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<font face="Arial">Only one "l" in instalment, Joe!<br>
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A nice refined feel to it. I like first-person address from a
business owner's website, as you have done. Some tuners, oddly to
my mind, describe themselves and their services in the third
person "Jon Bloggs trained for 4 years with X and offers y". Much
better for the web searcher to feel that he or she is being
addressed personally and directly by the owner of business.<br>
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What do you want the website to do for your business? It sounds
as though you are not desperately needing to generate high volumes
of new business, but just want to establish a web presence, since
every business nowadyas is expencted to have contact details
online. Did you put the site together yourself?<br>
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If you are wanting to do more with it, make spend some time making
sure that your site is listed in all the online business
directories for your area. With regard to getting a decent page
ranking in Google, the number one tip seems to be: Have lots of
well-written, relevant content, and keep it updated. People may
contact you offering Search Engine Optimisation services, for lots
of money. Don't pay them! Research it yourself and follow the
guidelines. We have an advantage in that ours is rather a niche
business. There are relatively few of us compared with, say,
hairdressers or plumbers.<br>
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Just over a year ago, my website did not exist. I needed to have
one, as I was taking piano work from a part-time sideline to my
main occupation. Now, if you do a Google search for "piano tuner
Scotland" or "piano tuner Glasgow", my website appears in either
first or second place on the first page of the "organic" google
search results. That has been achieved without buying any seach
engine optimisation services. <br>
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Interestingly (or perhaps boringly) if you also do a google search
for "birdcage pianos" my site comes top, because I have a big page
about them, and as a result of that I've had a couple of enquiries
from people in the USA wanting advice because their technicians
were not very confident with underdamper action pianos!<br>
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Getting your site found by clients is one thing. Converting people
finding your site into people phoning or emailing to give you
their business is something else. That's where content is king,
hopefully saying more than "I'm here" but saying "I'm the one you
should call". <br>
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If you keep your site updated, and perhaps associate it with a
Facebook page and maybe a blog (though blogs are now passé it
seems) those things may help too.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
David.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk">www.davidboyce.co.uk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pianopinions.tumblr.com">http://pianopinions.tumblr.com</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/01/2013 11:40,
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<pre wrap="">Just thought y'all would like a look. Any thoughts/comments/suggestions are
always welcome.<G> It's all gnu to me, so....??? (finally got off my duff
and made an attempt a being modren.)
Best,
Joe
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