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Bacchanalia

Bacchanalia

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I'm about to pull out what's left of my hair because the website is NOT getting me any business. I've spent a lot of time on the adwords and the website and I don't think it's terrible looking. I've even purchased the techsite builder at Podnutz and applied what I could from that to my existing site...got bills to pay...no phone calls....blah...blah...blah

I can take the criticism...well....constructive criticism...

So here's the site....let me have it...LOL

http://mrfixitcomputer.com
 
Very few "call to actions" on the main site
Very little social networking involved
Site seems static
No blog? NO LOVE to keep traffic up. (I saw a 75% increase the day my blog was integrated to my website)
Business services should have bullet points to draw the eye in better

Just my quick thoughts. No offense, but make it breathe.
 
I think the main fact is, you don't get a feel of what you do until you're over half way into the website.

Move the services you do to near the top, or where it grabs customers attentions.

Your services pages could be laid out better.
 
Lisa...thanks for the eval,

All legit criticism...I guess I'm just trying to "set it and forget it"...thinking I can just get a magical combination and then not have to worry about it after that.

I think I know how to address the call to action issue...already have a couple of ideas there. But realistically, I don't see myself sitting down and getting "wordy" every day or two on a blog. How do you come up with content?

And what would you suggest for integrating more social networking...I do at least have my little "whatever you call that thing" over on the right....and I did what I thought was a decent page at Facebook.
 
@TopLevelComp...
I think you're right about the services especially...I was thinking about maybe putting all that text as more of a "read more" kinda thing for each one...and have just a couple of choice words LARGER for each section...what do you think?
 
LOL--I love this

And don't worry; we'd never dream of bombing your inbox.

ah, I dream it and live it weekly. Get subcribers on from your website and push out some good old fashioned email newsletters :)

I think you should work that logo in a bit better too. I really like it! Do some old batman "Bam", or "call us" type stuff on the sides or in the middle to draw the eye. Do a facebook cartoon effect too!

Like this guys site...I love it. http://web.me.com/tech24/Tech24/Home.html
 
You could benefit from reading up on Landing Page Design and Calls to Action, then implementing on the site itself.

Your site also could probably use some basic on-page SEO.

How are you bringing customers to your site? Google Places? Adwords? Organic results?

- this aspect is important. An effective website works from two components: (1) you have to get people to it, and (2) once they're there, you have to optimise it so they will want to contact you to buy services.

If you split your design mission into these two components, and develop each effectively, it will pay you $$. It must do both things though, in order for it to generate its potential in leads for work.
 
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Yeah...the bombing of the inbox comment was just to put people at ease with signing up....I have every intention of sending out campaigns with mailchimp weekly...problem is I'm getting so little traffic that I don't have anybody to send to. In a little less than 2 months I've had like 20 clicks from adwords...and got a grand total of two customers from it.
Seems like I've got to be doing something wrong there.
 
@16k_zx81 - Pretty much adwords is it...my organic is non-existant since there's pretty fair comptetion here...and big money sites have all the back links.

I just signed up for Google Places, since I see my competition doing quite well in those placements and I don't show up at all....even when my adwords are showing up on the same keyword search. But I have to wait a week or so for a letter to verify that I'm really the business owner.

Any specific SEO screwups that you see me doing? I must be stupid or something...cuz I'm reading all that stuff and don't seem to be able to get it right :o(
 
Bacchanalia said:
@TopLevelComp...
I think you're right about the services especially...I was thinking about maybe putting all that text as more of a "read more" kinda thing for each one...and have just a couple of choice words LARGER for each section...what do you think?
Click to expand...

I'd do a list, and have it so they can click on "Learn more about this service?" and have jQuery send up a modal box.
 
@toplevelcomp
That's good...I don't know how I feel about a list as opposed to the two column blog layout...but I really like your modal box idea...I hate to admit it....but I'd look at just about anything if you put it in a modal box. Must be a genetic thing...LOL
 
Anybody tried video? I saw a site from a young guy in the UK on here...that had a little "here I am, knocking on the door...coming in for a look see..." kinda video. Seemed effective to me...to sorta put people at ease. Especially for a "we come to you" kind of tech. I'm not set up to receive customers here.
 
Might want to look at your "title", "description" and "keyword" tags also. A quick look and it appears you are using the same keywords on each page. Might want to check your image tags also: img alt="Don't unplug the computer. Call MR FIXIT!"
Why not img alt="Computer Repair Covington, LA - Mandeville, LA - NorthShore Area"
 
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@cmonova - I see what you're talking about and have changed the alt's on some of my pics. Will it hurt me to change ALL of them to the same thing?

I also changed some of meta data around. I'm using Joomla and have metadata (description and keywords) for each of the articles...but it looks like that data never makes it into the final page as it's generated by the CMS. I am using SEOSimple to generate some metadata for each page...and turned that off to see if that was what was blocking the metadata for each article....but it had no effect.

Do you have any suggestions? Or do I just need to do it all manually?
 
I think manual is the way to go, and no it won't hurt to change a few or all of them at the same time.
 
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