Help regarding my website - people understand it as a blog
Hello,
For the last half a year I have intensely been putting myself into the project which I am working on. Gaming discussion platform (yeah there are many of those but I do not care). I have visitors coming mostly through google.
here is the page: https://www.gamestegy.com/
The struggle is that, when I talk with people about it they think of it more as my personal blog. However, it is a platform where people can post things, write their own guides/tips/strategies etc. Well 95% of posts are made by me so that is probably the impression. But it is hard to attract people without paying them until this gets more popular.
How would I communicate to visitors that this is a gaming knowledge platform where they can share the knowledge? I would be glad if someone looked at it :)
Cheers!
Hi Rokas,
I see that you want to build a community of gamers that talk and breathe about games on Gamestegy.
The problem is that currently the message / the copy is about the gaming platform. Make it about gamers. Here are some suggestions:
You get the idea where I am going. Talk more about community and gamers who will build Gamestegy as a gaming knowledge platform. Put your users / visitors first and platform will be the result because of them.
Hope it clicked something new with you. Best of luck.
Hey, thank you for suggesting this angle. I will try to take this approach in the future :)
Hi Rokas.
Congrats for the site, it is very nice.
I am not a gaming fan but if I can tell you what I think, I help it could be useful.
In my opinion, you should change the "WRITE A POST" button to make it bigger and with a different red color.
That way when someone enters the first thing he or she sees is that anyone can post.
I think the button now is so small that perhaps no all visitors can appreciate it and they just jump to read the feeds.
Another thing that you could do is to add some text on top of each game image to make it more clear that not just you wrote about these games.
For example you could write "15 people wrote about it" or "15 collabs"
Br.
Ricardo
Hey! Nice, I did not think about "15 people wrote about it" This is really cool :) What would you do on mobile? It is not my target device, but the traffic is so big that I do not want to miss it
In mobile you could add an alert with a red box that pop ups when you open the site saying "Hi there! Do you know you can write your own post"
I am not a designer, just these is a thought but perhaps someone else with more idea can tell you something better to add
I thought about these, but won't they damage my SEO. This is I think the biggest concern for me