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TheArborMan

TheArborMan

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Michigan
thearborman.com

Worked hard on this for the past couple of weeks. Let me know what you guys think. Still have some more content to add, but its basically ready to go. Any comments, things you would change, remove, or add would be appreciated.

The web accounted for over 1/3rd of my business last year. This year I think it will be closer to 1/2 or 2/3rds. I'm really going to focus my advertising $$ online. I feel like higher quality clients come from the website.

Does anyone use or have experience with Customer Lobby?
 
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thearborman.com

Worked hard on this for the past couple of weeks. Let me know what you guys think. Still have some more content to add, but its basically ready to go. Any comments, things you would change, remove, or add would be appreciated.

The web accounted for over 1/3rd of my business last year. This year I think it will be closer to 1/2 or 2/3rds. I'm really going to focus my advertising $$ online. I feel like higher quality clients come from the website.

Does anyone use or have experience with Customer Lobby?

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That looks like a nice, clean website. Very professional looking.

What kind of web presence does your "competition" have? Do you like the way your site compares to others in your area?


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Arborman - Thats a great do-it-yourself site. I know I don't have the ability to do that. The only thing I would suggest is change it from tree Trimming to Tree Pruning. You can still have tree trimming in the embedded keywords for those customers that search that way, but personally I think tree pruning promotes better care. IMO

ArborMedic - Sweet site! I love the Pics.

A great site defiantly starts to set you apart from the competition. At least for the clients who care anyway...
 
I like it. We are revamping our website as we speak. Hope to have it done in two months. Ive been told its important to link your social media directly to your front page. Im using Fbook as a blog of sorts.
 
Thnaks for the complements on the site. I try to use both "trimming" and "pruning" on the site. I usually look at the sites analytics every night in the summer. I compare the customer requests for estimates, to the google searches for that day. "tree trimming" seems to be linked to people wanting work done on medium, large, mature trees. "tree pruning" or "pruning" in general is linked to people wanting work done on ornamentals, shrubs, bushes stuff like that. If I were to only to use "pruning" on my site I feel I would miss out on quiet a bit of business.
 
I think your missing the point. I know that a lot of people search for trimming, but that is not what we do as professional arborists. Regardless of if its a big or small tree, its still pruning.
You can have trimming embedded in your webpage and still come up on searches for those people whom are searching for trimming, but then your webpage educates them on the importance of pruning rather than just lopping of branches any old way. You'll still get all the traffic, but then your setting yourself apart from the others who don't know the difference and say that will "trim your tree."

For example, I will never "top" a tree, but its in my keywords...
 
I guess I will have to respectfully disagree with you. I'm not an expert in SEO, but I think the use of the words in the content of your page is just as or more important then META keywords these days.

I might ketch some flack for this but I like to think I offer both pruning and trimming as a service. I tend to read the customer and judge if they care about proper pruning or just want some elevation, mostly referred to as trimming around here. If its a large lead they want lopped off, I will offer to reduce it and say the whole limb doesn't need to go. You can't sell what someone doesn't want, and some people just want there trees "trimmed" I used to try and sell every customer on what the tree needed, but for some people its just not in the budget. They only want "those three darn limbs off growing towards the garage". Again, around here you will get the call to trim those limbs, not prune them.

This doesn't mean that I go around spiking and topping, I just try to give the customer what they want...
 
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thearborman.com

Worked hard on this for the past couple of weeks. Let me know what you guys think. Still have some more content to add, but its basically ready to go. Any comments, things you would change, remove, or add would be appreciated.



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Everyone has been nice so far, one person gave a suggestion and it sounds like you didn't like hearing it, so I'm not sure you really want to hear about "anything yhou would change".

I only went to the front page.

Didn't read much of the text, as it was too many words, just as most customers will do.

Viewed the pictures, and the general public won't understand much about the crane picture, so no big deal about that, but for them you should have had a shaved face look, or else a full grown-in trimmed beard. Picture looks un-clean, imo with the half grown in look.

For other climbers viewing your crane picture, (such as when you are hiring), that is an awful picture. That piece had to have flipped downward fairly violently. That PICTURE gives the impression you do not know crane work very well.

You asked.

Praise isn't going to do you as much good as criticism.
 
Thanks, Yes I did it all myself.

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I guess I came off as defensive, but I don't agree that its my job to run around telling the general public to use the word "trim" or "prune"

I shave about once every 2 weeks, never clean shaven for anything. You will never catch me with a "line beard" or some half manicured gay facial hair concoction, that takes even more time then just shaving it off... Might look sloppy to some but sexy to others, either way it works for me.

On that crane job we had to catch and lift most of the brush picks, the piece didn't flip. We were just out of reach to balance them. There is a video of the job on the website if you would have checked out more than the first page. http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=301435&an=0&page=2#301435

I have tried to limit whats on the first page. What would you suggest removing from it to trim it down?
 
good work! wish i could make a site half that nice, you said you get a good amount of business from your web site? how to people around you know you have a web site? does it pop up of they search tree care in your area? any way good work, hope all your time and effort continue to pay off
 
Thats the cool thing about your own web site, it is yours. I am putting content together for mine and it can get overwhelming. IMO, you did a great job. Now you will be tweeking it over and over. But, you got the hardest part behind you. Good stuff.
 
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