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Old 18-06-11, 06:34 AM
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Hi all. My websites are fairly new. I'm starting to realize as an acupuncturist in a new town, the best thing I can do is get my websites ranked. It's not easy around Eugene. Seems like everyone here has hired professional seo help.

Anyways...if anyone has a minute for an opinion, my websites are on my signature. There is one other one Home

It wasn't my intention to build a bunch of sites, but I guess I'm trying to figure out if I like WP, Joomla or Drupal. Much appreciation for any opinions.

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Old 18-06-11, 08:33 AM
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Terry take a look at the forums SEO Education thread work your way through the info there and if you need any further help after that I sure people here on the forum can help.

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I like the designs of all three in your signature. the last one (@drupalgardens) being my favorite of the three. It just seems to load slowly, which could be the size of the animation on the page. I can only think that maybe its the image sizes and resolutions that are making it load slowly. Other than that, the layouts are really good, and I could easily navigate through either of them. The sites are really easy on the eyes, which makes it easy to read, and just as easy to spend time on the pages.

All in all, I would say well done on the design. For SEO, if you do have problems, you need only to ask and we will try our best to help where we can.


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Personally I'd scrap Home it doesn't offer any value over the other sites and has too much wrong with it.

Your blogs ok, and the last site is painfully slow to load. SEO wise, you've got some work to do, but its all do-able, as Tomsk says, check out the SEO thread which should answer most of your questions, and feel free to shout if your stuck.
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Thanks Tomsk, Raven and 4x4 for checking it out. I will definitely be working on the seo tips offered here and will probably have a question or two along the way. I agree the drupal site has some loading problems and will work on that if I decide to keep that site around.

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I am not sure I like it, as far as the web design goes it doesn’t hold much value I would be happy to help and give you some tips on web design and SEO

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Old 21-06-11, 05:57 PM
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Hi Headsocial,

As a bonafide newbie to web design and seo, I'm all ears where any constructive tips are forthcoming. Your feedback so far however is a little esoteric. What don't you like? A particular site? All of the sites? Everything about all of them? Anyhow, thanks for your reply.

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Hi,

I recognised the templates you are using straight away being wordpress themes - whilst they are OK - I would really try and get a bespoke theme created - that more closely matches what you offer. Plenty of companies will design something for a couple of hundred dollars.

Speed is really poor when accessed here in the UK - you sure need better faster hosting.

Don't think about search engine marketing until you have fixed these up.

Keep making improvements and you will get there.

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Hi,

Love the pictures and Logo/brand picture with the blue O on the green background. The look and feel of your sites are great.
Main question to ask is why are there 4 sites? Is the plan to only have one once you decide on the design?
Definitely need to get what it is you do all in one place and focus on the SEO there. Spreading your efforts out across 4 sites is wasting your time, and time is money!
There is lots of good advice available on this forum regarding SEO that the others have already mentioned. You will find that very helpful reading.
However as I already said, time is money and you might be better off getting someone else to do some SEO for you.

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