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So i fix dents via paintless dent removal for a living. Youtube it for those who dont know what it is. Anyways, Heres my new site! its still under construction as of now but this is basically what it looks like. I still need photos and a few minor spell checks etc. But here it is, was built for me by a friend. let me know what you think!any opinions are openly welcome

http://www.nwdentpros.com/site/
 

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looks good, only simple things i would change like a few spelling errors (no offense but perfect spelling/grammar makes you look professional)

add those photos, do some before and afters!

as the home page picture, instead of a picture of a car i would put a really good before and after pic

also the site map bar is a little messed up, the contact us got broken up

 

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Yea I agree, it definitely looks good. There are a few grammatical errors I could find really easily, I didn't really look for any spelling stuff. One other thing is that some of your pages have titles in a serif font. It still looks fine, but for online stuff it is a general no no to use serif font as it can look funny on certain screens and stuff. Works fine on my screen though haha. Theres probably a better reason than that though. Sans Serif is what you should be using. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
 

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Looks good to me. You really just have to sort out the grammer and the spelling. If you know anyone good at that type of stuff, have them read it and give you some advice.
 

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Thanks for the input everyone. I will most deff run a full spell/grammar check. As stated the site is not 100% finished and i will work out the errors and take everyones advice! much appreciated everyone!
 

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As a panel beater, it looks pretty good to me; info is... well, informative yet easy to understand &, more to the point, factual.

I also agree with blue thunder (there's a first, lol) get some pics up soon, before & afters.
 

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Nice, I am also in Portland. Do you do bike tanks?

Here is the best pic I have right now. I would love to keep original paint.
 

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So i fix dents via paintless dent removal for a living. Youtube it for those who dont know what it is. Anyways, Heres my new site! its still under construction as of now but this is basically what it looks like. I still need photos and a few minor spell checks etc. But here it is, was built for me by a friend. let me know what you think!any opinions are openly welcome

http://www.nwdentpros.com/site/

Not bad. I have 5 sites, myself. Based on the crappy code organization, I assume you're using a WYSIWYG editor?

My recommendations:

1) Remove the quotation marks from the site title (what you see in the top bar of the browser). Something about it gets to me.

2) As the others have said, the spelling needs to be perfect. I generally have trouble taking a site with poor grammar/spelling seriously.

3) Get an email @nwdentpros.com; it's more professional than an @aol. Most hosting plans come with email accounts.

There are a few other things that I would suggest, such as a fixed background and using Javascript to gray out the navbar links on mouseover, but I'm not sure what you can really do with a WYSIWYG editor.
 

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I appreciate the constructive criticism very much! Devino246 what do you suggest as far as seo goes? im trying to get some good traffic and I want to know what things i can do as far as getting my website ranked higher. All im aware of so far is that whole thing about keywords. How does that work exactly? how many do you suggest I have? and what else can I start doing to get my site ranked higher?
 

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I appreciate the constructive criticism very much! Devino246 what do you suggest as far as seo goes? im trying to get some good traffic and I want to know what things i can do as far as getting my website ranked higher. All im aware of so far is that whole thing about keywords. How does that work exactly? how many do you suggest I have? and what else can I start doing to get my site ranked higher?

Google uses an algorithm called PageRank, which is actually owned by Stanford University and leased to Google. They keep tweaking it and throwing off rankings.

Meta key words aren't used by PageRank. A few SE's paid attention to key words, and then people started abusing them, so they were dropped.

A few things you should do:

1) Get links to your site on other sites. Whether it be ads, affiliate marketing, or just posting on forums like you've done.

2) Update the site regularly, and not just with useless junk. Add weekly specials, customer testimonials, etc. on a regular basis.

3) Provide a descriptive meta description. Google will choose to use this description in their search results if they find it to be relevant and descriptive. Otherwise, they'll pick words out of the webpage, which may not do much for you.
 
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