Webiste Revamping

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First and foremost I'd like to thank those of you that have stopped to look and potentially give your opinion, advice and so on.

So, I been working on my site for awhile and now that I have more time I can dig deeper into it and really take it to the next level before this coming season.

I have the homepage just about wrapped up but still working on it of course and seems like I keep changing directions :work:

My main focus right now will be the overall appearance, wording, packages, SEO ideas and etc. of course!

Thoughts I have:

Ideas on email submission: I would like to put it above the intro however seems to knock it down lower than I'd like and can't quite get it to work the way I want or even off to the side however I haven't messed with that part .... or is it fine where it's at? I would also like to add it to other pages in a tasteful manor just haven't that far.

-Packages:
I have separated them by vehicle type which you will see. Thoughts were this would give me more pages for "Information, keywords etc as well give the potential client a more direct look into their vehicle."

Although, the packages are the same, above the packages will be different to a point (right now its all the same as I made the top and took the source code and added it to all pages with the intent to change each page later adding different images info and etc)

My worries are that is there a possibility of "over stuffing" by doing this with the packages being basically identical?

Pricing on the Packages aren't listed. I did have them listed but thought's were I could potentially get more calls/contact to try to make a sale as well as inform the consumer? In another hand I do feel that It could and would weed out those that wouldn't pay.

Additional Services menu:
I am having trouble getting them to list in my opinion correctly. If you look at it when it drops down (dead links as of right now). The services won't line up with each other on the same line or close to one another so looks odd and seems it could end up being a little funky. Any advice on how to fix this? Or should I just have it go to one page, then have some info and links to that particular services individual page?

SEO:

Which this part is new to me completely
I feel for the limited work I have done I have it on the right path? In my general area it appears I come up pretty high even though my site doesn't my business listing does which I feel is from g+ and having a website pictures and etc.

I haven't until now started to add alt tags keywords and description so I believe that will help tremendously to a degree from what I have seen and heard?

Questions are what else can I do to help this? Especially having a larger than average (so I feel) service area due to my given population. I'm trying to get higher in larger cities near me to help get my ranks up there. What can I do not having an address there? Can I get a po box in that town temporarily to get my google listing listed? What about geocoding anyone know anything about that?

Blog:
I do have a blog which can be seen at On-Site Auto Detailing- Blog | Highest in Quality detailing services I haven't added a link to this as I can't figure out how to get it to link back to the website. I installed wordpress and as I haven't messed with blogs before am I am unsure on how to do this as well get my links to my social media pages

Website: On-Site Auto Detailing "We come to you"-Home
Blog Site: On-Site Auto Detailing "We come to you"-Home

Thanks again!
Ryan
 
Well i noticed the new "layout" doesn't show up correctly on mobile devices. So for a temporary cure I'll disable that until I can re work it!

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Site must be that good to not even get 1 opinion lol

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Some thoughts regarding layout. Try to create clean lines with your content. Rather than trying to split the content into two columns as you're doing on some of your pages, try keeping it one column but adding a heading to make them stand out. Use headers when ever possible to summarize the content that follows it. Your viewers should be able to scan your page quickly and get a gist of what is on the page for content by just viewing the headings.

On your home page don't use capitals for the full paragraph.it makes it extremely hard to read. Capitals are ok for headings, but not for full paragraphs. Also try adding a high resolution iamge of one of your detail jobs. Photos are what sell.

As far as SEO goes, you're doing a good thing by having you blog listed under the same website address as you main site. Any traffic and page ranking improvements that you blog get will help improve your overall site rank a little.

I don't think there is enough content on your services page. Try adding some more detail to those pages about what is involved in each package/service. When you create your pages try to limit it to a single topic or group them by related topics if possible. Googles ranking algorithm tried to determine what is on the page and if it is related to the page title (amongst other things).

Make sure to add google analytics to your site if you have not already. This will give you some insight into your site and where people are leaving and possibly why.
 
Overall looks good.

Ill reply more tomorrow when im not tired and going to bed!
 
Huot25 said:
Some thoughts regarding layout. Try to create clean lines with your content. Rather than trying to split the content into two columns as you're doing on some of your pages, try keeping it one column but adding a heading to make them stand out. Use headers when ever possible to summarize the content that follows it. Your viewers should be able to scan your page quickly and get a gist of what is on the page for content by just viewing the headings.

On your home page don't use capitals for the full paragraph.it makes it extremely hard to read. Capitals are ok for headings, but not for full paragraphs. Also try adding a high resolution iamge of one of your detail jobs. Photos are what sell.

As far as SEO goes, you're doing a good thing by having you blog listed under the same website address as you main site. Any traffic and page ranking improvements that you blog get will help improve your overall site rank a little.

I don't think there is enough content on your services page. Try adding some more detail to those pages about what is involved in each package/service. When you create your pages try to limit it to a single topic or group them by related topics if possible. Googles ranking algorithm tried to determine what is on the page and if it is related to the page title (amongst other things).

Make sure to add google analytics to your site if you have not already. This will give you some insight into your site and where people are leaving and possibly why.
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:whs:

And give some thought to this excerpt from Think And Grow Rich; "One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly."
 
Huot25 said:
Some thoughts regarding layout. Try to create clean lines with your content. Rather than trying to split the content into two columns as you're doing on some of your pages, try keeping it one column but adding a heading to make them stand out. Use headers when ever possible to summarize the content that follows it. Your viewers should be able to scan your page quickly and get a gist of what is on the page for content by just viewing the headings.

On your home page don't use capitals for the full paragraph.it makes it extremely hard to read. Capitals are ok for headings, but not for full paragraphs. Also try adding a high resolution iamge of one of your detail jobs. Photos are what sell.

As far as SEO goes, you're doing a good thing by having you blog listed under the same website address as you main site. Any traffic and page ranking improvements that you blog get will help improve your overall site rank a little.

I don't think there is enough content on your services page. Try adding some more detail to those pages about what is involved in each package/service. When you create your pages try to limit it to a single topic or group them by related topics if possible. Googles ranking algorithm tried to determine what is on the page and if it is related to the page title (amongst other things).

Make sure to add google analytics to your site if you have not already. This will give you some insight into your site and where people are leaving and possibly why.
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Dang i just did that with splitting it up to. How do you feel about how its split on the homepage? Do you have an example on what you mean by the headings and etc or a reference on my site on what should be done that way where it's not?

I agree with the capitalization, been trying to change that. I finally had got the font to be decent. Before it was a very thin and overall big font which seemed to look busy and hard on the eyes!

For package pages:

Are you saying add more description to the individual package, or the page about the packages?

I was thinking about a link off the individual packages for "more details." Or should i try to keep it all on that page with that given package?

Can you give me an example on my page of where i wasn't on topic. The part above my packages im assuming?... or was that a general statement/advice?

Google analytics:
is it pretty easy to figure out? Heard of it but i honestly don't know much about it.



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onsite said:
Dang i just did that with splitting it up to. How do you feel about how its split on the homepage? Do you have an example on what you mean by the headings and etc or a reference on my site on what should be done that way where it's not?

I agree with the capitalization, been trying to change that. I finally had got the font to be decent. Before it was a very thin and overall big font which seemed to look busy and hard on the eyes!

For package pages:

Are you saying add more description to the individual package, or the page about the packages?

I was thinking about a link off the individual packages for "more details." Or should i try to keep it all on that page with that given package?

Can you give me an example on my page of where i wasn't on topic. The part above my packages im assuming?... or was that a general statement/advice?

Google analytics:
is it pretty easy to figure out? Heard of it but i honestly don't know much about it.
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The home page split is ok. I would have them both justified the same (centered or left).

Are you using a service to build your website or are you creating it by hand? Just curious what flexibility you have to customize your site.

If you could move your Logo to the menu to the left of the home button in the menu, that would be ideal. This way you logo is always visible and you're not taking up real estate on the home page for something that is more for establishing your brand/business.

Are you able to create two columns on every page? Your mailing list subscribe form is probably something that I would want in a secondary column.

Here is how I would break down your site if its posible:

================================
MENU
================================
| Mail List Form
Page Content |
| Periodic specials
|
================================
FOOTER WITH CONTACT INFO


The one exception would be your home page. That will need to be a little more complex in my opinion. YOu should ask yourself what your customer are looking for when they go to your site (specials, highlighted services, Testimonials) and try to include a small amount of that on your home page with links to get more information.

I've run out of time at the moment, but I will try to add more later.
 
Huot25 said:
The home page split is ok. I would have them both justified the same (centered or left).

Are you using a service to build your website or are you creating it by hand? Just curious what flexibility you have to customize your site.

If you could move your Logo to the menu to the left of the home button in the menu, that would be ideal. This way you logo is always visible and you're not taking up real estate on the home page for something that is more for establishing your brand/business.

Are you able to create two columns on every page? Your mailing list subscribe form is probably something that I would want in a secondary column.

Here is how I would break down your site if its posible:

================================
MENU
================================
| Mail List Form
Page Content |
| Periodic specials
|
================================
FOOTER WITH CONTACT INFO


The one exception would be your home page. That will need to be a little more complex in my opinion. YOu should ask yourself what your customer are looking for when they go to your site (specials, highlighted services, Testimonials) and try to include a small amount of that on your home page with links to get more information.

I've run out of time at the moment, but I will try to add more later.
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Yea, pretty much all by hand with DreamWeaver.

I tried to add the logo up above with a .png file with a transparent background and wouldn't show up. Unsure as to why it wont work.

The way you show the homepage(or you showing the general idea for every page?) is essentially how I wanted to get it. Just had trouble getting the email submission form to fit. I'll have to play with it some more and see what I can do.

I should be able to get things into two columns may take some playing around but can't see why it wouldn't be doable once I get that part of the coding figured out!

Appreciate the time and help!
 
Nevermind figured out the logo issue seems it only shows up once uploaded. You know how long I been trying to figure that out lol
 
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