Name of Site/Business: PIN Taxi Eindhoven

Site's Main Purpose: Ecommerce/Sales

Please Review the following:
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?

Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?

Appearance/Attractiveness

Typos and grammar

Search engine marketing. Can the pages be reasonably well indexed by search engines?



Additional Comments/Notes
Hi people,

I'm Danny, living in Eindhoven, Netherlands. I own a small taxi service in Eindhoven. I have been updating/changing my website for the past 2 years now. Is my website SEO friendly, all hint/tips/comments are welcome. (site is in Dutch/English, as a lot of my clients come from outside the Netherlands)

Thanks!

Danny

I really liked your site.

It is clean, clear, attractive to look at and the style of writing adoopted has a "friendly" feel to it. I was encouraged to explore past your home page.

Your links are appropriate and if you have not already done so I think that because of the "local" nature of your site it would not hurt to get links back from them.

My only concern is that your "English" links / menu / introduction is below the fold on my browser and as such would suggest that you would use some mechanism further up the page to highlight the fact that the site is in English as well as Dutch. As most of your english speaking visitors are likely to be from Britain, maybe you could use a British Flag alongside a Dutch Flag up in the top right corner. Thats probably a silly idea but I am sure you could come up with something.

Anyway best of luck with your site.

Philip

I agree, and the way to get it higher is to rewrite those intros.

Move the 'family firm stuff to your 'about' page (sorry, but that's not what the average punter wants to see on the front page!

Make each intro brief and highly focussed on the service you offer - business, airports, hire cares, whatever - brief and to the point.

That will bring up the English version. Maybe country flags to draw the eye to the right intro?

And put your phone numbers in BOLD BIG type on the page - people researching before they travel may just want to copy that down!

You are already about #5 in the UK (eindhoven taxi), so you must be doing something right! Mind you, it's your mobile page that does best, so you do need to polish the front page!

er, the mobile page is now a 404!

I have an older version of Firefox and the white background isn't showing up, so it's very hard to read the black text on dark blue. (It's fine in IE6.)

Egads, you are using a third-party free guestbook?! That's something that would be acceptable on a personal site, but strikes me as totally unprofessional for a business site. Also, you open yourself up to guestbook spammers by allowing anyone to post there. It also allows spammers to harvest the emails of the signers. I would go with a "testimonials" page instead where you have total control over what's displayed.

Hi,

I adjusted the index page, made the phone number bigger on all pages, fixed mobile. How do I make my own guestbook on my own site (i'm just an amateur..

Thanks guys,

Danny

Search for [open source guestbook]

But be careful - you'll need one that uses 'nofollow', otherwise any spam URLs that get entered can be used against you.

It might be better to just have a 'comments invited' paragraph on your 'about' page (or a 'contact' page, and then paste comments in with just a name attached.

As it happens, I don't think a guestbook is such bad idea for a 'family business' like yours (and the one you have is 'prettier' than many!), and yours does seem to get used.

But the one you currently use does display email addresses, which is a little unfair on your happy customers. Check the control panel and see if you can disable the email display - many will allow you to configure safety features. see if you can make the logo link back to your site, too.

Site looks better.

When I looked at your site the last time, I mistakenly put the url in the browser without using the "www" before the name. It worked ok .

I am sure that I have read somewhere that this can be dangerous particularly with Google. If Google indexes both versions (with & without the "www" ) it can see it as duplicate content.

You can get your server settings changed so that the site always resolves to the www version. UnfortunateLy I dont know enough to explain it to you but i am sure that there are previous posts here on this. If you are using a unix server, do a search for "htaccess files" but if you are on a windows server you will have to set up a permanent re-direct using IIS

[ Message was edited by: PhilipT 04/30/2008 04:33 am ]

Well spotted - choose either www or non-www; your host may be able to arrange a 301 forward for you (if your control panel does not give you the choice)

BTW, not 'Welcome on our website!' but 'Welcome to our website!'

and perhaps 'For information and prices, please choose from the navigation menu to the right.'

Hi,

Changed the text, i'm sorting out now how to change the www-thing...thanks!!

Can anybody give me the correct code for my 301-redirect .htacces file?

Danny

[ Message was edited by: dannykastelijn 04/30/2008 09:42 am ]

Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

If you have not modified/created .htaccess files before, be careful. In particular, see the ".htaccess File Tips, Tricks and Traps" section on this page: [link]

Let me know if the above code works or not.

Hi,

Now I cannot reach my website using http://pintaxi-eind...
I can only reach it by using www.pintaxi-eind...


So I guess it's ok, right?

Thanks!

Danny

"Now I cannot reach my website using http://pintaxi-eind."

Good - that means the code is working perfectly.

What is your problem then?

Well honestly the code you gave me dind't work, I typed the reply to fast....sorry.

Now I got one that works perfect, it redirects the http://... to http://www... so I'm a happy man.

Thanks!

PS. I generated the code using this website:
http://www.epicdesigns.co.uk/projects/htaccess.html#

Ooops - it looks like I typed too fast too. I left the www. in the rewrite condition. Sorry about that.