Hello all,
Have been helping my brother in law with a website for his music studio - www.hotrockstudio.co.uk - am looking for some constructive criticism, hints and tips to get it high up on the search engines etc.
Cheers in advance.:thumbsup:
My tip would be to make sure your code is valid.
Use CSS for layout, not tables.
Include alternate text for your images - increases usability and SE ranking.
In firefox on Windows XP the text on the menu bar is smaller than the body text, but since the rest of the styling is the same I would suggest making these two areas of text indentical or more different.
You have a orange-ish border, which finished where the page finishes. I would stick a margin-bottom on that so that it's a little more clear.
I would avoid using the same woman twice. (front page and rates page). It looks like she's the only customer.
cgksheff
17-07-2006, 09:06
Are there any copyright issues with the clips that you have on the site?
sharpend
17-07-2006, 10:07
Not strictly seo but couple of points
why don;t you gather email addresses in return for giving people free mp3 samples ?
The gear page seems to link to external sites - This would perhaps be better in house on your website ?
sharpend
17-07-2006, 10:09
alternatively look at all those above you
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=recording+studio+northampton&meta=
Are there any copyright issues with the clips that you have on the site?
They were recorded at the studio, and are on the site with permission - or do you mean about people downloading them? If its the latter, im not sure - but cant see many people being interested in having minute long clips.
why don;t you gather email addresses in return for giving people free mp3 samples ?
The gear page seems to link to external sites - This would perhaps be better in house on your website ?The gear listed links to other sites at their request - to give an independant review of the equipment.
not sure what you mean about the e-mail addresses - how does that help with search engines (or am I missing something obvious, which is very possible!!)
Thanks for all the comments.:thumbsup:
Just a couple...ideally you should use CSS for layout but to help fix your problems:
change:
<script language="JavaScript">
to:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
Stick one of the following at the top of every page (preferably the second one)...be warned this may make your site go odd but until you do it you won't know what any browser is rendering the page as.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Change this:
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
to:
<body>
and stick the following in your stylesheet:
body {
margin: 0;
color: #fff;
background: #000;
}
will fix a few problems.....
and check this:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotrockstudio.co.uk%2F
sharpend
17-07-2006, 12:16
(not seo related) - If you gather emails addresses (with opt in of course), you can follow up on them, find out what they thought, add them to your monthly newsletter etc etc
you are goiving something away for free - get something back from it
(not seo related) - If you gather emails addresses (with opt in of course), you can follow up on them, find out what they thought, add them to your monthly newsletter etc etc
you are goiving something away for free - get something back from it
Ah - sorry, I was reading it wrong!
Thanks everyone for the further tips, I shall be looking into them.