Hey All,

Would like some input on our site. I have been redesigning some logo's / graphics on the site and so on. Could use some great help

www.milehighsecurity.com

Also, I'm pritty much lost when it comes to what keywords should be used and where they should be.

Thanks..

Ryan

Keywords are simply words found in your content and coding that are likely to be associated with what your site actually offers. The keyword meta tag is not as powerful as it once was. It may be used simply as a confirmation tool to verify that your content matches. Focus on your visitor and the "keywords" will come naturally.

The main issue is that you are using over ten times the amount of bytes for the Home page than I would recommend. The images alone weigh in at over 450 THOUSAND bytes. Your HTML code is almost 36,000 bytes without the images. That's a total of almost half a meg.

This equates to an estimated load (wait) time of almost two and a half minutes for a visitor using a 56k modem. Even at T1 speed, the wait is 24 seconds. Simplify the page and cut back on the graphics.

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Nice site. Took about 3 seconds to load for me on cable.

One thing I've never understood is the displaying of google content ads on sales sites. Webmasters make efforts to bring people to their sites, ultimately to buy their products, yet for a buck or two, often less, they are willing to direct customers to competitors sites. Unless their own margins are only a few bucks, why do webmaters continue to do that? Even if the original site's prices are the same or less, I just see it as a risk.

So what you are saying is that the standard of all web sites as around 48,600 bytes? How can one make a flavorfull site and still be within the boundaries on size? My site in this case?

Thanks
Ryan

Sharpy


Thanks for looking at the site. As far as Gooooooogle ads.. I look at it this way, I make money eather way a person comes onto the site. If they are just looking around and leave, so be it. If they look around and buy something, thats a sale. If they look around and don't see anything but descide to click on an Google Ad and go to another site I make money from them leaving my site though goooooooogle ad....

Ryan

I'm new to this location and to the web biz. Came up in 15 sec on Cable, maybe a little to busy for my taste. Why such a large picture on top left?

I liked it over all!!!

Thanks for the reply:

The reason for the large image is because it's rated the biggest in the market right now and figured if it's called the stun monster why not?

Thanks

Ryan

You need a new cable:)

Load times are important though. The more images, the larger the images, obviously the longer the load times.

Surfers are impatient. Someone on 56K might wait 5 or 10 seconds, but 20 is stretching. You may loose potential customers when they hit that back button.

RE: Goooooooogle Adsense. I struggle with it myself. In the right situation it might work. A content site that doesn't sell anything for instance. But, I would rather manually display my own affiliate programs (related products) and make a good commission if someone clicks away... make $10, $20 or $50 rather than 2 cents. I also like control over whats being dished out.

With a quick look, the site looks good to me otherwise.

Good Luck!

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