I must be a glutton for punishment but instead of going to Church tomorrow I've chosen to put my site up for review.
You've helped me before but I've been following the forum and had a backlog of things I needed to do, so have bitten into to most of them now. So I'd really appreciate your thoughts on:
The home page: www.hohobird.com
A typical 'section page' http://www.hohobird.com/acatalog/New..._for_sale.html
and a typical product page http://www.hohobird.com/acatalog/Gra...anchester.html
In my defence 'my lord'
Basically the site was doing quite well (in a not very competative field) with the majority of my leads now coming from the site rather than the physical 'shop'. But those leads were coming from the product pages rather than the section pages or home page.
So, I've:
- Stripped out a few levels in the hierarchy (one was 6 deep!)
- Swapped an 'all image' home page for something more wordy, trying to incorporate a 'reason to buy from me' following Bamboo's advice. (goggle still shows the cached version to compare).
- Hopefully improve the layout of photos on the extended info page
I've still some stripping out to do on my keywords as I hadn't appreciated the keywords accumulated from every level in the hierarchy so some product pages look a bit spammy.
I'm still very surprised at my Google results. I often do much better than expected but other queries are hopeless.
Many thanks for your input and precious time. I'm using V8 and know no html so am stuck with manipulating a standard exec theme as best I can.
You've helped me before but I've been following the forum and had a backlog of things I needed to do, so have bitten into to most of them now. So I'd really appreciate your thoughts on:
The home page: www.hohobird.com
A typical 'section page' http://www.hohobird.com/acatalog/New..._for_sale.html
and a typical product page http://www.hohobird.com/acatalog/Gra...anchester.html
In my defence 'my lord'
Basically the site was doing quite well (in a not very competative field) with the majority of my leads now coming from the site rather than the physical 'shop'. But those leads were coming from the product pages rather than the section pages or home page.
So, I've:
- Stripped out a few levels in the hierarchy (one was 6 deep!)
- Swapped an 'all image' home page for something more wordy, trying to incorporate a 'reason to buy from me' following Bamboo's advice. (goggle still shows the cached version to compare).
- Hopefully improve the layout of photos on the extended info page
I've still some stripping out to do on my keywords as I hadn't appreciated the keywords accumulated from every level in the hierarchy so some product pages look a bit spammy.
I'm still very surprised at my Google results. I often do much better than expected but other queries are hopeless.
Many thanks for your input and precious time. I'm using V8 and know no html so am stuck with manipulating a standard exec theme as best I can.
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