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Hi, I just wanted to share my site with everyone. I have been working on and off again on it. I currently rank Page 4 on google search results for 'computer repair selma al' and I am trying to improve my SEO so any tips with it would be much appreciated.

Under my service plans tab I want to implement two separate columns kind of like what I have now but with only one read more tab for both columns as it seems repetitive and much like it would hurt the SEO of the site with doubled up links to the same content. thats the only big thing im aware of thats really incomplete so im at the stage where ide like you guys to go over it and give me some direction on what ive done right and what ive done wrong. thanks.


website:
Selma Technology
 
I sat waiting for like 10 seconds waiting for a background to load..

Some annoying pop up in the bottom that says "how may we help you" (btw were offline so we can't help you)

"Check out these useful links:
Google – Perform searches on pretty much anything, the answers are there!" ---- you don't say!

Your average customer thinks their computer is called a hard drive, having a picture of the internals of a hard drive isn't going to connect with your customers

Remote support page just errors out the center portion of the page.


I mean, overall, its terrible.. tons of white space above everything, layout makes no sense, eyes aren't drawn to anything in particular, bland doesn't begin to describe it, and its kind of slow for white space and text.

Scrap and pay someone to start over.
 
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Yes im going to work on the remote support some more, but the reason it timed out, I am using screen connect and I currently don't have the computer on I use as the server for it. As for the load time im not completely sure that's just not on your end, it loads fine for me. The annoying popup helps me gather information about visitors and serves as direct support when someone visits the page, obviously I can't be logged on it at all hours so I leave a simple offline message and a way the customer could get back to me.


As for the white space, I do agree im working on figuring out something to fill it in just not sure what. the home page is OK but.. some of my others pages could use more content.

As far as the terrible comment goes, I was looking for criticism and help not necessarily a bashing jeez...
 
Well, I would not say it looks terrible, but it most definitely needs help. If you have not already done so, I would search for a good looking Wordpress template and modify it from there. Also, its only like $5 a month for hosting your site . . .
 
Hi,

Loaded fine for me. I also like the clean, neat bright look of the site. My eye was drawn towards the photo of the hard drive and I didn't pay much attention to the tickbox points. You could maybe move up the "some of our services" item, to make things clearer, and also rename it to something search term related. Also, your 100% guarantee looks dodgy to the customer and is risky for you. What is your guarantee? Just the repair, or the whole computer once you've repaired it? I would remove this and instead put in a search term related customer testimonial. This would have much more value in the customer's eyes.

Good luck,

Patch.
 
hey, thanks for your comments. Yeah the guarantee im not quite sure yet what im going to put there, im currently just kind of using it as a place holder so its not just a blank space there. I think a small testimonial table would fit nice there maybe I will look into implementing that. maybe I could change 'some of our services' to 'featured services' instead ?
 
I see LOTS of broken links, lost links (they go nowhere), and overall.... I'd start over, don't like the design at all.... the services page is especially hard on my eyes formatting wise.
 
There's a lot of white. Maybe a banner and some kind of background would help. Otherwise it looks good.
 
I feel like the Call us Today lady is consuming my soul with her eyes.

If it's possible I'd make the live chat deal in the bottom hidden unless you're actually online.
 
I currently rank Page 4 on google search results for 'computer repair selma al' and I am trying to improve my SEO so any tips with it would be much appreciated

1) Check out your competition's pages. Google "computer repair selma al" and closely examine the top 5 results. 1st is a newspaper, you may not beat that. The next 3 are businesses. You need to do everything they have done and more. I use this technique and it works wonders. You will also want to use various tools on the internet to compare your competitors backlinks. See where they are getting links from and try to get links on the same pages and more. You need the backlink to have the phrase: "computer repair selma".

2) Consider your keywords. First of all, I believe google ignores 2 letter words like "al." At least I know that "data recovery LA" and "data recovery" have the same keyword popularity (you can check this from an adwords account using the tools section). So go after "computer repair selma." I don't think there are many Selmas, so when people search for "computer repair selma" google will know they are looking for selma AL.

3) I would change your title to at least start with "Computer Repair in Selma" and maybe some more keywords there. Not more than ~90 characters.

4) Meta tags look pretty good already. But, your links are missing "title" field (add "computer repair selma" to some or all titles. Your images have titles, good. But, your "alt" fields are blank, add keywords to EVERY alt tag. Try to vary it a bit ("windows repair service selma, selma pc repair service, etc) but make sure "computer repair selma" is used most frequently. Get rid of the "Selma Technology" titles and instead replace with "computer repair selma." How many people are searching you by name? If not many, no point in having "Selma Technology" as a title for your links.

5) Use H1-H5 and "bold" on "computer repair selma" keywords. You need to add this phrase at least 5 more times on your site, without clients noticing your are doing it for SEO (the Q&A section would actually be a great place to hide this stuff, assuming the actual text is in the html file and not an external javascript or something).

6) Put your full physical address on the main page. *May consider a google places page if you don't have one, and point to your website.

7) Try to double or triple the amount of text you have on the main page.

8) Get more backlinks (fiverr is good for this, but be careful you don't go overboard).

9) Make sure your domain is registered for a long time (i.e. 5-years) so Google knows you are in it for the long-haul.

10) Always watch (and ideally track, I use Rank Tracker and SEO Spyglass) your competition. Just take a look at the #2 result: http://halfpricepcrepair.com/alabama/selma-al-index.html. You need to do everything this guy did and more to beat him. His page is ugly, so it shouldn't be too hard to keep the customer if your page is more appealing than his. Although (no offense), on second look, your page isn't much better. Try to add original images, write in 4-5 sentence paragraphs with text that isn't just keywords, including pictures of you and your shop. Please ditch the stock images. Just some thoughts. Try to differ from the #2 guy's page (right now, your page doesn't look much better, and since he ranks higher they may use him).

11) Run your page through woorank.com and try to do every suggestion it offers.

12) Search google for more SEO tips :)

*Make sure you have a robots and sitemap file.

Hope this helps!
Brian
 
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1) Check out your competition's pages. Google "computer repair selma al" and closely examine the top 5 results. 1st is a newspaper, you may not beat that. The next 3 are businesses. You need to do everything they have done and more. I use this technique and it works wonders. You will also want to use various tools on the internet to compare your competitors backlinks. See where they are getting links from and try to get links on the same pages and more. You need the backlink to have the phrase: "computer repair selma".

2) Consider your keywords. First of all, I believe google ignores 2 letter words like "al." At least I know that "data recovery LA" and "data recovery" have the same keyword popularity (you can check this from an adwords account using the tools section). So go after "computer repair selma." I don't think there are many Selmas, so when people search for "computer repair selma" google will know they are looking for selma AL.

3) I would change your title to at least start with "Computer Repair in Selma" and maybe some more keywords there. Not more than ~90 characters.

4) Meta tags look pretty good already. But, your links are missing "title" field (add "computer repair selma" to some or all titles. Your images have titles, good. But, your "alt" fields are blank, add keywords to EVERY alt tag. Try to vary it a bit ("windows repair service selma, selma pc repair service, etc) but make sure "computer repair selma" is used most frequently. Get rid of the "Selma Technology" titles and instead replace with "computer repair selma." How many people are searching you by name? If not many, no point in having "Selma Technology" as a title for your links.

5) Use H1-H5 and "bold" on "computer repair selma" keywords. You need to add this phrase at least 5 more times on your site, without clients noticing your are doing it for SEO (the Q&A section would actually be a great place to hide this stuff, assuming the actual text is in the html file and not an external javascript or something).

6) Put your full physical address on the main page. *May consider a google places page if you don't have one, and point to your website.

7) Try to double or triple the amount of text you have on the main page.

8) Get more backlinks (fiverr is good for this, but be careful you don't go overboard).

9) Make sure your domain is registered for a long time (i.e. 5-years) so Google knows you are in it for the long-haul.

10) Always watch (and ideally track, I use Rank Tracker and SEO Spyglass) your competition. Just take a look at the #2 result: http://halfpricepcrepair.com/alabama/selma-al-index.html. You need to do everything this guy did and more to beat him. His page is ugly, so it shouldn't be too hard to keep the customer if your page is more appealing than his. Although (no offense), on second look, your page isn't much better. Try to add original images, write in 4-5 sentence paragraphs with text that isn't just keywords, including pictures of you and your shop. Please ditch the stock images. Just some thoughts. Try to differ from the #2 guy's page (right now, your page doesn't look much better, and since he ranks higher they may use him).

11) Run your page through woorank.com and try to do every suggestion it offers.

12) Search google for more SEO tips :)

*Make sure you have a robots and sitemap file.

Hope this helps!
Brian


thanks brain you have probably been the most informative help yet, i will look over what you have told me i need to do(its alot!) and get started on it.
 
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