Hi Jenifer
Glad you like the calculator - my husband and I built that especially for members of the forums, it was a fun project! I wanted something that could be customized to match the VAs site in both name and color while providing a nice interactive tool for the potential client to play around with - visuals like that help make the case for a VAs hourly rate even simpler.
GREAT colors - yellow is such an underused tone on the web, I think most people are afraid of using the wrong shade but your selection is superb! I might suggest adding a photo of your smiling face to the 'About' page - if you're comfortable with that...it can make a huge difference in how your potential clients perceive you and your company - it's the trust factor among other things.
A few important things:
-When you link to your blog give the link an actual title, rather than just 'blog' - a call to action is even better:
"Read our blog" or "Visit the Administrative Support Group Blog"
Also, I'd suggest setting it to open in a new window otherwise you're losing your visitor - people will *rarely* make the effort to click back to a main site when there is no visible link to go back on the next page. Since your blog doesn't have the same navigation menu as your site, better to have it open in a new window entirely.
-Definitely visit the
SEO section of the forums - you mentioned a concern about how frames were affecting your ability to be indexed but so are things like your page titles (which you don't have), image tags (also need these!), etc.
For example: here's the code for your lovely computer on the desk image:
<img src="images/image.jpg" alt="c" width="430" height="205"> where it reads alt="c" <------that "c" is where you want to write in your keyword optimized image tag so for example: alt="Administrative Support Group Virtual Assistant Services" for
<img src="images/image.jpg" alt="Administrative Support Group Virtual Assistant Services" width="430" height="205">
Hover your mouse over the image as it is now on your website...it says just
c now change the alt to my sample, mouse over the image, it will read whatever you type into the alt="" THIS is what search engines see when they run into an image on your site - alt tags are an easy extra
SEO enhancement - just make sure you don't stuff it with keywords or nonsense, the search engines take points 'off' for alt tags that aren't articulated properly.
-As if I haven't given you enough homework already
but if you want to avoid getting your email address picked up by every spambot on the planet I'd either change the email link to a 'contact us' link that goes to your contact form (and take your email address off of the form) OR use
this email encoder to mask and protect the exposed email addresses from spambots.
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