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November 20, 2007
I've been watching McGrath progress on his 1CoolFile.com's blog directory project since the John Cow review Too cool for school.
Overview
Today, I visited his website again after he left a comment on JohnCow.com about his changes for this new affiliate program.
I can tell that he is improving a lot after he Relaunche Affiliate Program For 1 Cool File. It look like he will succeed on this... soon... He decided to cut the price down to very affordable and appealing. I'm not yet an affiliate on his program so... no profit for me for saying this.
As McGrath requested on his post, I tried to post a comment on his post... but unsuccessful due to blocked IP. So I decided to post it here instead, since it's a long one.
My Humble Suggestions
- There is one quick suggestion I have for the categories: remove the categories with 0 blogs in it. It's just there to keep the screen busy and drive away viewers.
- I reckon he makes a whole sub domain just for the blog directory. So something like http://blogs.1coolfile.com may do the trick.
- His software download section in the main site should be kept and improved. Because after all the site name is "1 Cool File", not "1 Cool Blog".
- This allow him to expend the site later on. Such as adding:
- http://forum.1coolfile.com,
- http://tutorials.1coolfile.com, etc.
- For me I could see a bunch of opportunities you could do with 1coolfile before you want to sell the blog directory service. And yes, it's more profitable than selling few $ /year.
- As for the terms. "Buy Blog Package" might confuse people with actually buying some blog. So McGrath may want to change it to something similar to "Add your blog". Sometimes, the word "Buy" doesn't work as expected, because people just tend to ignore it.
- The site, and especially the front page should be keep in a more sleek design. A good start should be keeping the design compact, clear and less confusing. Too many explanation isn't always helpful. Maybe some JavaScript with the big ? mark button to display instruction might work better.
What's next?
I could feel that it's a promising service. There are more things he need to improve though. I guess McGrath needs more people working for him as employees, or partners.
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0. Thanks for the encouragement
1. It's a good suggestion but it shows the possible categories. I will keep it in mind.
2. Yes, I could do a subdomains but I want to create a marketplace with the file section. Plus, I can't reuse the license for the blog directory. It's not my own source and so I have to learn it bit by bit. "File" is use on the larger sense of the word. Blog on File, Plugin on File ....
4. I see how it could be strange for others. I do have a "Submit a blog". I will have to think about that but I have many of backlinks that goes there.
5. I'm always looking to improve it but I'm more patient on that side.
Thank you for your humble opinions
Steve,
I thought about making a new post to discuss it, since I can't submit a respond to your post on your own blog.
Anyhow. There are a lot more than the 5 points I wrote earlier. And would take us ... maybe a few days, each hour writing 1 blog post... or possibly a few days Yahoo! chat session to discuss everything through.
There is 1 very big improvement you need first before future spending money on advertising it. Until you reach that point, every investment is costing you a lot, same goes to the John Cow review $200 you spent.
The improvement I mean is in a very "cool" design. Yes, you need to restructure your site and re-design it to fit the new blog directory in. It has to look good to the people before they start buying it.
The design may only be overlooked when your site really provide a promising number of traffic. There, it come another issue: numbers.
Well... perhaps... too much for a blog comment. I will post more understandable blog entries as we go along.
I did got your email(you may want to continue there)
But, yes, I'm aware of the look issue. The source came with that basic look that I have tweak a little since(mostly last week). liked it because it was simple and fast to load.
Let's continue this via email.
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