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Old 05-04-2008, 01:39 AM
perpetuum-mobile perpetuum-mobile is offline
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Default A Website with a Twist

My website: SunBlest.net
I have an office leasing business in Tampa Florida. I receive 80% of my business from the street-sign, 10% from word-of-mouth & 10% from loopnet.com (a commercial real estate website).
I wrote a simple webpage to supply info for prospective tenants and the webpage is posted on my street-sign. I do not rely on this webpage to bring in business. Real estate websites are numerous, run by talented full-time website-developers - should I try investing lots of time into my webpage to obtain a great Google position, or will I be always behind the experts?
Here is the twist:
My hobby is weapons and history. My business website only uses 1% of the capacity, so I made my hobby-website there:
SunBlest.net/gun
This covers my research on Hungarian (and Austrian) weapons. It seems that the weapon pages got search engine popular quickly, (many top search engine ranks or 1st page ranks), which caused my business page to be indexed and ranked higher - is this possible or just an accident?
If I ran out of of this website's capacity, should I get the weapon pages a separate domain? Or just pay for a higher capacity?
General question:
Programming my weapons website I aimed for simplicity and offering lots of information, and easy overview of what the website covers. In your opinion, did I fail or did ok? Also, the top menu and the main page duplicates the same info - good or bad? Which one do you prefer to use?
Any other general comments/observations?
Last question:
I was contacted by an advertiser asking me how much I would want to rent a space (like 200x100 or 50x600) on the website for their ads. I have no idea - would anyone have a suggestion? Just e-mail the suggestion to perpetuum-mobile@juno.com if you do not want to post such info publicly.
Thank you

Last edited by perpetuum-mobile; 05-04-2008 at 01:49 AM. Reason: correcting funky link display