Who has a website?

Jamin_Mayer

Jamin_Mayer

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I am studying other tree service websites both locally and abroad. Can you tell me some things to avoid? Can you share rough costs?

Then send links to your website. I'd like to see them.
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Thanks!
 
I have two and a half. That's coz the last one is half done (not shown here).

www.palmtreeservices.com.au
www.weareallabouttrees.com.au

I built them and SEO them, and take out front page of google every time.
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Secrets like that you pay for. lol

Check out this guys site www.drouintreeservices.com.au

Also takes out google front page and did so straight off the bat.

You want results I can help, you want to clamber around and guess through trial and error ... that's good to. But it's taken me near on two years of fiddling to know half of what I should ... yep, I still get advice regularly. But getting the right advice is paramount and it aint ever free.

Plenty of hosting packages around that build a site via templates. Some host will build a basic 3 page site for around $300 USD plus domain rego plus hosting but there's no SEO work and it probably is in HTML not CSS.

If you have time build one then SEO it later, but from experience it's best to build the basics right to begin with.

Some don'ts, keep pics below 25kb, have less than say 100kb front page so it opens quickly, avoid sound, flash, frames and tables on your index page.

Good luck, keep us up to date.
 
We're having a website built (hopefully before spring). I'd like to ask those of you that have one already questions in the future. We were quoted ~$5,000 for 12 pages designed and hosted. Does this seem reasonable?
 
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We're having a website built (hopefully before spring). I'd like to ask those of you that have one already questions in the future. We were quoted ~$5,000 for 12 pages designed and hosted. Does this seem reasonable?

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Absolute rip off!

You are a tree business not Amazon book store!

Notahacker, remember a vital important piece of info ... no matter how fancy your site is, how much you put effort into clever little logo's and animations, how great the flash banner looks etc ... it all means chit to Google!

Here's a site where Ken has loads of info, flash stuff, but doesn't get near Google. Zero page rank and 101 coding errors. There's more to building websites than pretty pictures. In this report you can see a new site (few months old) has whipped Ken. So how many people are gonna get a decent lesson when they can't find him?

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We have found that our website is generating a ton of business. We use it in our advertising. Web sites are surprisingly easy to build yourself these days and there are a lot of independent small time programmers who will do it inexpensively. www.rainbowtreecare.com is the address if you want to look at it. Remember that Flash will not give it ranking (can not be read by the spider crawlers)and a knowledgeable person will build it so that search engines will rank it. good luck
 
I would like to see more tree companies websites, it's interesting to look at them, especially the pictures.

I'm sure many more of you out there reading and viewing these sites have websites of your own, so please contribute by posting yours.

I'll post mine:

www.arborx.com

My picture gallery is at the bottom of my home page text. I want to add many more good photos.

My nephew and I did it ourselves. He gets me started and I finish it or keep changing text or adding pictures. The last thing I did myself was expand my picture gallery table by two more and link it to the new pictures, that took about 4 or 5 hours to get it right. It's a bit frustrating sometimes. You transfer everything over to the host computer in what you think is the right order, then go to the website and see that something is wrong. Takes a lot of time. If I updated it all the time, I'd probably be good at it. We finally made it a decent web-site this past spring and then didn't touch it again till two weeks ago, I had forgotten how to do most of it.

KY,

My nephew in college could probably build you a nice professional looking site for thousands less and do it via your e-mails.
 
oh yeah, and lumberjack, it looks like your domain name is not yours any longer. I saw no site that had anything to do with you when I clicked on it.

This is another good point.

Watch out that your domain name does not expire without you knowing it.

My sister in law does flower arrangements for weddings and events.

she has a website and her domain name expired without her knowing. Someone in India bought it as soon as it expired and tried to sell it back to her for $200.00.

She refused and changed the name, bought a new domain. She changed it from .com to .net instead.

My nephew did that website also, it's: www.marysflowershed.net
 
I have a web site. Couple things I tried to do was show before and after pics of our services. And I try to put my schedule on it...that way a customer can see about when we are coming. If it rains or a job goes long I update the schedule. Which I havent been keeping it updated recently...things been alittle slow. It a basic page...and sometime I will do more work to it maybe.

www.climbhightree.com

PS- All the Habitat pictures from Ecaudor are there because alot of my custmoers gave donations to habitat for the trip.
 
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