Negative Reviews - MVP feedback
Can you please review my MVP for https://negative-reviews.com?
I worked on my first review for the OnePlus 6t and currently driving traffic with a very modest £5/day on Adword.
The idea is to focus on the negatives of products, because most review sites seem positive biased.
Your webpage looks more like a Negative Sales Page put up by the company itself. (Looks good but it's isn't "reviews" at all.)
I would rather have it somewhat similar to IH forum, each user verified with at least 2 social media (for social proof) and then reviews divided by category. (I mean, let people do all the reviewing!) . Also newsletter is not of much use because of lack of double co-incidence of your reviews and customers wants.
Also, if possible, grab all the amazon reviews < 2 stars for the product and embed them!
Handling user content would be much more complicated and less organised, but maybe I can merge the two!
Thanks for your comment.
I really like the concept behind this. If you built up a sizable list of trustworthy reviews, I'd definitely use it before buying anything, and I'd be happy to use the Amazon link so you get a commission (and I think you did a good job of making that clear without seeming too pushy).
As @dsullivan mentioned, I think my main issue is that it sort of seems like this is a single-purpose site just for this one review. I get that it's an MVP, but I'd suggest making a really simple home page which links to the one review you have. This would (a) make it more clear that you plan on adding more reviews and (b) start building SEO juice at whatever the long-term URL is for this review. It's quality content, but you'll eventually have to move it to its own page and you might lose whatever ranking you built up in Google at that point.
I'd also suggest adding a form to join an email list. If someone likes this review, they might want to find out when you post more.
In terms of content and design, I'm pretty happy with it. I think the grid approach might be a bit limiting (like if one section has a lot more content than the other ones in the same row). That's a bit of an issue with the "No headphone jack" section, but it's not a big deal. The "Curved screen cuts off content" seems like the most impactful section of the page, so I could argue that it should go above the other content (like "here's the one big insight, and then here's the rest of the review") but that's just nitpicking.
One final note: the "share" icon in the footer doesn't do anything for me.
Thank for your feedback!
I'll try to move the page in an SEO-friendly way, and to make a homepage/about us/listing page! I'll also add a mailing list for feature reviews!
The template limited me in the elements I could use in the site because I like this template, but it had very few features. Moving forward I think I'll have to fall back to a slightly interesting but more capable template.
I know that there is a problem with the share icon but I can't reproduce it myself! So annoying!
Thanks again!
I like the concept of the site. Since you're focused on negative reviews I hope you're open to me starting with negative reviews of the site :).
Negatives:
I expected the OnePlus review to be the first of many reviews on the site. It seems it's the entire site.
It's hard to follow the negative reviews since there are so much graphics and scrolling involved just to read a few reviews. I was expecting something to similar to amazon reviews but focused on the 1-star reviews.
Shouldn't there be a way for users to submit their own negative reviews?
The "Still interested" section just looks like another review block. I was confused for a second.
Positives:
One of the things I do first when buying from Amazon is to read the 1-star reviews. If it's all just shipping problems or issues with items showing up broken I know I'm good to go.
Thank you for taking time to write this, and yes, I'm looking for constructive criticism.
I'm definitively proud of how quick it loads :)
cool idea!
Thank you!