Sparkads - Unique PTC Site

[Stalin]

Site URL: http://sparkads.co/
Review Type: Standard Review
Extra Notes: This is a PTC site so membership is required to see the entire site.

 

[John]

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[Ashley z]

The site looks great, but I'm not a fan of the banner ad on the top from AdHitz Ads. It's not the positioning that bugs me, but the ads themselves. They aren't customized to me at all, but I can see that they are targeting people who love PTC, so that's probably okay for most of your visitors. I am mostly bugged by them because the graphics of those ads from AdHitz are a lot lower quality than the graphics of your actual site. That's what makes it stand out so much.

Another thing I would change is the spelling of presentation of your ads on the left.

"Muney!!!!!" just looks very super unprofessional, especially for a website dedicated to PTC and transactions. Online earning and purchases is serious business. I would alter the spelling of that to make it look as professional as possible.


Another thing I recommend changing is the stats on the top. Your member count is nice, and showing how many members you got today is good as well. I'm concerned about the amount of money earned that day being shown though.

I am assuming that $134.88 is the total amount earned from all of the members that logged in that day. If that's the case, I would remove that stat because $134.88 is an average amount of money for one person in a day...but not much at all when it's split between hundreds or thousands of different people. If that number rises to $1,000 or more, put the stat up there, but for now I would leave it out.

That's all the feedback I have for now. Overall, I like the look of your site a lot more than other PTC sites I have seen. It also loads fast which is a huge plus 🙂

 

[John]

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SparkAds
Review by PoH ​

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First Impressions
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At first glance, SparkAds looks very messy. First off, you have your statistics above the logo. The logo is something that your guests should see at first sight, it's something that gives a viewer an image of your website at first glance. Right now, what I see at first glance is a bunch of statistics that seem irrelevant to me at first sight. I'd recommend that you move the statistics to the footer of your website, or maybe even make it its own spot in a footer link. Second of all, there is an ad on the right hand side of your header that is way too big to have right there. It especially looks bad on my small screen and is really "in your face" and would honestly send me away from your site if I was looking for a PTC site. If you need that ad for financial reasons, you need to make it significantly smaller so that it seems to fit in with your header.
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Poor

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Business Aspects
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It's in my own personal opinion that company websites shouldn't have ads. It's just something that looks bad and rather desperate for money. SparkAds, however, has tons of ads. Now, affiliates or even having ad spots for premium members is a very good thing, and it can help with your traffic. Right now, though, it looks like all of your (or at least most) ads are paid for. This is something that looks very unprofessional. Your main focus should be to gain customers to your PTC program, and not to sell ads on a website. You should take a serious look at removing some, if not all of the ads to help appeal to possible customers.
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Poor

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Spelling & Professionalism
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While everything is spelling correctly, you need to work on some of the capitalization in some of your descriptions. In the "MULTIPLE WAYS TO EARN MONEY & ADVERTISING" section on the homepage, things like "Multiple Grids To Earn From Daily" should be "Multiple grids to earn from daily.", for example. Only capitalize a letter if it's referring to a specific service you provide, the first letter in a sentence, or is a name of something specific. This is something that could use some work across the entire site, as I see it repeated in numerous different spots. Everything else looks good in regards to spelling, grammar, and professionalism. It's nice to see that you took your time in writing everything out to maintain proper professionalism to your customers and guests.
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Average

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Final Remarks​

SparkAds needs some work to reach its full potential. You should take a look at things like the clutter in your header, random capitalizations, as well as all the ads on your home page. Best of luck with your site in the future!​

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Your Score​

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[Stalin]

you don't ever put stats in the footer, it's the stats that drive the traffic, it's the one thing most everyone looks for when visiting a GPT or PTC. It tells how active a site is. no one wants to use a PTC that is not active, plus this isn't a forum! Forums by common practice put the stats in the footer. Suggesting to move them here shows your exp in this niche is very limited!

If you know anything about PTC then you know the whole point of the site is to make both money and traffic. You must sell the ads, to pay the members. If you don't do this it is a PONZI scheme which is highly illegal in the USA which is where we operate and where it is hosted.

I would appreciate if we could have a review from someone that knows a bit about this niche. Making a review on a niche you are not familiar with enough; is like throwing gasoline on a fire without an extinguisher for backup. It is very unprofessional.

One last thing I want to point out. We have no control over ads being miss-spelled. If a member wants their ad to look that way that is their right, seeing as they paid for the ad spot.

 

[Stalin]

The site looks great, but I'm not a fan of the banner ad on the top from AdHitz Ads. It's not the positioning that bugs me, but the ads themselves. They aren't customized to me at all, but I can see that they are targeting people who love PTC, so that's probably okay for most of your visitors. I am mostly bugged by them because the graphics of those ads from AdHitz are a lot lower quality than the graphics of your actual site. That's what makes it stand out so much.

Another thing I would change is the spelling of presentation of your ads on the left.

"Muney!!!!!" just looks very super unprofessional, especially for a website dedicated to PTC and transactions. Online earning and purchases is serious business. I would alter the spelling of that to make it look as professional as possible.


Another thing I recommend changing is the stats on the top. Your member count is nice, and showing how many members you got today is good as well. I'm concerned about the amount of money earned that day being shown though.

I am assuming that $134.88 is the total amount earned from all of the members that logged in that day. If that's the case, I would remove that stat because $134.88 is an average amount of money for one person in a day...but not much at all when it's split between hundreds or thousands of different people. If that number rises to $1,000 or more, put the stat up there, but for now I would leave it out.

That's all the feedback I have for now. Overall, I like the look of your site a lot more than other PTC sites I have seen. It also loads fast which is a huge plus 🙂

The total earned is the total amount that members have earned on the site. not the amount a user can earn daily or the amount earned that day.

As for the ads block, those are members ads and we have no control over their grammar. if members pay for an ad, we give them the right to present it as they feel is most appropriate for themselves.

 

[Ashley z]

The total earned is the total amount that members have earned on the site. not the amount a user can earn daily or the amount earned that day.

As for the ads block, those are members ads and we have no control over their grammar. if members pay for an ad, we give them the right to present it as they feel is most appropriate for themselves.

Okay, I understand. I would remove the amount earned for a bit. It's a low number and might drive people away because they feel they won't earn that much.

Your name is Stalin, you should be more controlling 🙂 I do stand by my point that you should fix the grammar. You want your site to look professional, so maybe requiring proper grammar for ads from your members is a good way to do that. It's up to you, but I don't think that guy would care if you made it only have 1 exclamation mark and have Money spelled correctly.

Good site regardless.

 

[Stalin]

The total earned is the total amount that members have earned on the site. not the amount a user can earn daily or the amount earned that day.

As for the ads block, those are members ads and we have no control over their grammar. if members pay for an ad, we give them the right to present it as they feel is most appropriate for themselves.

Okay, I understand. I would remove the amount earned for a bit. It's a low number and might drive people away because they feel they won't earn that much.

Your name is Stalin, you should be more controlling 🙂 I do stand by my point that you should fix the grammar. You want your site to look professional, so maybe requiring proper grammar for ads from your members is a good way to do that. It's up to you, but I don't think that guy would care if you made it only have 1 exclamation mark and have Money spelled correctly.

Good site regardless.

will take your critique into consideration.

To the staff reviewer I think you are confused as to what a logo is supposed to be. It has nothing to do with the feel of your site it is an image that will be on everything related to your company, for instance Google's logo is a G inside a square, it's used on all of their products. logo's are so customers can recognize a product is your by that logo. that is all it is.
example:

is FP logo not this

the second image is a header image that may or may not include a logo. The two are not one in the same. the header image shows the name of the site, it is not made to convey anything other than the name of the site and/or the site slogan.

 

[Cosmic]

Not a fan of the site's design, myself. Some of the stock imagery looks a little bit cheesy, you know what I mean? 😛

Also, the gradient for the menu bar feels a little bit "odd" to me. Overall, the design is pretty flat (such as the header background), but the gradient isn't, so it ends up feeling kind of inconsistent.

The bevels on the "Members," "Advertiser" buttons also feels odd. And finally, the gradients on the "Premium Sponsors," and "Member Links" sections look unprofessional and I think unnecessary. Overall, I think you site would be greatly improved if you remove some of the gradients and make it flatter.

Also, some colors feel a little bit out of place. For example:

The background color really isn't used anywhere else on the site, so it feels a bit odd when this color is introduced, once you click on of the sub-pages. Also consider this:

I don't think the bright green and the greenish blue go very well together there. And this style of table headings isn't consistent with other table headings which are found throughout the site.

I also agree with John that the ads are a bit overwhelming.

So, overall, I think your site needs to be made flatter and more consistent, preferably with less ads as well.

Good luck! 🙂

 

[Stalin]

Not a fan of the site's design, myself. Some of the stock imagery looks a little bit cheesy, you know what I mean? 😛

Also, the gradient for the menu bar feels a little bit "odd" to me. Overall, the design is pretty flat (such as the header background), but the gradient isn't, so it ends up feeling kind of inconsistent.

The bevels on the "Members," "Advertiser" buttons also feels odd. And finally, the gradients on the "Premium Sponsors," and "Member Links" sections look unprofessional and I think unnecessary. Overall, I think you site would be greatly improved if you remove some of the gradients and make it flatter.

Also, some colors feel a little bit out of place. For example:

The background color really isn't used anywhere else on the site, so it feels a bit odd when this color is introduced, once you click on of the sub-pages. Also consider this:

I don't think the bright green and the greenish blue go very well together there. And this style of table headings isn't consistent with other table headings which are found throughout the site.

I also agree with John that the ads are a bit overwhelming.

So, overall, I think your site needs to be made flatter and more consistent, preferably with less ads as well.

Good luck! 🙂

Thank You! a much better review then the official one which didn't touch base on things needed to know. Thank you for pointing out the gradient issue and colors issues. Thank you for joining the site and looking at the insides. something which the offical reviewer did nothing of the sort and gave excuses why they couldn't and made up rules.

 

[Ash]

I think that the theme and design of the site is good although a little work could be done to improve it. Most sites that are PTC usually have unprofessional site designs but yours is not that bad and they usually overwhelm you with advertisements. Although you do have quite a few ads on your homepage, its much better than other sites I've seen. I would agree with what was said above that the Total earned so far is not the best to display as it isn't that much

 

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