Site crit and domain question

mattmos · 15 May 2011 at 16:16

Hi all,

I've redesigned my site a little to make it more search engine friendly - before it was all images with no alt tags. Be great to get some feedback!

www.matinai.com

I've also registered www.matinai-animation.com as a domain, and was thinking about switching over so I could crowbar a keyword into the url. However it makes it a lot longer and a pain for email addresses etc - do you think it would be worth switching and gain a better search ranking?

Main search keywords would be 'animation studio bristol' I guess.

Cheers!

mattmos · 17 May 2011 at 18:47

Thanks for the reply - I'll stick with the original name for now and see how much difference my recent attempts at SEO have helped. Takes google a while to update eh?

mattmos · 20 May 2011 at 00:57

Thanks for all the info! The yoast stuff was very interesting, as I hadn't dug into wordpress seo at all. Will install an seo plugin next week and see if it helps. For now just changed the post url to /%postname%/

What I've done so far in terms of seo for the main site is to remove the specific about page and put all that info on the main page (it was images only before). I've added alt tags to every image, will title tags help that much more? Made sure the pages were w3c strict validated. Added an xml sitemap. I've changed the names of the internal pages from 'work.html' to 'animation.html' and from 'contact.html' to 'studio.html' - the images still direct people around the site ok. Using google webmaster tools the keywords 'work' and 'contact' were quite high, so I figured replacing them with more useful keywords would help.

Let me know if there's anything else that could help

How do people rate google adwords?

mattmos · 21 May 2011 at 22:30

blade007 said:
I like the site very much, very creative!

Thanks very much!

billysielu said:
Took me ages to realise Work, Blog, and Contact were links. Needs to be more obvious.

Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping that the characters could be read as icons and because of the placement they would come across as natural link elements. Would be interested to know if other people didn't find the nav links easily?