Thread: Looking for some critical analysis of a new site

Just Published a new site to promote our equine business in ireland, I am hoping that some of the experienced members of the community will have a look and tell me where I have gone wrong, I'm a bit lost on the subject of Searh Engine Optomisation so would appreciate any comments in that area. Also I have had to include a lot of photos on the site to display horses for sale and am worried this will make it difficult to get a good listing on the search engines.

Anyway, thank you for your comments good, bad or indifferent.


Web site is http://www.ecklandssportshorses.com

Dave K

Hi, like the idea of the site & you are off to a good start. The only thing you will have to do is reduce most of the images to be web friendly.
A few of the pages run into the megabit size & are loading really slowly.
Have a browse through the image/photo links at the bottom of this post for some ideas.
If you need help? Just post back here.

Good luck.

Chris.

Have used the Thumbnail feature with most of my images, What Thumbnail size should I specify, Are there any particular images causing problems. Also, can anyone else suggest Ideas to get me seen on the search engines.

Cheers
DaveK

Hi, Its unfortunately, it’s quite a few of them. IE: This one http://www.ecklandssportshorses.com/Barns%202.JPG & should be about 200x100’ish at about 30kb max for an image of this type. At the moment, its about 2228x1712 by 760kb.

With using the light box on some of your images, the thumb nails don’t get reduced, & are the same size in kb’s as the large image. So if your using this facility, I wouldn’t recommend going over 60-80kb at 600x400 on the main image size.

This is a good read on the SE side of things. http://www.moxie-enter-prises.com/SEO-The-Basics.html

I have redone all the main pages on the site so that they will be simpler to load, would like any opinions

Hi, still need to make the images on this page http://www.ecklandssportshorses.com/...acilities.html a lot smaller in KB’s. Right click on these 3 & save as, & see if they are any good.
The old 3 where about 1725kb. These are now about 196kb

Good luck.

Hey Chris.

Thanks a lot for that, I have loaded these images and seems they uploaded a lot quicker so hope the pages open quicker in the outside world. Let me know

Cheers
DaveK

Hi, must admit i thought you was puting the larger images in the light box. If you want the images that small you can have the new images a 10th of the size you are using.

I posted to your thread on SEO - as there is lots you need to do - for SEO - and for the site itself. Just happened to see that thread first :).