Please review my website .

Robby

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Good day UKBF members.
My name is Robby. When I found this brilliant community I upgraded my account to full membership.
I am a builder and can fix almost anything, but I am clueless when it comes to websites,marketing and seo. I was hoping that the SEO proffesionals on this forum could review our website and tell me how bad or good it is. We are paying a SEO company to manage our website but my gut is telling me that there is room for improvement or change.

Thanks in advance.
Robby
 

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    I think I've found some issues there. And I know they are important to everyone.

    1. You do a bit more something on the meta description tag because it is missing from your page.
    2. Keywords included in Title tag but you need to consider on Meta Description Tag too.
    3. Another initial issue is that a Google Analytics script is not detected on this page.
    4. It isn't connected with social media yet.
    5. Use https. You know that it is a secure communication protocol. Even for sites that do not collect sensitive customer information.
     
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    fisicx

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    When I land on your homepage there is nothing I can see that tells me what you do. I can see an image of a sofa, kitchen and a display cabinet but they look like stock images you downloaded off the Internet.

    I scrolled down a bit in the hope I can find out what you do and I see two big boxes. One of them offers other services and the other is about a commitment. Neither of these tell me what you do.

    You have a number of pages that detail the services you offer but none of these have any examples of your work.

    You have a gallery but this is just random images - it doesn't tell what you did. And osme of the images look a bit iffy: http://www.loughtonmasterbuild.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/unspecified-3-9.jpg

    The testimonials page is just a form - so it looks like nobody has ever said thanks.

    You don't have any stories on the site. You aren't telling me about the work you have done, the problems you encountered and overcame, where you have done things and for whom.

    There is no evidence that you are a master builder.

    You have a blog but this is just full of random articles (are you paying someone for this?). Bin the whole lot as they are pointless.

    The contact page is mainly a map. Unless people can come round and say hallo you don't need a map. In any case, I can't use the map for directions because it's not linked to Google. Who is Jacques? Is he the runner, the secretary, the man with the DeWalt?

    Some pages don't even exist: http://www.loughtonmasterbuild.co.uk/terms-conditions/

    There are no calls to action anywhere.

    And the whole thing has been built on a $49 theme - and not done very well either. Google only scores you 57/100 on a page speed test. So the developer hasn't really done much to earn the money you paid them.

    Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings but it's not very good.

    But it's all fixable. The key is the content. You need to tell me what you do on the homepage. Link from here to the specific service. On this new page provide more details with example of your work. Link to more pages that detail the project with pictures and descriptions. Add testimonials and link again to a page with all testimonials. Link from these back to the relevant project page.

    And then find a better theme. One that doesn't have all the bolt on caggage you currently have.

    The design of the site is far less important than the content and how you guide the visitor to the right page.
     
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    fisicx

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    Nevermind your website, the developers website is a mess.. I'll never understand how some of these 'agencies' get business.
    Good grief! Just had a look and my jaw has dropped
     
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    fisicx

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    We are paying a SEO company to manage our website but my gut is telling me that there is room for improvement or change.
    Missed this. Stop paying them now. They are taking your money and spending it on beer. They must be because they certainly aren't doing any SEO.
     
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    TotalWebSolutions

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    Agree that on first glance I don't know what you do. If those images are examples of your work then I would highlight this with small text in the corner of the image explaining this.

    Where it says "Contact us today to discuss your home renovation project. Call 07968107404 now to get started." it is over an image of a bathroom when I scroll and very difficult to read.

    If you can add some photos of you with satisfied customers, particularly if you are wearing a shirt/t-shirt with the company logo on.

     
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    AllUpHere

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    I don't have much to add that Fisicx hasn't already covered. If I hadn't read the OP I would have presumed you'd had a go at it yourself. It certainly isn't built with any kind of marketing strategy in mind, and I can't see any evidence of any SEO work worth paying for.

    Do you have a marketing strategy in place? How much have you paid so far for the site and the SEO work?
     
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    I can't add much to what has already been said.. but just a couple of things that strike me.

    - The only call to action is at the bottom of the page. The text is in black over an image with lots of dark areas making it unreadable.

    - While the design is not the biggest problem here, there are lots of little things that tell us a designer has not touched this theme. They have purchased something off the shelf and spent 10 minutes adding your content.

    - Your services pages contain NO IMAGES AT ALL -- WHAT?? We really need to see examples of YOUR work for the services you offer.. The gallery goes some way to fixing this, but those services pages do not sell your services at all.

    - No meta description.

    - Title tags are awful.

    I'm really sorry but this site in it's current state is useless. I hope you didn't pay much for it as they have done next to nothing... the same goes for the SEO company.
     
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    fisicx

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    "Every website we design is unique. We don’t believe in working from ready to use templates. Anyone can do that."
    Except that is exactly what they have done. The more I look at the site the worse it gets. This is probably not what you want to hear @Robby but you were robbed.
     
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    I've looked at their website... honestly there's that much movement I felt physically sick... the flashing adverts at the bottom of this page is bad enough... but that site... sheesh... :eek:

    I'd honestly be looking online at the Directors names and seeing how old they are
     
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    Tin

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    I was hoping that the SEO proffesionals on this forum could review our website and tell me how bad or good it is. We are paying a SEO company to manage our website but my gut is telling me that there is room for improvement or change.
    Robby

    You said you are paying an SEO company, I hope you're not paying them more than 5 pence because you don't have anything from them by the look of things.

    You have zero, and I mean zero SEO anywhere in sight. The website has absolutely no evidence of SEO on it and you have 5 incoming links into your site, one from your developers website and four other links coming from websites that appear to have a big fat 0 for trust.

    You say above that "my gut is telling me that there is room for improvement or change" - my advice, change whoever you're using because it looks like the SEO hasn't got a clue about anything.
     
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    fisicx

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    That's easy. It's either a, they don't know what they are doing, or b, they couldn't be bothered.
    I suspect it's both A and B.
     
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    Robby

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    Hi All.
    I just want to say a big thank you to everybody that replied to my post. I have informed the seo company that we will not be using their service anymore. My worry is that we dont have any login details or control over the website, and that they might get difficult to give us this information.

    How can i tell if they did any seo? Is there a way to proof if they haven't, because we have been paying them for quite a long time now.

    My next step will be to try and understand what my future website person will need from me, and how can i prevent this from happening again.

    Thanks
    Robby
     
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    Hi All.
    I just want to say a big thank you to everybody that replied to my post. I have informed the seo company that we will not be using their service anymore. My worry is that we dont have any login details or control over the website, and that they might get difficult to give us this information.

    How can i tell if they did any seo? Is there a way to proof if they haven't, because we have been paying them for quite a long time now.

    My next step will be to try and understand what my future website person will need from me, and how can i prevent this from happening again.

    Thanks
    Robby

    Hi Robby,

    Do you have control of the domain name? Do you have access to the WordPress login details?

    It's hard to answer the question about the SEO company as we don't have any idea what you have instructed them to do, or what they have told you they would be doing... as far as on page SEO goes, your website was missing lots of fundamental quick wins that any competent SEO guy or even a web developer would have taken care of.

    I just quickly checked your website again and can see lots of changes have been made? meta descriptions are now on page, title tags have changed and your services pages contain images. Is this a result of your complaints?
     
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    Robby

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    Hi Robby,

    Do you have control of the domain name? Do you have access to the WordPress login details?

    It's hard to answer the question about the SEO company as we don't have any idea what you have instructed them to do, or what they have told you they would be doing... as far as on page SEO goes, your website was missing lots of fundamental quick wins that any competent SEO guy or even a web developer would have taken care of.

    I just quickly checked your website again and can see lots of changes have been made? meta descriptions are now on page, title tags have changed and your services pages contain images. Is this a result of your complaints?

    Hi. I will find out from my partner exactly what info we have or dont have. As far as im aware they were instructed to design/manage our website. We have the rights or ownership of the website, so they have to give us all the login details when we ask for it.

    Any new changes to the website is most probably because of my complaints. I have told them that we are no longer needing their service and that all future work should be stopped.

    I havent actually spoken to them yet as i am on holiday at the the moment and i want to use some of this time to potentially find a new person/company to redesign the website when im back.
     
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