Great to find a page where I can get some feedback on what I'm doing!

I didn't really have any money to get the business started initially, so decided to do what I could in the meantime. I used weebly to create this site for free and generally think it looks OK and pretty good considering it cost nothing!

Could definately do with getting a proper logo done though and it's on my list of things to sort out this week!

I'm also worried that there are too many pages. As well as a VA service I also want to provide info, useful links etc. What do you think?

www.virtuallyoptimized.com

First off, congrats in getting your foot in the door! I've got a few suggestions/questions for you to help your website along.

1.) Clients page - the three clients you list almost read like affiliate links. Perhaps instead of saying what they are, indicate what you contributed to them. (Did you create the website, provide content, help with marketing?)

2.) You advertise that you do general website management. What exactly do you mean - website content management? Graphics management? Code and widget management? There are many aspects here that a client could be looking for. Also, when you can afford it, move to a non-branded website. Particularly one that doesn't say free. It doesn't promote confidence.

3.) You indicate that you do SEO, but looking at your code you're missing several title attributes. For example, in your side menu you have "Title" for the title of the link. You also have more than 8 keywords which dilutes their effectiveness. Lastly, the body of your pages use the h2 tag for headers and not the h1. Search engines look for the h1 content to verify the keywords and meta tags.

4.) Are your resources really for your clients or are they just another income stream? If you want to make them more client centric, include a personal review of the item and how you apply the concepts taught by the books in your work.

Hope those help, again you're off to a great start!

Emma

Congrats on getting up and running. First thing I noticed was lack of visual interest. You should put up some pictures and not have all text.

In your testimonials, they should be something that is from the client not an overview of what you do for them. Did you solicit this or just post? If you just posted you may want to let your clients know that they are listed as clients on your page.

Where are your services? Did I miss what you offer?

I am confused be the resources page. Is this going to be where your favorites or affiliates are?

Hope these comments and questions help.

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Lee Drozak
My Office Assistant

Thank you both so much for your feedback. Some very good points raised.

I'll admit to starting all this in quite a hurry without fully thinking it all through and planning ahead. I've just been getting on with it up until now but I'm now taking a step back and getting myself more organised. The start up info on this forum is really useful and is helping me to concentrate my mind and draw up my plans.

I'm working on a more comprehensive list of services and I will make sure I add a page to the site called 'services' to make what I'm offering clearer. I was hoping the 'about us' page would do the job, but it doesn't really.

I wanted to concentrate on being a VA helping with the running and mangement of websites as my main professional experience was taking care of day to day management of 4 websites. And I've spent the last 3 years working on a (very) partime basis as a website editor for a parenting site, so am already working in this field. But I'll confess to being a little behind times/rusty in some of the new services I'm offering. I've decided to brush up on a few things and maybe offer them as a service in 6-12 months time.

I'd been thinking about the resource section and funny you should say about doing book reviews as I had thought the same thing. I want it to be client-centric but just looks I'm trying to generate revenue.

The testimonials are genuine comments given to me by my clients. I'm going to keep their quotes, but lose the clients page as don't really need it if I have testimonials. I'll also make it clearer that they are genuine as you both seemed unsure about that.

Thanks once again for your feedback. It's been really useful and much appreciated

Still a lot of work to do, but I've just added a services page to make it clear what I'm offering!

http://www.virtuallyoptimized.com/services.html

Hey, you're getting there. Like the others I think some visuals would make a difference but my goodness you've done well considering it's all been done for free.

I think it looks great! Congrats on starting your business. Best of luck with your endeavor.

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Rhonda Holscher, Owner
Rhonda's Virtual Office - Hire a Virtual Assistant

Congrats on completing your website!

1. The website is bland,there isn't anything there to keep my attention.

2. A proper logo would help make the wbsite more official looking.

3. The author section of the blog is a bit cluttered.