Regarding the colour scheme, I agree that's a personal thing, and for me, personally, I'd still tone it down slightly and make them less eeh,
neon. It might be great for flyers and no doubt look good on a van but the web's a different medium and what might be eye-catching in print, is distracting on the web.
Having said that, since I don't want to incur the wrath of your sister, I will say I really like the logo, its very clever and highly effective. I especially like the little lines to signify the wagging tail and the tongue lolling out - great stuff!
As for Meta Tags, I thought that they were dead to google and so I have never bothered with them although, thinking about it, they wouldn't do any harm.
Far from it. It's a common misconception that "meta tags are dead" they're not, they're just not seen to be as important as they once were. In the old days people would do "keyword stuffing", basically overloading their pages with meta keywords - many of which were popular search terms but in no way relevant to the content - to get visitors. Because of this abuse search engines don't consider them to be as important as they once did, but they're still quite important none the less.
They're also a great way of ensuring that the text you want to show up shows up in search results.
Have about 6 keywords in your meta keywords, and then
"Ireland's Leading Mobile Dog Washing & Grooming Service" would be your ideal meta description. Have something similar in your <title> tag, "Mobile dog grooming service based in Dublin." or whatever. Plus if you can, try and use your keywords in your header tags <h1>Dog Grooming</h1> <h2>Pet Grooming Products</h2> etc, etc.
As for the anchor text, yeah, that's exactly how you do it. The more links you get like that the better.
Also, have a look atRegarding the colour scheme, I agree that's a personal thing, and for me, personally, I'd still tone it down slightly and make them less eeh,
neon.
It might be great for flyers and no doubt look good on a van but the web's a different medium and what might be eye-catching in print, is distracting on the web.
Having said that, since I don't want to incur the wrath of your sister, I will say I really like the logo, its very clever and highly effective. I especially like the little lines to signify the wagging tail and the tongue lolling out - great stuff!
As for Meta Tags, I thought that they were dead to google and so I have never bothered with them although, thinking about it, they wouldn't do any harm.
Far from it. It's a common misconception that "meta tags are dead" they're not, they're just not seen to be as important as they once were.
In the old days people would do "keyword stuffing", basically overloading their pages with meta keywords - many of which were popular search terms but in no way relevant to the content - to get visitors. Because of this abuse search engines don't consider them to be as important as they once did, but they're still quite important none the less.
They're also a great way of ensuring that the text you want to show up shows up in search results.
Have about 6 keywords in your meta keywords, and then
"Ireland's Leading Mobile Dog Washing & Grooming Service" would be your ideal meta description. Have something similar in your <title> tag, "Mobile dog grooming service based in Dublin." or whatever. Plus if you can, try and use your keywords in your header tags <h1>Dog Grooming</h1> <h2>Pet Grooming Products</h2> etc, etc.
As for the anchor text, yeah, that's exactly how you do it. The more links you get like that the better.
Also, have a look at
Website Grader and test your website out on it, it's a good way to test and optimise your site plus it's free.
