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We have made a news aggregator that collects links to several news sources containing cryptocurrency related news.
Please let us know what you think about our crypto news aggregator and if you have suggestions about improvements that we could make to it.

http://www.hotcryptonews.org

If you would like to have your cryptocurrency news site added to the newsfeed please send us a message.

Do you have any suggestions how to attract visitors to this type of new website?

Don't attract anyone yet - they will never come back.  :/

Spend time on your design first.  Site looks like a domain landing page.

Haha, by "domain landing page" I suppose you mean parked domain landing page.

Yes people come back because the site is useful to them I can see it from the ip-numbers. I dont think they come back because the website it is good looking. It is not the primary intention that this website should be beautiful.

Another suggestion though, make your site secure, you know that crypto enthusiast are paranoid about websites that they visited. So seeing your website without SSL, it could possibility influence them not to come back, IMHO.

https://www.coindesk.com/

That has useful news and a much better interface.  :/

(And yes, get SSL.  It's free.)

Thank you for your suggestion. Yes the website will offcourse have SSL in the future.

Contact your hosting provider, probably they have free SSL for you. No need to wait for the future. you should know.
I agree with the previous comment, the design is terrible basically does not exist. I can't see the purpose of news aggregator like this.
Wordpress with free Sassy Social Share plugins and nothing more.

The purpose of the news aggregator is to collect list of links from different sources. It shows a list of recent links in a list that is easy to view both in desktop and in mobile. I don't see how any other special styling of the page would make this functionality better.

In addition to the interface, it is better to improve the news selection algorithm so that the person reaches useful content even if the interface is not attractive "if you want to focus on the texts."

How is news selected? The credibility of the news? News Order? Importance?
It is good to find a mechanism for users to interact with news, such as selecting important news, their favorite news and more.

What he saying is that you should prioritized SSL and don't wait, this should be done ASAP.

We know the purpose of news aggregator and as a reader it will make sense if we can see some good design and style as well. We're in 2020 now, we don't want to see 90's style here, just saying. Probably people come back in your website, (like some of us here) to check if there are improvements, otherwise, we will look for better options. We're giving you constructive feedback here so that you can attract more visitors.

Your website literally looks like it was inspired from craigslist all you have is the headline of the news and the redirect link of it. You haven't provide any kind of snippet towards the content of the news itself which I think will be helpful for readers if they really want to read all the news. Also just by looking at the headlines you have right now I feel that you aren't handpicking your news at all and grab all the news that is coming from crypto news websites, if I were you I would only pick quality news that is good for the time of the readers and not waste their time on such clickbaity headlines.

SSL certificate is the easiest thing you can do to boost your website's seo a little bit. And as Vod mentioned it's free (on namecheap it was free when I purchased).
Don't take it wrongly but your website looks very bad, why do I have to visit your website when I have a cointelegraph with pretty great design? Oh, I will see all news from different websites? Then please fix design, it's the thing that has to attract customers in your case cause you don't write original articles.
Work on seo, it's very hard to maintain good positions in your niche and that's what you need to monetize website and earn money if that's your aim.

Use Cloudflare for SSL and get your 5 friends to start discussing news and topics initially to build momentuum.

Discuss where? There is no discussion section for every single news I reckon. Also, it's a news aggregator site so there is a very small room for discussion when the links are going to take you to another website. The only comment I came across is this http://hotcryptonews.org/index.php/guestbook/


OP- You could be spammed like that if you keep the comment section for whatever it's meant to be.

Well they could have the option of having a comment section in their aggregator if they want to but I don't know how this will work properly on a website that just hands out direct links to the website. They aren't like the press section of the forum where they can paste the body of the article and have a thread for it, they might even be charge by plagiarism just by doing it if they act out like the news is coming from them. So I think news aggregators really don't have that option they might instead focus more on sharing quality news and not just provide what the first thing they see is new in their crypto news sources.

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Cointelegraph has been added as source for news.

A few more sources to choose from ^{[I'm not vouching for any of their writers]}:

• coinwire (https://www.coinwire.com/)
• insidebitcoins (https://insidebitcoins.com/news)
• The Merkle (https://themerkle.com/)
• Coin News Asia (http://www.coinnewsasia.com/)
• Bitcoin Magazine (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/)

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Suggestions:

• Night mode.
• Include each of their respective thumbnails.
• Tag each article/news and implement different filtering options.

The 90s called and they want their web design back.  ;)

But seriously.  I wrote one of these years ago, but what is the point?  There are a dozen apps/websites out there that let you set up your own list of feeds.  Most phones come with a news app built in.  Things like Feedly give you more control and look a bit better.

A few things to think about.  News sites come and go.  They occasionally change their rss feed urls.  You don't want all the articles, you just want the last few days or a weeks worth.  Someone is going to complain that they just want bitcoin news.  

And finally, looks ARE everything.  What is with the yellow border and the page (including header) scrolling inside that?  Weird.  RSS feeds usually include either the text of the story or a snippet.  Display them in a small font under the headline. If it looks like a school project, people will assume it is a school project.