Website Review
Ok let me start out by saying, I am NOT trying to advertise. I have just created a website for my new business entity and hoped some of the more experienced amongst you might take a peek and offer some improvement suggestions? I won't post the site or anything until you guys tell me yay or nay on this. I don't want to getbooted for trying to advertise
Thanks
Joe
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Joe,
I looked at you web site, well done. I hope you have much success with your endeavor.
John $Cash$ Locke
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Hey, Joe! Congrats on getting your website up and running! It feels good to have a home on the 'Net, doesn't it.
A few suggestions for you:
- You might want to break up your home page text a bit with some graphics (pictures of homes you've worked on, yard signs, whatever attractive something you've got on hand). You have about 3 seconds to grab your visitor's attention, and some people might not be grabbed by plain text, alone. Keep in mind that the graphics should be small , both in size and in kilobytes, so they don't affect the page load time too much!
- Coming from an English M.A., you should use a spell and grammar checker to go through the text. There are some errors with punctuation and apostrophes, in particular.
- I know this is obvious, but be sure to remove all references to the FrontPage template, such as "www.yourdomain.com" and "Your Company Here".
- Suggestion - several of your pages have your email address on them, but I'd suggest putting it (or your preferred contact method) on EVERY page! Many folks will never get past the home page, so if it isn't there, you could lose out on some contacts.
My $.02!
- Mandi
Joe:
You are off to a good start. This is what I would advise:
-Offer a Free Report so that you can start building your list. You can go to www.aweber.com and sign up for their service. They have a great list building tool. You could offer some type of free report that people could opt in to and you you could set up on an autoresponder to deliver the report to people over a 3-4 week period. This builds credibility. Once you build credibility, the sky is the limit...
Your goal should be to generate leads- convert to customers-backend and upsell. Kind of like when you go thru the drive-thru at McDonalds, would you like to super size it!
I would also recommend later on down the road you have a professional copywriter revise you copy to be very compelling. Check out www.successdoctor.com. This guy is world reknown....
In terms of traffic, you can do it the 'classic' way and that is to start paying for it thru PPC ads, ezines, joint ventures, etc...
Best Regards,
Jeff Adam
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Wow thanks for all the great responses and the suggestions!
Joe
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For traffic, I used trafficbuilder. It submitted to just about every serach engine out there. I got it free when I signed up to host my site
Joe,
Add the following to your HTML source just below you existing keyword META TAG.
<meta name="Robots" content="All">
This tells the various search engines that wil find your website using robots (just about all of them) that they can search your entire site for additional key words. Also, there is no limit to the number of key words,phrases you can include in your keyword list. Try to think of all of the key words someone might use in Google or Yahoo that you would want to make bring up your site in their search engines.
HTH,
Robert
(web programmer)
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