It's not about being a designer is about keeping a balance.

Look at other websites (good websites) and understand what they make in terms of layout / color / text

No need to be a graphic genius to make your website pleasant.

I spent 5 min on html css for you ... hope it helps

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I suggest that you make the header the same in the main domain and in the blog... So the logo can always link to your home page (shop) and the button Garden Design Blog will always get you on the blog main page. I know it's a bit of work but that's how i see it proper for not confusing search engines or your clients...

Hope this helps

<h1 class="logo">
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: #ffffff;">
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h1>

So you have the logo wrapped in h1

id="title"><a <span="">href</a><a <span="">="</a>http://www.oluadeonline.com/" title="">

Wrong - You have no text

After H1 you should have a piece of content and not links one after another.

if you are targeting make money online you have no content to actually make your page valuable to the client.

Having a title won't get you far on google

Also all those ads will drag you down.

Hope it helps.

Maybe consider 301 redirect to a similar page on your website (similar content)

api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http://www.domain.com

change www.domain.com to yours and you will see exactly the stats of your domain name.

The Like plugin with [button] #125 number   usually includes likes+shares...

I think it depends on what the redesign consists in. For example a competitor of one of my clients has just redesigned their site but the difference is the old site had more relevancy to a specific keyword where as now the redesign is a general page that doesn't have as much relevancy to the specific keyword.

The result was a drop in rankings. So if you're a simple site with little content or poor structure it's a good thing to redesign... if it's the other way around where you focus more on design and not on content (SEO) i think you will have a drop in rankings

I personally think that font size does not affect SEO. Rather the right size, spacing of the words and the type of font would count for your clients staying and reading your website (bounce rate) that affects SEO.

I did it for about 2 months with my client's home page and nothing happened.

Maybe i was lucky... however i stopped now... maybe just in time

I think it's about what you want to get and for how much.

It all starts from there.

For example:

budged : 1k  - for a 8-10 page website with no complex features you should be able to find good designers.

budged : 300  - for a 8-10 page website with no complex features you should be able to find poor designers that could still do the job.

It's also about luck to find a quality and reliable designer. (depends on background, location, etc)

Hope it helps.

In Google Analytics > Standard Reporting you have on the left the tab Audience and in it you have Visitors Flow....

Click on that

Just saw your website.... To start You might consider making your text  more readable (change color or bg or both) as I didn't bother reading anything

It has no SEO effect if you keep your naming identical and in wordpress add .html  so keeping the same url structure and naming. The extension is not taken in consideration. However if you move from  /page.html to  /page (no extension) it will be considered as a new page. So what you have to do is a 301 redirect from .html to /page...  manually first and then if you have all your pages without extension just create a htaccess to redirect all pages from .html to no extension.

Hope it helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

A good landing page is one that would make you want to read it. I left your page in less than 10 seconds. That means your Bounce rate will be high => Bad Signal for landing page

A good idea is to improve overall look (layout). Make it more attractive.

Just one of the things i spotted.

I would go this way

#2

#3

#1 (TBD - optimising the  conversion rate can be due from various factors so cart may be ok...)

#11
#12 #13

#7 (this can cause a temporary drop in rankings as if you redirect existing urls to new short urls

P.S. If you can show us your website I could give you more advice upon what I will see.

First of all i think it would be better to have an url like   domain.com/es/

if you have different languages.

It would be ideal to hire someone who is fluent in Spanish as software translation does not sound right.

Hope it helps.

I think that if you keep the same [seo structure - url, title, h1, content, etc] you should not drop in rankings at all

Check this :

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=3d2a9df109e09763&hl=en

Conclusion is mirror your site especially with URLS so nobody will know you have a different cms -> you don't loose anything

You're welcome. (for seomoz'ers... I've helped him privately )

/es/ or /es is up to you has no real difference just decide on one and keep the same link through the whole website.

/es is good for users ex: spanish users will want to look for your website and they would know /es is in spanish  (after they have viewed your website and found that you have a spanish version).   Is good for seo to keep url simple and easy.   /es better than principal.html

apart from domain 301 which is usual. You can redirect  page by page   domain-a.com/pagename  to domain-b.com/pagename

This would help those pages get listed within 1 day. Did it yesterday and today i got 38 links on the new site. I did however tweet and add the new domain on twitter.

Hope this helps.

FACT:

Personally i moved a shop with 2000 pages indexed ... yesterday and today i have 38 pages already indexed

I would advise in getting your website reviewed  by 10-15 people(regular people/friends that could be a customer) with good questions about your website/product.

That will get you a step closer to how a client looks at your website.

Personally (as you did not offer any link to review)... I think most websites have a huge conversion problem because of  their poor design, and the client's trust of the website/busienss/product QUALITY is lost because of that.

Of course Google Analytics have a huge role in fixing the pages that show up as having the highest drop off.

Hope it helps...

Just for my own curiosity what is the drop off rate for the home page of your website.

Well 1st you have to get good content writers... or spend more time when you're building content.

By the look of your website you are not gaining any money from adsense so remove it as the negative effects are far greater than the positive ones.

Initially start with longer tail keywords as a target  or regional.

Check Google's Keyword Tool to find what people are looking for.

But i think everything would not be as beneficial if you don't get good targeted quality content.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105

Check this ->

Use the Change of Address tool in Webmaster Tools to notify Google of your site's move. (Note: To use the Change of Address tool, you must be a verified owner of both the new and the old sites.)

I can only see q&a's up to 25 July.  I think there is a bug.... can someone confirm this?

Thanks

What i have learned from other SEO Authorities around here is that unless your domain name is exact ex: widgets.com targets "widgets" keyword the rest having the keyword in the name doesn't affect rankings as you wish.

so if you have either my-widgets.com or widgets-now.com it's the same won't help you much on rankings.

Also i would suggest you get a better name without hiphens as well as one that you can build sort of a brand on it.

Also you may want to look at 2 keyword match domains... ex: my client sells school books and i bought buybooks.tld so the idea is "buy books" and long term "school books"

Maybe one of the factors why the hyphenated one ranks better is that it was indexed 1st and then the non-hyphenated one was indexed after.

Having 1 line of text that only the domain name is different could be considered duplicate content by Google thus the rankings.

Close Eric.

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6100

Broad Match  = similar phrases and relevant variations (synonyms included)

That's why when you want to check a specific search volume is better if you put phrase and exact match to show. Broad includes to many variations in my opinion to estimate correct search volume.