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The site is not bad, but I have to reiterate previous comments as the site is a bit busy on the main page. It should highlight the main points of your services and then link to more details further in. Also, though it looks OK in IE, in Firefox the front page layout falls apart. While it has the lions share of the market at the moment, Firefox and other W3C standards complient browsers are gaining market share every day. The way it is, 10% of your potencial customers could get confused and go elsewhere.

Archangel

Well, this is by no means a professionally designed website. But you do have a lot of good information to share, which is the most important thing.

Some suggestions:
1. Reorganize the home page and make it less chaotic.
2. Make sure it looks the same in IE and FireFox.
3. Instill trust before asking for payment... I clicked on services and the first things I saw were multiple Buy Now buttons... Your services are at the bottom of the page.
4. Keep a consistent design and color scheme for all pages.
5. The navigation is too long. Try to reorganize. Perhaps you can have sections with subpages. For example, 'Staff at work' and 'Meet the Staff' could be under one 'Our Staff' category. Similarly, 'Services' and 'Why Choose My Services' could be lumped together, etc...
6. Make your pages shorter as well.
7. Allow all services and products to be easily accessible, maybe from one location. You offer quite a lot, but it took me a while to find all of it.
8. Optimize your images for faster loading pages. (ie. Resize images... Look at the front page for example. Instead of controlling the size of the image by setting the height and width, they should be resized.)

Additionally, that wagging tail navigation is quite distracting. I'm not sure if that has to do with the movement of the tails or the fact that the image has a white background but is set on a blue header... Perhaps you can blend the white background into the blue, like a fading cloud or halo... or just remove the white altogether...

Things I like:
1. Sitemap - Awesome.
2. Meta tags. Most people don't realize that they should be unique for each page.
3. Unique & Quality Content

Good luck. I think this could be a very successful site if you clean it up a bit. How long have you had it?

Thank you so much for your time. Your suggestions are excellent. Everyone who has replied has given the input I was hoping for. I guess I worried to much about the meta tags and making the content on the home page match for page rank and organic search. The canine WebMD is a really good suggestion. I will try to prioritize the "why" visitors are there and use that for my design goals.
Thank you again, I wish you much success,
HappyTails
Happy Tails Dog Psychology Help
http://www.dogpsychologyhelp.com

I read over a lot of the other posts but only skimmed, so I apologize if I am repeating anything already mentioned.

A few more notes to keep in mind when redoing your main page:

1. Your page title which currently is "Home Dog Psychology Help" needs work. If some one using a search engine searches for "Dog Psychology" they will find you but what if you are looking for "Dog Training"? I would use something like "Dog Psychology Help - Dog Training and Obedience". This adds in two more keywords. After you make that change, do it to every page but change the two keywords. (e.i. On the services page make it "Dog Psychology Help - Training Services and Products".

2. I'll be the one to say it. The waging tails, while cute, looks like a Spam Email. I personally wouldn't purchase from a site that has it on, but on the other hand my wife, who buys halloween costumes for our dog, would buy from your site and would be a repeat customer. So it does meet a certain audience.

3. Keep sizes consistent. A few pictures were a great size and I could see a nice dog, but a few others were to small and you couldn't enjoy them.

But with that said you have a lot of SEO potential here. Just fix your titles, ALT your images with Keywords and you should see number rise a good bit.

Take it easy,
Dave Moore @
www.rongdesign.com

I'm going to second the comment about the wagging tails. Lose them. They make your site look like a myspace page; not a serious business someone would give their money to.

I hope you don't feel too beat up by the comments. Not only do you have a lot of good content but by learning this yourself you will be able to keep it fresh and updated as well. One of my pet peeves is to go to a company's website and find a nice, clean, professionally done site...that hasn't been updated in years and has old information on it.

Keep working!

Ok, Great content, and shows subject expertise. The rest of the replies have summed up my thoughts, tons of content but tough to figure out where it is.

I suggest you reduce the content on any one page and let it spill it over to other pages.
A visitor that clicks is engaged! That's good - make them click!!!

A few technical(ish) things.

• I didn't see a site map.. almost a must if you want to get noticed in the search engines.
• Meta tags do pretty well, but you exceed a few ideal limits, check out seo centro for guidelines
• missing page error is ugly, if a page is requested but does not exist, then send them to the home page.
• Follow basic web practice - people don't read on the internet -- they click-n-skip -- so make the point in sound bites.

Hope this helps.

Paul