guys, i'm very new to this. I own the website picturesongold.com. I'd really like an in depth crtique of my site. I'm not happy about a lot of things and would like it to be a little more user friendly. If anyone can help me get as detailed as possible i'd really appreciate it. You won't hurt my feelings so please be as blunt and as brutal as possible.

Thanks

Dan

picturesongold.com

Hi Dan,

At first glance, it appears that your site is fairly well organized. You have a lot of choices for navigation on the homepage i.e. top links, top header nav, and left hand navigation. That is a lot of navigation to choose from right at the start and may overwhelm a user trying to decide where to go.

In addition to that, you have a lot of images on your site; they practically dominate the homepage above the fold. This isn’t very good from an SEO perspective and also can impact your page load times for users on different internet speeds. Consider losing some of the images that are not necessary and optimizing or resizing some of the existing images that you feel need to stay on there. A cool tool that you should use is the web page analyzer. It will give you some feedback on your site.

I am confused by the very top bar of images across the top of your site. I don’t think that adds or does anything to enhance your homepage and it actually makes it look kind of like an affiliate marketing website.

Lastly, the links at the very bottom – those are good links to have for SEO value, but I am curious why do you have links to “nfl news and the latest religion news”? That is very confusing to me and I don’t understand the point.

I do like the layout of your product pages. It is organized well for the various options that you provide a user when purchasing jewelry.

Hope that helps.