[STEVE71163]

That is not bad considering i paid £150 for ms frontpage  

Steve Lowe

[Majestic]

The only trouble with a web site is it`s seen by people from all over the world ,if someone is looking for a uk window cleaner in say Fleetwood and only type a search for a window cleaner they will get hundreds  of sites how about forum members putting links to other forum members  who have web sites on there web sites .

[STEVE71163]

What happens if you type window cleaner,Fleetwood,UK  

Steve Lowe

[Majestic]

I am second omn the list

[STEVE71163]

Nice one

Steve Lowe

[STEVE71163]

Its a shame the Federation could not have something on their site so the general public could look up a window cleaner

Steve Lowe

[Mike_Boxall]

I read recently in one of the trade magazines about a new window cleaning campaign on TV which is to have a website called www.findmeawindowcleaner.co.uk (something to do with Anglian windows). Not sure if this is related to Terry's news (hope I havent spoilt the surprise Terry  ) )
Regards
Mike

[Majestic]

Yes Terry has something to do with it   it1s all a bit top secret at the moment ,
you can log on to ww.findmeawindowcleaner.co.uk and leave your details ,its free  I think that they want customers to vote for there window cleaner .

[STEVE71163]

I filled that out a few days ago Sounds excellent idea

Steve Lowe

[Mike_Boxall]

Hi Karl
Just going back to one of your comments about having 2000 'clicks'. Are these figures someone has given you or are they ones that you monitor yourself somehow. The reason I mention it is because a lot of people manipulate these statistics (most often when they're trying to sell you banner advertising, etc)
Is everyone aware that 'hits' mean very little and are actually very misleading.
Would it surprise you to know that in the last 24hrs alone this site has had 77,606 'hits'. Impressive, eh?.........
In actual fact a 'hit' is any page OR picture. The average number of pictures on each of these pages is 34 (it includes all the smilies etc). So each time someone looks at a page on this site it is actually 35 'hits' (thats including the page itself). OK, so divide 77,606 by 35 and you get still get an impresive 2217 visitors, right? Wrong, each visitor actually looks at an average of 11 pages each time they visit. So divide 2217 by 11 and we're actually down to 201 unique users - a far cry from the 77,606 we could have been led to believe.
So, if someone told you that it was 2000 'clicks' and they were actually refering to hits, it may not be as good as you thought.

All that aside, what you have to bear in mind is that 87.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot  

[sam hughes]

hello,

I use macromedia mx, bit naughty but I downloaded it from kazaalite, I find it exellent & I think its got a £600 price tag normally.

Sam

[karlosdaze]

When I logged in to update my web-page, it shows how many times people have logged in to look at my web-site. I could probably claim 20-30 of those hits, just to make sure it was still functioning.
But taken into account what you have said, and the lack of response from the web, I think you may be right. Having said that, yesterday I was told by one of my customers he's been to my page, and 2 of the businesses I advertise for have had responses from my site. So who knows? At least I've had 3 visitors......was it worth the trouble?
http://www.windowcleaning.es.kz/

[shinnyshinner]

You can make that four now Karlos what a lovley place to work is it?
Do they have many window cleaners in spain?
My family have just moved to La Manger is that right?
Will be going over soon hopefully
Cheers Alan

[karlosdaze]

Lovely place to work- no its horrible, I hate it here....LOL

Many cleaners-Every maid, anyone with a spray window cleaner, and about 5 listed companies in the yellow pages, including me. +about 100 fly by nights. And at least 100 cleaning companies. Thats just in Mallorca.

La Manga-an area south of Alicante.

[shinnyshinner]

that dont sound good, How long have you been cleaning?
Alan

[karlosdaze]

In Mallorca, about 2 years now.

[Central]

I used to be a professional web site designer a number of years ago and am now happily making a living from Window Cleaning .  The key to the net is not advertising and not spending money - I bought my domain name for £6.93 for 2 years and host it professionaly for £2.34 per month.  I put the site up 2 months ago and after waiting 4-6 weeks for my listing to appear in the search directories I have now made 6 customers in the last 3-4 weeks.

The key is to make sure that your meta tags are right (ie pick your keywords appropriatel), thing of what people who need your service will type in the search engine, use keywords such as districts that you clean as well as towns and villages.  Theres no point targetting customers in Newcastle if you live in London!  

With regards to search engine submission DON'T PAY for these services that add you to all the major search engines, you can do this yourself in no time.  Just go to all the major search engines - Google, Yahoo, Altavista etc and put your details in manualy.  This will take between a week and 6 weeks to get listed depending on the search engine but who cares, at least it's keeping your site cost down to a bare minimum - All I have to pay is £2.34 per month and Ive got professional hosting without all them annoying banners popping up - my web site is www.centralwindowcleaners.co.uk if you wanna check it out.

[STEVE71163]

Hi Central,
              I was told that the latest search engines don't look for meta tags but i still put them in mine. What is your web address

Steve Lowe

[STEVE71163]

Sorry Central, Hard day Didnt see your web address

Steve Lowe

[STEVE71163]

Hi Central,
               My website is www.lowescleaning.co.uk which is my first attempt. Can you see any areas that i could improve upon???

Many Thanks

Steve Lowe