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[coolosxapps]

Hi. I have been lurking here quite some time. I have finally gotten around to creating a site and it is starting to get traffic.

It deals with a specific niche community, apple OS X users and it centers on cool osx applications. From apple and 3rd party as apple is open source and people really seem to be creating a lot of apps.

I used apple's logo in my design and my domain has os X in it as well. I am using the traffic to draw conversions from a linkshare program I set up with the apple store. I have pending applications to tribal fusion and casale.

This is my first time so excuse my n00b-ness....In return I will try to be a member of this community and share whatever I have learned.

I am running wordpress.org's blog software [php & MySQL]. I have just bought a bunch of domains and will continue to use this approach of blogging, syndicating, and putting out content to niche markets supported by affiliate ca$h.

Do I have too many ads?

Is apple gonna make me lose the logos?

I have a disclaimer that says I my site is not affiliated with apple. Then I added a whole slew of affiliate links, am I in fact affiliated with apple, and does this statement on non-affiliation make me look like super n00b?

I have also included a sneaky link to apple.com's site after the disclaimer is this considered below the belt?

[Chris]

Yes, too many ads.

A single large banner will convert better than so many small ones, and your banners promoting completely unrelated things like 1800flowers and linkshare need to go.

I would also integrate the Google ads more into the design, the CTR should go up and it'll look less like an ad.

[coolosxapps]

hi. thanks man. I read a great deal of your tutorials and want to thank you personally, err...digitally

I have been tweaking thing since I posted and now I am going to start getting rid of ads based on your recommendation. I may run a listing of text product ads down the side though. What do you think of sneaky text ads?

[Cutter]

Text ads are good. Just do trial and error -- thats really the best way to find these details out.

As for the apple logo you will have to lose it. I know they are particularly sensative about their intellectual property rights.

[coolosxapps]

Thanks chris things look a lot cleaner now, look how I integrated my text ads 'recommendation' into the blog css, I actually have more 'impressions' right now per page and load time has gone way down.

II looked at your sites for the text ideas....i think it integrated nicely.

coolosxapps

[coolosxapps]

I got rid of all but one logo, I still have a huge apple logo as a background. I will take care of that tomorrow along with a css revamping....funny how one can lose complete control of time while pecking away at a new site. for now it's off to bed...

thank you for the help.

[ogito]

coolosxapps, did you tried widh more faded (transparant) backgroung image , sometimes is hard to read the text over the image

[coolosxapps]

ogito...I'm gonna pull the image altogether due to copyright....I will make sure that whatever I use is 'ghosted' more thanks.

[coolosxapps]

Okay,

I have worked out my background problems by getting rid of the damn thing. Ogito wasn't the only person to comment on that.

I have two css files running one for non ie browsers and one for ie. This seems to be a wordpress standard.

Since it is a mac site I figure most of my traffic should come from safari and firefox users, but I will put a little more time into the ie css tomorrow.

Another user suggested I include a screenshot of apps that I am highlighting. Once I get everything listed this will be project 2.

Wordpress was really easy to use and thats coming from someone with just a wee bit of knowledge of php and MySQL.