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Hi guys just wondering if any one has the skills to make me a wensite or knows someone who can? Cheers DJ
Re: Can anyone make me a website?
Can’t do you a full on website but I can give you a web presence.
This was created for the WTA members in the first instance
So long as you are a registered repairs@ member or have sent in the info for that since, you can have a page made by yours truly.
Only thing is, I am completely slammed in terms of time for the next week and I will not be able to do a lot until next week. So, for any of you that want a page up there and, it’s good for backlinks to your own sites if you have one (just trust me, I know) it’s worth doing, have a think about what you want to tell people.
Unlike an ad in the local rag it’s not costing you a bean, gets exposure as I link it to the find an engineer entry and you can say a lot more than you can in a small advert in the paper or YP etc.
Whilst I’m happy enough to word stuff and whatnot you do have to give the basics of what you want. I can usually tart it up a bit for you.
You also need to tell me if you want images there, what they are and if they’re yours provide them.
It is only open to WTA members and independent repairers that are on the system. And, thankfully, I get to decide what goes and what doesn’t. 😉
One week more and it’s opened up to all that meet the above.
K.
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Lol thanks ken you put me up on the “find an engineer ” link last week but I’d love just to have a simple web page so I would come up in Google if for example someone put in “washing machine repairs Monmouthshire” 😀 because I don’t at the mo.
Re: Can anyone make me a website?
Hi, I can do you a website and get you in google pretty quickly by using google maps.
Re: Can anyone make me a website?
There’s several ways to go about this and it depends entirely on how far you want to go with it. Cost ranges from free to thousands of pounds.
For free and for relevance a page on UKW is no bad thing. It’s basically a glorified business card but, it gets your name out there and at least gives you a presence. And, because of the status that UKW has it’s liable to get hits.
Put it this way, this page has only been there a few weeks and it’s getting traffic. Find An Engineer gets a few thousand a month and the old repairs@ system had about 1000 jobs logged a month. So people are looking and are finding them.
Get yourself a Google account and register on Google Local instructions from this link.
Link back to your own website from that or your UKW page and vice versa.
If you have a website, tell people. 😉
Use your URL (whether your own or whatever page) in your signature and answer posts in the public forums with decent content, i.e. don’t post any old cr4p as, a. it will get deleted by the mods and b. Google likes content that actually makes sense and answers the question/s being asked.
As a search engine (which accounts for about 75{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} or so of all global search traffic) you have to play nice with Google and by their rules, that’s just the way it is. But the single two most important things your must understand to get the best results is, content is king and relevance is everything. All the other stuff is technical and you start to get into the realms of a whole other world that you could spend your life at and never get any actual work done.
If you haven’t got a website at all, do the free thing first. Costs nothing, no risk to you bar a bit of time. See how that goes, if it works for you then perhaps think about doing a bit more but I wouldn’t advise spending wads of cash on it to start with.
K.
Re: Can anyone make me a website?
Another option if you have a bit of time is try ‘Serif Webplus starter edition’ this is free with a few limitations but will probably do what you need. Worth downloading to try http://www.serif.com/web-design-software/.
It’s fairly easy to use and has a WYSIWYG interface so you can drag and drop on the page.
As far as getting reasonable rankings on Google, as the other posts suggests, list your business with google maps, list it with ukwhitegoods, any ‘backlinks’ from other sites will help and again, content is important.
There are many other things that can be done to improve rankings but I would suggest get the site sorted out first.
Re: Can anyone make me a website?
Hi DJ,
I set up my website using an wix.com, they have some nice templates so you don’t need a lot of web experience. Also joined clipart.com and downloaded some graphics.
Only trouble is that wix use flash technology and apple ipads and iphones won’t render flash. Seems a bit stupid to me as my macmimi displays it ok in safari browser.
I guess apple are similar to many appliance manufacturers in dictating to the market and consumers on their terms. Maybe thats why android is overtaking them.
If you need any help, just email me and I’ll try and point you in the right direction.
Conor!
PS, see my effort (still needs polishing) on http://www.conortech.ieRe: Can anyone make me a website?
conormccleane wrote:PS, see my effort (still needs polishing) on http://www.conortech.ie
Excellent site conor and works a treat on my Samsung Galaxy S by the way! 😉
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Yes, Flash.
Like I said, no flash, no crash.
I run several Flash enabled applications for various reasons, the main one being for control of my music through a Flash enabled browser application. Over time, a few minutes to a few hours, it slowly drags the PCs it’s running on. I have now given up, bought the App to do it and, without any surprise, that “just works” and, keeps on working.
But apart from the technical issues with Flash there’s another little issue with it and, using it. It is not search engine friendly in any way at all. Many search engines just don’t read it, which is why you see things like “interactive” and “html” versions of a number of sites.
Which is likely why, if you search “conor tech” in Google it doesn’t appear and, it should as it’s a direct URL match for the search phrase.
It looks cool and it’s good work Conor but, it’s wasted if nobody sees it. Can you not do that (or similar) without using Flash?
On the subject of t’internet though…
All you people that run websites really should read this document from the ICO, new EU regs on cookies and use. Note the specific reference to “Flash cookies”.
Also I got a ping off the NWAR page on here today, which was nice, it was contract work for appliance inspections for an insurer. According to the dude that phoned it was a nice, clean simple page that told them all they need to know leading to much more in-depth information one what we did. But, after Ade’s thread about where stuff came from I asked and, lo and behold, the guy found it on (would you believe) Google as it came up as a top ten search result on what he was looking for. I didn’t get the search term sadly but I reckon it’s probably a mixed message with the UKW stuff mixed with the specifics for that page.
Pleased enough with that I am. 😉
It cracks me up though that UKW is ranked higher and more authoritatively than NWAR’s own site is even though the NWAR site has been around longer and is targeted at more specific keywords or keyterms.
K.
Re: Can anyone make me a website?
Ken,
Thanks for the info. re cookies. I will forward it onto wix and see what they say and what they can do about it. I’ll post any reply I get up here if that’s ok.
I may take a look at using a another method of making a website using a more “acceptable” technology, however learning curves and limited resources means it may be a little bit down the line.
I only wanted to point out one method for the self-employed person who is not web-tech savvy and who wants a quick and easy web presence, without laying out a wedge of dosh. Surely a “kludge” is better than nothing at all.
Anyway I welcome all constructive criticisms.
Thanks,
Conor!Re: Can anyone make me a website?
conormccleane wrote:I only wanted to point out one method for the self-employed person who is not web-tech savvy and who wants a quick and easy web presence, without laying out a wedge of dosh. Surely a “kludge” is better than nothing at all.
Absolutely. Anything out there is better than nothing and the fact that it’s fairly easy to put something together means there’s little excuse not to do something.
It’s not a “kludge” though, it looks nice, nice design etc. I was just pointing out to you the bit that wasn’t so positive.
K.
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kwatt wrote:It cracks me up though that UKW is ranked higher and more authoritatively than NWAR’s own site is even though the NWAR site has been around longer and is targeted at more specific keywords or keyterms.
Yeah I see what you mean, I’ve googled several key words and NWAR only pops up on average between pages 5 to 7. That’s possibly the same problem conor may face with his site in that it’s all very flash (pardon the pun) but not sufficient keywords and even less meta tags. Google needs to read loads of that type of crap, so, I always say… you need to seed it in order to feed from it! 😀 8)
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Ok guys,
We have had a website for a couple of years now and me thinks its time to ‘adjust it’ slightly.
Your comments would be appreciated,,,, be ruthless I can take it. I think!!!!!!!!!!!
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Martin wrote:Yeah I see what you mean, I’ve googled several key words and NWAR only pops up on average between pages 5 to 7. That’s possibly the same problem conor may face with his site in that it’s all very flash (pardon the pun) but not sufficient keywords and even less meta tags. Google needs to read loads of that type of crap, so, I always say… you need to seed it in order to feed from it! 😀 8)
Yup, you are completely correct.
That’s possibly because I spend the vast bulk of my time working on UKW, probably 85{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}+ of my time is spent doing “stuff” around this site. That’s why, in part, a page on here holds value.
So in light of your comments, which are completely correct I’ll have you know, I revisited nwar and, it’s no wonder it was found through UKW. Half the stuff done was, will we say in order to avoid the word filters, absolute “kack”. I’ve brushed it up a bit but, in all honesty, it needs more than a couple of hours spending on it.
However, I’ve done pages for most of the stuff I want to capture, optimised them a little and added this to every product page and the front page:
NWAR wrote:If you’ve found this page and we don’t cover your area for repairs for any of the appliances we repair, appliances that we don’t or you’re somewhere else in the UK the two best places to search for a reputable appliance engineer to effect a repair are the Whitegoods Trade Association website engineer search, just click here to open the page and, with many more repairers but almost all the WTA members, there’s the UK Whitegoods Find An Engineer function. We are of course listed on both.
With the links in it of course.
If I don’t get the work it may as well be someone else on here that gets it IMO. I’d much, MUCH rather see that than see the customer disappear to a national repair service. 😉
K.
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