Freestart website???

[turkishtart]

Hi

Has anyone used this company Freestart to build a website?? They phone my salon daily!!!

Had a look at there website, all looks above board, would be great to get some feedback from anyone who has or does use this company


Regards TT

 

[lancashirelass]

You can get the same result from freewebs as you can with this company.

 

[turkishtart]

Hi

Thanks for letting me know, how much is freeweb? and do they have e commerce?


thanks TT

 

[lancashirelass]

With freewebs you build your own site like you do with freestart but freewebs is free www.freewebs.com you can also have ecommerce if you want to.

 

[Kayleighs Nail & Beauty Studio]

neta hun , ive got a freewebs website ..you just build it yourself for free xx

 

[siteforsoreeyes]

Hi

With any company that is offering free websites comes with massive floors, its ok if all your want from your web site is online prescence but when it comes to getting to page one of google these can start to cause problems due to how the googlebot works when scanning websites.
Search engines do not use Keywords anymore they are old hat, you need to have content, content, content good heading tags especially H1 and H2 and finally links to and from your site. and these links must be related to your pages content. For example if you are a nail salon you do not want a link to the screw fix website, google will pick up on this and create a negative as its not good content for the user.

the reason why these free websites are bad, when you take them up on their offer you will see your web address as www.freewebs.com/beautysalon this is because the server your pages are sat on are on the same server as www.freewebs.com/kevs-a-car-mechanic so when google searches the internet he sees a beauty salon in the same directory as car mechanics no relation google will penalise you.

I would eat my words if anyone out their can show me a website that is at the top of the game with any freeweb extensions on where you use search terms such as beauty salon etc.

My advice would be to pay for a website, not only are you getting a professional service you would get great looking pages with the correct content by someone who knows how to play the search engine game.
Leave the websites to the professionals just as web designers leave doing nails, hair and beauty down to you.

I cannot put the link up due to no advertising but if you would message me I could let you know of a company that can offer you great deals that suit your budget not theirs. And I am sure they offer discount to salon geek users.

 

[siteforsoreeyes]

I have a website from freestart - it's very easy to build (we can make changes and updates at anytime) also very happy with our search results. Ruth Mills gives good advice about websites.

Can I just add I am in a very good position to give advice on any website issues you may have, with 15years experience website design and working very closely with seo specialist I know exactly what is required for getting to the top of google. I also know that free website listings do not reach the top of google.

If you are confident that free websites give you a good starting point with online prescence and doing it yourself instead of dedicated professionals then could I ask you to check out this page. And just write your web address in the address bar.

The W3C Markup Validation Service

This is to see if your code is 100% correct, if it is I take my hat off to you, but i can almost put my life on 90% have at least 10 faults so in other words this means that google may only be able to read half your page and find only half the content you have pain stakingly spent hours thinking of and typing. The rest of the code is like google learning a new language, but the thing is it wont so it goes and says theres an error on your pages, meaning you drop down the pecking order

This is also a good check to see if your website will work in the many different browsers out their, and to see if the site is accessable to handicapped users.

Did you know that you can be taken to court for poor accessability of a website?

It would be interesting to hear the results of the w3 validator test.

 

[sknight]

Can I just add I am in a very good position to give advice on any website issues you may have, with 15years experience website design and working very closely with seo specialist I know exactly what is required for getting to the top of google. I also know that free website listings do not reach the top of google.

If you are confident that free websites give you a good starting point with online prescence and doing it yourself instead of dedicated professionals then could I ask you to check out this page. And just write your web address in the address bar.

The W3C Markup Validation Service

This is to see if your code is 100% correct, if it is I take my hat off to you, but i can almost put my life on 90% have at least 10 faults so in other words this means that google may only be able to read half your page and find only half the content you have pain stakingly spent hours thinking of and typing. The rest of the code is like google learning a new language, but the thing is it wont so it goes and says theres an error on your pages, meaning you drop down the pecking order

This is also a good check to see if your website will work in the many different browsers out their, and to see if the site is accessable to handicapped users.

Did you know that you can be taken to court for poor accessability of a website?

It would be interesting to hear the results of the w3 validator test.

OMG my site has 67 errors!!?!?!?!?!

 

[siteforsoreeyes]

OMG my site has 67 errors!!?!?!?!?!

I dont want to dis-hearten you any more, and this is another good check for people who build there own websites, if you load your index page and click on the top navigation bar "View" then click on source from the dropdown box if you see the letters <tr> or <td> means you are using tables to create a website, this is very very old hat, tables are ment for Tabular Data you need to be constructing sites in CSS and pure CSS unless you need tables which from this industry I cant see many reasons why, the problem with tables and people who build their own websites is that they just check them in one browser, normally the one on your computer guessing internet explorer 7, the thing with this is that our good friend Bill Gates is trying to control the computer world, but now google chrome, firefox have browsers that stick to the code of practice where ie7 doesnt.
Another good website to use is this one

Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots

This gives a list of all the browsers out there and lets you put your web address in and shows you snapshots of what it looks like, dont be alarmed if your websiite looks out of alignment, bits missing, borders appearing all sorts of issues arise.

This is normally due to using tables and how different browsers see your code. If you pass the first test I gave for the validator you should be ok with the browser test if you fail the first test you may want to get a strong cup of tea/coffee and start repairing your website.

I hope this helps, if anyone needs help in sorting out the faults because I know how hard it is to understand the faults sometimes then please let me know where your stuck and I will help you out

 

[siteforsoreeyes]

I have a website from freestart - it's very easy to build (we can make changes and updates at anytime) also very happy with our search results.

Can I also add and this is not a personal attack, it is to give you an understanding and to enforce why professionals should be used to create a website.
I have noticed on your home page you are trying to hide keywords, by having the text a very close colour to the background, in broad terms it looks like your trying to trick the search engines, which dont like to be tricked.

Its a very fine line you need to walk down to help get to the top of google for example if this was a page I was building I would use all your hidden words and turn that into content.
The art of playing the search engine game is to write your content in a way that you are using search terms of what the end user would search for. So for example instead of

Bosworth Aesthetics is a small private clinic nestled on the outskirts of Market Bosworth in a discreet residential area with private parking.

I would write

Bosworth Aesthetics is a anti-ageing clinic situated in the heart of Leicestershire covering the regions of Market Bosworth, Hinckley etc. and then say you have private parking etc etc

Can you see now that if someone writes in google "anti ageing leicester" "anti ageing hinckley" then you will come up higher in the search results as you have specified in your first paragraph this is your target area.

Again I am not personally attacking you I am giving you free advice on how to play the search engines at there own game and help get your business to where it should be

Hope this helps

Could I just add that hiding "keywords" is a way that google will just not index your website. Its very easy to pee google off its twice as hard to get back on their if they black list you. If I was you I would remove these.