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I like what you're getting at but I don't like the design of any of those sites much.

The designs for those sites are very effective and well presented. I am a fan of professionally designed websites with good calls to action.

Originally Posted by Hazo

I like what you're getting at but I don't like the design of any of those sites much.

Agreed. They look like standard designs. Like the free templates you can get. I think maybe for the type of service they offer its ok, but I dont think the page setups would work very well in our niche.

I hear ya, I still think these are good sites to learn from. I do disagree with the free templates comment a little bit though, greatdogsite.com snow.com and chris pirillo's website are all dominant authority websites and they are on templates which have been tweaked and tested for years - in the case of Chris's site and snow.com I know this to be true, greatdogsite is owned by the guy who made shootpaul.com and the site appears to do pretty well so I assume this site has been tweaked and tested heavily... He ranks page 1 for "dogs". There is some simplicity to a few sites listed above I guess, I think this is part of their effectiveness. Thanks for the comments everyone.

Edit: I guess the dog site isn't so dominant, I hadn't really looked at the site in-depth a while.

I agree that good design is key to good flow of traffic. I like some of your suggestions but I think others might bea tad outdated or too "free templates" as cheryle says. When it comes to gabling design you wasnt a clear organization of content where everything the client or viewer is after is easy and direct. You want to show him as many options to stay in your site in a descrete non agressive way and at the same time not being so simple that you just focus on 1 simple topic or section of your whole site.

When it comes to gambling carriers a good exaple of the high importance call to action is the download now button as you want the viewer to do exactly that and start spending some cashola! on the affiliate perspective you want to offer value to your client and attract his attention by creating a comfortable environment that will become his preferred place for inside info and the most up to date news on where on how to spend his money. He wins and you win too.

I've been doing gambling design for lil under two years now and the more you design the clearer it is how important some elements are. If you want to disus a bit about specific sites I would love to provide my personal feedback. Also if anyone's interested please feel free to ask for a free design quote for your site's design

Thanks for chiming in Eyenod. I would encourage anyone reading this to hit up eyenod for design work, he has done great work for me.