Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: simon smith50 on August 26, 2009, 04:30:10 pm
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hi all
please give me your opinion of my new website
www.allcleanedup4you.co.uk
if you can send me an email with ideas to improve its rankings or any general content issues that you see would be most grateful
regards
simon
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I'd say maybe use a picture in the header, and more in the pages, but first off, definitely remove the READER WARNING statement, I can see where you're aiming but it looks really aggressive straight away, like you're saying - don't even think about getting a lower end price from us, we're expensive so F off.......NOW.
I think you should remove the google search box too, and maybe the clock, and the empty pages listed as empty.
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You need to look at meta tags and alertnative text for your pics to help with your search engine results .
Search google for 'meta tag generator' and copy and paste results into your code.
use pictures that are more relevant, aircraft look nice but are they really relevant to cleaning? If they are, you need to show before and after pics.
Grubby planes a dirty ash tray and a messy kitchen don't really sell it for you, find something more 'shiny'.
I would make your navigation buttons more obvious.
Maybe kill some of the red too.
Cheers
Alan
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Where do i start,.....
RED is a bad colour. I like the gradient design, but switch to a nice green maybe.
Negative wording (Reader warning) is going to loose a LOT of potential customers and you should remove every last trace of it. Sell how good you are, don't mention how bad everyone else is.
Your meta tags need a lot of work,.. your keywords shouldn't be capitalised either.
Get rid of text that is all capitals,.. in headers/links too.
Some text is white, some is black, some yellow,... choose one and go with it (I like the white).
Get rid of the google search and clock,.. replace with a pic of you in your work uniform (Head & shoulders) smiling at the camera
Get some good pics of you & your team working (NOT STOCK PHOTO'S), your vehicles, and ask permission from a few customers to take before & after pics,... real pics sell.
Your links page is missing a link to my business website, the Guild website & ACS,.. probably your worst mistake!! ;)
Keep working on it Simon,.. a good website takes a couple of weeks to get right.
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READERS WARNING
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SLAP DASH ,CHEAP AND NASTY CLEANING SERVICE KINDLY SAVE YOURSELF TIME AND ENERGY AND CLICK OFF AND LOOK AT OTHER CLEANING WEBSITES AS WE ARE SURE YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ELSEWHERE.
WAY too hostile!
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Where do i start,.....
RED is a bad colour. I like the gradient design, but switch to a nice green maybe.
Negative wording (Reader warning) is going to loose a LOT of potential customers and you should remove every last trace of it. Sell how good you are, don't mention how bad everyone else is.
Your meta tags need a lot of work,.. your keywords shouldn't be capitalised either.
Get rid of text that is all capitals,.. in headers/links too.
Some text is white, some is black, some yellow,... choose one and go with it (I like the white).
Get rid of the google search and clock,.. replace with a pic of you in your work uniform (Head & shoulders) smiling at the camera
Get some good pics of you & your team working (NOT STOCK PHOTO'S), your vehicles, and ask permission from a few customers to take before & after pics,... real pics sell.
Your links page is missing a link to my business website, the Guild website & ACS,.. probably your worst mistake!! ;)
Keep working on it Simon,.. a good website takes a couple of weeks to get right.
Everything he said
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Get rid of the picture of the guy chucking up in the toilet.
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thank you all
please have another look i have taken all on board and think i nearly have a reasonable site now
please tell if you dissagree
regards
simon
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that color hurts my eyes, id only be on that site for 2 seconds before hitting the exit button, needs to be darker.
pita
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On the left some text is in lower case, some in caps, .......make sure it is one or the other, because it looks slap dash and thats not what you are offering according to your site.
In fact you have one sentence at least on the front page with words mixed up....some caps some lower case.
Make sure its cleaned up accordingly throughout the site.
The red isnt good to look at, light blue perhaps?
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The font changes from one page to another. The green banner is there on some pages but not on others.
Just seen you are using 2 different font sizes on the same page.
BE CONSISTENT!
My personal opinion about websites (and this is just a general comment, not about thisone in particular) for us guys is that we are trying to sell a service which has a great deal to do with tidiness, being orderly and clean; in a pleasing to the eye kind of way. One which we feel comfortable with and at ease.
If a potential customer comes across a site looking for a cleaner and they are presented with an untidy, ramshackle, disorderly, messy, cluttered and generally displeasing and awkward to the eye site they'll go elsewhere.
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The font changes from one page to another. The green banner is there on some pages but not on others.
Just seen you are using 2 different font sizes on the same page.
BE CONSISTENT!
My personal opinion about websites (and this is just a general comment, not about thisone in particular) for us guys is that we are trying to sell a service which has a great deal to do with tidiness, being orderly and clean; in a pleasing to the eye kind of way. One which we feel comfortable with and at ease.
If a potential customer comes across a site looking for a cleaner and they are presented with an untidy, ramshackle, disorderly, messy, cluttered and generally displeasing and awkward to the eye site they'll go elsewhere.
do you not get much from yours then Matt ;D
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thanks for your comments all taken on board
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I find reading the text hard the colour is straining my eye's !
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Make the text darker and the font uniform,...
vast improvement already tho.
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ANother one complaining about the text colour. Stick to black and you won't go wrong.
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The font changes from one page to another. The green banner is there on some pages but not on others.
Just seen you are using 2 different font sizes on the same page.
BE CONSISTENT!
My personal opinion about websites (and this is just a general comment, not about thisone in particular) for us guys is that we are trying to sell a service which has a great deal to do with tidiness, being orderly and clean; in a pleasing to the eye kind of way. One which we feel comfortable with and at ease.
If a potential customer comes across a site looking for a cleaner and they are presented with an untidy, ramshackle, disorderly, messy, cluttered and generally displeasing and awkward to the eye site they'll go elsewhere.
do you not get much from yours then Matt ;D
Oi! Thats rich ;D ;D
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Have a look at other Websites and think about what you find attractive and pleasing.
Keep it simple and clean. Well done for having a go, but I would consider asking for some one on one help.
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This one
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all images have been removed as has the gallery page
that was a picture of me cleaning tiles in a pub toilet thank you
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I think sometimes the web building site or host doesn't help by having really basic options, My first attempt was using vistaprint as host and wasn't very good, then I was told to try 1&1 which I did and I found things much easier, my site isn't perfect but its better than my first attempt.
You may well find even with considerable effort the effect of a website is very limited I have but then there are probably things I'm still getting wrong ;)
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Oops! I can see that now. ::)
Wern't you Simon Wonder from Swindon before?
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i was
still from swindon
marketing agency did some flyers for me and identified that how ever i did swc on a flyer or business name it sounded small
with initials like i have s a s
sas cleaners was born apparently sounds bigger so more likely to get more better work they said
not true yet
give anything a try
never going to change initials am i
so i see their point
see what happens i suppose
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This one
That floor in the toilet is enough to make you want to puke anyway, it looks like a load of salami.