Please Rate My Website

[GreenerSide]

Over the winter I decided to build my own website. I know its not perfect, but please let me know what you think and if there is anything wrong with it.

www.thegreenersidelawncare.com

All feedback will be helpful. Thanks in advance

[elitelawnteam1]

fantastic! two suggestions I have for you is

1- Automatically go to the home page after the intro finishes. that's big

2- make the text more visible, and bigger. whether making the backdrop more transparent (whiter) or change the text color and size

other than that, I think it's awesome

good job

[joesimoes2]

looks good you got an A

[iso_trout]

Really nice work. I'm feeling not-so-hot about mine after seeing that!

[greenbaylawns]

I think it looks nice. One thing you may want to consider is getting a P.O Box number for the business. I don't like have my home address out on the web. Who are you using for you turf dealer?

[Richard Martin]

Having just been throughly reviewed by my peers here at Lawnsite I can offer some suggestions.

1: Add the name of the area you service into the ********* section of your code. Google looks closely at the title for information

2: You spelled the word "business" wrong on the meta description section.

3: Google almost completely ignores the meta keywords.

4: Can you move logo.jpg over to the middle? I'm not sure why you have it pulled to the left side but it looks a little weird over there.

5: On your services page under the Fertilizer Program section you spelled "effective" wrong. You spelled it "effecitive".

6: Under aeration you have "We strongly recommend an overseeding treatment is completed in conjunction with aeration." It just reads funny like that. I had to read it a couple of times to understand what you're trying to say. I'd write "We strongly recommend that an overseeding treatment is completed in conjunction with aeration.

7: Under Power Raking you have "Power raking removes excess organic debris from the lawn such as thatch which can build-up underneath the live grass." I'd add a comma and a word. Power raking removes excess organic debris from the lawn such as thatch, which can build-up underneath of the live grass.

8: Under Spring/Fall cleanup you have "No time to clean up your yard." Is that a question or a statement? If it's a question put a question mark at the end. If it's a statement it is seriously incomplete to the point I can't understand what you're trying to say.

9: You've made so many mistakes on the FAQ section it would take me an hour to type them out. Start with "Gradually lower your mowing height in the fall back to 2.5" - 3" to help lateral growth and helps for sustain your grass over the winter"

or


This can account for as much as 1/3 of the need nitrogen for your lawn.

Drop back. Take a deep breath and go back over everything with a fine tooth comb. It'll look fine when you're done.

[Grass Shark]

You did a super job on the website... looks very nice A+++!!!
Holy Cow!!! $7 per 1000 for aeration and $11 per 1000 for slice seeding? Is that plus a high hourly rate?:confused:

[Roger]

As mentioned above, you did not do a spell check on the text. Business and environment are two of the most obvious. There are also some capitalization problems.

I agree about the text under the services need much clean up work. Under Cleanup, something is very wrong with the first statement. Perhaps you can find a person skilled in proofreading and handling the English.

Under FAQ, all entries apply to having a contractor (specifically you) do the work, except the entry about blade sharpening. Why would you include a comment about blade sharpening if you are being hired to do the mowing? You may wish to alter some of the other entries as well, looking at the questions only from a owner/LCO relationship. You don't want to promote the reader of the web site to do their own mowing. You want them to hire you!

[GreenerSide]

1: Add the name of the area you service into the ********* section of your code. Google looks closely at the title for information


What did you mean by the area *********?


4: Can you move logo.jpg over to the middle? I'm not sure why you have it pulled to the left side but it looks a little weird over there.


I will have to look into this. Not sure why it isn't centered.

Thanks to all. I have all ready started to make some of the changes brought to my attention. I will have to dive into the faq page soon as that will probably take some time to fix. Again thanks to all.

[Richard Martin]

What did you mean by the area *********?


It should say title. I don't know why Lawnsite screened that out.

[nr7pro]

Yup, keywords meta tag is dead (http://www.asknorb.com/2010/11/google-does-not-use-the-keywords-meta-tag/), but that doesn't stop guys like this, I came across this last night,
check source for keywords - great example of what NOT to do: http://beautymasterybydesign.com/

Make sure you run the spell check on your site.

[walker-talker]

Keyword meta tag is dead for google, but others may still use them and yes, that guy went a bit overboard.

[GreenerSide]

I agree that that is just a little to many. So your title is supposed to reflect some of keywords. Is there a certain length to shoot for. I would guess that you don't want your title to be do long?

Just took a look at you site walker-talker and noticed that you estimate button is dropped down over your tree. I'm using a mac and this happened in safari and firefox. Just a heads up. I attached a picture of it in firefox.

[nr7pro]

Yup just checked same thing for me w/ Safari, quickest fix prob rename "OUR 100$ referral program" to just "100$ Referral Program" drop the OUR and that should give enough room

[walker-talker]

Hmmmm....you guys on a laptop or on one of those netbooks? I just opened safari and it works ok, but I have a 24" monitor. I did take out the "Our". Will you please let me know how it looks now?

Thanks,
Matt

[walker-talker]

I agree that that is just a little to many. So your title is supposed to reflect some of keywords. Is there a certain length to shoot for. I would guess that you don't want your title to be do long?

I think the title is around 50 or so and the meta description is around 150...words that is. But, don't quote me on that. So many people have different opinions.

[nr7pro]

looks good now, i'm on a 15 inch mac book pro

[GreenerSide]

Hmmmm....you guys on a laptop or on one of those netbooks? I just opened safari and it works ok, but I have a 24" monitor. I did take out the "Our". Will you please let me know how it looks now?

Thanks,
Matt

Just took a look and it looks fine in safari now. I'm on a laptop.

[GreenerSide]

Well just noticed another weird thing on your site. The referral page has wording that is doubled up. It looks fine in safari but the screen shot was taken in firefox.

[walker-talker]

Alright...thanks guys

[walker-talker]

Well just noticed another weird thing on your site. The referral page has wording that is doubled up. It looks fine in safari but the screen shot was taken in firefox.

I checked it out using firefox...but it works ok. Will you try reloading page and see if that works. Also, what is your screen resolution set at?

Thanks again

[Richard Martin]

I think the title is around 50 or so and the meta description is around 150...words that is. But, don't quote me on that. So many people have different opinions.

Bear in mind that the title appears at the top of the web browser. It would appear awfully crowded with 50 words in it.

[GreenerSide]

I checked it out using firefox...but it works ok. Will you try reloading page and see if that works. Also, what is your screen resolution set at?

Thanks again

Screen resolution is 1440 X 900. For some reason its still doing it in my.