Recently redesigned www.kbkmarketing.com. I like to contribute a lot here in the forums and would like to see what everyone else would like to see on KBK marketing? How is the design? More articles? More lessons on SEO? Let me know what direction to take this website in.

Thanks!

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KBK Marketing | Search Marketing Blog | Cheap Web Hosting

Hi Jaan

Its a nice site, nice colours that are easy on the eye, very informative, talks to the customer in english and gives them vital knowledge.

I am viewing your site using Mozilla FireFox on a 1280 x 1024 resolution and have the following comments:

Where the fade in and fade out background is a nice effect, on some of the pages, it collides with the yellow flower for example: http://www.kbkmarketing.com/client-testimonials.php and leaves an odd stripe across the flower.

Theres not much content on offer on the domain name and hosting pages. OK so you get domains/hosting elsewhere, but is there not any further content you can offer here? If you were visiting the site and was a newbie to Design/SEO, what info do you think you would want to read?

Also and only IMHO a link to one enquiry form seems less overkill than having a form at the bottom of every service page which comes across as a bit pushy.

On your logo design, is cheappills and carnaltoys really good examples to have? From a business perspective, it just seems like a let-down to such a good site.

On search engine list page, you explain about each search engine, and then display the links for each tool. How about a bit of an explanation as to what each tool is about and how it would benefit? This part of the page seems a bit half-hearted.

Also your blog isn't consistent with the rest of your site (pot kettle black - I know). Is this intentional or a separate part of your site?

One last thing (and this is so minor that I can't believe I'm saying it): on the home page the underlined "your" (product and service page...) fools me into thinking its a link until I hover over it.

I hope this helps.

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Deb Harrison
DVH Design
Essex Web Design

I suggest making the blog look quite a bit more like the site. Love the humorous, single, brief "yes content is important for SEO" post. ...a little lonely isn't it?

I'd like to see something about how to make SEO play nice with others. It's starting to get to the point where you can tell a site has been SEO'd within an inch of its life. It's every bit as noticeable as sites constructed for the W3C validator and not human beings.

I've had critiques where the page had zero information value and the person could not understand what was wrong.

Before:
And it was pretty much ten paragraphs of the same. Title was similar to : How to Juice for Weight Loss.

Was there anything missing? Only the information about how to juice for weight loss.

Let's try writing a different way. "Because fresh juices can help quench your appetite, you can reduce the hunger pangs that can often accompany a weight loss program. Try using juice to substitute for one or two meals each day. A juice of one part parsley juice and four parts carrot juice helps maintain proper blood sugar levels, reducing the blood sugar swing that you can experience when on a weight loss progam."

You can not write for search optimization when you write for Search Engine Optimization. This doesn't have to be ...it just is. Much as Cooper's interaction design in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" and programmers, copywriting goes over like a cold shower with SEO people. Same objections. Same "what do you mean....I already do that?!"

What you need to do to stand out is write the SEO version of "inmates." A bit late, but still "link bait." ...Well how about that -- I do know an SEO term after all.

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Design Crux - infographic design,
content strategy Visual Merchandising online

I Like the site qua design and such,
But,
The acronyms start to annoy me real quick (is this on SEO purpose or is it usefull to the reader?).

You might consider opening your blog in a new screen.

What does KBK stand for?

Search engine partner chart (you could hint on it being .pdf)

Text is just a bit to small for me. And there's a lot of it. I might add some illustrations to lighten it up a bit.

I like you being immediately clear about this 1k a month minimum

All your outbound links open in the browser you used to occupy and some people might not know where to find the back button.

Sincerely yours

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-Almer-
Stadswandeling in Utrecht, Leiden en Amsterdam

Thanks for the comments so far and will post a larger response next week. Keep em coming!

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Love the look of the site, nice and sublte, easy on the eye. Criticisms: the body text appears a little small - I know this is browser dependant as a rule but a helping hand to those that don't know how to resize would be useful. IMHO there are too many exclamation marks throught the content and personally I like to see justified text - looks more professional in my mind. The only other thing drawn to my eye is the top level nav overflows the div - especially on the right hand side. My last comment has already been mentioned - the blog - if you're going to include it as part of the main nav it should appear as part of the site, or at least styled the same or similar. And from a "marketing" perspective, anyone clicking through to the blog has left your site, with only one way back. I think I would prefer to see the blog as part of the SEM resources for the more dedicated browsee. Anyone going through those links is obviously keen on your content and likely to come back to your main site from the blog.

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The sign "no dogs except guide dogs" who's benefit is this for?

www.lefthand-marketing.co.uk

Hi Jaan

Grammatical error in the article: seo, where do I begin?

Links (No.3) last sentence "their" should be "there"

Also too many capital letters in the opening paragraph of the index page!

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The sign "no dogs except guide dogs" who's benefit is this for?

www.lefthand-marketing.co.uk

Thanks for all the comments so far.

1. Yes I am going to style the blog as the same as KBK, just haven't got around to it yet. This is very important and I working on it.

2. Not sure if I like the acronyms tags yet either. No real SEO reasons fro them, but I thought I might try them. Still thinking here on those.

3. I would like to add photos and will also think about making the text tin the bit bigger.

4. KBK is just the initials of some partners that created the company. I am thinking about changing the name of the company down the road as I am not liking KBK much in the past few years.

5. I will be adding more better content to both the blog and the website and also organizing it better as well.

Dcrux I think you comments are fro another website and not mine.

I appreciate as much criticism and recommended as possible.

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KBK Marketing | Search Marketing Blog | Cheap Web Hosting

1. You should have the knowledge to write an ebook that can be downloaded and sold. Think 5 - 10 years ahead.

2. Give away a free mini version with links at the bottom of every page that says. Buy complete book at 10 - 20 % discount.

3. Remember, a webmaster is not a representativ surfer. He shall have everything free. As time go by, the internet industry will become more and more like every other industry.

Jaan I really love your new site and the wonderful colors.

Also the very valuable and high quality content your provide for free.

The only thing I was not happy about was the font size of the main content. If I was you, I would use the same size as you use for the left navigation.

As a web standards advocate, I also have to say that I found some markup issues you might have missed:

1. XHTML documents should normally contain the "xmlns" attribute in the "html" tag. For example, use xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" with the "html" element.

So instead of using <html> you rather should use:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">

2. Line 103? For backward compatibility with HTML, use a space character before the '/' character.

3. Line 38? The "target" attribute may not be used with the "a" element in a strict XHTML 1.0 document.

If you need help to fix that without real scripting, let me know and I can help you out.

4. Line 90? The "u" element should not be used in a strict XHTML 1.0 document. Style sheets should be used instead of this element. But you better avoid using it at all, as it makes problems in concerns of accessibility and usability, as users expect a link.

5. Line 103? Alt text should be succinct (clear and precise in a few words). It is recommended that alt text should be 75 characters or less, including spaces and punctuation. Your alt text is 123 characters and should probably be shortened.

Great job buddy! :)

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Do you mean that using an acronym will not make sence?
To be honest Jaan, I am not so sure about that.

<acronym title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</acronym>

Wouldn't the engines pick up the title?

By the way, you should only use the acronym only once and the first one for each term on each page.

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"Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions to ask, and flexibly applying your knowledge to the specific situation at hand. Being an expert means providing sensible, highly contextual direction." Jeff Atwood
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