Website advice please!!

[Dany Boy]

I'm looking to set up a website to sell Leads for accountants online, wondering if I need to get a normal site or an e commerce site. Since its a simple business just want to know what type of a website will suit me.

Can anyone suggest some ideas.

Daniel

[ExpandOnline]

If you are selling a service (ie lead generation) then probably just a simple 4 page website would be sufficient.

Happy to advise further, PM me.

Peter

[pws]

Daniel

Have you got a clear idea of what role your website is to play within your business. Will it be a site to publish information about your business and services or will be a more interactive space where leads can be viewed and purchased?

You might want to start with the first option and plan to develop to the second option at a later stage at some defined stage.

Pritesh.

[Dany Boy]

I'm looking to publish info about my business and services and want to sell leads online for Accountants.

Accountants can register on my site for free and state what are their requirements in terms of leads and customers they are looking for which industry will interest them and what aspect of accounting will interest them.

I would also like business owners to sign up for free as well, as and when they forsee a need for accountants and we will qualify the best accountant and get the guys to meet each other.

So this can get business owners to look for accountants in their area.

Now the idea behind this is I can give these leads to the accountants for a fee and the business owners benefit out of this and they have nothing to lose.

How does this sound and how do you think the website should be and how much space I would need. I'm a start up aswell so looking at a low budget one, if you'll don't mind.

Thanks

Daniel

[ExpandOnline]

why limit it to accountants?

[Dany Boy]

That's a good suggestion, I want to do one at a time and expand my services slowly to make this research and things sorted it took a long time. I'll get in to the others as well. One at a time.

[Strath]

Sounds like a good idea. Only negative i can think of, is how will you stop business owners bypassing you as the middleman.

I.e will you be listing accountant names on your website? Or are you going to refer to Accountant A, Accountant B. Or will you be listing the businesses on the website for accountants to look at? Either way there is scope for either party to bypass you and go direct

[WebPageOne-Solutions]

It depends how the potential clients will interact with the site. But i would say go Static to start with, its normally cheaper and a lot easier to optimize.

[RedEvo]

It depends how the potential clients will interact with the site. But i would say go Static to start with, its normally cheaper and a lot easier to optimize.

I don't agree with this. A decent CMS allows for great SEO with full control over the important stuff and sets you up for easy expansion if you grow.

Just my opinion ;)

d

[WebPageOne-Solutions]

True but decent CMS is pretty expensive, and takes a lot more work from an seo perspective.

[RedEvo]

Do you think? I'm not being adversarial or argumentative but again I don't agree.

For example we use Joomla! quite extensively. Joomla! is open source, we install SEF Advance - to give decent URL's, install Joomap open source Google site map generator, Google Analytics and bingo, you've got a powerful site with great SEF URL's, dymamic website map and monitoring software all for not a lot of money ;)

It's just one approach.

d

[WebPageOne-Solutions]

Sounds good, do you have any examples, as ive heard very mixed reviews on Joomla.

Could you PM or Post the URL and the Keywords that the site ranks for please.

Thanks

[RedEvo]

Don't want to spam but here's (http://www.graveldirect.co.uk) one example of a site using this above setup.

There's been no specific SEO effort other than using the software outlined with honest content. Has a PR of 5.

Page one for:
gravel
decorative gravel
driveway gravel
etc...

PS - The validation errors are caused by the external shopping cart used on this site.

d

[WebPageOne-Solutions]

Cheers D,

That's a very nice design, and i can see the site ranks page one for all terms, "gravel" being the most competitive keyword.

Its good to see that you provide effective Online Business Strategies for your Clients. Which is what its all about.

Nice Work :-)