Product's user opinion

How to let visitors post their opinions?

[smagdy]

Hi,

My site is new and its about mobile phones.

so few visitors come from search engines around 50/day (stil site n no advertisment yet)

so they come check phone specifications and leave!

they dont use:

1)Post their opinion
2)Submit their Vote for any mobile
3)Use the poll
4)not even click on adsense

so what should i do more after the effort of buildin the site.

Thanks in advance

[edited by: rogerd at 4:07 pm (utc) on Aug. 5, 2005]
[edit reason] TOS [/edit]

[rogerd]

Part of the problem may be that the people arriving at your site are LOOKING for the product and don't yet have an opinion or anything useful to say about it.

I have no idea if that's true, but if so, how about a totally different approach: a forum (or perhaps a blog) that focuses on answering visitor questions? If you are being hit by a lot of people doing product research, perhaps some of them will post questions.

[etechsupport]

Don't ask for more than you need, make it more relevant and less time consuming.

[smagdy]

Don't ask for more than you need, make it more relevant and less time consuming.

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I didnt get it!

[abbeyvet]

The vast majority of people can't be bothered answering questions/posting opinion. They just want the information they want. If they get that - phone specifications - they will just read it and leave.

Getting people to post reviews etc is not easy, especially at the outset when you don't have a ton of them already.

[smagdy]

but the competitive site has hundereds of opinions and thousands of votes..

i dono if i can do this.. can i read ppl opinions about some products and i rewrite them in my way in my site.. so they represent real opinions then people would reply to them and so on?

[lorenzinho2]

smagdy, you need to find a way to seed your database with reviews. Get some friends to post some initial reviews, just to get things started.

As Abbeyvet says, the probability of folks taking the time to leave a review is low - and it's even lower if there aren't reviews there already.