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New Website launch, asking for feedback
// PLEASE IGNORE THIS RESPONSE, AM TESTING SOMETHING. THANKS!! // One thing I would add is a "Book Services" button or "Request a Quote". I have used this technique on tons of my sites with amazing success. It allows people to feel like they are actually buying something and it takes people from "information requesters" (contact us) to buyers faster. Most sites I create I let them buy right there. But your situation is a little different as you need to give a bid. People want immediate gratification, buy now!!! Let them give you all the info right away if they will. For the booking page/request a quote page: Make check boxes for what people want: -Web Design -Logo Design -Graphic design Make a place for them to upload suggestions or urls of sites they like or Pinterest pins for logo designs. All the things you need to make your life easier. Or that you already request. You can actually use it for every client, so you have a run down of just what they want. Refine it as you find out just what people want from the form. It just takes the customer into your process faster and helps skip steps. Also, I noticed on your navigation you should lump service types together. It is to much to look at quickly and immediately makes me want to look away. I would use something more like (most popular first): Design Services: Graphic Design Logo Design Web Design Marketing Services: content writing social media marketing You get the idea (with a bread crumb trail or hover to show other services). I know you may have put them all on the same services tab because of indexing, but they will all get indexed. Once indexed, the 'child pages' pages will make the 'parent page' Stronger. Example: Parent: Design Services Child: Graphic Design -Logo Design-Web Design The child pages are going to help build more relevance for your page "Design Services" because of your great "Child page" references about different kinds of design. Hope that helps! Visually it looks great!
Web Design | | Christy-Correll1 -
Disavow Question
If you got the "successfully uploaded" message then this means that your disavow file was in the right format and Google is able to read it. "if a site is linking to me on multiple pages on their site do i have to disavow each link or just the domain is enough." If you've disavowed on the domain level (i.e. domain:example.com) then that's all you need to do. You should be disavowing on the domain level for each site too. It's rare that I'll just disavow one url. One other thing I'd like to point out is that your disavowed links will still remain in Webmaster Tools. A lot of people think that they disappear once they're disavowed but they don't.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | MarieHaynes0 -
Html to wordpress
We just went through this exact process with a website. We agonized over whether to do the move since the .html pages were ranking and converting well. In the end the client wanted it so we decided to make the switch, this is what we did: 1.) Took all well ranking .html pages and 301 to their new version in apache .htaccess file, example code Redirect 301 domain-name/old-page.html domain-name/new-page/ 2.) Installed the SEO plugin by Yoast and made sure to tune all title/meta info for each page 3.) Made the change and stayed patient. We saw a traffic drop for 9 days following the move. Then on the 10th day we got close to pre-move levels, and 2 full weeks later we were back at pre-move levels with improved average site time, bounce rate and conversions. *we are almost 2 months into the move now and traffic is higher than ever.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | altecdesign0 -
Title Tags
A few ideas for url and titles: Repair link YOURDOMAIN.COM/san-diego-driveway-repair Installation link: YOURDOMAIN.COM/san-diego-driveway-installation Also for the home page title: San Diego Driveway Company | Driveway Repair, Installation, and Maintenance By having your pages separate, you can optimize more effectively on each given term, in a way that does not offend the user. Most often, when a search is done for that particular keyword, the user will come directly to that page, not even aware the other pages exist.
On-Page / Site Optimization | | David-Kley0 -
Changing my title tags
Matt Cutts just released a video that addresses this exact question - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3HX_8BAhB4
On-Page / Site Optimization | | OlegKorneitchouk1