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AceChandra
05-13-2010, 02:11 PM
Hey! Just got my company website from AceInComputers up and running... Feedback highly appreciate!!!!

http://www.dfwarealawncare.com
dfw-internetmarketing
05-19-2010, 01:17 AM
Hey! Just got my company website from AceInComputers up and running... Feedback highly appreciate!!!!

http://www.dfwarealawncare.com

It seems you are priced a little high for your area. I suggest checking out Justmowit.com yourlawnjockey.com mogo.com grassperson.com and clark mow and go


About the site it is pretty sweet. nice animation

The bad news is..sorry pal. You will never ever be found by a search engine the way it was built. I would love to see a search engine crawl this site and rank you above page 36.

This is your entire site. Nothing in here is usable as far as I can see. Anybody else care to give comment?



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>DFW Area Lawn Care</title>

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

<center>

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,24"
width="766" height="750">
<param name="movie" value="flash/main_flash8.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<!--[if !IE]> <-->
<object data="flash/main_flash8.swf"
width="766" height="750" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
</object>
<!--> <![endif]-->
</object>

</center>

</body>
</html>
MnDLawn
05-27-2010, 06:45 PM
It seems you are priced a little high for your area.

So he is not trying to lowball, wish their were more like him.
dfw-internetmarketing
05-28-2010, 02:03 AM
KIind of hard to charge a good price being in Texas. Some can get it when they have really established a good name in nice neighborhoods. But for guys starting out needing to make a buck, they have to compete with the influx from the border.:cry:
mdvaden
05-28-2010, 07:28 PM
Nice site design.

You could spare the entry page.

Photos very small. Is there a way to make those bigger?

As far as getting found by search engines, you could optimize you site through the roof, and still, what are your chances of being in the top 20? Or top 10?

Find the grand tally of good websites in the Dallas area, and figure out what are the chances of being on the top?

I think working on your initial appearance is very important.

The search engine stuff you can tinker with in the year ahead if you feel the need.

:)
DDT
06-09-2010, 12:41 PM
They sold YOU a site YOU love (and I'm sure it was expensive..oh it's fancy and everything but have you noticed the number of Macintosh users is growing by leaps and bounds, especially with the new I-Pad and no Apple user can see your site (Mac, I-Phone, I-Pad) if they are using the Mac web browser. (Safari doesn't support Flash)
So you just cut out a bunch of customers (and the more "high-end" the customer the more likely they have Mac's and in 6 months you will see I-Pads everywhere like you do I-Phones now.)
The whole idea of the site (from the designer's point of view" was to sell YOU on a web site YOU would love.
It doesn't concentrate on selling CUSTOMERS on having YOU do THEIR landscape work.
(But unlike the site I critiqued earlier that was a freebie with ads and made them look cheap yours shows you have money to spend-a substantial company...one good point)

Mainly this site's biggest problem was I have a super-fast DSL commercial Connection (the fastest AT&T sells here) and I'm in the D/FW area yet your home page took over 15 seconds to load...that's WAY unacceptable, it would take well over a minute if someone still had dial-up and on regular residential DSL would take 20-30 seconds.
If you are going to keep the site (and I am sure you have a big chunk tied up in it) get a much faster host for it or nobody will wait on it to load.
mdvaden
06-17-2010, 09:09 PM
They sold YOU a site YOU love (and I'm sure it was expensive..oh it's fancy and everything but have you noticed the number of Macintosh users is growing by leaps and bounds, especially with the new I-Pad and no Apple user can see your site (Mac, I-Phone, I-Pad) if they are using the Mac web browser. (Safari doesn't support Flash)
So you just cut out a bunch of customers (and the more "high-end" the customer the more likely they have Mac's and in 6 months you will see I-Pads everywhere like you do I-Phones now.)
The whole idea of the site (from the designer's point of view" was to sell YOU on a web site YOU would love.
It doesn't concentrate on selling CUSTOMERS on having YOU do THEIR landscape work.
(But unlike the site I critiqued earlier that was a freebie with ads and made them look cheap yours shows you have money to spend-a substantial company...one good point)

Mainly this site's biggest problem was I have a super-fast DSL commercial Connection (the fastest AT&T sells here) and I'm in the D/FW area yet your home page took over 15 seconds to load...that's WAY unacceptable, it would take well over a minute if someone still had dial-up and on regular residential DSL would take 20-30 seconds.
If you are going to keep the site (and I am sure you have a big chunk tied up in it) get a much faster host for it or nobody will wait on it to load.

Interesting points.

It did take a while to load. And even without getting into the website.

I've seen it once before, but was revisiting these topics tonight. When the entry page loaded, it really hit home that its giving me the option to leave.

So just to make a point, I chose not to enter this time, seeing that the alternative to leave is offered by shoving the extra barrier in the way.

Visually, I really like Flash sites. And was tempted dozens of times to get one, or a template. But every time I resisted, opting for the html or css.
Grnhed
08-06-2010, 11:29 AM
It seems you are priced a little high for your area. I suggest checking out Justmowit.com yourlawnjockey.com mogo.com grassperson.com and clark mow and go


About the site it is pretty sweet. nice animation

The bad news is..sorry pal. You will never ever be found by a search engine the way it was built. I would love to see a search engine crawl this site and rank you above page 36.

This is your entire site. Nothing in here is usable as far as I can see. Anybody else care to give comment?



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>DFW Area Lawn Care</title>

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

<center>

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,24"
width="766" height="750">
<param name="movie" value="flash/main_flash8.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<!--[if !IE]> <-->
<object data="flash/main_flash8.swf"
width="766" height="750" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
</object>
<!--> <![endif]-->
</object>

</center>

</body>
</html>

Should I assume you have a plan and an SEO that will stickie him to page one? I am in search of web hosting any suggestions?
MowHouston
08-06-2010, 02:27 PM
It seems you are priced a little high for your area. I suggest checking out Justmowit.com yourlawnjockey.com mogo.com grassperson.com and clark mow and go


Actually, the majority of his prices are under local prices.

If you had a townhome, you would be paying $23, whereas this guy is charging $15. The other sites do up to a 6000 sq ft lawn again, for $23, and this guy does them for $20.

Again, the next price level up (6000 -12000 sq ft) with the bigger mow n go guys is $28. This guy does 6000-8000 for $25. Still cheaper. (which is the meat of most lawns, in other words, the majority of lawns in the DFW area are around 7000-8000 sq ft)

From that point on, he is more expensive.

That all being said, I ran prices as follows with point click mow, and justmowing as competitors in Houston and gained about 20-25 customers a month.

0-6000: $25
6000-9000: $30
9000 - 12000: $35
12000- 15000: $40

Add $5 for bi-weekly
Add $5 for corner lots.

So it isnt about the lowballing.
JFGauvreau
08-07-2010, 11:01 AM
Nice site, looks good