What do you think of my website? Professional opinions pref.?

I am not getting much traffic at all...what gives?

Heard that engines/spiders search from left to right so links should be at bottom or on the right of page. Is this true?

I was also thinking of adding case studies...heard adding content can help w/SEO.

Any other ideas?

www.appease2you.com
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imisidro is correct.

I should have mentioned that there was a meeting w/the web guy ystrday and we requested that he chng all the .gif and .jpeg files to HTML text.

Any other advice is very much appreciated!

Your site is a good example of why you need to hire a web designer who actually understands about SEO -- otherwise, they will create a nice looking site that will not get any traffic at all.

Why are you not getting any traffic? Because all you have -- except for navigation -- are IMAGES!!!!! Instead of text, you have .gif files

Look at your homepage. There's nothing to it -- just a bunch of photos. Photos do NOTHING with search engines -- unless you want to get traffic only from Google Images. Look at sites such as SpaMagazine http://www.spamagazine.com/ -- you go to them and know right off the homepage what they do. I can't even tell what you do with the pictures.

Describe your service right at the homepage. Tell people why they need to use your services. People will not give you second or third chance. If they see that graphic, nice as it might be, they'd hit the back button immediately because they don't know what you are about.

Even your inside pages are nothing but images http://www.appease2you.com/bridal.htm . Search engine robots need TEXT. If there's no text, there's nothing for them to chew on, which means NO TRAFFIC to your site coming from the search engines.

Lose the images. Put your content as TEXT.

Fire out your website designer or ask for a reimbursement. If you continue with this site, you will not get any traffic unless you spend $10,000+ in Adwords and banner advertising. You won't get any referrals from Google or get top ranking from the search engines

Sorry for being so blunt -- but I've seen so many clueless web designer who knows nothing about getting search engine rankings and make everything look "pretty". They thus end up with pretty looking sites that are DEAD because no one goes to them --- just like the problem with your website

Nice! Very professional looking!

Great site! Now, if you want to keep it you need to understand what an "alt tag" is.

Alt tags are image tags that will bring you more traffic than just about any normal SEO you can think of.

What's weird is how few people know how to use them.

While it's true most designers have no idea what SEO is (and yours is no exception) all is not lost.

Make your images rank.

Now... to get your page to rank you'll need to do a few things.

#1: Run Google Adwords for 30 - 60 days and track the results. Take the keywords which turn into money for you and begin pointing external links to your site using these words as "anchor text"

#2: Use lots and lots of Web 2.0 social stuff. This is very powerful and it won't matter what your site looks like.

Here's how to do it: Never sell, always provide plenty of free info to your customers.

Squidoo, Blogger, Facebook, MySpace, Scribd.com, Digg, and a bunch more will explode you through the search engines. But you have to use them correctly.

Videos. What you do lends itself perfectly to video. Show people what you do. Or if you can't show them, tell them! Record audio of some presentations and give it away for free when people subscribe to your news letter.

You do have a news letter? Get one. I like GetResponse.com It's less than $200 per year and you can run all the email programs you like.

Case studies do nothing to help with SEO.

SEO is all about the keywords you use.

Here's a video I just did for small business owners. It's free and it should help...

http://www.theguruassassin.com/small_business_web_site_design.htm

After an initial review of your SEO metatags, there is major need to revise them and especially when there are so many spamdexed entries which surely lowers your website's ranking on Google.com. Here's a summary of what we have found:

1. Current:<title>Appease : Corporate And Residential Spa Services</title>

Improved with (1) the removal of the domain name since it's not a recognizable brand; (2) need to expand generic entries up to a total of 65 characters and spaces; and (3) the addition of your business location, which in your case would be Chicago, Illinois:<title> Corporate, Residential Spa Services, ________, _______, etc. | Chicago, Illinois</title>

2. Current:<meta name="description" content="Enjoy the benefits of massage or health and beauty therapy from your own home or office. Your own personal Day Spa! Our staff is fully trained and certified in a variety of services." />

Improved by adding more text which is limited to 41 entries forming complete sentences; not merely a listing:<meta name="description" content="Enjoy the benefits of massage or health and beauty therapy from your own home or office. Your own personal Day Spa! Our staff is fully trained and certified in a variety of services. _____________" />

3. Current:<meta name="keywords" content="Corporate Massage, Masage, Hypnosis, Chicago salon, Wedding Planning, Hypnosis, Day Spa Chicago, Massage, Salon, Bridal Shower, Spa Party, Baby Shower, Corporate Event, Mitzvah, Party Planning, Beauty, Fitness, Health, Alkalize, Super Greens, Bikini Wax, Manicure, pedicure, Facial, spray tan, eyebrow wax, Brazillian Bikini Wax, Bachelorette Party, Nutrition, Skin Care, Acupuncture, Hair Removal, Sea weed wrap, parafin, aromatherapy, reflexology, sports massage, swedish massage, deep tissue massage, pre-natal massage, Yoga, waxing, bridal hair, back massage, The body Shop, Inner Light Inc, aubrey organics, Birthday Party, pregnancy massage, Spa, Beauty Salon, Corporate massage, Residential massage, Travel spa, manicure, pedicure, hair styling, Make-up, Waxing, Reiki, Reflexology, Shiatsu, Deep Tissue, Swedish Massage, Clinical Massage, Aromatherapy Massage, Pre-Natal Massage, Sports Massage, Bridal Spa. " />

Improved with removal of duplicate entries, use of plural and compound variations and limited to no more than 15 entries separated by a space and comma:<meta name="keywords" content="Corporate, Residential, Massages, Hypnosis, Chicago salon, Weddings, Day Spa Bridal, Party, Baby Showers, Mitzvahs, Beauty, Fitness, Health, Bikini Waxing, Manicures, pedicures, Facials, spray tans, eyebrow, Skin Care, Acupuncture, Hair Removal, wraps, parafin, aromatherapy, reflexology, sports, swedish, deep tissue, pre-natal, Yoga, back" /> [Overflow entries can be moved into <Description> metatag]

Hopefully you can add these improvements to your opening webpage to increase your web traffic.

Good luck!

i think it's really nice!! you probably just need some advertising. did you every try google adwords? well if you'd like to try that then first get this guide:
http://anakalypto.beatadword.hop.clickbank.net?wid=SFvEA95j

what has helped us is to spell out everthing thing that we have to offer on our home page. I think if you look at our home page you understand what we are selling.
If you do a search for motorcycle LED lights we are on the 1st page.
http://www.radiantz.com/

See your website deals with a concept of beutician and so you should go for forums of the similar kind. Though the use of spiders in search engine is exhustive but still your content should be self descriptive. Even I'm suffering from the same problem. My web site is about construction Industry and named as www.contractorindia.com , even I don't get much appropriate traffic beside trying my best. So you have to take the advice of professional where they can suggest you the layout and catchy words for search engine.

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