[Smurf]

I think it depends a bit where you live/cover as to how successful a website will be. In my case there are about 10 small towns that I cover. It's an impossibility to rank well on all of them because you will dilute your keywords if you build them all in without each town having its own site/page.

If however you are focussing on a large town, e.g. Bristol, you'll have more competition, but it's going to be a popular search term and easy to target.

In my opinion, if you are using other means of gaining customers like leafleting, canvassing etc, web inquiries are going to be a small percentage. Note the chap above that says 5-10 a month. That's not that many compared to other avenues.

Individual landing pages and good bit of seo per page would sort that out

[Smurf]

I'm no expert on web design or seo but as for an example I was having a play with my wordpress site to update it a bit and added a page for a new service I wanted on the site.  Then once finished with the page and done the seo bit I resubmitted the site to google to crawl again. Within 24 hours that new page was ranked and visible on the first page of google organic search result.

I was chuffed to bits to say the least so just goes to show a numpty like me can do it anyone can.   

[Stoots]

My site ranks about third for my city for window cleaning but generated next to nowt. It's simple if people are not searching for your keyword then there's no point ranking for it

[8weekly]

I think it depends a bit where you live/cover as to how successful a website will be. In my case there are about 10 small towns that I cover. It's an impossibility to rank well on all of them because you will dilute your keywords if you build them all in without each town having its own site/page.

If however you are focussing on a large town, e.g. Bristol, you'll have more competition, but it's going to be a popular search term and easy to target.

In my opinion, if you are using other means of gaining customers like leafleting, canvassing etc, web inquiries are going to be a small percentage. Note the chap above that says 5-10 a month. That's not that many compared to other avenues.

Individual landing pages and good bit of seo per page would sort that out

Which I said in my post, but it's a lot more work and still is only a fraction of what other forms of marketing deliver - but it's passive I guess.

My biggest bugbear with web inquiries is that often the customer gets competitive quotes and the cheapest gets the job.  With a leaflet you just get a call and you get the job.

[Smurf]

My site ranks about third for my city for window cleaning but generated next to nowt. It's simple if people are not searching for your keyword then there's no point ranking for it

I tried finding "window  cleaners in leeds" which is an obvious search term but your site did not show up at all that I could see.
Also "window cleaners wakefield" same again not found your site.  No wonder you are not getting any enquires by peeps searching on the tinternet as they can't see your site 

[chris turner]

Just searched for window cleaners in my area, on the first page of Google only 3 direct links to sites  pop up, the rest is all yell, checkatrade etc.
Also done a slightly wider area search, a few more come up, generally having 4 pages of content.
The ones with more pages were the companies that offered things like jet washing, render cleaning etc.

[Smurf]

This was doing a search for "window cleaning leeds"

Found on page 3

Thompson Window Cleaning Wakefield | Gutter Cleaning Leeds ...
thompsonwindowcleaning.co.uk/
Window cleaning Wakefield. Are you looking for a friendly, efficient,regular window cleaning service. Look no further than Thompson window cleaning.

[ascjim]

Around 90% for us.

[Smurf]

James how is that render cleaning site doing?

[chris turner]

Around 90% for us.

Wow that's good.
How much do you spend on your website to generate that much?

[chris turner]

As I love winding up slack bladder, I might just build a WordPress site and copy his site word for word. Il use the many pictures he's posted on these forums over the years to 

[Tosh]

If you’re any good at it I’ll get lots of phone calls then. Crack on, I’ll let you know how effective it is.

[Smurf]

This and many more google ads keep appearing on google searches for render cleaning   

Render Cleaning - Clean, Restore & Protect Render - Purple-Rhino.co.uk‎
Adwww.purple-rhino.co.uk/‎
Free Test Cleaning Offer.
Trusted by Blue Chip · As Good As New · Guaranteed Results · Free site survey · 24/7 availability

    Get A Free Quote Today Industrial Render Clean Stunning Render Jobs Luxury Render Clean

I'm listed forth on the first page organic search results for my area and it costs me bugger all. Oh and I only added the new page to the site 2 days ago 

[p1w1]

As I love winding up slack bladder, I might just build a WordPress site and copy his site word for word. Il use the many pictures he's posted on these forums over the years to 

If memory serves me right he once did that himself   

[Smurf]

It's very easy to clone a site but google don't like it for some strange reason lol

[Tosh]

As I love winding up slack bladder, I might just build a WordPress site and copy his site word for word. Il use the many pictures he's posted on these forums over the years to 

If memory serves me right he once did that himself   

You got to start somewhere.

[Tosh]

It's very easy to clone a site but google don't like it for some strange reason lol

Its obvious why.

[chris turner]

If you’re any good at it I’ll get lots of phone calls then. Crack on, I’ll let you know how effective it is.

Your probably right there as we're pretty close to each other. I even drove past you a couple of years ago over in tadley

[Tosh]

Close? You mean you love me?

[chris turner]

Close? You mean you love me?

Maybe a little, you have taken some great pics for my new site, how can I not show you some love xxx