John P
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| posted on 25/8/10 at 12:55 PM |
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Building and Optimising a Website
Having recently set up as a self-employed handyman I want to create a website to show jobs I have done and hopefully attract some more work.
When I was working as a manager in engineering I built a couple of websites but only to the stage where the content, pictures etc were what we wanted
at which point we paid a specialist company to host the site and add the necessary tags etc to ensure it got on the first or second page of Google.
As I can't afford to pay anyone else what's the best way to arrive at a site which can be found by the search engines.
Would I be better to use the Google website creater which appears to be free for the first 2 years?
Any advice would be appreciated.
John.
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mrwibble
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| posted on 25/8/10 at 01:09 PM |
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www.nb2bc.co.uk
my woman is a self employed marketing consultant specialising in e -commerce and recommends this website for you as its free. any further advice dont
hesitate to ask and i'll give u her contact details.
regards
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m8kwr
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| posted on 25/8/10 at 01:13 PM |
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Creating a website is the easy bit, getting it on to page 1 of google can be the hard bit, but just depends on the search words that you think people
are going to use in order to find what they are after.
What have you written the site in?
There is a lot of information of how to optimise a website out there, but a lot of I find useless.
For your business, I would imagine that people would search for a particular job within an area.
LINK
In google it shows you a map, and a list of relavant link to companies, in this instance (using the link above) 2.
Just get on this... it really easy, and you don't even need a website, all you have to do is to create a profile, use this link
LINK2
And that will get your noticed, and then look at doing the website at a later date, as you would be getting coverage from searches.
HTH
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MK9R
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| posted on 25/8/10 at 01:30 PM |
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i built and maintain my dads website, plus handle the advertising. I'm no whiz at websites so used www.1and1.co.uk as host and used the built in
website creator to create this:-
www.bellengineering.co.uk
Advertising is done through google adwords. Type in good "Freelander IRD" or "Freelander VCU" and bell engineering usually
appears at the top in the sponsored links. you pay per click, even if it leads to nothing, but if you are careful with the way you set it up it can be
very fruitful and effective. I have my dads site set at £50 a month max spend and it generates more than enough to keep him flat out.
Your other option is a blog style website which are dead easy to build and maintain
Cheers Austen
RGB car number 9
www.austengreenway.co.uk
www.automatedtechnologygroup.co.uk
www.trackace.co.uk
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John P
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| posted on 25/8/10 at 02:13 PM |
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Thanks for your advice and help.
m8kwr - I've taken your advice and registered with Google Maps so at least that's a start.
John.
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