Review: Good Works 2006

January 14, 2007 in Articles, charity, internet, internet advertising, internet marketing, life, marketing, online advertising, pixel ad, pixel advertising, seo, tag, web sites, web traffic, website promotion, whats hot, world wide web

GoodWorks2006.Com (Link)
Let me start off by saying, if people ask me to review their site, I will, but publicly. I appreciate people thinking my opinion is worthy enough of giving a review of their site, but just let it be known, I’ll review anyones site, but it will be posted on the blog. With that said, Dave from GoodWorks2006.com asked me to review his newly launched site. So here it goes

Immediately when going to the site I noticed the design of the home page is definitely not suited to let the person know immediately what this site is about. Web surfers have a short attention span, and right away my eye wasn’t directly drawn to the main banner or the menu, but the large affiliate banner on the top of the site. After finding out this was mainly a pixel ad site, I wondered why was there a need for a larger than life affiliate banner on the top of the page. If you’re going to be selling ad space, you need to have the ad space be the primary eye catcher, and in this case, the ad space is on the main page but you need to scroll down a page to get to the pixel grid.
Now the site owner David Bland tries to incorporate other things besides the “bland” pixel board, and is good enough to dedicate 25% of the funds raised by the site to charity. He offers some flash games and promises to offer contests and such.
But for me, this site is really nothing to write home about. I’m not compelled to return to the site, nor would I recommend spending $30.00 on a pixel square. Most of all, I don’t know why anyone would incorporate the year into their site domain name. 2006 was last year. :)

2 Replies

  1. David Bland

    January 16, 2007 at 10:31 am

    Dear Site Summoner,

    Thanks (ouch) :-) All are points I’ve been mulling over myself. I’ll go back to the drawing room again. Busy, busy, busy.

    D. Bland

  2. sitesummoner

    January 17, 2007 at 11:37 pm

    David, don’t fret. I just think normal pixel grids cannot succeed. You need to offer something different, and if its selling ads, make them the main focus. No one is going to buy an ad when you cannot see it on the main page, especially when you’re young and still low on traffic.

    -JT


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