Please review?

yutta

Hi,

Just finished this website: http://prestocab.com

Any comments/criticisms much appreciated!

mrsoundie

Well done, i like it. Clear, simple and user friendly. Keep it up. Any news on hackneys? Or a Symbian app?

Well done.

yutta

Cheers for the feedback mate. Not so sure about hackneys! As far as I know, they don't exist anymore...

I'm a bit anxious about IE... Haven't really tested it in IE.

Quazzie

I'm on Chrome and the email address covers the cab and looks unnecessary crowded. Also the test sizes vary a lot in sizes. I'd look at having the sizes a bit closer so that one doesn't get lost.

Looks good generally though and a good idea for a site.

yutta

when you say the "email address covers the cab", what do you mean?! Many thanks for taking the time to look at the site and reply to me.

Quazzie

yutta wrote: »

when you say the "email address covers the cab", what do you mean?! Many thanks for taking the time to look at the site and reply to me.

At the top it has the Presto Cab logo. Also at the top it has the contact details with phone number and email address. The email address, and in particular the email envelope logo appears over the 'cab' part of 'presto cab'

yutta

Quazzie wrote: »

At the top it has the Presto Cab logo. Also at the top it has the contact details with phone number and email address. The email address, and in particular the email envelope logo appears over the 'cab' part of 'presto cab'

Ah right. What size screen do you have?

Quazzie

It was an old 15 inch screen (4:3), but it was also the same on my iPhone Safari. On a different 17" screen here in work (16:9) it looks better

yutta

Hey, thanks for getting back. I'm not sure about what to do for smaller screens... I'm thinking of making everything smaller.

All the different text sizes are a bit of an issue at the moment.

tricky D

Your site is a one pager with javascript show/hide type navigation. For many reasons I would have the site broken into separate, logical, semantic, pages.

From a glance at the code under the bonnet, the platform you have used to produce the page seems to use a lot of junk and out-of-date stuff (center tags!!). There's a lot of code which could easily be simplified and styles which could be managed more efficiently as an external file.

The above may affect ease of managing the site in the future.

Your phone number and email address are in graphics, they should be just text and the email address made into a mailto.

The SEO isn't great with few headings, missing alts and no enough attention to getting the keywords and phrases treated right.

yutta

What's wrong with <center> tags? lol...

tricky D

They're obsolete.

yutta

I agree. On SEO, what simple tricks can I do to make the site perform better in google?

yutta

So I've decided to clear out all the CSS/Javascript into separate files thanks to trickyD. I'll be trying to present as much useful content to google as possible. I'm also starting a blog! (I know) Purely for SEO reasons... Do people read blogs?

VMotion

yutta, I'd reduce your logo area at least 20%. It takes lots of space and doesn't produce much sense to the visitor.
If you are looking to rank anywhere in Google, it could be a good idea to take out all the <script> into a separate .js file.
You also lack footer area. There could go lots of contextual link on your site with relevant keywords.

Overall a very nice colour scheme: appealing an doesn't irritate the eyes

yutta

Hey,

Many thanks for the reply. I'm still having lots of trouble with the SEO. I've taken the advice of you guys and stripped out all the javascript. I've even started a blog. But prestocab.com is still ranked nowhere on google when one types in the keywords "Order a taxi online".

I'm worried that my site doesn't have good site architecture - it's just a single page AJAXy site as oppposed to being made up of lots of different links.

The next step is to create a video? I'm hoping this will help.

I'm concerned that I'm blacklisted by google? I haven't been doing any black hat stuff, but perhaps the previous owner of my IP address was up to no good? Is it better to host the server in Ireland as opposed to in the UK?

VMotion

yutta, you need to do more on the page to start climbing the ranks.
1. You don't have meta="keywords"
2. Move your title tag to be straight after the head tag
3. Check your h1, h2, h3 on the page. They should contain your keywords, not the random stuff (and you should have them)
4. Adding blog is not just putting "blog" word there. It means to start writing real articles on your topic and arranging them on your site.

Unless you put more relevant content (text) on your site you won't rank high.
Study your competition and see what they are doing to get there.

Hope this helps.
Best of luck!