Website Review and Suggestions

**seolman** · 04-24-2007, 11:57 PM

This site is about 3 months old and we still have a lot of work to do to it but I would certainly appreciate a looky-see, especially by a few of the moderators, to give me some pointers on how to improve the rankability of the site (that sounded rank didn't it...?)

http://www.trycostarica.com

Those who provide the most constructive comments have free beer waiting for them in Costa Rica... (just need to get here).

**cbeaudin** · 04-25-2007, 12:44 AM

Pros:
1. I like the layout, i think it works well.
2. Well chosen colors, not to straining.

Things to consider:
1. There seems to be a few div problems in IE6
2. I would change the font size so its not a fixed pixel size. In IE you can only change the size of the headings. The paragraph text is to small for comfort (for me anyways)
3. I would add padding to the pictures in the content area (i think it would give it a cleaner look)

Hope that helps.

**seolman** · 04-25-2007, 12:54 AM

Thanks cbeaudin,

Great feedback.

**Jalpari** · 04-25-2007, 05:48 AM

ur layout and color scheme is nice . carry on

**BruceWayne** · 04-25-2007, 05:58 AM

Nice lay out! The problem is text alignment.

**Minfoman** · 04:57 PM

I like it a lot. The colors are perfect for the theme. I would make a couple suggestions, but honestly nothing huge.

I would try two things and see how they look:

1. The color of the font on the right nav bar: The dark green matches the theme but it blends in and doesn't stick out. I'd experement with a color that sticks out more and see how it looks, maybe a white, yellow or orange like the pic on top. It might look better or make your links "pop" more.

2. I alway like to read about "what your all about" first. So I may move the second paragraph up to the very top. This way the first thing you do is tell people what you are and why your here.

Good luck, I am dying to go to Costa Rica, Do I get a beer?

**Minfoman** · 04-25-2007, 12:09 PM

A couple other things on rankability....
-You have some of your meta tags repeated twice when I viewed your source, this may get you penalized.
- Some of your keywords are too broad ie. hotel, travel. You do not want to compete in these categories, they are to competitive and too many. Try narrowing them a bit. 10-15 in the meta tag. Focus on Costa rica specific ones. Eco-travel is a good one if people are searching it. Costa rica vacations is good maybe try Costa rica hotels too. It's useless to try to compete with people on a word like luxury or hotels, the big guys got those covered.

good luck

**vkw91** · 04-25-2007, 12:21 PM

I love your header!
Its a shame (like always) that theres loads of adsense...it seems to overwhelm it a little... The horizonal one looks fine but a think it would look neater with out the vertical one...its would then give you a lot more content width...
Also before i forget, opera's text wrapping is a little close for confort (see attachment)

Good luck.

**sponks** · 04-25-2007, 02:30 PM

Very nice website and well chosen colors.

Works fine

**grage** · 04-28-2007, 03:29 PM

nice and cool

**zig** · 04-29-2007, 07:24 PM

It's a nice looking site, I'd stick around and read info on it... it's a bit tall but loaded quickly on my cable connection. The ads fit in nicely but still caught my eye.

**loganeast** · 04-29-2007, 10:04 PM

I really like it. Excellent work. I think you should take comments about the text sizing to heart.

I really like it. Great job.

AdSense is kind of a regrettable necessity...

**ukgamblingforum** · 04-30-2007, 01:27 AM

urls of your "sitemap" style footer links are not particularly seo-friendly..
add a DTD.
good job.!

**davidshaw** · 04-30-2007, 10:34 AM

Nice clean site, good layout, easy to use

**xoxbxfx** · 05-02-2007, 12:22 PM

Looks good...very easy and clean.

**anwipr** · 05-02-2007, 07:12 PM

I agree with the comments above. The only thing I might suggest is splitting up the content on the home page, maybe make them seperate pages and have a well-organized menu or something. There was so much text on the first page it didn't really make me want to start read it. Otherwise, great.

**tycoontalk** · 05-05-2007, 08:29 PM

Cool design. Id say switch the google ads with the navigation bar.