Hello all! Last year was our first year with having a website, it helped get more calls but it wasn't exactly what I wanted or thought I wanted. I have had another company make another site for a 30 day trial but still not sure it's what I think it should be. Now I am looking to you all who have a website that works and you like to critique my sites. Below I have posted links to both sites. First link is for the site I have been using for almost a year and the second site is the new site. Could you do me the favor and compare them? Tell me what you like or what you would change? Thanks a million!!
http://downeastpowerwash.com/ First site is older site, minimal web skills used
http://www.downeastmobilepowerwash.com/ Second site, newer site
Thanks again!
Yes second site for sure but needs a lot of attention to fine tune it.
Pictures, pictures and more pics of how good your team is at what they do.
I/2 way through a job picture is always awesome.
At first glance I thought you may also do removals based on looking at the background picture. It wasn't until I looked at the in focus picture below that it was the same image and was your truck. I agree with Ralph and get an "action shot" as the background image.
I would also change the 2 images under the words "Our Products". This is your home page and you may only have them for 5 seconds before they decide what type of work you will do based on how your website looks. These images need to be show casing the quality work you do pressure washing, after all, this is your home page and if the client is not impressed immeadiately, you may lose them to another website that they think will perform better pressure washing work. You need the wow factor with your images!
This theme of show casing how good you are has to continue all through your website.
You also need consistancy, by this I mean, marrying up "What We Clean" with maybe the 3 images down the bottom and then each image takes you to that part of your business for more detailed information about that service. So for snow removal off the roof work, the last image is perfect, but I was confused initially as all I saw was a site that from the images I wasn't 100% sure what you did. See some people are visual and will go straight for the pics, while others will go straight for the text. You need to make sure you clearly in 5 seconds, give that potential client enough clear information to be able to work out what your company does, and that you are experts at it!
I hope that helps, but websites will need to keep changing otherwise Google will lose interest in your site. Keep updating images, or adding blogs etc.
Good luck with it.
Here's an example of a during image that gets people saying wow because they can see the benefits of what we can do for them.