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Hi Kevin, it needs more text and photos, an about page and a proper contact page. Its not going to attract Google's spybots with such limited information on it.
A simple SEO method is to set up profile pages on all the free to advertise business indexes on the web, cylex, yelp, free index etc etc. and make sure your web site url is inserted. Do the same for your LJN profile page if you haven't already, get lots and lots of relevent text written up for them and just simply copy and paste into each business index profile. Google likes linked up websites and rates them higher.
Have you purposely designed it to have just one page, or is there more to come ?. I don't think google would rank your page as it has so little information. Check out you local competitions web sites and draw some ideas from them for content (but don't copy word for word) and get some of your own photos up and data tag them, this all helps.
A simple one page site will struggle to get you noticed and bring the work in. Hope this helps.
I agree with Brian plus spell check everything before it goes live, there is a spelling mistake here
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Kevin
I would also question whether to include "Exeter Garden Maintenance is a young business based in Pinhoe"
If people ask, then you can tell them that you are recently established but I dont think you need to draw peoples attention to it.
Looking at the qualifications you have listed on your web page, it sounds to me like you are very experienced in doing the job which is the most important thing
All the best with the new venture
Steve
It's all about opinions, Kevin, take 'em or leave 'em, here are mine..
Very best of luck to you; I now live in East Sussex but grew up in Exeter (Redhills), always good to see a 'local' lad starting up and joining the Juice!
Thanks for the input guys, i will make changes as soon as possible. I kept it to one page as i did not have any thing else prepared.
Thanks again.
Kevin, i can give you leads for garden maintenance in Exeter, as i get loads of queries and i dont do maintenance.
I would keep the mobile number as one with no space, the reason, if your site is browsed from a mobile they can just use the number straight away to call you.
I'd also strongly look into using something like Serif Webplus to create future websites, a lot easier, more professional looking and includes all the hidden mumbo jumbo for bots to chew over.
You seem to own the domain name for your site, so use it for your emails as well, hotmail etc looks a bit unprofessional.
Try a shorter Domain for ease, ExeterGS.com (GS = Gardening Services) or ExeterGM.com when it comes to van livery, clothing embroidery etc it will make it a lot easier, and people will remember a shorter domain easier as well.
Good luck.
Oh, one last tip for everyone with a website, embed a short 30 second video about your business, one made with Moviemaker is adequate, using photographs and a voice over. If you have a video on your site Google now gives you a better ranking than sites without ;-)