labradesigns.com

[labradesigns]

What do you guys think? www.labradesigns.com

Thanks

[ahimsa]

Re: labradesigns.com

Nice!

[Collectors-info]

Re: labradesigns.com

Good looking site. Might of gone for a smaller front page & enticed the visitor into the site to see more.

[Vasili]

Re: labradesigns.com

Although I enthusiastically applaud your unique concept (which introduces the visitor to your perspective of design-construction-ART), the structure of your index page itself will always be penalized by the Search Engines for not minimally qualifying with the basic standards for compliant Page Construct, and has already resulted in disappointing values being established for the whole site.

Since you have already been careful to precisely compose whatever text you have on the page and weave that into Basic Page META (Keywords/Key Phrases, Page Description, Page Title, etc.) and nearly completed that relevancy building with adding ALT Text to most of the images which serve as expanded navigation (some still need to have ALT Text added even though they are hyperlinked to interior pages), the missing element is properly titling the images themselves to reflect the basis of that relevancy --- which is essential on this site especially, since there is such sparse Content available to get hard rank and whatever text is available (little text content and sporadic ALT Tags for images) in ratio to the LINKS, which in your case is more than 17x the standard allowed for websites to NOT be considered and valued as a "Directory" ..... which always results in sub-standard SERP Positioning (Search Engine Results Page).

The only way to correct this imbalance and satisfy the SE's is to:

1. Properly retitle ALL the images with valued descriptors, being careful to eliminate spaces in the titles and to replace underscores with hypens: i.e. kitchen image under Logo > from > labradesigns.com/kitchen%20layout%20render.jpg > to > labradesigns.com/kelley-residence-kitchen-redesign.jpg ... which adds easy to read SE characters and deeper relevance to the interior page it is linked to, so the SE's don't initially count that as a liability when they evaluate the cache ratio. This is the first step in creating real relevancy: Origin Page Content - image title - (Alt Text if available, as in CMS) - hyperlink 'title' - hyperlink Alt Text/rollover - destination page title - navigation ratio ...

2. Change the rollover hyperlink text on each image to conform more closely to the image title-hperlink-page destination relationship while still being imformative to the visitor. Using the same image as an example, the link rollover text is clearly lacking any real information that may interest the Visitor, and which presently represents a break in the relevancy creation.

3. Reduce the images completely for the page design itself to better compliment the page construct used on interior pages, thus creating a foundational relevancy that would help to correct the SE perspective on how the Index relates to the remainder of the site without resorting to questionable value methods. Not only will this provide the visitor with a continuity to your site, it will simplfy the initial visual overload that is currently being presented and dramatically cut back on the redundancy (too many images are linking to the same interior pages) as well as the link:content ratio (too many interior links are just as bad as having too many outbound links). * A good suggestion is to limit yourself to no more than 2 images per Category of the services you highlight in your "Main Menu" --- this will make for a much 'shorter' page that naturally elevates the impact and import of each image .... easier for Visitors, easier for SE's, and is more pronounced site continuity to fit with your artistic perspective.

Now that you have the majority of site design and the skeleton of Content laid in, this is the time to go back and re-do all the details that are critical to complying fully with SE expectations so you can earn the position and traffic that is potentially yours alone, seeing as how you have nicely carved out a niche in your market.

[DarrenC]

Re: labradesigns.com

I like all your internal site pages because they are all managaeble sizes and well constructed. Your home page I feel you have over done it. Page too long and at first it aint clear what you have to do. I think it would it would better to reduce this down so what is left fits on the page, a kindve less is more approach and alt text images. You could also instruct the visitor on the alt text eg click to see.....etc etc etc

Overal though i think you've done a cracking job and a site I would visit often

[wysiwyg4]

Re: labradesigns.com

I strongly agree with every word of Mr.
Vasili
General

Just in general, it has been said many times by most SEO gurus, especially Karen and Mr. Vasili on these pages.
Think not only of your visitors but perhaps more importantly of search
engines, especially of Google which showed a 72% SE market share last fall.

You must have a business plan. Just follow that.

Forget for a while the images and flashes and what have you.
You, surely, need hammer, nails, nuts and bolts and website builders like BlueVoda to build your business.
That's the HOW's of the business.
But before you take that step, think about your business in terms of the WHAT's and the WHY's.

What is it that you want to build and why.

Remember what JFK said, with a little twist of the words,

"Ask first not HOW you can do a project.
Ask first WHAT you want to do and WHY."

Folks who come to this forum and get information might know
about a website - new or old. What about the rest of the world.

How would you market to them?

Again I strongly agree with Mr. Visili.

Other than it is a nice website.