New Website

[Donald T. Belmont]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Just launched my new "The Home Green Team" website. I still need to add some images, but what do you think?

www.thehomegreenteam.com

Kevin

Nice looking site . But take a look at your keyword density. Whatebver your heywods are they aren't in the trinity (Title, Description, Keywords.) . And there doesn't appear to be any clear density pattern that would tell the spiders what your keywords are.

You should be able to download the density report off my website from this link

http://www.wiseeyeshomeinspections.c...keywords04.pdf

Scroll it down to the 2 and 3 word combinations and you'll see what I mean

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by dbelmont

Nice looking site . But take a look at your keyword density. Whatebver your heywods are they aren't in the trinity (Title, Description, Keywords.) . And there doesn't appear to be any clear density pattern that would tell the spiders what your keywords are.

You should be able to download the density report off my website from this link

http://www.wiseeyeshomeinspections.c...keywords04.pdf

Scroll it down to the 2 and 3 word combinations and you'll see what I mean

Don,

Thanks for the heads up!!

I'm in the process of adding the description and keywords for each page. However, you got me on the density. I have no idea about that.

Kevin

[Peter C. Russell]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Seeing as I am the only "Certified" BPI Contractor for my company and the logo is clearly displayed on my "Qualifications" page, I have no issues unless BPI tells me it's not in compliance.

If thats the case, they will have to correct hundreds of websites on the internet. Just do a Google Image search on BPI Certified Professional Logo.

Good luck with you website, Peter.

All the best....

Kevin

Kevin, several area's of your site give the consumer the impression that your a multi inspector firm. Words like TEAM and OUR INSPECTORS mislead the public into believing that your company is BPI certified and that is exactly what BPI wants to avoid.

I'm not trying to bust your chops but if everyone took liberties with the BPI logo and it's significance then it would be worthless.

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by prussell

Kevin, several area's of your site give the consumer the impression that your a multi inspector firm. Words like TEAM and OUR INSPECTORS mislead the public into believing that your company is BPI certified and that is exactly what BPI wants to avoid.

I'm not trying to bust your chops but if everyone took liberties with the BPI logo and it's significance then it would be worthless.

Peter,

There is no such thing as a BPI Certified Company. Certification is for the individual, I agree. However, BPI ultimately would like each BPI Certified Contractor to apply for Accreditation for their Company.

Putting a logo that I have tested for and earned on my website qualifications pages is not "taking liberties." You will not find the BPI Accreditation logo on my site anywhere, until I earn it.

Thanks for the feedback and good luck with your new site.

Kevin

[Peter C. Russell]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Peter,

There is no such thing as a BPI Certified Company. Certification is for the individual, I agree. However, BPI ultimately would like each BPI Certified Contractor to apply for Accreditation for their Company.

Putting a logo that I have tested for and earned on my website qualifications pages is not "taking liberties." You will not find the BPI Accreditation logo on my site anywhere, until I earn it.

Thanks for the feedback and good luck with your new site.

Kevin

You totally missed my point, re-read my post about misleading the public.
Are you a multi inspector firm or not?

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by prussell

You totally missed my point, re-read my post about misleading the public.
Are you a multi inspector firm or not?

For the division of my Company (The Home Green Team) no. When I do hire an Inspector, they will be required to have completed BPI Certification.

Kevin

[Peter C. Russell]

Originally Posted by krichardson

For the division of my Company (The Home Green Team) no. When I do hire an Inspector, they will be required to have completed BPI Certification.

Kevin

So therefor you are misleading the public and mis-using the BPI logo.

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by prussell

So therefor you are misleading the public and mis-using the BPI logo.

Peter,

You need to relax my friend. You offered your feedback and your point was made, so I think we can move forward.

Again, good luck your website.

Kevin

[Peter C. Russell]

Originally Posted by krichardson

Peter,

You need to relax my friend. You offered your feedback and your point was made, so I think we can move forward.

Again, good luck your website.

Kevin

I am relaxed, but I do have a problem with the way you are utilising the logo.
I worked hard for my certification and I will use the logo as BPI has asked. Why can't you.
I guess you came here to show off your web site and have everyone pat you on the back. I think your web site is well done but it misleads the public as well as violates BPI guideline for use.

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by prussell

I am relaxed, but I do have a problem with the way you are utilising the logo.
I worked hard for my certification and I will use the logo as BPI has asked. Why can't you.
I guess you came here to show off your web site and have everyone pat you on the back. I think your web site is well done but it misleads the public as well as violates BPI guideline for use.

I'm not showing off anything. If you search the site, there are several Inspectors who have posted new sites on the board in the hopes to get some feedback. You have provided yours, so thank you.

So, finally, have a great day and good luck with your website.

Kevin

[Charles G. Roussel]

Those are very, very good looking and professional websites Kevin! If you don't mind I ask. What did you pay... approx?

[Jason Kaylor]

Peter,

BPI stays on top of websites activites and their logo use. I know of several companies that BPI asks them to change their wording/type of logo/use of BPI name (certified/acrediated).

Personally I do not know what BPI's stance will be on his use of the logo.

As far as your site goes, it is very clean looking. Your contact information is at the very top and easy to locate for both the phone number and email. I would add a call to action close to both the phone number and email.

As a rule of thumb web designers know very little about SEO, and most SEO guys know very little about good web design. I would urge you to have someone that is good with SEO give your site a good once over. Dominic from here knows his stuff.

After a quick 2 minute look over, here are the SEO issues I would address.

1. Your menus are in Javascript. It looks great for design, it is horrible for SEO. You can keep them, just make sure you make a really good sitemap and you have to make up for the loss of text in those menus elsewhere for google. Google cannot navigate java, so it will be difficult for google to index all the places those links point to without a good sitemap. There are other tricks to getting your site indexed, other than just a sitemap. Getting a handful of quality backlinks to your sitemap instead of your home page site is one.

2. Your title bar is probably the number 1 mistake people make when designing web pages. Web designers don't take in to account they are not making a site for Pepsi, General Motors or any other big name brand. The title bar might be the most valuable real estate on your site from an SEO standpoint. So if you are trying to get all the potential customers that are going to search "The Home Green Team" you are golden. I would ditch the whole thing and go with something to the effect of "(main city) (state) (abbreviated state) home performance energy auditor (audits, auditing, auditor) take your pick of those. Then on your other pages change the city/state/abbreviated state layout and use the other variations of "audit"

3. You have no H tags.

4. You have zero alt tags on your images

5. With the exception of your home page, I would turn all the text in your global header/footer whatever into an image. Google will see this as duplicate content. Although this is not an overly big deal, it is one of those "sum of the parts" type of deal that google loves to see. Plus as an image you can create unique alt tags per page. Another nifty trick is to put your image/alt tags in to h tags, it makes them more relevant.

JJ

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Thanks for the suggestions, Jason. The information you provided is very helpful.

Kevin

[dspencer1]

Like it, good choice with staying away from a dark website.
Nice site.

[Kevin A. Richardson]

Originally Posted by dspencer1

Like it, good choice with staying away from a dark website.
Nice site.

Thanks, Darren.

I like your site as well. Is that a custom CMS site?

Kevin