Review/Comments/Suggetions

brentjlaf · #1 (**permalink**) 05-26-2008, 02:32 PM

Review/Comments/Suggestions

Grande Prairie Inn Hotel | Welcome

Please disregard the reservations page for now thanks.

**cw1865** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-26-2008, 03:48 PM

Overall I like it, one suggestion, show a picture of the exterior of the facility at least at some point.

Clicken · #3 (**permalink**) 05-27-2008, 01:28 PM

Very nice work!

Just a couple of things to consider for SEO…

1. The title is too repetitious and could be more descriptive and enticing. IMO it should contain ‘Alberta’ as well as the hotel name.

2. The W3C Markup Validation Service Congrates!, the page validates however if you check the box for Show Outline you will notice that the outline could be better organized. The <h4> heading tag is the only tag being used and it is used more than once.

These tags are important for good search engine optimization. They can be styled and if style is to be applied use CSS so the spiders recognize them as heading tags.

The page headings are images and those should be within the <h1> tag. I am not sure how the validator handles an image in these tags but it would be worth a try to see if the “alt” or “title’ text is pulled for the outline and if they are then make sure they have your keywords in them. Then the current text being used as <h4> could be used with the next consecutive tags, styled however you like of course.

Again, it looks great!

mtheory · #4 (**permalink**) 05-27-2008, 02:23 PM

Very well done. The only thing that bothered me was the unnesessary, over the top animations in the photo gallery. It really contradicts the simple elegance of the rest of the site.

A good rule of thumb. The only time to use "bells and whistles" on a site is when they don't come across as just "bells and whistles".

Dubbya · #5 (**permalink**) 05-27-2008, 02:53 PM

yup, swap out the coffeeshop image for one of your hotel.

Couple issues that'll cut you off at the knees if not resolved immediately:

HTML Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Grande Prairie Inn Hotel Inn Grande Prairie Hotel, Grande Prairie Hotels, Hotel in Grande Prairie | Amenities</title>
<meta name="description" content="Whether you are in Grande Prairie for business, shopping or pleasure, The Grande Prairie Inn is sure to guarantee affordable prices, convenience and a comfortable stay. We are located next to the Prairie Mall and in the heart of down town Grande Prairie." />
<meta name="keywords" content="alberta hotel, alberta hotel deals, alberta hotel packages, alberta hotel rates, alberta hotel room, alberta hotels, alberta prairie, atlanta hotel rooms, book hotel room, book hotel rooms, budget hotel grande prairie, business meeting rooms, calgary ab hotel, calgary hotel, calgary hotel packages, calgary hotel room, calgary hotels, calgary weddings, cheap hotel, cheap hotel in calgary, cheap hotel rates, cheap hotels, cheap hotels calgary, cheap hotels in calgary, cheap hotels in grande prairie, cheap hotels rooms, cheapest hotel, cheapest hotel rates, cheapest hotel rooms, fort mcmurray hotel, grand prairie ab hotels, grand prairie alberta hotel, grand prairie alberta hotels, grand prairie hotels, grande praire hotel, grande prairie, grande prairie ab, grande prairie ab hotels, grande prairie accommodation, grande prairie accommodations, grande prairie accomodations, grande prairie airport, grande prairie alberta, grande prairie alberta canada, grande prairie alberta hotel, grande prairie alberta hotels, grande prairie b&amp;b, grande prairie bed breakfast, grande prairie canada, grande prairie canada hotel, grande prairie canada hotels, grande prairie city, grande prairie downtown, grande prairie herald, grande prairie hotel, grande prairie inn, grande prairie inn hotel, grande prairie lodging, grande prairie map, grande prairie mortgages, grande prairie motel, grande prairie motels, grande prairie movie listing, grande prairie newspaper, grande prairie park, grande prairie real estate, grande prairie resorts, grande prairie rooms, grande prairie spa, grande prairie storm, grande prairie travel, grande prairie tribune, grande prairie vacations, homes grande prairie, hot tub hotel rooms, hotel, hotel accommodation, hotel accommodations, hotel amenities, hotel comparisons, hotel deal, hotel deals, hotel event planner, hotel grand prairie, hotel grande prairie ab, hotel grande prairie alberta, hotel groningen, hotel group rates, hotel in alberta, hotel in calgary, hotel in grand prairie, hotel in grande prairie alberta, hotel maps, hotel meeting rooms, hotel prices, hotel promotion, hotel rates, hotel reservation, hotel reservations, hotel room, hotel room booking, hotel room reservations, hotel rooms, hotel rooms reservation, hotel savings, hotel soap, hotels, hotels and motels in grande prairie, hotels in grand prairie, hotels in grand prairie ab, hotels in grand prairie alberta, hotels in grande prairie, hotels in grande prairie ab, hotels in grande prairie alberta, hotels meeting rooms, hotels motels grande prairie, hotels near grande prairie, low price hotel rooms, map of grande prairie, meeting facility, meeting hotel, meeting room, meeting room rental, meeting rooms, mortgages in grande prairie, motel hotel inn, pomeroy hotel grande prairie, quality grande prairie, quality hotel &amp; conference centre grande prairie, quality hotel and conference centre grande prairie, quality hotel grand prairie, quality hotel grande prairie, ramada hotel grande prairie, reserve hotel room, room rates, sandman hotel grand prairie, sandman hotel grande prairie, sandman hotel grande prairie alberta, sandman hotel in grande prairie, service plus hotel grande prairie, stanford inn grande prairie, grande prairie inn, super 8 grande prairie, super 8 hotel grande prairie, travel hotel, travel hotel rooms, travel hotels, trumpeter hotel grande prairie, western budget hotel grande prairie, western hotel grande prairie, wholesale hotel amenities, worth find hotel, york hotel grande prairie"  />
<meta name="copyright" content="www.gpinn.com" />
<meta name="author" content="www.gpinn.com" />
<meta name="robots" content="All,INDEX" />
<meta name="classification" content="travel/accommodations/hotels" />
<meta name="rating" content="General" />
<meta name="language" content="en-us" />

Pardon my French, but ho-lio-key-rapp, Batman! Hats off the Überspammer that composed the meta tags! They're entirely too long to be effective in any way whatsoever and the title could be trimmed as well.

You've also got some redundant information and, unless you've done it intentionally, you're specifying that the site content is written in US english versus Canadian english. There's a better way to do this.

Here's what I'd recommend as a starting point:

HTML Code:

<html lang="en-CA">
<title>Hotels in Grande Prairie, AB : Grande Prairie Inn</title>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="description" content="Located in down town Grande Prairie, we offer affordable room rates with convenient meeting rooms plus wireless internet, pool, hot tub, hair salon, spa & sauna." />
<meta name="keywords" content=" grande prairie, alberta, hotels, affordable, rates, business, meeting rooms, reservations, amenities" />
<meta name="classification" content="travel/accommodations/hotels" />
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 2008 Grande Prairie Inn, All Rights Reserved"/>
<meta name="modified" content="2008-05-28"/>

Try to keep your page title under 70 characters
Restrict your meta description around 160 characters.

To build relevance, keep titles and meta descriptions short, descriptive and focused. Use targeted words and phrases that are well supported by your pages and site content.

With regard to keyword selection, I'd assume that clients would be most interested in features, prices and location. Try to limit your keywords to between four and eight. Bear in mind that the fewer there are, the more focused and effective they become.

Focus on those elements in your site content, link text and page titles. Each page should focus on different words and phrases but again, make sure the page content and links support the word/phrases.

This is pretty pointless as well:

HTML Code:

alt="Welcome to the Grande Prairie Inn" title="Welcome to the Grande Prairie Inn"

If you feel compelled to use alt and title attributes, at least make them different. The alt attribute should describe the image, as should the title. Both should use keywords if they're descriptive and relevant to the image.

Caveat:
Do not attempt to incorporate meta keywords or a meta description that your page and site content does not support. That's spammy and likely to be counter productive.

If you're not located in Cow Town, don't expect to rank well in Calgary, if you're not the Days Inn, Sandman, Motel 8 or Holiday Inn, don't waste your time and credibility trying to rank for those terms. You simply can't get there unless your content and links incorporate those references. Those days are long gone.

Try to build inbound links using a keyphrase like "Hotels in Grand Prairie Alberta" and title your pages appropriately, according to the link text and content on each page.

You might consider adding <h1> headings to each page instead of using images for the page heading. In terms of SEO, they're more valuable than a simple image.

Top left corner:
Place your toll-free phone number where clients can see it.

Contact page:
Implement a proper contact email form instead of relying on a "mailto:" link. It's just so much more credible and professional.

.02

scotthai · #6 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 11:23 AM

Hey, I would like to say that it is all good and most of the site is spot on. My one issue is the flash photo gallery. From the point of view of the user of the site, and stepping back as a programmer, the gallery is made to impress a 13 - 18 year old demographic while the people who book at hotels and inns are around 25 - 40+, so I would think about KISS (Keep It Simple ....) one rule of good clean design (which the rest of the site relies upon to be successful) is that everything is there for a reason. For the photo gallery, I think you would be better off having it quick and easy to use and getting rid of the thumbnails rebuilding the image every single time. (I could only get through one image before I left the page).

Everything else is good, so don't take my post the wrong way, I just think the flash photo gallery is far from being user friendly.

- Scott

brentjlaf · #7 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 07:54 PM

Thanks for the comments and suggestions I'll be sure to implement them asap.

thanks

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