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Please critiqu my website at http://www.golfasian.com

 

Also i am loking for a webmaster and web design individual. Does anyone have any recommendations or referrals.

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Mark Siegel Managing Director Golfasian.com Co. Ltd. +66-(0)2-714-9770 http://www.golfasian.com and http://www.thailandgolfzone.com The golf experts in Thailand!

There is no website. I tried!

The correct adress is http://www.golfasian.com

 

Sorry for any confusion caused

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Mark Siegel Managing Director Golfasian.com Co. Ltd. +66-(0)2-714-9770 http://www.golfasian.com and http://www.thailandgolfzone.com The golf experts in Thailand!

I love the different language options. I only speak English, but what a great tool to offer visitors from around the world. 

I did find a broken link on my short visit. It`s on the homepage. The link is, "single or multi-centre holiday".

The colors look good and I thought the general layout was appealing.


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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

Hi Mark,

I am a web designer here in Palm Beach County where golf is HUGE, as you probably know! You have a handsome and clean site. Small comment re. Google analytics script in your code. I think you need to put it above the </body> tag for it to work properly. FYI, here is my portfolio: http://www.jmgroup.net/portfolio.

Best regards,
Marcia Coffey
Juno Beach, Florida

Hi Mark,
I will actually take a contrarian view to the site design on this. It`s not a clean design at all. The layout is cluttered and the color scheme is off quite a bit.

I`ve done some search engine optimization for a couple clients and I can tell that you are trying to make a concerted effort in ranking well with the search engines. However, while I commend your effort, you are sacrificing too much readability for the sake of rankings. A site can rank while still look clean and uncluttered.

On SEO,
 I can tell that you are tying to go for the whole shebang by trying to rank for everything on the front page and this is not the way to go. Good SEO requires a well thought out strategy and learning to pick your battles. There are alot of keywords that you can rank for and still get great conversion before you decide to take on more competitive KWs like "golfing in Thailand" or "Thailand golf courses". If you are a do-it yourselfer in SEO [something that I don`t highly recommend] then my best advice is focus on the longtail of localized search optimization.

Hello Mark,

Very nice site indeed!

If you don`t mind me asking, what booking software or provider did you implement into your website?  It works fairly smoothly.  I am just starting to explore the possibility of creating a diving site where people can book online, and would be interested to know if you can recommend a good solution?

Thanks,
Jim
Vancouver Island, Canada

Thank you for all the feedback, especially about SEO. I am a do-it-yourselfer and have had good success with ranking for around 100 keywords, going after the most relavent words, but do agree the site should be a balance between SEO and user readability.

 

I m not sure if I agree with HDean`s advise as I have found going for the larger "catch" has much more business results than the "long tail", which is used by information seekers rather than buyers.

Let me know if anyone else has similar or differeing experiences as this may be highly industry specific.

 

Thanks,
Mark

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Mark Siegel Managing Director Golfasian.com Co. Ltd. +66-(0)2-714-9770 http://www.golfasian.com and http://www.thailandgolfzone.com The golf experts in Thailand!