SITE REVIEW: AuctionBump.com

Yes Azoundria, I have read your post and I thank you. I haven't had time, I will try to correct it tonight. Thanks you so much, I had not viewed it in FIREFOX.

I do appreciate your comments, again thank you for your time and effort!

The layout of everything is great, it's just a little dull.

I would try using a different font, I think you could improve the look a lot with a simple font change (on the main auction listings section)

Also, I don't like the black background, it clashes with the colors of the main site, try some different ones.

What resolution is your screen? I open FIREFOX and it looks FINE? I even changed resolutions and still everything is FINE?

Please advise, thanks!

Alright, I'm going to show you what I mean. Look at the following picture. It is a screenshot of your site with each element turned into a red square. The blue lines are used to show how unaligned every element of the page is.



And here is a picture of what your site could look like with a little bit of alignment. Only two elements have been resized - the height of the 'Please visit these other fine auctions' and the 'Buy Scripts'.



I hope you can see what a big difference this makes to the layout.

Wow, now I see what you are talking about... I really appreciate your time, thanks for doing this for me. I will "re-align-it" tonight. Thanks!

Looking forward to seeing it aligned. When you're finished with that you can think about my other suggestions:

1) And Introductory Paragraph
You could easily add this above the main text - which to the unenlightened appears as random text like you would find on an ad farm. This would also help with SEO - as you could actually explain to the search engine what your page is about.

2) Condensed Footer
There is no reason why you need 3 lines in your page footer. You could easily condense them into one and produce a more organized effect.

Current Footer:


Improved Footer:


3) Less Links
I dont think anyone is going to click all the links - and your site looks really bad to search engines to consist of so many links all stacked together. Perhaps limit the link display to 20 links and put the others on a second page.

I'm not sure how Ebay works with voting but perhaps you could also consider a 'Vote All' feature which would open a frameset with every link in one frame.

i like the idea behind this site....but im not so keen on your design....sorry to say so.

Not bad,but I think the design is to clean
not interactive, try to add some great content like news or other static content.

The thing is, I didn't figure out what the web site was for right away. It wasn't obvious what I should do?

I think I would have a graphic or link near the top or on a menu to take you to a place that will explain the purpose of the website.

Also, I would make it more obvious how to add a bump.. you have your Free Auction Bump right next to other auction graphics... I would separate that out... put it right above the graphics.

You might think about putting bullets or numbers or something where your list of auctions are. It is difficult to read IMHO.

Wow you all are wonderful and your ideas will all be considered. I got bogged down with lots of sales today so I will try to get to these ideas tomorrow. This site OZZU and you people ROCK! THanks!

Hmmm, a simply yet highly interactive approach to internet marketing, the concept i believe is an upgrade to the classified ads marketing strategy.

I believe commenting on the technical stuff here is repeating all the concerns that have aready been discussed.

Recommendations:
1. Put a sign-up-form for would be bumpers and set up a maling list, establishing a user database.
2. Set up a top 5 bid per position paid option for serious advertisers/
3. Free members compete for the number 6 position and below positions/
4.Bids can be had on a PPC or CPA basis
5. Co-op the advertising strategy say a revenue share option for persons interested in helping to finance a global blitz of this cool concept.
6.Set up an affiliate program for publishers who send traffic to the bump page
7. If all else fails insert a google search box, google adsense or paid text link ads.
8. Email me pronto as I myself am thinking of a co-op strategy where I could exclusively employ the use the bumpers' methodology
7.

I still don't get it ... What does it mean to "bump" something? Sorry If I'm a bit slow ...

The site is not bad. The colors look a bit bright.

I saw that some of the links were not aligned properly.
At the bottom of the table there are some of the links that are cut off.

I woul put all the links in a ordered lists.

Try and make the images a certain width and height all the time, it looks strange at some points. Also, try to make the top bar like the header another color to bring attention to certain parts of the site. I mean at the top of ozzu its black, but yours is all white, it looks too basic imo.

Basically its free advertising for your ebay auction, store, or myspace page. When you add your link you BUMP the rest down one. Also, auctions are added with my affilate id so when someone buys an item via a link from mysite I get paid commission. I sell these scripts as website enhancements to the many ebay related website out there where they add there affiliate id so when someone buys an item via a link on there site they get commission from those sales.