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Launched Freshgrads.Info (kinda IndieHackers for College Fresh Graduates)

by Abdul Majed
https://www.freshgrads.info/land/

Larger purpose is to serve as an information platform for College Grads

https://www.freshgrads.info/land/

This is my poor landing page. The idea and philosophy behind this is mentioned here: https://www.freshgrads.info/post/welcome-to-freshgrads-info/

How can I take this further? Please help. Would really appreciate your feedback

Abdul Majed's avatarAbdul Majed
submitted this linkon August 15, 2019
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    So really, this is not a landing page (that's ok). It is more an incomplete website.

    the /land page - what's the plan with this? Mostly it's an in your face email subscribe form with no reason for anyone to opt in. Why is the homepage not being considered as the landing page?

    I would:

    • minimise what is in the nav bar, remove almost everything apart from the 'stories' you are publishing.
    • having 'blog' in the nav bar seems wrong, this should probably be 'interviews' or 'stories'
    • the images on the posts seem to take up a lot of space without adding much value
    • consider making the homepage the landing page rather than just the latest posts and focus in on a message of how you are helping grads solve their pain
    rosiesherry's avatar rosiesherry
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      First of all, Thank you so much for responding when no one did.

      • The reason why I've not considered home page to be landing page is because it'd seem "in the face" when someone lands.
      • I wanted to focus more on content at the starting than collecting email so decided to keep the latest posts in there
      • Thanks for that blog -> stories thing, that i'll change.
      • nav bar is definitely cluttered not sure how to get the other things placed in there. Organic traffic is none at the moment so kept those buttons like share a story to collect if someone's interested
      • Images, The only reason I've kept images in there is because that actually pushes people to share their story but Agreed on the fact that it takes a lot of real estate.
      • Thanks for the Landing page optimization - Will work on it.

      Thank you @rosiesherry very much for your responses. If you don't mind, I've got a question, Do you know if these kind of sites can be submitted to PH?

      Abdul Majed's avatar Abdul Majed
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      7 years ago
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        I think it can be submitted to PH, but you would want to improve it a lot first and have a bunch of proper stories in there.

        You could probably have many of the nav links in the footer, when starting out it's best to focus efforts into one specific thing and really (I guess) you want people reading those stories.

        Do you even need the /land page? I would guess not, just stick to making the homepage and findability of stories as easy as possible. And perhaps terminology of 'landing page' is confusing what you are specifically asking for right now?

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          Thanks again. I got your point. Right now the home is linked to showing latest posts. I'll leave it as it's. I'll check the design to see if i can move navbar links to the footer.

          My bad for using the word Landing page, Ultimately i wanted to improve the entire site look and your points are really useful and i'll work on that. One more thing to request your idea about, if you don't mind please:

          Currently I'm reaching out to students in India from my contacts but I guess this will be useful only if it's more diverse, Do you have any suggestions for me to reach students outside India - I contact people mostly through linkedin.

          Thanks a lot @rosiesherry

          Abdul Majed's avatar Abdul Majed
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