Another Website (general Contractor)...suggestions?

mbenike

Hello all. I recently joined the forum and finally reached 15 posts which apparently means I can post a link. Here is my company's website which I was put in charge of getting done when I was hired. I met with a developer and soon our new website was launched. We are a general contractor in Minnesota.

http://www.benike.com

Let me know your thoughts; I already have some corrections/changes written down but I'd like to hear comments. Thanks.

Nathan

I'll try to take a closer look at it but at first glance I'd say it's excellent. Very easy to use and nice to look at. Great job!

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mickeyco

That is one very nice site and some great work, the only thing I might change, and it's being real picky, is the "Experience" button to gallery or portfolio and maybe add descriptions of your scope of work, ie. more text with the pictures of the projects, good for search engines and potential customers.

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L. B. Condulet

A top notch site. Not one misspelled word.

Taranis

I'd say shorten the page so viewers don't have to scroll down. Good developer friends told me this when I did my website. Good practice, apparently. Rest of site is good (too many goods)

mrcountry

I like the site, good job

porkchop

it looks like a great site, i have a SEO suggestion thou...i would take off the organizations that you are a part of and put them on a different page, maybe on the about us page. If you have several outbound links on your homepage it kind of drags down your google ranking. Just my 2 cents...

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Cole

I agree, or either leave the image there with them and do not hyperlink them on the homepage, you can do that on another page if you want.

If they are not linking people to your site, I wouldn't link to them.

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Taranis

Cole, like your avatar.
Ok if I copy it for personal use?

Cole

Feel free to use it!

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Taranis

Cheers

SquirrelNmoose

Nice website!
About the links. If their sites don't have relative keyword content to yours, you can always add rel="nofollow" to the link code and that will keep Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines from following them from your site.

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porkchop

that doesnt really work anymore. Yahoo and MSN pretty much ignore the noindex, nofollow meta tags. See this video recently made by Google Webmasters

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SquirrelNmoose

Watch the video again!
He is talking about using these to make a page on your own website not visible at all on any search engine. Also the reference to Yahoo and MSN are on only the noindex meta tag. Not on the nofollow attribute .

The nofollow attribute, this is put inline with a link and will prevent search engines from following that link. In the video he explains this as page A and page B are contained within your own site. If you don't want page B to show up in any search engine results, the nofollow won't work because some other page (page C which you may not control) may reference page B. But this is still effective for breaking the link, and page rank influence, (as far as the search is concerned) from your site to the linked site.

Snippet from Wikipedia
Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow"[5] would not influence the link target's PageRank. In addition, the Yahoo and MSN search engines also respect this tag.[6] attribute
How the attribute is being interpreted differs between the search engines. While some take it literally and do not follow the link to the page being linked to, others still "follow" the link to find new web pages for indexing. In the latter case rel="nofollow" actually tells a search engine "Don't score this link" rather than "Don't follow this link." This differs from the meaning of nofollow as used within a robots meta tag, which does tell a search engine: "Do not follow any of the hyperlinks in the body of this document.".

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