Only one "l" in instalment, Joe! A nice refined feel to it. I like first-person address from a business owner's website, as you have done. Some tuners, oddly to my mind, describe themselves and their services in the third person "Jon Bloggs trained for 4 years with X and offers y". Much better for the web searcher to feel that he or she is being addressed personally and directly by the owner of business. What do you want the website to do for your business? It sounds as though you are not desperately needing to generate high volumes of new business, but just want to establish a web presence, since every business nowadyas is expencted to have contact details online. Did you put the site together yourself? If you are wanting to do more with it, make spend some time making sure that your site is listed in all the online business directories for your area. With regard to getting a decent page ranking in Google, the number one tip seems to be: Have lots of well-written, relevant content, and keep it updated. People may contact you offering Search Engine Optimisation services, for lots of money. Don't pay them! Research it yourself and follow the guidelines. We have an advantage in that ours is rather a niche business. There are relatively few of us compared with, say, hairdressers or plumbers. Just over a year ago, my website did not exist. I needed to have one, as I was taking piano work from a part-time sideline to my main occupation. Now, if you do a Google search for "piano tuner Scotland" or "piano tuner Glasgow", my website appears in either first or second place on the first page of the "organic" google search results. That has been achieved without buying any seach engine optimisation services. Interestingly (or perhaps boringly) if you also do a google search for "birdcage pianos" my site comes top, because I have a big page about them, and as a result of that I've had a couple of enquiries from people in the USA wanting advice because their technicians were not very confident with underdamper action pianos! Getting your site found by clients is one thing. Converting people finding your site into people phoning or emailing to give you their business is something else. That's where content is king, hopefully saying more than "I'm here" but saying "I'm the one you should call". If you keep your site updated, and perhaps associate it with a Facebook page and maybe a blog (though blogs are now passé it seems) those things may help too. Best regards, David. www.davidboyce.co.uk http://pianopinions.tumblr.com On 16/01/2013 11:40, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > > Just thought y'all would like a look. Any thoughts/comments/suggestions are > always welcome.<G> It's all gnu to me, so....??? (finally got off my duff > and made an attempt a being modren.) > Best, > Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130116/9c783592/attachment.htm>
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