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What is it you want you website to do for you ?

take a look at this site and the products offered, if anything it should give you some ideas.
http://www.avtglobal.com/
watch the second video down it gives a good info on SEO...

Ha!!! You have a short bio and a picture of yourself and this cute little kid (I assume it's yours) in the home page. This is really, really cleaver approach to get new clients and I hope it works. It makes it more personal while still remaining professional looking website.

The website is easy to navigate and contains useful information. I have actually saved it to my favorites in case I need an accountant sometime down the road. I'm studying accounting too, but I rather have an outside accountant for my business.

There are few things I will suggest. Fix the picture so it doesn't look blurry and stretched out or replace it with another one. Change the background colors with more vibrant ones. Light orange and red will look very nice. Put "Proud member of CALCPA" under your bio and above "Contact Us". List more extensive information under "About Us". For instance, you can list the names of the companies/clients you've worked for (you mentioned in your bio that you have many years of experience in different industries). Repeat your bio but this time provide more info. You can also create a business profile in Facebook (there are many lawyers and accountants advertising there) and place a link to it in your website. This way you'll get traffic from Facebook. You can also create a business profile in MySpace and do the same.

Great website, very clean and easy to navigate.

Best of luck!

Sasha

Given you just gave bad advice to someone else while giving your contact information I think I was entirely fair.

PV, this is a network setup by a bank, just what do you think it's intent is?, especially in regards to it's clients like us, that it solicited our participation.
As for SEO I would totally agree, we our selves show prospects how to do SEO work them selves, in the end it's about the clients aptitude in doing it themselves.
We ourselves researched the best possible company out there in this regard to help our clients achieve their goals and offer up their services.

Being someone who has been in the b2b business most of my life, I'm aware of the very fact that most successful small business are run and managed by folks that just are not comfortable with the internet and computers all together. Personally I believe this is one reason why we are in our current economic down turn, with over 80% of consumers first using search engines and less than 2% of SMB's having any kind of real presense, this leaves a huge gap between the haves and the have not's.

We our selves in switching from a 14 year old management tool company assisting business nation wide in improving customer service, suggestive selling and employee productivity, have gone thru a huge learning curve. Our AVT (Animated Virtual Tour) has gone from when it was first develope a nice sizzle product that showcased a business online, to an integrate website tool that boost quality site rating, hits, captures, saved to favorites and time on site like nothing else on the market today.

To change from a successful decade old business plan that created huge income streams, to what we are in the process of becoming, requires a ton of belief and more enthusiasm then we have ever had before.

I haven't been this excited since 1995...

PV, which video did you watch? and just what tours did you take?.

Don't take this the wrong way but you do seem to take things rather personal.
And a tad of a God complex as well. i.e. to know how another feel.

I would love to hear any suggesting on other products that would assist business owners on improving site quality ratings.
I would like to add if I may we have worked very closely with google and have had google employees to our offices.
Everyone we have involved our selves with in the industry has been very up beat informative and helpful until this point, except for the occasional SEO and adword scam artist we have happened across.
They seem to have a problem with the educational side of our sales forces presentation. Seems to us that most out there servicing SMB on internet services want to keep the prospect not only dumb but scared as well to internet advertising.

In regards to our main product which is designed to drive clients from the web to their business, we quickly learned what good is it if no one is going to their existing site?
In that regard we have found that most websites have little to no traffic for a whole host of reasons. We beleive we offer the client the best current mouse trap, and from our close percentages and our expanding large corp base, IT marketing experts seem to agree.

I would also like to add PV we have over 20 test sites running the only one I posted here is purely a meta tag site with only adword campaigning to go with it. The site is less than 3 months old was only finished 2 weeks ago. The purpose of so many test sites is to test differnt aspects of search engines optimization strengths and weakness, even yet this particular site which has no google analytics code is already getting organic placements nationally on our key words... Guess we are doing something right ??? no???

PV i must say that you seem to be very critical of every one, this forum is suppost to be a place for everyone to benefit from not just for you to come and moan