User Experience:

The overall design and typography of www.lavandablu.com need a major lift up. It’s also vital for your website to add a gallery with high quality fancy photos. It might be one of the most important selling factors.

SEO Factors:

If you intend to reach out to a multilingual audience with this website, we would recommend you to change and improve the URL structure of the website. As for now, language switching is triggered by the URL parameter (e.g. “?taal=DE”). Furthermore, it makes the content management script return all the pages in the respective language even if this parameter is not included in their URL until you switch to the other language. It is confusing indeed.

You’d rather put the regional versions of the website to subdomains (e.g. it.lavandablu.com, de. lavandablu.com, etc) or subfolders (e.g. lavandablu.com/it , lavandablu.com/de, etc). From the SEO point of view, both options are equivalent. Once all the regional pages are assigned proper URLs you may go on and optimize them using the standard SEO best practices. Be sure you do this URL trick before you start the link-building campaign.

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SEO Crash-Test Team

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User Experience:

The website www.lochfyne-restaurants.com provides all the information one would expect to get at a restaurant website - from locations to seasonal special offers and detailed menus. It’s easy to browse the pages: the navigation is comfortable. It’s great that the important bits of information don’t come over the fold of the page. It’s also good that you are using call to action widgets in the right sidebar; they surely improve user engagement with the website.

To make your website even better, try to reduce the number of the required fields in the feedback forms. Ideally, it should not go further than ‘Name’ and ‘E-mail’ or ‘Phone Number’.

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User Experience:

The overall user experience of hotels2thailand.com is positive. There is everything you may reasonably expect from a hotel reservation website: handy search, secure booking, reviews, and informative descriptions. There might be more high resolution pictures. It’s good that there is online help for urgent questions. The check out page is SSL secured. There are various payment options available.

SEO Factors:

• Meta content and title are generated automatically but the masks and rules are used sensible, however it would be better to create meta data and titles for the most important pages manually.

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User Experience:

There are a few user experience issues mainly related to text formatting and layout of www.towncountrypropertyfrance.com.

• It’s better to rearrange the links on the home page into the bulleted lists (see the screenshot)

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User Experience:

• Use bulleted lists, where possible to improve the perception of the information. For example, the abstract given below would be easier to understand, if you used proper formatting.

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User Experience:

• Fix the layout of the page www.tippmannparts.com. On a widescreen there are several issues that affect user experience (see the screenshot).

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User Experience:

• The home page www.kentsfarmcottages.net looks messy. There are far too many elements on it. Consider removing some images or rearranging them.

• At first glance “Kents Farm Cottages Self Catering Cottages, Lincs” in the top area of the page looks like navigation menu. It would be better to decrease word spacing.

• “Late availability” link on the contrary is not as prominent as it should be.

• Self-catering badges should be probably placed in footer.

SEO Factors:

• Do not mess up Meta Keywords and Meta Description tags! Meta Description tag gives a brief description of the content of the corresponding page. It should be informative and keyword rich at the same time. This description may become part of the snippet in search results pages and thus influence click through rate. Do not overlook this tag. Meta Keywords tag lists the keywords that reflect the essence of the corresponding page.

• Use geo-targeting information, business location and contact phone numbers across all the pages of your website. Footer is the perfect spot for this. In such a way you will tell not only the users but the search engines about your location.

• Try not to put content in images (unless you want to hide it from the search engines), as on the home page. The search engines can’t read the text from images yet.

• Don’t forget about back links. You currently have few.

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SEO Crash-Test Team

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User Experience:

• It is worth either to remove the “banner area” from www.portermusicbox.com or actually place a banner there.

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User Experience:

• Multiple problems with layout and coding complete ruin the trust in the web site theelectricaldepot.com. It looks abandoned and suspicious. Fix the layout and font schemes. Use fonts of the same style for similar types of content.

• Replace the blurred low resolution images with high-quality images.

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User Experience:

• Concise design of www.sunlightfinerugcare.com provides for good user experience.

• There are elements that help build trust with users: customer testimonials, various badges in the footer (like Ethical Service and Authorize.net). But make sure all the clickable badges work properly, e.g. Athorize.net returned an error.

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