Thread: If you dont mind, could you check out my site?

Subtle Touch Massage
Thank you very much please feel free to send you comments or suggestions my way.

Hey Builder

Your sites looking good. I would set the width to 800 and center your page as I have to scroll sideways to see your whole site.

With the text on the Home Page I would justify it to make it straight and it looks a bit more professional.

But I like the colors and it's easy to navigate. Well done.

Hi builder,

The site is looking good... a couple of suggestions:

1) Make use of the tag analyser www.widexl.com it helps you gauge the success or failure of your changes as you go along.
2) Give your pictures site related names (subtle_touch_banner) the search engines seem to prefer this
3) Your buttons show page address on mouse over - rather give them a description in Alt text ("contact" = email an enquiry)
4) Your title is "index" rather give a actual page title or tagline maybe along the lines of: Subtle Touch Massage - The delicate yet effective alternative
Enjoy
www.addoadventure.com

Hi builder,

I just had a look at your site in the tag analyser...Ouch!!! your keyword tag contains 2906 characters and no comma's, have look at the related forums

cheers,
www.addoadventure.com

The site looks good as in it's layed out nicely, nice colours used and easy to navigate. The things i noticed however which could do with changing are the following:

Title
Name your page something other than index. the main page file needs to be saved as index but you can actually name the page within the title tags something like 'Subtle Touch Massage'.

Keywords
You have too many keywords and charachters and this could be seen by the search engines as spamming. Also seperate each phrase with a commor so that the search engines can distinguish between each one.


Images
The total size of your images is 297118 bytes, which is over 30K and is affecting the load time of your website. You can use voda's pixresizer to optimise your images and help your pages load faster. I've done a speed test on it and get the following

Connection Rate | Download Time
14.4K __________242.73 seconds
28.8K __________123.06 seconds
33.6K __________105.97 seconds
56K ____________64.94 seconds
ISDN 128K _______22.25 seconds
T1 1.44Mbps_____5.04 seconds

As you can see from the above table, the people who have slower modems are going to be waiting forever for your page to load and if i was one of them i would certainly have moved onto another site by now.

Tara

Your page has side to side scroll even full screen, so condsider making it just 800 wide.

SE dont read images names, and please dont name them banner anything as some ad managers and popup blockers will kill them. Do make sure your alt tags are site related keywords or descriptive text.

Your page didnt take that long to load for me. Your keyword meta is spam. If all those words dont appear on that page, then take them off there. Each page has its own meta in page properties for you to use. Your home page for instance is named INDEX, when you could be making use of your keywords instead. The next most important meta tag DESCRIPTION wasnt used at all. Most engines dont count the keyword tag any more because of the technique you just used!! They do however, SEE it and if youve spammed it will eventually catch you and could even get you banned.

You have a bravenet counter and it uses cookies to track your visitors, did you realize this? Not to mention on a professional site its tacky. Do you want someone to see this and think... Gee only 300 visitors have been here when it should be in the thousands, or hundreds of thousands. In my opinion its a counter of infamy!! Its ok on a personal home page type site, but not on a professional presence site.

I think you have a nice start, but I think you need to read up on your SEO tactics and clean some things up if you want it to be a really successful and professional image for you.

Karen

Yor site has a good color choces but the layout is too wide and the nav buttons looked like they belong on another website.

Thanks everyone for the wonderful feedback. I will take all of your advice and try to fix up the site. This is my first site so I am learning alot and I love Blue Voda. Thanks again folks!

Hey folks,
I have taken alot of your advice and have finished my homepage and was wondering if anyone can check it out and let me know what you think? I hope that I did this alright. Also I am having a big problem with the other pages. I have finished two other pages but when I publish them I still get the old pages when I type in the url. Any ideas? I tried deleting the entire public_html folder and republishing everything and that did not work. Help!!
Thanks again everyone for your wonderful feedback.
Matt (the builder)
Tara is my fiance.

Hi, not sure on the white text used on the green faded oblongs. Can only just read the ones down the right hand side. The banner http://www.massageangels.com Should be made to open _blank (new page) to save loosing visitors.


Good luck.

Originally Posted by thebuilder

Hey folks,
I have taken alot of your advice and have finished my homepage and was wondering if anyone can check it out and let me know what you think? I hope that I did this alright. Also I am having a big problem with the other pages. I have finished two other pages but when I publish them I still get the old pages when I type in the url. Any ideas? I tried deleting the entire public_html folder and republishing everything and that did not work. Help!!
Thanks again everyone for your wonderful feedback.
Matt (the builder)
Tara is my fiance.

You have to delete your cookies and history, when you type in an adress, the computer saves the adress, so if you change it you have to erase the cookies and history to see the new pages. hope that helps!