[bookatechie]

RaffleZar
This website has challenged me in many ways including marketing, legal, and usability. I wanted to create a place where people can enter into drawings for free and win prizes funded by the ad revenue they create and by taking advantage of affiliate network revenue.
Since there is no purchase necessary to play, it is more of a free drawing site instead of a raffle site, which is considered gambling and thus illegal in the US.
I think it is ready for marketing so I would just like to have some last minute feedback form the community.

Thank you!

PS: If you have any ideas on how to market this site better, please let me know

[Dylan Phelan]

Sorry to say, but it doesn't look very good. No header? when i read your description i was expecting to see some good graphics...

[stand856]

Background needs to be more alive, alignment in the top portion "The king of online raffles and great prizes" is way off, maybe its my screen settings but too much empty space on the sides.

[bookatechie]

Thanks for the feedback! ... I was actually putting adbrite on it last night and it seems to have messed with my header so thats not intentional ... I will fix it right a way.
As far as plain goes, I'm trying to create something that will load quick and is easy to understand ... the google model ... any suggestions on low bandwidth cost improvements are welcome

[OnTheWayUp]

I like what you have done to your site. It has a crisp, clean layout that is easy to navigate, perfect for wanting to get in, enter the contests, and get out. Painless and well done. I would like to see a better banner w/ better logo.

My 2c.

[bookatechie]

I added a header image now to make the top look a little more interisting.

[OnTheWayUp]

So how's the site going so far? Stats?

[ADVERTISE HERE!]

Originally Posted by OnTheWayUp

So how's the site going so far? Stats?

As an aside:

OnTheWayUp, I saw in your signature a link to your upcoming site, nflpink.com. Be careful when using someone else's trademark as part of your own. I would hate to see you spend time, money, and effort creating a successful business with great brand equity, only to lose it all due to trademark infringement.

[bookatechie]

OnTheWayUp - thanks for asking. It is going slow, only about 50 unique people a day right now. It ranks top 5 for raffle on google but that doesn't get much traffic. I have been workign on trying to get ranking for free wii, free ps3, free psp, etc... those get much more traffic. Ads would be way to expensive for the kind of traffic I need but something like a myspace campaign would probably be excellent. I will try to get it going for a few months and then look for investors if I start to run out of money. Any marketing tips would be most welcome.

[dksuresh]

Your site looks good and simple,
my suggestions are,
add logo to ur website because LOGO is important for a website,
make the heading in image,
add some meta keywords,
and try to make the Menu Attractively....

[SVargo]

The site needs a logo. The site is very boring to just look at. It gives me no feeling I want to keep reading.

The vector flowers at the top gives me the feeling as if it would be a blog regarding flowers because it has nothing to show. Only white background and a small navigation.
You need to bring make people want to read what you're post is saying. Else they probably wont come back.

I've never had a blog so I don't know much about it. But I bet a creative headline will give more focus in reading also. Spice the design up with some graphics.

Also I noticed that you've got images on each post, which is great. Because without a picture I would never read anything. Because a picture will tell you so much.

Simon