If you could please take a look at my site and provide me with feedback, I would greatly appreciate it.
Sometimes a fresh set of eyes is all that's needed.

Thanks a Bunch,
Christina
http://vitalofficesolutions.com

I would capitalize Assistant in both Administrative assistant, and Virtual assistant

I recommend using Tess' comparison chart instead of the VANA one as the clients can plug their own numbers...

If the mailing address is your home I suggest getting a PO Box - I doubt you want clients just "dropping by"

I have recently dabbled in a working knowledge of Peachtree Accounting, Microsoft Accounting, Power Accounting, MS Money, MS Access and Adobe Dreamweaver. , and

I am currently having a ball in the process of learning Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Photoshop. Combine these two paragraphs

I am quick to learn new programs so if you use something I’ve never tried, let me have a crack at it for a week or two. I would delete this paragraph altogether.

Re-order the site map to match the site.

I would change all references to "I" and "me" to "us" and "we."

Otherwise, looks great! I love the colors.

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Yes, I agree that colors look really nice - the calculator Lily is referring to is here (thanks Lily! )

On the front page I would try to put more space between your middle content column and your right hand column - although I understand from previous reviews of MS Live sites that this may be a templating issue...

In terms of SEO, instead of saying 'they' or VA when referring to Virtual Assistants, write out the entire word - people don't search for 'VA' when in need of services - they search for the entire term 'Virtual Assistant' - help the search engines place you higher by providing the keywords in full.

The only other thing I'd say is - your headings are *very* big - remember this is your professional website, and although larger fonts for headings are important to help establish that they are titles too big can make the page look a bit childish.

Oh, AND thank you so much for linking back to the forums!!

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Lily,
Thanks for all your suggestions. I wonder though, the reason I picked the phrasing I did "I have recently dabbled in Peachtree Accounting, Microsoft Accounting, Power Accounting, MS Money, MS Access and Adobe Dreamweaver.
I am currently having a ball learning Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Photoshop.
I am quick to learn new programs so if you use something I’ve never tried, let me have a crack at it for a week or two. " was to show my sense of humor without getting too crazy.
Does it really seem a bit too unprofessional?

I also didn't realize the site map wasn't in order? Oops.


I'll take note of everything you and Tess have said here and spend some time revamping.

Thanks a Bunch!

Ok, If anyone has time to take another look. http://vitalofficesolutions.com

I changed/fixed a bunch of items.

I chose to leave the original wording (under Who am I?) for now until I can make a final decision.
I'm still working on trying to get the spacing on front page adjusted and a few other minor issues.

Thanks again,
Christina
Vital Office Solutions

When I click your links from the sitemap I get an error page (but I think Lily might have mentioned that...) otherwise, looking good

I'm not put off by the language on your about page, but I tend to lean toward less traditional ways of doing and presenting business anyway. I also always encourage VAs to add in as much of their own personality to their sites as they feel comfortable with - clients do relate well to a more personable site and overly-professional-sounding sites abound. One way to help the text seem more like it belongs there is to add a picture of yourself and perhaps just rethink the wording...I think the message is fine, but you don't want to make it sound like you dipped your fingers in the programs and then moved on to something else ('dabbled' may give that impression?)

Another thing about SEO - change your page titles to include a short description of your company services and be sure to include keywords that people would use to find you. (Page titles are the words across the very topmost bar - right now yours reads 'Vital Office Solitions' - I'd expand that to include - 'Virtual Administrative Assistant Services' or similar, based on whatever you prefer it reads about your company. Each page's page title should be relative to the content of that page, if possible.

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Ok I fixed the site map links, Changed some more wording, added a pic (will get a better one soon) and added descriptions to the page titles.
Think I'm done for tonight. My eyes are getting a bit tired- too much computer time today LOL.

Thanks for all your help Tess. If anyone has any other suggestions, please feel free to let me know.

Christina
vitalofficesolutions.com

Are you sorry you posted the link??
Weekends get a bit quiet but I'm sure you'll get more feedback over the next couple of days.

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Hi Christina,
Wow! You've been working hard on your website. It's looking great!

Expanding on Tess' comments about your title tags. Try to think of what your clients will type into the search engines when looking for a virtual assistant that provides the kind of services you provide. Then use those keywords in your title tags. Just make sure they are relevant to what's on the page. So, on the "What I can do you for you" page, you might want to put the words; virtual assistant, word processing, desktop publishing, data entry. That way, your prospects will see at a glance what the page is about and also the search engines should use that information to help guide searchers looking for a virtual assistant who does desktop publishing etc to your site.

My 2 cents.

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The keywords and ideas Shari listed are great, just keep in mind that your users (and the search engines) prefer complete sentences (rather than a list of keywords)

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Yes. Tess is right. You should put your site together keeping your clients in mind and how they might expect to see something written. Make your site for them not the search engines specifically.

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Tess,
No, not sorry I posted the link LOL. I appreciate all the feedback.

Luckily MSOLive gives me a place to enter meta tags and meta tag descriptions for each page so I have utilized them.
I had been doing some reading about SEO so I had a good idea what to keywords to use. I figure I can add more as I think of them.

I'm finding this to be an awesome board with lots of helpful people.

Thanks,
Chrissy
http://vitalofficesolutions.com