Where my visitors are coming from

Maybe it′s because the main audience you′ve attracted are your friends, family and you yourself? You know, the website feels when you enter it. Your visits also count.

Thanks Loke. I was concerned it was something to do with search code or some other reason.
Regards,
Rose

I like the concept and colors.

However, I think your pages are way too long. I scrolled my mouse 100 times on the first page and I was only about a 30% of the way down to the bottom. Also, the text is a little too small. It’s hard on the eyes.

On the sidebar you have recipes broken into categories, so what’s the point of the first page? Seems to be an endless list of odd recipes with no organization. And if they are organized, it isn’t obvious (to me anyway) because there are so many recipes.

As far as your traffic goes, not sure why it’s only local. My site seems to get more international traffic than local (USA)…so go figure. As Loke mentioned, new sites do tend to get mostly family and friends initially. Are you using an SEO plugin? The site will get more traffic when search engines can find it.

Good Luck,

Nick

Nick,
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve cut the number of recent posts back, it’s much better now. I don’t know how to change the size of the text. I’ve had a look but I can’t see anything obvious. I will keep looking, I agree it could be a bit bigger.
RM

Hey Rose,

You may probably want to go social. I mean you may use Twitter, FB, etc to get connected with the rest of the world.

You are probably using a Cufon font. You may want to use some standard fonts to make the site look normal.

HTH.

Pothi

Pothi,
Thanks for the comments. I am on facebook. I Have listed a lot of recipes on my wall. https://www.facebook.com/pages/fabulousrecipesnet/196734667009345

It seems that the posts are getting some impressions but I don’t know what else to expect.

The font looks ok to me because I have a big screen. You are right, it is a Cufon font. I haven’t seen what it looks like on a smaller screen, like a laptop. I couldn’t find anywhere in the theme preferences that would allow me to change it.
Regards,
Rose M

You are right. I browsed your website on my Dell mini netbook. It looks okay on my primary PC.

Thanks,
Pothi

One thing you might want to do is just include excerpts on your home page. Folks typically only want to see headlines (or a few lines) so the intense scrolling doesn’t have to happen to see all the recipes.

Some thoughts:

Try putting a date on your recipes and adding a bit of human chat – e.g. the dinner party recipe (12th March) doesn’t say how many guests it will serve. And maybe suggest a wine which would go well with it. It contains quite a lot of fish in it, so you might like to say ‘for those who are allergic to shellfish, then an alternative here can be….’

If you have this type of an introductory paragraph as a heading to each recipe, this provides keywords which help you to get traffic. Talking a bit about each recipe is also a way to help people see the recipe in terms of them finding it easy to use.

Take your pashka recipe as an example. There are 1900 global searches monthly for this type of recipe and google turns up 249000 results. If your introduction to the recipe includes the word pashka a few times (3?) you have a chance of coming up in their search. The first on google’s first page had a chef’s note attached to the recipe, giving a bit of background on pashka.

Marshall, I am using the Twenty Ten theme and want to have a frame around some of the photo’s I have posted, like you have done with some of your photos. Can you please tell me how you did that/

I am new to WordPress and can’t figure out how to do it!

Thank you muchly

Nadia

Daisy,
Thanks for the message. I appreciate your suggestions. You explain things very well. I understand what you are saying about the human chat. I will probably go back and do some editing soon. I am beginning to see how search engines work too.

Regards,
Rose

Nadia,

I am new to WordPress too. The photos on the front page have a frame but I didn’t add the frames, they were on the photos when I found them. You could probably do that sort of thing with a drawing program.

Cheers,
Rose

G’day Marshall,

Just a random thought mate,

Do you have Google Webmaster Tools set up on ya site? I know there’s a section in there where you can set a geographical target (eg. target users in Australia).

Site configuration > settings > Geographic target.

Hope it helps at all.

Cheers,

Chris.

Thanks Chris. I haven’t got around to Webmaster Tools yet but I will get there.

RM

Hello,

Your image slider doesn’t seem to be working. I used a long carousel slider on my site: DomainStick.com. You may consider using something like this. Maybe it’s my browser, but the image on your site appears on the right-hand side.

I think you need colorful graphics running across the top of your site. I read a recent article, which I’m forgetting the title of, about the way many people now search by hovering over the little magnifying lens. If you are using a FireFox browser, you’ll see how this option appears. When one hovers over the magnifying glass, you get a quick preview of the site. In the article, the author used the example of food related websites – he showed how someone searching in this area would see the food sites and be attracted to the thumbnail images with food pics. This made me rethink my site!

Ok, I just remembered the guy – he’s following me on Twitter. His name is Alex Wayo and this is his site. The article where he mentions the food websites is really good. He mentions the actual name of the google search feature with the magnifying lens.

Keep up the good work!

Robert