mr hewett

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weebsites need help
« on: October 19, 2005, 02:24:11 pm »
is there any one out there who could help me im looking for someone to set up a good website, from what i understand it depends on what you have and what engine room you get in will also reflect on the price you pay is this correct thanks in advance for any advice!!!!!

richie_tracey

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2005, 02:39:09 pm »
Hi I spent 2 years at uni learning how to build websites email me richietracey@hotmail.co.uk and i will try and help you out.

Rich

Ged

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2005, 04:51:29 pm »
Been asking and posting about the value of websites for pressure washing recently and have got the impression that they don't work. i would like to be told otherwise as it beats pounding the pavements and knocking on doors. it seem s to me that people only decide to have their drives/patios cleaned when someone actually shows up and shows them what can be done wirh professional equipment and no ammount of leafleting or advertising seams to be satisfactory.

work is slow at this time of year but my worst month was august it just went dead then picked up in september and now gone quiet so it's time to get off to Spain for the winter.

Ged

ps only joking

Jayy

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2005, 04:56:20 pm »
Mr Hewett, sent you an email regarding websites and some reference sites I have done.

Cheers

CMS

Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2005, 10:30:16 pm »
Just this minute finished mine for my new venture.

http://www.cmscleaning.com

It needs a bit of work but it will get me by for now.

preston powerblast

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2005, 10:40:04 pm »
Websites, I think are just another avenue to explore.
Did mine myself for 26 quid for the year, its dead basic but what the hell.

BSF

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2005, 10:51:32 pm »
Hi CMS,

very impressive web-site, but them mini jumbos are a bit pricey, that much for 6.....

you must be minted!!!!!!

regards

Paul
Regards

BSF

CMS

Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2005, 07:42:19 am »
Oops!!!

Typing error....that should read 12 not 6!

Many thanks for pointing it out!  ;D

dustdees

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2005, 09:31:44 am »
I did my website myself, nothing outstanding but ok for us at the moment.

I costs me £9.39 per month to have it hosted!!

www.dustdees-domestic-cleaning.co.uk

Denise

ACS GROUP

Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2005, 11:06:08 am »
www.deeco.co.uk , these guys are doing mine

mr hewett

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2005, 12:31:08 pm »
Thanks people for all your advise with regards to web sites its been really helpfull to have so many options im now in the prosses of getting back to some of the offers, kind regards mr hewett!!!!!!!!!!

*Chris Browne

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2005, 01:01:53 pm »
DUSTEES
Do you really pay £9.39 a month! it shouldnt cost you any more than 25-35 tops A YEAR!, who are your providers?

i did mine myself for 30quid a year!

chris ;)


         www.imagecleaning.org
also www.brummiespeedway.co.uk

dustdees

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2005, 02:24:43 pm »
Hiya,

I do mine through Namesco Ltd, who's yours then?

Denise

BSF

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2005, 08:21:37 pm »
Yea £9 odd a month is very expensive for hosting a web-site.

For about 2.5gb of data transfer per month, more than enough...

it will cost you about £20 per year.

shop around, virtual names are good.

regards

Paul
Regards

BSF

*Chris Browne

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2005, 09:16:55 pm »
Hi dustees
i use easyspace and have had no problems with them at all and i have had various sites with them,
i think you have probably been given enough  webspace and bandwith to start up your own radio station!!

chris ;)

BSF

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2005, 09:36:30 pm »
yea for that much you could get 1000mb of web space & about 15gb of data transfer..

your web-site will only be about 300kb if that!
Regards

BSF

Kelvin

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2005, 06:59:54 pm »
I am not an IT geek, but one I thing I do know is that 90%
of websites do not work, because they are not found.
Bottom line is, you get what you pay for.

Kelvin

BSF

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2005, 09:22:48 pm »
Hi,

That’s not strictly true. If you submit your site to the search engines, get your keywords right, your site will be listed, google adwords is very good, if you know what your doing..

You get very good advertising for a very minimal cost, my site gets over 100 hits a day, I  can view my site statistics any hour of the day, I know what pages have been viewed, what time, the referring site etc etc.

The point was £9 a month is way over the top.

As I stated £20 per year absolute maximum.

Regards

Paul
Regards

BSF

mr hewett

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2005, 10:46:40 pm »
paul sounds like you no your stuff and can sort a site out very resonably with regards to price any chance you could gide me in the right direction thanks for any help in advance mr hewett?

BSF

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2005, 11:09:14 pm »
Hi Mr Hewett,

To be brutally honest with you I make a lot more money from cleaning services, I went to college a few years ago now, I learnt to write hyper text markup language (this is what a web page is written with) most web site builders learn to use a web building program such as dreamweaver, adobe, etc. I just build them from scratch with the html.

I have studied web site submission in some detail, this is the main thing about a web-site, as has been said you could have the best web-site in the world, but what’s the point in paying a lot of hard earned money if no-one looks at it, as I said in my previous post, mine gets at least 100 visits a day it costs me £20 for hosting, £8 for the domain (every 2 years) & around £3 a month for adwords (google)

If you need any more advice, ask away…

Best regards

Paul
Regards

BSF

*Chris Browne

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #20 on: October 27, 2005, 11:41:31 am »
I second what paul said , you get what you pay for , if you submit your site correctly in can be beneficial, i pay around £30 a year and get around 50-60 hits a day, ,yesterday i did a quote and found that the prospective client had printed all my pages off my site!  which is where she got all our details from.
So they DO work, they dont have to be all singing, just informative and submited correctly

Chris ;)

CMS

Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2005, 12:34:50 pm »
So...........................

My site is up and running but submission is something I know nowt about.

How do I do it? Do I use these 'automated submission companies'?

Can anyone point me to a site?

What are meta tags?

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

BSF

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Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2005, 09:12:46 pm »
Hi CMS,

I’ve just had a look at the coding in your site, it was built with Microsoft front page 4.0
Meta names are used for several purposes. Two are “description” (a description of a page or site), and “author” (the name of the person who produced the pages)

Your site hasn’t got a rating, <meta name=”rating” content=”general” /> add this within the meta tags.

It also hasn’t got a keyword meta tag, <meta name=”keywords” content=”cms, cleaners, office cleaning, etc, etc, (add all your key words from your site here) />

It hasn’t got a description tag, <meta name=”description” content=”cms cleaning services” />

Keywords should consist of single words or phrases, leave out common words such as “the” “and” remember to use plural forms of words as well as their singular form. These terms need to be typed into the html code in the appropriate format so that the search engine will recognise it.

The basic methods of selecting keywords are, put yourself in the position of the surfer, searcher or researcher using a search engine to find your pages, try and predict what they would use, take the important words out of your text and description and put them in your keywords.

There are three ways of getting listed,

Do it yourself, use an automated search engine submission service, hiring a firm to manage it for you.

Getting a good listing on the major search engines is kind of the holy grail of internet marketing.

Be patient, realise when you start that you wont get listed right away, most of the search engines and directories can take four to eight weeks to list your site.

Try this site http://www.ineedhits.com

One last tip if you submit the site yourself is, don’t repeatedly submit the site, search engines are programmed to exclude sites which spam them.

This is a massive subject, I could waffle on all night about it, lastly if you want a top position on google you pay for it, (adwords) I mean if someone types in cleaners in Hampshire, you can place a bid on this search term, if you get the price right, you will have the top position on google, but you pay for the click.

But that click could get you a nice little earner.

Regards


Paul

Regards

BSF

CMS

Re: weebsites need help
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2005, 10:38:35 am »
Many thanks for your informative reply.

I'll have a play around with the site later but taking a break now - we're off to see Peter Wite in Altrincham tonight.

www.peterwhite.com

It's time for a bit of leisure methinks  :) :) :)

Jan K

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Re: weebsites need help New
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2005, 09:38:03 pm »
yell did mine, i couldn't be bothered to do it myself, got enough on my plate as it is. It does the job!

www.donendusted.org
anyone with facebook can add me at this link ...  jan 'minkeedj' kindon  .... if you can be bothered lol