mybb.im/#

Why would someone want to buy your site? What's in it for them? I think if you figure that out and use that as your selling points, you can sell it easily.

Sapiosexuality:
Yes. Selling everything. Handing it over to another person who needs a website. Everything.

lol.. You don't like my yoruba accent.. lol. What I'm saying is usually if your site has a high volume of traffic, and some other attractive features, it might be easier to sell... or are you talking about selling the domain name?

Sapiosexuality:
I mean selling it as a new site. Even cheaper than what it takes to build it. I can't read that type of writing, please. Thank you.

I wouldn't know about that... I'm more in the business of buying and keeping websites not selling... But I think your site needs to really haff hay lot hof things that will make hit hattrakstiv to buyers, like traffic, good ranking, hetcetera shmetcetera

Plus if you're distracted and need some rest, ow har you going to sell hit?

Sapiosexuality:
Lol. Okay. How easy is it to sell a website if you can't keep up with it, distracted and need some rest?

Ma, did you post it on this thread? If you did, you aff to hexercise some patience jonathan... preez hokay?

olarababi:
sir
sir, u havnt reviewed mine
[url]Goodiestech.com[/url]

Well, a few reasons, but all of them na long story... You're asking why... I ask "Why the hell not?"

Sapiosexuality:
Okay. Thanks. If you don't mind I'd like to know why you are doing this for free?

Okay, I know you've been waiting (or not) but your site review is ready on my site... follow this link - http://500nairawriter.com/business-tectono-business-com-review/

tectonotimes:
This is Tectono Business Review, a business consultancy, research and publishing platform. It is Nigeria's version of Harvard Business Review and Oxford Business Group. This is our website for review:
www.tectono-business.com

Then you need to hold on. I'll get to you

Sapiosexuality:
Okay. It is set up.

Sorry, but I don't do 2 minute reviews. I follow the list, and I review in detail. If your site isn't set up yet, finish setting it up, then request for a review.

Sapiosexuality:
Okay. But it's just short and new before I go further. A two minute review won't be bad.

No problem, but you'd have to wait still... there's already a queue.

Sapiosexuality:
This is a new blog I'd like to get your views. MortalPoet.com

Whatup, Your review is ready- https://www.nairaland.com/3812132/crazy-user-did-2-in-1-review

horlar22:
WWW.danicas.tk
WWW.avocanoad.tk

Yes, I know.

I usually do 1 site in every site review, but this one... is just.... Both your sites look the same and have pretty much the same structure.

Okay, before we go on, this review might hurt a bit... or not. Your sites look like they're not done which begs the question- Why did you request for a site review?

But thou requestest a site review, A site review thou shalt get..

I'm going to squish both your sites into this because you basically did the same thing twice... And it doesn't make sense for me to write two reviews on the same freaking thing.

I might drift back from one site to the other in the course of this review, or I might not... I'm just going to go with the flow on this one.

Let's begin:

I. Design And Layout

There's no nice way to say this, but your design is shitty. And layout no dey epp matters either.

You need to change it ASAP.

Right now, it's bland and it's almost saying "Please, click the back button and leave this site" ... For the sake of time and to keep my insanity (yes, you read that right), let's move on:

(i) Your URL

www.danicas.tk

www.avocanoad.tk

What is .tk?

Did you go and get one of those free domain names with free hosting?

Maybe .tk is cool to you, but really you're just safer going with a .com , .edu or something we all understand.

But that's my own opinion. If .tk is working for you right now (which I highly doubt), ignore this point.

Otherwise, go get an actual domain name with actual web hosting.


(ii) Your Site Title

You just retyped your domain name as your site title. I already used the "Shoprite Analogy" in a few previous reviews to explain why this is absolutely unnecessary.

Change that to Danicos or Avocanoad instead of retyping your domain name.


(iii) For the Love of the Tagline!

Where in God's name is your tagline?

Your site title doesn't tell us what your site is about. And then you don't have a tagline. To be honest, both your sites confused me.

No tagline and no obvious sign what your site is about.

If this user wasn't doing a review, he would have bounced... for real.

Get a tagline or create one. End of Discussion.


(iv) Your primary nav menu is too tiny, and also incomplete.

I barely noticed that you have a menu there. Make it more prominent and place it in your header section.

Add categories there, You know, so we know what we can find on your site.

I mean, you have a search bar which is all well and good, but we have no idea what your site does because there is no tagline or anything that tells us "Hi, this is what this site is about".

Not good. At all.

And why the hell do you have Site Map as part of your menu?

Here's a tip- if people need a map to go through your site, then you're doing it wrong.

(v) What the hell is going on in your right side bar?

I don't understand your right side bar at all. Sure, on your avocanoads (what the hell does that mean?) site, you have a subscribe box, but you also have a residue of a magazine from your template, which doesn't make sense.

I'm honestly beginning to think you just wanted to punish me with this review. What I do you now?

I've talked about an easy to follow template for organizing your right side bar in some of my previous reviews, like here - https://www.nairaland.com/3797951/round-2-user-wey-dey

Read through that and use that to rearrange your side bar.

(vii) Your footer section is non existent.

When a user gets to that section, they should either see something that tells them what site they're on or shows them where next to go or both.

When we get to your footer, all we see is the link to Blogger... Who that one epp?

I've attacked many a footers so I'm not going to go into that here. If you need an example of a great footer, take a cue from www.techcrest.com.ng


#OkBye


Uhmm... no we aren't done, let's talk about...

II. Content

I looked at your main content section. The whole box layout is okay. Now, to the issues,

(i) Your headlines

Reading through them made me bored af. I didn't even get what your content was about. For real. I also didn't get the Benefit to Reader.

Here's a rule to follow- If you read your headline, and if you can't, from one glance, say what the benefit to your reader is, neither will they. And they won't read your content because of that.

Use that rule, and comb through all your headlines. Also get this pdf - http://www.copyblogger.com/magnetic-headlines/

It'll help you figure out how to craft better headlines.

(ii) Your Body Content

I literally scanned through your Content. I didn't read a word.

I don't think I'm your target audience, but still you should make the post interesting. So far, it just seems I'm reading some drab newspaper... the types that make me decide I don't want to read newspapers any more.

As a matter of fact, who's your target audience? Because reading through your content is pretty confusing.

I'm having headache... I stop reading.

Don't give your users headache.


I think those two should be enough for you to start on right now.


III. Promotion- I think you should hold off on promoting this site right now because it isn't ready.

IV. Main Issues:

(i) Who's your target audience? You need to figure this out ASAP.
(ii) What niche are you in? Because right now, it looks like you're just writing about any and everything. Stop dulling. Get a niche. Get known for something. Reflect your niche in your tagline.
(iii) Where are your social media buttons? Can't see any anywhere on your site. Not good. Not good at all.
(iv) Where is your call to action? What are you selling? What do you plan to sell?

These are things you need to figure out. ASAP. They'll help guide you as you redesign your site.

Okay, I'm done.

If you're reading this, and you'd like me to review your site, please don't post it here. Post it here- https://www.nairaland.com/3765331/post-website-blog-here-get

And if you need to reach me, follow my signature.

Now, lemme go and have brunch.

Appi Uzlin!

I hear you Boss... his site is on the list

toptop:
@ copycracker, over to you.

Niceeee... Emmysky, well done.. That's the point of doing these site reviews.

Emmysky:
Thanks you so much for the review.
Honestly if you had went to the site a week ago, you'd have hated it. I followed all your other reviews you did for other sites and did necessary changes. I've also done changes to the parts of my site you admonished above.

Whatup ... your review is ready - https://www.nairaland.com/3807409/learn-techcrest.com.ng-done-well-review

Emmysky:
Please do a review on my site.
Videos are welcomed as well.

www.techcrest.com.ng

It's really a relief to see when someone gets it.

You know, like you get to a site and you feel like there really isn't going to be much for you to say.

Techcrest have done well, so instead of doing my typical review, I'm going to point out the great things about their site. Hopefully, this should give y'all an idea of things to look out for in your sites. Oh, and I'm still going to point out things to change, so Techcrest, keep reading... abeggggg. lol.

I'm in a straight-to-the-point-no-time-for-long-thing mood today, so there won't be too much "senrenre"... or at least I hope there won't.

Let's begin:

I. Design And Layout

At this point, I honestly think that nothing looks better than a white background... maybe I'll see something another time and change my mind but right now, white background is always a sure bet.

It makes it easy to read the content on the page and it just looks so much cleaner than if your background was turquoise.

So yeah, definitely love your design. And anybody who sees your site will too.

(i) Your site title, logo and tagline are answering "Present" when we call attendance.

I've seen some sites without a tagline and a not so good title.

Your Site Title matches your logo and just kills it.

Then your tagline basically lets us know exactly what you do, whether your site is for us or not. Although it could be better. Addressing people as a group is a bit impersonal. And your tagline is sorta still general. It's better if it's specific and personal

Change your tagline from "Bringing Technology News To Everyone In The World" to "Bringing Technology News To You."

That tells the visitor: Wollup... Wollup. this site is for you.

And that's exactly what it should do.


(ii) I love that ticker at the top of your site with Fresh Trends, your social media accounts and a search bar.

That's just practically beautiful.

The Fresh Trends section attracts us by telling us "Yo, my guy, this right here is fresh news. Check it out!"

The Social media accounts says "My Guy, follow us here"

And your search bar just tells us "Do you feel lost? Here, we can give you directions."

That's dope. I love it... I love it.


(iii) Your Primary Navigation Menu is complete... just needs a bit of tweaking.

Considering the number of sites I've found that don't even have one, I gotta give you props for having one.

I just feel it would be better to arrange it thus:

Home - Categories - Advertise With Us- Contact Us - Privacy Policy - Disclaimer - About Us

That looks more ideal, don't you think?


(iv) Your Main Content section is just.... amazing.

Like I said, you have given me not much to write about, so I am writing a love letter to your site... I wanna marry her, for real.

You made perfect use of that area before the fold, displayed eye-catching content and made us want to find out more...

Then when we scroll down, you give us more reasons to stick around, and you arrange your contents into sections... I mean, you're giving us users everything we want.

I love this!

(v) Your Right Side bar has it all.

- Search Bar
- Popular Posts
- Subscribe box
- Social media links

You're doing it all. Anyone who is trying to figure out how to set up their right side bar, just go to techcrest.com.ng. Their Right Side bar is a Boss among right side bars.

(vi) Your Footer section is Pristine.

It has a basic secondary menu, an About Us and a Google + profile badge.

Perfect. Don't change a thing.


II. Content.

Your content is perfect... perfect for your niche.

I honestly am still trying to figure out why you asked for a review.

Let's see what's great about your content.

(i) Your Headlines give us reason to read the rest of your content. They communicate implicit BTR (benefit to the reader). And that's awesome.

(ii) Your content is directed to your target audience. That's great.

(iii) Your image sizes are great. NOt too big so they won't affect site speed, and not too small either. Perfect. Just perfect.

* I think in the author bio section, putting your phone number and email is not that necessary. You can have that in your contact us page, but if it's working for you where it is now, no wahala. Do what works.

(iv) I love your About Us and Contact Pages. Detailed and at the same time, not too word-heavy. Just perfect.


III. Promotion

I really hope you're doing SEO and promoting on social media.

If you aren't, you need to be.

Although I'd say you're doing a great job right now. So I think we should get to ....


IV. The Goals

- What are you selling? Or are you happy just monetizing with ads?
- What problems are you facing? What made you request a review?

I think you should also add a pop up type of CTA on there. Sure, you have the subscribe box and all, but sometimes people need an annoying box that interrupts them and tells them "Yo, subscribe to my blog". That's what I would do.


So I think we are done.

If you wanna hit me up (to talk more or clarify things), follow my signature.

And if you would like me to review your site, don't post it here. Post it here - https://www.nairaland.com/3765331/post-website-blog-here-get

Aiiight... I'm officially done.

Sayonara, Arrivedeciii


Appy Uzlin!

Whatup... your review is ready - https://www.nairaland.com/3805227/crazy-user-just-zipped-through

starchris:
http://zipcodespostal.com

Zipcodespostal.com...

Are you READY TO RUMBLLEEE!!!

Lol. Whew... I just had to type that once in a review.

And you were the lucky ones

Now, on to the review. Let's begin:


I. Design And Layout

Clean design... but it feels a bit empty... Anyway, let's point out the issues:

(i) Your Site Title in the browser

You know that one where you put "All you need to know about (zip codes/postal codes and its uses) "?

Yeah, first of all we only see from "All" to "about". The rest doesn't show. Secondly, this is more like a tagline not a site title. Take that out and replace it with "Zip Codes".

Okay?

Good.

(ii) The Menu at the very top

While it's a great idea to put one there, it seems too scanty... like you're not finished with building your site.

Thumbs up on the menu. Now, get some more info there that directs us to sections of your site.

(iii) Site Title and Tagline

Love the fact that you remind us in that header area, that your site is about Zip Codes, and your tagline - "Find correct zip codes and postal codes around you" is good, but you could make it more specific, like for example, focus it more on Nigeria. I find it's a pain in the ass trying to find zip codes in Nigeria, and you could be the source for that info.

Plus there are other sites already doing this so best way to stand out is to specialize in one area. So, your tagline is fine, but you can make it finer than fine wine if you do that.

(iv) Primary Nav menu

Also scanty... I just see a home page, a blog page and an about us page. There are no categories, and no search bar.

Think about what you want your categories to be, then put them in. And add that search bar. It's absolutely necessary.


Now, I don't see a Right sidebar so I'm just going to dive right into...

(v) Your Main Content Section on Your Home Page is not it at all.

Your Home Page is to tell us why we are making the right choice staying on your site and show us where to find what we came looking for.

Instead yours is giving us a short lesson on what a zip code is.

Not good. Not good at all.

And I think it started all from your tagline not being specific enough and I have an idea you could try... but we'll talk about that in a minute... lemme finish this review first.

(vi) Your Footer Section doesn't exist.

I don't know whether that's good or bad right now because your site looks like you're still developing it and everything is not quite set up, so I won't even start to talk about this.


II. Content

Okay, I looked through your blog content and wanted to punch myself in the face with a hammer... HARD.

Fine, I get it. Your site is about zip codes but do you have to make this so boring for users to read?

Everything is all mashed up together in a way that I personally lost interest and left each post I opened. I applaud you on having 53 posts, but the fact is it's pretty unreadable.

Yeah, it is.

I think you haven't figured out what you want to do with the site fully yet. Either that or you don't really care about your site visitors.

Yes, you have a tagline but your content is really not helping. It doesn't inspire me to read, and when I can just go to Big Daddy Google to find this info, why would I stick around and suffer through the pain of scrolling through each paragraph block type list of zip codes just to find one zip code?

Okay, you know what?

I said I had an idea for you to try, and I wanted to see if I could go through my usual format but it's not really working like that with your site.

Okay, obviously you want your site to be a place where anyone in Nigeria can come and find zip codes that they need to find. Right?

Well, here's the thing. When your target visitor comes to your site:

1. He is not interested in what a zip code is. He wants to find the zip code to a particular area.

2. He also doesn't really care if you have a blog or not. (Well, at least at first).

I think what you need to do is rebuild your home page as a landing page. Like have your site title, and tagline. Then have a background image and a field with a placeholder "Enter your address here" and a search button that you can type "Get zip code" on so they know that when they enter the address, your visitors can get the zip code.

As for the posts, let each one be like a brief summary of the areas within the zip codes, maybe the address of post offices, and interesting places in that zip code.

Your site has to deliver value in some way that is not tedious for the visitor. Right now, it's not doing that.

I would talk about promotion, social media, etcetera but to be honest, your site is not ready for that.

Sort these issues out and then we'll talk about a re-review... maybe.

I'm done.

P.S. If you're reading this, and you'd like me to review your site, don't post it here. Post it here instead - https://www.nairaland.com/3765331/post-website-blog-here-get

P.P.S. If you want to hire me, click the link in my signature to find out what I do.

For now, I'm out.

Appi uzlin!

Whatup, your review is ready - https://www.nairaland.com/3802481/why-felt-home-www.sweethome.com.ng-review

starchris:
Http://.www.sweethome.com.ng

Ahhh... finally.

An E-commerce site for review.

No offence, blogs but I've seen too much of you these past few days... so yeah, I need some space

Okay, the biggest thing for most e-commerce sites is ease of use.

Yes, no surprise. It's all about the user again. Actually, wait... No, it's always about the user.

Let's see if it's really home sweet home at www.sweethome.com.ng or if it's the type of house you don't let your friends visit you at (Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about )

And without further "senrenre", we begin:

I. Design And Layout

I salute your web developer. In fact, I want to buy him/her a drink. Not only is the design clean, it's practically laid out perfectly. I'm definitely doing the alanta to this... but I'll still point out the small gbagauns here and there.

(i) You fused your site title + logo + tagline together in a sweet marriage at the left top corner of your site... Nice ... I for give you thumbs up but I couldn't find the emoticon.

That's great, but you need to remove the .com.ng in your Site Title. If you look at the tab in your browser, you'll see "Home - Sweethome.com.ng". Take out the .com.ng and you even get a sweet title- Home- Sweethome.

So do that.

(ii) Love your tagline.

It's short and to the point and when we read that, it's clear to us immediately that this one is going to be about food.

(iii) Okay, the first menu where you have Your phone number, cart, checkout, My Account...

You don't need to force your number on us. Remove that, and replace it with Contact Us.

Add Home, then rearrange it like so:

Home, My Account, Cart, Checkout, Contact Us, and I think that would be solid.

(iv) Your primary navigation menu is perfect. I won't change a damn thing.

I however found that some of those pages under About were empty... We'll have to talk about that when I get to Content.

(v) Your left side bar, showing all the Categories of products on your site... Also beautiful. I sha noticed some of them didn't have any products in them and some products didn't have any product descriptions.

Don't worry, I won't attack you too much on that. Creating content for e-commerce sites is a very long thing. One of the online businesses I'm setting up is an ecommerce site (www.efikomarket.com and I'm still fighting my disappearing primary nav menu, but that's my own battle) so I definitely feel your pain.

Good work putting it there though.

(vi) I love your main content section. You didn't attack us with too many products in each section, and you gave us the option of moving to the next, and the next, and I'm in love with your layout... I got it on the low low.

Lol. Did you get that "I'm in love with the koko" remix there?

I however think that after featured products, we should see recent products before product categories, and then your blog. Either way, it's still a beautiful set up you have there.

(vii) Your footer

I love your footer. I am not even going to say shii about it.

Except, maybe make your social media links a bit more prominent.


II. Content.

(i) We all know most e-commerce content headlines just say what the product is.. so can't really fault you on anything there.

I'll however say, don't put a product up if you haven't put the price, and put in a description. I mean, you're trying to sell the product right, not just tease us with the picture.

(ii) Your About Celine and My Story pages....

Hmm, yeahh... users don't really care about that. REmove them.

Just have one About Us page

(iii) Your About Us page

The content there is basically muddled together, and I already said we har starting hay #WelcomeToMySite must die movement. Please, remove that Welcome to Sweethome.com.ng thing ASAP.

And then Tomi said "Let there be space between thy paragraphs".

And there was... when I got to the...

(iv) Blog section

You spaced out the paragraphs here quite well, and your content is informative, but you might want to make sure an average human being can read through and understand your content.

My day job is diagnosing illnesses and sticking the right needles in people so I understand what you write about, but what about someone who doesn't know shii about medicine or pH?

I'm not saying dumb it down completely but minimize them big words where possible.


III. Promotion

I'd say your best bet is through a combination of online and offline marketing.

Online as in mainly social media... For some reason (which I don't understand), all your social media links lead to your Facebook account.

This should not be so. My suggestion would be to either hire someone to manage social media for you, or start with two or three social media networks you can manage by yourself.

I would suggest Facebook, Twitter and Instagram though.... If your game is really tight on Instagram, you could build a huge following and we all know huge following = huge prospective customer base = dollar dollar bill ya

Also, consider having affiliates market your products for you, as in advertise them on their blogs which should preferably be in the food niche, and then you'd pay a small commission to them on sales.

This helps get the word out fast too.

Then, when it comes to your blog... Do your keyword research and optimize those posts for SEO. Also get backlinks and etcetera shmetcetera.. There's a guy I know on Nairaland that can help you with that, if you want.

Offline Marketing would mostly be radio, flyers, and attending meet ups of entrepreneurs and businesses... I don't know about most other places, but Abj has this thing with organizing such meet ups in a cool field, with different foodie entrepreneurs and all. It makes it easy to showcase your biz.

Find those types of meet ups in your area and be there.

IV. Monetization and other ideas

Looking at your product page, That Add to Cart button is too tiny, and it's like at the bottom. Make it bigger and more prominently displayed.

I think you're not done with setting up the site though, cos I tried to "Red Rice" (It just happened... I prefer my rice white and sexy) to my cart, and it didn't work. I got redirected to your home page, then I checked the cart page and didn't see it.

You should finish setting this up, and while you do, try to make it easy for users to buy from you. This means "no too much senrenre".

Don't ask for more info than you actually need. A name, email address, phone number, and address should be enough for you to deliver an order.

Anyway, that's my 2 kobos on your site.

I hope this helps.

Now, back to my own hustle.

P.S. If you're reading this, and want me to review your site, I take God beg you, don't post it here. There is already a queue and you should post your site here instead- https://www.nairaland.com/3765331/post-website-blog-here-get

P.P.S. I will begin to offer my consulting services at a daily rate either today or tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled. I'll let you know when I'm ready.

Appy uzling! and Aff Hay Nice Day!

Whatup. Your review is ready- https://www.nairaland.com/3800821/more-tech-review#56552219

busybrain123:
www.mytechmore..com

Damnnn it's been a long day, and my head is pounding, no pounded yam.

I know... weak punchline. Which is probably why I didn't further my career as a rapper.

My headache is like Yokozuna though, but a review thou asketh for, a review thou shalt get.

Let's begin.

I. Design And Layout.

I gotta say, in spite of a few gbagauns (which I will get into), you have done a great job with the design. Really clean background + dope colours of tabs.

Nothing really beats a white background. It makes it easier to pick a colour that will stand out and make your page easier to go through. So I give you props on making that happen for me. Plus, I'm not being obviously assaulted by ads like yesterday when I reviewed... abeg make we leave that one.

So thank you.

Now, let's talk about the small gbagauns:

(i) Your URL

I get it .. na hustle and you gas start somewhere... with free hosting... which I'm not that mad at.

But, if you're really serious about this online biz, you will need to invest in paid hosting.

That will take care of the "..com.ng" thingy at the end that makes your URL a bit too heavy.

Plus, paid hosting + domain name is just way better (and if you really think about it, cheaper) than free hosting.


(ii) Site Title

Why is it written in lower case letters?

Like if you look at your tab in the browser, everything from the "welcome" to the "techmore blog" is in lowercase. Not good. NOt good at all.

Plus, if you read one of my previous reviews, you would have seen where I said I was starting a mufment.

The #WelcomeToMySiteMustDie Mufment.

You don't need to say "Welcome to My Techmore Blog". I think I already used a shopping mall analogy in a previous review (https://www.nairaland.com/3794918/hey-ayodelejays-user-wey-dey ) to explain why having "Welcome To" in front of your site title is unnecessary.

Get rid of the "Welcome to"... scratch that, get rid of everything but Techmore. The rest should be silent and invisible.

That might help with the problem of having your theme chop of your logo at the left top corner of your site, like it's doing now.

And type your Site Title and ID as Techmore or TechMore, whichever suits you.


(iii) Your tagline is on ghost mode.

That nigga dey form secret agent or James Bond or something cos I couldn't find the nigga.

Fine, your URL sorta gives us an idea, like "hmm, this site is probably about tech..." but what kind of tech?

Are you talking technology in the medical field or engineering or what?

What exactly?

You need to make it clear to us visitors what we will benefit from reading your content and looking through your site. Or most of us will just bounce.

Aiight?

Good.


(iv) I'm in love with your primary nav menu.

She's so sexy, although she's all the way up. But she's there, and that's what matters. After this review, I think I'm gonna ask her out.

Thumbs up for having her there.

Although I just spotted a gbagaun. Please before "henybody" sees "hit", "shange" that "PIVACY POLICY" to "PRIVACY POLICY", add an About Us tab and a Contact Us tab.

Before they think she isn't "selzy" henymore.

(v) Why does your right side bar have a title? And why is the title "Sidebar ads" when the elements there are not really ads?

REmove that sharp-a-ly.

Where is the search bar here?

Put one... so just in case we miss the one in the header section, we can use this one.

I love the whole "Popular posts, Video, Category" tab thing... It's nice... except that there's no content in your video section and the Category section could be better arranged.

Remove that video section completely.


Then that sponsor section... No point to it... REmove it.

The "find us on Facebook" part doesn't link to your facebook... It looks like a link but isn't... REmove it and replace it with actual links to your social media accounts which you should set up for your business.

Why don't I also see a subscribe box?

You don't want us to subscribe?

Put one ASAP.


(vi) Your left side bar is not for repeating things you already have in your primary nav menu and right side bar.

You're making that place look funny.

Plus the About Us thing that looks like a link but isn't a link?

Remove all the things there.

Put a vertical display of social media links. Go see how www.9jaboizgist.com.ng if you're unclear of what I mean by "vertical display of social media links".

(vii) I aint mad at your footer, but it could be cuter.

See what I did there?

I rhymed footer with cuter.

No?

You don't care?


Well here's the thing about your footer.... You have Flickr Images, Labels, and About Us


The problem is you don't have any flickr images there, and why would your user need flickr images at this point in your site?

I don't really see why. Unless you can explain it in a way that will make sense to us users... Actually no... If you have to explain the point to us, then it's unnecessary.

REmove it.

About Us: you should have that link somewhere instead of it to just be there empty and linking to nothing. You could even switch that out for Contact Us and then have your Contact Details there.

The Labels are okay there.

You could also have a subscribe box here and social media links to remind us to subscribe and follow you on social media.


Okay, wow, I just noticed a mini secondary menu in the lower right of your footer that has a Contact page and About Us... Okay, you need to have those in your primary nav menu STAT.


II. Content.

(i) Okay, you need to work on your headlines.

The formula is to focus on the user.

Think of the BTR (Benefit to readers... yes, I'm making that a thing now) when you're crafting your headline.

Find it, and then communicate it clearly to your readers, without any big english or "senrenre".

For the sake of time, I can't go through all your headlines, but I can tell you if you look at some of them, you'll see that the benefit for reading isn't implicitly clear.

You need to work on that.

(ii) You need to align your images properly.

I've looked at 2 posts and noticed you like to put the image at the top of the post and then the main content starts below.

Try to align your images to the right, so the text starts and the image is there beside it.

We shouldn't have to start scrolling down again to see your content.


(iii) Your grammar and punctuation.

I just looked through 2 posts and I found a few errors. If I look through any more, I think I might find some more.

Try to run spell and grammar checks before you hit publish.

Also, it seems like you just write a first draft of a post and immediately hit "publish".

That aint the way to go.

Look through your posts, read it aloud to yourself. If you find any area that sounds like gbagaun to you, mehn, highlight that and come back to analyse that.

Also make sure, to always run spell and grammar checks, capitalize at the beginning of your sentences, and use the apostrophe mark better.


(iv) Your review posts have a "Buy" text that look like they should be a link, but they're not.

Either link it to the actual product and where it can be bought or remove that completely.


(v) Also, try to make your posts as detailed as possible.

You're writing in the tech niche and standing out here is like trying to be a special needle in a stack of needles.

You need to be unique and actually make some effort.

(vi) Your About Us page doesn't "sparkle"

It's just like mehhhh... Spice it up, make it interesting for us to read.

I honestly didn't read it. You need to work on it.


III. Promotion

You need to do SEO and social media marketing obviously, but I would suggest you solve the content and layout issues above before you try to make your content rank too high.

Well, because right now, your content is not up to par. Advertising that will only make you look bad before you even start.

So, fix those issues first and then you can start thinking of that.


IV. Issues:

(i) What is your selling point?

Why would anyone read your blog instead of Techcrunch?

You need to figure out what your selling point is and who your actual target audience is.

(ii) What is the goal of your site? Is it business or pleasure?

Cos I don't see any subscribe box, or call to action. It's like you don't want to build a list of prospects that you can sell to which leads to the next question..

(iii) What are you selling?

Are you selling a product or a service?

Because I can't see any here.



I think I've given you a lot to think about. Now, let me go and watch STep Up All In... E don tey.

P.S. If you want me to review your site, abeg don't post it on the comments here. Post it here- https://www.nairaland.com/3765331/post-website-blog-here-get .

Appy Uzling!

Whatup. Your review is ready - https://www.nairaland.com/3798935/congrats-realloading.com.ng-confused-user-wey#56523887

Realloading:
http://realloading.com.ng

Okay, I'll try to be nice on this one.

Iffahear.

Your site pissed me off from the get go so please expect this to be one of my "no-offence-but-offence" type of reviews like the one on Yukhub (https://www.nairaland.com/3789349/yukhub.com-next-nairaland-review-probably ) but don't worry, if I sound harsh, just know it comes from a good place...

... and from seeing some very annoying things over and over. I am so writing a blog post about essential elements of a Home page soon.

But before that, let's get on with this review, shall we?

I. Design And Layout

Okay, there's not much of a design here.

I mean, what is that background? tiny bathroom tiles of different colours arranged together to form a background image?

This crazy user is not amused. Your design make him want to punch himself in the face with a hammer.

You need to change that. Get something that's ... well... not bland.

I'm not going to say more than that because if I start, I won't finish this review and there are more serious issues, that, if they were handled, I may not have noticed the background image was bland. Let's move on.

(i) Your domain name.

Okay, how do you tell people about your domain name?

Like, for real, how do you?

Do you have to spell it every single time?

I bet you do. Cos if you just say your domain name, most people will think it's www.reloading.com.ng instead of www.realloading.com.ng.

You already started confusing me from the domain name. But you already have the domain name so it's like crying over spilt milk, but for real, if you can get anoher domain name and rebrand it, that would be cool.


(ii) The first menu at the top of the page is missing a Home tab.

The user needs to be able to find their way back to your home page. This is a must.

(iii) Your Site Title in your header image.

While it must have looked good in Corel draw or Adobe photoshop, it's just ... hmm... not so lit here. Maybe it's the background that has sorta put a damper on everything, but the site title is not really grabbing my attention here. And why did you put the dot com dot ng at the end.

Your brand name is Realloading (shey that's how you spell it), the dot com dot ng should be silent and invisible.

(iv) Your tagline

I'm still trying to figure out what happens at your site, cos up till this point I still don't know. Because there is no tagline. Anywhere.

How am I supposed to know what you're about if you don't tell me?

WE ARE NOT PSYCHIC.

If you don't make it obvious, we won't just figure it out quickly and a huge number of us will just bounce.

Put a tagline there. It's highly needed.

(v) Did somebody kidnap your primary navigation menu?

I mean really?

It's almost as if you built the site solely to confuse us at this point.

How are we going to know where to go on your home page without a navigation menu?

Make one.

(vi) That Breaking News Ticker is in the wrong place.

It should be above right beneath that menu at the top.

Putting it after where your primary navigation menu is supposed to be doesn't really make sense. If it is breaking news, why isn't it at the very top of the page.

The way you put it now, you wrote Breaking news on it, but it's really more like "by the way" news and interrupts our flow.

(vii) What the hell is that ad doing there?

Before I tried to scroll down, I thought this was all there was on your site.

Yeah. True story.

The AD there also didn't help matters. I was about to get annoyed that I had been sent on a ghosthunt to a site that didn't exist or that didn't do anything because I wasn't able to figure out what your site was about..

And no, putting the pertinent information about your site in the Site ID section so that I have to hover with my mouse above the name in the tab in my browser before I know what your site is about is not a clever, ingenious move.

If I wasn't doing a review on your site, I would have left.

There's a concept known in the newspaper industry and on the web as the "area above the fold".

Here's what it means. Take a random newspaper. Any one.

Fold it in two horizontally. The area of the front page above the fold is the "area above the fold". Now if you notice, you can pretty much see a great headline and images that tell you what you'll find in the newspaper. You can decide whether or not you want to read this newspaper just by looking at this area.

On the web, the area that your visitors see when they first come to your site is the "area above the fold".

If this area doesn't catch and hold their attention, they will most likely not scroll down to see what else you have on the site. This means that this area should connect with what brought them to your site.

If it doesn't, they bounce.

So look at that area in your site, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Move that ad to the sidebar, make those changes I have suggested already.

I had to scroll down below the fold to see what your site is about. That is not good.

(viii) Your right sidebar is cluttered with ads and disorganized

I got there and was immediately greeted by an ad.

I'm not going to start dissecting that section because that will take up one too many words.

This is how you should arrange it. Like I said in my last review, this is tried and true:

- Search bar
- Popular/Recent posts
- Categories
- Subscribe box
- Social Media links
- Archive

You can have your ads in between the sections after the first two sections, but not too many ads.

Because too many ads spoileth a home page.

Write that down.


(ix) Your Footer

If people make it this far down your page, which, right now, I doubt, seeing as "I didn't wanna go there" (in my Chris Brown voice), what you're showing them is a Search bar, a Calendar, some copyright thingy, your Site Rank, and DMCA bla bla bla

And the question is "Who you epp?"

The Calendar- unnecessary
The Site rank- pointless
DMCA- mehh, we don't care

What you need down there is a secondary menu, a list of a few interesting blog posts, social media links, maybe a call to action.

Lemme not talk too much before I finish this review at this juncture when I never even talk about your...


II. Content.

Now to the main content section.

If not for your desire to push everything important below the fold, I would have said it's been prominently displayed (which would have been good).

Funny thing is, it's now that I realise it's a site about music. (or is it? I just saw someone commented on a Jenifa's Diaries video.. hmm... this confusion na wa o)

(i) Your headlines

They're alright. I mean, your audience prolly eats this up.

No real yarns here.

(ii) So I click on a post and again I'm greeted by another ad that doesn't let me see anything till I scroll down.

NO. NO. NO.

If I wasn't reviewing this site, swear down I'll be gone.

Okay, I'm not going to suffer through this anymore.

Your ads are way way all over the place. I can barely find what I'm looking for.

You absolutely need to fix that IMMEDIATELY.


I would continue to review, talk about promotion and all but this site is not ready for that yet. Your site is cluttered with ads, the layout needs a lot of work and seriously, YOUR SITE IS CLUTTERED WITH ADS!!

I don't know any user that would suffer through this as I have.

Fix this issues and then I'll do a Re-REview or something.

**Drops pen, keyboard and everything**

By the way, if you're reading this, and you would like me to review your site, please don't post it here, post it here- https://www.nairaland.com/3765331/post-website-blog-here-get ... and if you would like to reach me for any reason, hit me up on whatsapp (+2348147018718)

Okay.

I'm out.

My whatsapp number is +2348147018718

babatee126:
I will like to ask you privately

Can I contact you via whatsapp or fb?

What do you need?

babatee126:
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I need your help bro....

Whatup, your review is ready. See here- https://www.nairaland.com/3797951/round-2-user-wey-dey

babatee126:
you've once reviewed this blog, i will like to see your review again www.9jaboizgist.com.ng