Let’s take a look at some of the sites being built on the Clickincome Clicksitebuilder. Let’s see how they’re being made, and how they’re being promoted. Let’s all study and learn a bit from our colleagues!
Today, I’m going to review SilentFog.com. This is a site built by one of my mentoring colleagues here at Clickincome. He’s done a good job of both building the site and promoting it (it ranks on page 3 of a google search for “Scary Video Games”. Granted, that’s not page one, but it’s still significantly high!
He’s got 35 inbound links at yahoo (you can find that by searching “link:silentfog.com” at yahoo, or any other search engine). That’s a great start. Many of those inlinks come from his e-business articles at e-shoptalk.com.
One of the things that strikes me right off the bat is the color scheme. This is one of Clickincome’s stock templates, but he’s really chosen it well, and makes good use of it throughout the site. It really helps create the dark and eerie mood of a site about getting scared.
What I’m most impressed with in this site is, surprisingly, the writing. Maybe it’s because I know Phil, but I can hear his “voice” in the writing. I know some people that write in a much more formal tone than they speak. Phil keeps it real. He’s got this ease and style to his writing that makes me think that I could be sitting right there next to him, watching him walk through the foggy city of Silent Hill, and having him tell me about it as we’re playing.
He talks about his goosebumps and his heart racing and you can hear in his words how much fun this truly is for him.
Now, I, myself, don’t do “scary”. Frankly, anything more freaky than a Pokemon episode is too much for me. Still, I can see how getting your nerves dancing and your heart racing would be a good time, if you were into that. And reading Phil’s descriptions of the characters and how they interact with the monsters in the game makes that come to life.
Let’s take a look at it, page by page.
A couple of simple graphics, a smattering of text. Just enough to catch my interest. Good job. This is also where the effectiveness of the template and the color scheme comes together for me for the first time, too.
This is Phil’s “About Me” page. Nicely done, with some graphics included from the Silent Hill game, and a movie poster. This is where you first get to know the writer, and get to know his style.
Here he continues on. A design hint for Phil: Embed the graphics in the text, rather than have the picture shrink the text table, pushing things over to the left. Not a big deal, but it would look nicer.
Here, he also goes into a number of sub pages describing the story line of Silent Hill. This is pretty descriptive stuff, and well done in his own style as well, but the navigation gets a bit confusing. Maybe a sitemap page might help. But then again, when I’m playing first person games, I end up a little lost as well, at least until I orient myself to the environment. I’d also encourage him to expand to other scary games as well, perhaps more of the “survival” genre.
This page has a nice haunting graphic on it, but not much else. I imagine that this part of the site hasn’t really been developed yet, in favor of the games. Put some good stuff up here, or take it down. Really, movies isn’t what the site is about anyway…
Finally, he’s set up a site all about the Clickincome opportunity, and about how to set up your own website, about your passion.
All in all, a well created site. It does need some development, as I noted above, but a great effort! Don’t read it in the dark, if you know what’s good for you!
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