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Mike very nice site but it speaks nothing about you as a DJ visibly. Do you offer DJ services? You might want to atleast offer a picture of you and your system. Mention something about music and how that makes what you offer appropriate for what you offer. Just my view. Otherwise very nice and I like the song selected if you have the rights to play the whole portion of it you are Golden.
 
Thanks guys I will look into the transitions. And to your point Cam and Jon yes the verbage is sparse and I will be adding another section soon. As far as selling photography YES! My wife took those photos and I really want to emphasize selling the DJ photo package because of the price point. Thanks for the input guys, it is greatly appreciated!

Mike
 
Mike, besides having a web site that "looks" good, you need a web site that strangers can find!
A search engine friendly site will draw in those new potential clients, as well as past & current clients who are simply checking you out.

There are many factors besides the "appearance" of your site that you need to be concerned with.

Here is what hubspot.com has to say about your site.

The website mikemerlin.com ranks 1,914,599 of the 2,993,964 websites that have been ranked so far. Not very good.

A website grade of 36/100 for mikemerlin.com means that of the millions of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 36% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
Google Indexed Pages: 11

This number is the approximate number of pages on mikemerlin.com that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content for its index. Generally, the more pages your site has within the Google cache, the better.
E. Readability Level: The page does not contain enough text for a meaningful analysis.

This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.
A. Metadata

Metadata tags allow you to tell the search engines what your web page is about. Start a HubSpot trial today to start improving your metadata.
Page Title BluDomain, BluDomainhosting, photography websites
Meta Description BluDomain and SimplyBlu launch 2005
F. MOZ Rank: 2

MozRank is SEOmoz's general, logarithmically scaled 10-point measure of global link authority or popularity. and is very similar in purpose to the measures of link importance used by the search engines (e.g., GOOGLE's PageRank).

Start a HubSpot trial to start getting more inbound links today and improve your MozRank.
G. Last Google Crawl Date: October 24, 2010 @ 06:25:31 PM (EDT)

Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, you want Google to crawl your site as often as possible, so your new content shows up in Google search results immediately.
H. Inbound Links: 123

One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites link to it. The more links the better. Having links to your website from authoritative resources on the Internet helps you rank higher in search engines since these links are an indication that your website is trustworthy and contains good content.

A. Traffic Rank: Top 43.91 %

Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.

Your website has an Alexa rank of 13,655,809 which is in the top 43.91 % of all websites.

B. Score Summary
Section mikemerlin.com
Website Grade 36
Moz Rank 2
Google Indexed Pages 11
Traffic Rank 13,655,809
Blog Grade Not Graded
Inbound Links 123
del.icio.us Bookmarks N/A
 
Steve Cie said:
Mike, besides having a web site that "looks" good, you need a web site that strangers can find!
A search engine friendly site will draw in those new potential clients, as well as past & current clients who are simply checking you out.

There are many factors besides the "appearance" of your site that you need to be concerned with.

Here is what hubspot.com has to say about your site.

The website mikemerlin.com ranks 1,914,599 of the 2,993,964 websites that have been ranked so far. Not very good.

A website grade of 36/100 for mikemerlin.com means that of the millions of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 36% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
Google Indexed Pages: 11

This number is the approximate number of pages on mikemerlin.com that have been stored in the Google index. The Google web crawler will visit the website periodically and look for new content for its index. Generally, the more pages your site has within the Google cache, the better.
E. Readability Level: The page does not contain enough text for a meaningful analysis.

This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.
A. Metadata

Metadata tags allow you to tell the search engines what your web page is about. Start a HubSpot trial today to start improving your metadata.
Page Title BluDomain, BluDomainhosting, photography websites
Meta Description BluDomain and SimplyBlu launch 2005
F. MOZ Rank: 2

MozRank is SEOmoz's general, logarithmically scaled 10-point measure of global link authority or popularity. and is very similar in purpose to the measures of link importance used by the search engines (e.g., GOOGLE's PageRank).

Start a HubSpot trial to start getting more inbound links today and improve your MozRank.
G. Last Google Crawl Date: October 24, 2010 @ 06:25:31 PM (EDT)

Google will periodically crawl websites looking for new and updated content. In general, you want Google to crawl your site as often as possible, so your new content shows up in Google search results immediately.
H. Inbound Links: 123

One of the most important measures for a website is how many other sites link to it. The more links the better. Having links to your website from authoritative resources on the Internet helps you rank higher in search engines since these links are an indication that your website is trustworthy and contains good content.

A. Traffic Rank: Top 43.91 %

Alexa is an online service that measures traffic for millions of sites on the Internet in a similar way to Nielsen television show ratings.

Your website has an Alexa rank of 13,655,809 which is in the top 43.91 % of all websites.

B. Score Summary
Section mikemerlin.com
Website Grade 36
Moz Rank 2
Google Indexed Pages 11
Traffic Rank 13,655,809
Blog Grade Not Graded
Inbound Links 123
del.icio.us Bookmarks N/A
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If there was a "holy crap thanks Stevie C button" I'd hit it. Great information Stevie and yes that is the second phase of the plan. As of now I am mostly subcontracted through a DJ service doing a few on my own. The plan is to work on the website rankings to get seen and also do some major advertising on the local wedding website here in ct (theknot.com) Again thanks for all of that info. Very helpful and VERY appreciated

Mike
 
I like it for the simple fact that it is... well simple. My only concern is that it seems too simple. I don't see any social media links, site updates, video demos, song lists, additional information. There are only a handful of photos and they're great shots btw. Try to include more images to highlight what your company has done recently.

My big question is how are you going to push this website? I've never been a big fan of flash. It is hard for the bots to crawl the code, which means getting traffic can be an up hill battle. However, you still have off-site optimization to work in your favor. A lot of people use Wordpress for their content management system. This system is great for scheduling updates and integrating plugins/google tools.
 
+1 on the photography vibe. I know you do both, you just need to sell both.

As far as site rankings go, it's a new site. It's not going to rank very high right away. Make a few tweaks with keywords & submit it to the search engines
 
ok few of things to look at!

1. no html alternative

2. the annoying music playing! when you join!

3. why dont you use your website email address!

4. the facebook thing goes nowhere I use facebook.trebleclefdj.com.au and myspace.trebleclefdj.com.au
using my subdomain as the website and works for all things myspace, twitter, soundcloud etc etc

5. why ? ( please disable any popup blockers ) you want people to have them come up ? thats the sites I stay away from because they can also be a site that could be speading trojans , viruses etc no thanks!

6. so havent you got myspace, twitter etc etc that can also be used

anyway hope that helps
 
jfactor1 said:
+1 on the photography vibe. I know you do both, you just need to sell both.

As far as site rankings go, it's a new site. It's not going to rank very high right away. Make a few tweaks with keywords & submit it to the search engines
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How do I go about submitting keywords to the search engines? I always thought they just crawled your site and if anything new was there they picked up on it? Then again I'm learning with SEO as I go
 
mikemerlin said:
How do I go about submitting keywords to the search engines? I always thought they just crawled your site and if anything new was there they picked up on it? Then again I'm learning with SEO as I go
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http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

And just google "Yahoo site submission", "Alexa....", etc.

They will crawl your site eventually, this just gives them a little nudge. ;)

DON'T do it more than once a month or they'll spank you.
 
just saw the site now
I'm not much on the technical end
but I will give you my "quite valuable" personal view.
1- dont like having to choose FB or ENTER SITE. I always prefer to go straight to the main page. add a FB link from the home page.
2- I'm cautious about music on a website. to me, it seems to do more harm than good. people visit your site for the info, not to listen to a song. and you always have to think about personal taste. what if a potential client ABSOLUTELY HATES the song you use on your site? what if they think the song you chose means thats the only type of music you play?
3- the pictures are beautiful, but as mentioned above, there are not enough of them. and they appear to all be from the same bride/groom. throw up more couples to show a little variety, and put some DJ type pics in there
4- the basic layout and design are very nice and very different. but the color of the "DJ AND PHOTO SERVICES" (dark purple) makes it disappear on the black background
just my two cents
 
As I've mentioned elsewhere, a Hubspot report is not the end all of your website's SEO. Their reports have several flaws.

My primarily concern with your site is...um...where is the DJ service info...

Otherwise I very nice Photographers site.
 
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