Can someone take a look at my site and let me know what you think?

Thanks, Bret


http://www.NETBRET.COM

Bret,

I think your site is very professional looking and appealing to the eye. Also, it's easy to navigate through the site, which is a great plus. However, I did a little research and noticed that your site does not have great search engine rankings. You may need some assistance in your Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I am available to assist you with your site's SEO, if you are interested. SEO service is one of the benefits of having a Virtual Assistant (VA)!

It is definitely aesthetically pleasing. It definitely needs to be optimized from an SEO standpoint. The headers being images works to your disadvantage.

Looks very nice and professional. Agree with NickM on the header being images part.

Also, I am not sure the links under area maps are too useful. If you can overlay the open houses on the maps, then it would provide more value. The Buyer FAQ could be more prominently displayed in the buying section since it gives good information. I personally like to see people's office address in the contact section because that make me feel they are more "real"

- Matt

Maybe I am just getting old and my eyes are going but the font of the text on the main page seems a little too small. I like the colors and layout, though. I would remove the link to the blog until you get one up and running.

Thanks a lot.... I will work on all those issues for I think they are great feedback!

Thanks!
Bret Nida

I like the looks of the site, looks great and visually appealing. You also have about 400 pages indexed in google so your doing good there, although I'm not sure about the rankings. I do know that you would get BETTER rankings for your site if you used real text instead of images. What I mean about this is a lot of your headers are images such as "search the Charleston market". Search engines can't read these images so it has no idea what keyword to use.

If you had text there, you would get some extra rankings for that phrase. I can understand the visual importance, but at least put in some alt tags so the search engine knows what the image says.

The same goes with the navigation links as well. I can't stress how much extra edge you can get in the search engine results if you had the text in the image turned into actual text. It would be even better if you could make real text look exactly like it does in your images.

Other than that, your code is clean. You can also get another extra boost if your code was designed in CSS. This means you have less code and cleaner code. CSS is makes the whole site easier to modify later on and search engines like to see cleaner code, meaning they get more of the valuable content and less code.

If you are not relying on search engine traffic but more word of mouth, then this really doesn't matter. The site looks great to visitors though!

I hope this helps, if anyone else has SEO or online design questions, drop by the forum in my signature, this type of stuff is my expertise.