Yellow pages/yell.com

I have always advtised in yellow pages and then on yell.com, with a link to my website, last year i put alot of money into the advert and it worked well, I filled up most spaces I had in my regular client list, because i pay for adverts i keep sometime freetime to do one off jobs.  Yellow pages man came round yesterday and seemed hell bent on me selling me a similar package and a yell website.  Does anyone else have one of there websites, do they work?

Does being on the 1st page of google get you more work, when i google "grass cutting in stanford-le-hope" one of the areas i work in, yell.com comes top, you click their link and im top on their page, my own website is on page two of google. Do clients click indivdual compaines on google or go through yell.com.  Im i just competing wih my self by paying them to have a good advert on yell.com and then paying them to get me second place on google.

I hope this makes sense

Views welcome

Ian

www.howesgardenservices.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Brian www.mibservices.co.uk on February 9, 2012 at 8:56

Hi Ian, a little constructive criticism, you need to get your contact details, address and all the areas you cover onto your home page. A home page is the front window of your website and you need to grab the attention of anybody viewing it AND of course googles spyders. This is vital for good SEO ranking and of course it tells customers what areas exactly you cover. As the site stands just now, you need to go hunting for that info and that will put any prospective customer off calling you. 

Permalink Reply by Ian Howes on February 9, 2012 at 11:15

Hi Fenlandphil, the hanging baskets is a new thing im starting this year, when i have planted up a few and got them there I will get some photos up.  What are alt tags on photos?

Hi Dan from my reports, i had 193 views from google from feb 2011 till end of jan 2012, not sure if this is good or not, views from my yell.com advert were 302 for the same period, Im not really up with keywords and things like that, thanks for the advice, I will revisit this and have a look.

Hi mib thanks for the advise, its good to get a second view on things and I will sit down and redo the home page and update some content over the weekend

Thanks guys Ian

Permalink Reply by Fenlandphil on February 9, 2012 at 23:32

Hi Ian

Alt tags are a text description of the photos and are there for people who are visually impaired and are found by search engines. Someone with Craigs expertise can no doubt give you more relevant advice on the subject than I can.

Below is a screenshot from my website showing a photo of obelisks with its' alt tag, I hope this helps.

Permalink Reply by Ian Howes on February 10, 2012 at 10:03

Hi Phil, I will look into it this, as we have snow here still it will give me something to do, thanks mate

Fenlandphil said:

Hi Ian

Alt tags are a text description of the photos and are there for people who are visually impaired and are found by search engines. Someone with Craigs expertise can no doubt give you more relevant advice on the subject than I can.

Below is a screenshot from my website showing a photo of obelisks with its' alt tag, I hope this helps.

Permalink Reply by Ian Howes on February 13, 2012 at 18:25

For people who were following this, i got the yellow pages down to a more acceptable monthly cost, I decided not to go with one of there websites.

I have taken on board the advise from here and I have started to re-design my own site

www.howesgardenservices.co.uk

Thnaks for the views guys

Ian


PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Brian www.mibservices.co.uk on February 13, 2012 at 19:23

Hi Ian, site looks much better now, and well done on the Yell price negotiations

Permalink Reply by Ian Howes on February 13, 2012 at 19:41

Hi mib,

Cheers mate, we still have a covering of snow down here, so playing with the website is filling my time up.  Tomorrow I am looking into purchasing a few new domain names, to try and help with web presence.

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