Domain Portfolio website.

[Preciousmetals]

Hello All,

Just finished setting up a domain portfolio website for myself.

Did everything (html, Design, SEO, listings, description, htaccess etc...) in few hours, id say about 4-6 hours or so, with a lot of brain farts lol. besides the contact form, that I used a script for.

Check it out let me know if you see something I should tweak or if you are interested in setting something up similar to what I did send me a message and we can work something out

DomainArchery.com

Regards,

( prices on DomainArchery.com do not reflect prices I post on DNforum. )

 

[thehostdir]

Good work .

 

[Preciousmetals]

Thank you!

 

[vital]

If I were you, I would remove ads... portfolio site with ads looks less serious [IMO]

 

[Domonetise]

Hello All,

Just finished setting up a domain portfolio website for myself.

Did everything (html, Design, SEO, listings, description, htaccess etc...) in few hours, id say about 4-6 hours or so, with a lot of brain farts lol. besides the contact form, that I used a script for.

Check it out let me know if you see something I should tweak or if you are interested in setting something up similar to what I did send me a message and we can work something out

DomainArchery.com

Regards,

( prices on DomainArchery.com do not reflect prices I post on DNforum. )

Hello Preciousmetals.

Overall your site looks good and you have the alignment pretty much spot on. What I would suggest though is reducing the border size on your tables to 1 or 0. The picture frame is more prominent than the picture. I think your domain names would stand out better without the WWW and ( ) around the description and also the links and prices 2 different colors, use the white space to the max.

Your Call To Action "Want to Buy, Rent, Or borrow a domain name listed on Domain Archery?
"Click Here!" " would be best placed above the fold before the need to start scrolling down the page, rather than at the bottom.

IMHO

Jack

 

[Preciousmetals]

Thanks for the info.. definitely gonna make lots more changes.

 

[Biggie]

Hi

"quality domains for your online presence" < make that fit all on 1 line in the banner

change banner background color, make different than page background

change "borrow" domains to "lease domains"


review all those short descriptions for each domain, as some start off capitalized, some are not. some of the same words used are caps in reference to some names and then not capped when used to refer to other names, be consistent.


get rid of "pink" color, use med or dark blue, put price in black


move all adult names to separate page


nothing wrong with having adsense, for tracking and possible revenue, imo

Good Luck!

 

[Tia Wood]

No offense but the site looks a little spammy with all those different link colors and it's kind of hard to read.

 

[Domonetise]

Instead of Arial Black, try Arial as it's less chunky. Calibra and Candara are also classy readable fonts.

Got to agree with "Biggedon" you've got to go over all of your text and be consistent. Ask friends/relatives to surf your site and give you honest feedback as to how their experience was.

That's better with your own banner at the top, more chances for your links to be clicked. The tables are looking much better, try reducing to 0, not an empty container but 0 with the border colorless. This should give the appearance of the whole table standing out from the page.

Jack

 

[Preciousmetals]

Thanks for the feedback everyone,, Really appreciate it and am going to be making lots of changes until it suits my needs.

 

[silentg]

1. IMO site looks like it's from the 90s. Check out ThemeForest.net for some one page lander designs.

http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=✓&term=sale&categories=site-templates&sidebar_redirect=true

2. You're linking to parked domains and it violates the Sedo TOS. You should change the links to point to Make Offer page.

I would've used a CMS like Wordpress or Drupal to build out the site. Easier to update.

 

[Theo]

I've asked Sedo about linking domains and there is no problem as far as a portfolio is concerned. However, portfolios require quality because you're exposing everything to the world, including potential buyers.

 

[Preciousmetals]

I agree 100%, The site is old school style lol.. I'm working on a custom template was just eager to get something out asap so did it in a day. I've used wordpress countless times and currently have a few sites with it, But a lot of things frustrate me with it.

Working on several things, Gonna get a news section up for domain sales stats, Latest news, High priced sales etc.

Also going to work on static sub-domains for other private sellers to list their domains.

Thanks for the feedback, appreciate the great ideas.


Did a little re-design on the front so it wouldn't look so old school lol

Still playing with a better grid to display all the domains.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Did everything (html, Design, SEO, listings, description, htaccess etc...)

What do you need the .htaccess for?

Apache advise against using them if possible for performance and security reasons:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#when

 

[Preciousmetals]

I used htaccess to rewrite NON www domains to WWW domain or else that would cause duplicate content.. I also used the htaccess file to rewrite all 404 pages to my contact page.

Yeah you could use URL rewrites.. But that is not good and will cause problems with your SEO down the road.

---------- Post added at 02:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ----------

Question for those with experience on domain portfolio websites..

I'm thinking that I should remove prices from my site since the domain sales can be so negotiable and

at times exceed your expectations if sold to the right customer.. So would you say leave prices on

on the website for the domains, Or remove prices to negotiate better.. If you have had better experience

with either or please advise.. Thank you

 

[Charles Sweeney]

I used htaccess to rewrite NON www domains to WWW domain or else that would cause duplicate content.. I also used the htaccess file to rewrite all 404 pages to my contact page.

Yeah you could use URL rewrites.. But that is not good and will cause problems with your SEO down the road.

You could use PHP for that (some code I wrote to redirect from www to the non www). No need to use the .htaccess:

if(substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],0,4) == "www.")
{

$domain = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],4);

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://" . $domain . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

exit;

}

I've had sites since 1998. Been living off them for the past ten years. Currently have $88K beside my name on Flippa. I've never used a URL rewrite and I've never worried about SEO other than following Google's common-sense guidelines (one hour's work to read them). I would advise others to do likewise.

 

[Preciousmetals]

Nice script, I have in the past seen many with php , javascript but what i noticed was the page would load, then redirect to another at least the javascript one I used did that never tried with php or maybe i did just don't remember.

I have a few sites on flippa but struggling to sell them at my reserve, Hopefully success is in the near future.

Regards

 

[Preciousmetals]

I threw on a forum section which will allow free domain sales and discussion, I will also be posting some of the interesting latest news since I am always researching day and night and love sharing stores with all domainers.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

Nice script, I have in the past seen many with php , javascript but what i noticed was the page would load, then redirect to another at least the javascript one I used did that never tried with php or maybe i did just don't remember.

I have a few sites on flippa but struggling to sell them at my reserve, Hopefully success is in the near future.

Regards

I wouldn't use JavaScript for anything important as it relies on the visitor having it enabled.

Have you tried selling your sites here? In recent years I have only used Flippa for selling sites and recently sold one on this forum. I would say if you don't get your price here or on Flippa, you won't get it anywhere.

In which case you would need to sell them without a reserve to realise their actual value (i.e. what someone is prepared to pay for it). You might have to bite the bullet and sell them for very little money or give up on them completely, which would actually be doing you a huge favour as you could turn your attention to something that sells.

Best wishes.

 

[webdom]

Your site does not work. You can view mine for ideas. Zdud.com