In this episode we get down and practical with a site review of a local painting company called Lionhart Painters

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Darryl:                    Hi I'm Darryl King a web agency owner who's been working in strategy design and development for more than 20 years my partner Ed Pelgen an SEO specialist who has been running his online marketing agency for just as long and we get together weekly to talk about all things online especially for small and medium business owners or executives who still refer to their bloody website each week we aim to tackle a range of online issues and put them in plain language so anyone can understand how to make their website work better for their business today is episode 23 and we are doing a first which is a website review we're gonna do a review of lionhartpainters.com.au welcome Ed

Edmund:                Hey Darryl how are you

Darryl:                    good mate yes so, different format today well it was a suggestion I made to Ed that we felt it would be really useful to talk about a website from the outside in something that needed a bit of love and attention and to help people understand how the two of us and other people in our/their industry might look at this site and make decisions in the evaluate how it’s performance

Edmund:                excellent I think it added massive value too Darryl

Darryl:                    I hope so

Edmund:                so why don't you tell us about this site today where you found it and what it's all about

Darryl:                    ok now for those listening because that's the main format of this we're not screen sharing the site we're not gonna to actually do stuff on screen in the video so you won't get extra value in YouTube but what we will do is we will do some screenshots and notes and things and link to them in the resources so that people can have a bit of a look and have a look at the site and monitor it as we make changes to it so a bit of background the site owner of this Steve thanks for letting us do this in public for you mate this is a site that's been thrown my way just recently and asked for a bit of love and attention and the site is Lionhartpainters.com.au you this is a commercial and domestic painter or a house painter based in Brisbane who has a specific target of the north side of Brisbane predominantly he's got a website kind of blend with him he hadn't headed that way originally but he ended up with one and then he has been thinking about it and listening to things like this podcast on things. Hey do something with this site for me and we have I have done a couple of little things to it initially just to set the foundations and then we might just go hard at it

Edmund:                well I reckon I reckon why don't you start by telling us what your initial impression was and just start listing out all the problems the issues that you see with this website you know I know you can be very passionate about it so don't don't don't raise the voice too much but feel free to dig in

Darryl:                    okay well what I will say is there is a couple of things that have been done already so one of the initial reasons that this came to me is the site was not under HTTPS so it didn't have a security certificate wasn't running that way and I stressed to Steve that he need to get that so if that's been done I discovered there were no Google Analytics on the site so we added that and there's a couple of tiny little things that have been done to make it better one of those things was a performance plugin so I use WP fastest cache but just to get the basics working better that was done now those have been done in the last couple of months the few bits and pieces there's a few other little things going but that's just to set things off so that we know exactly you know not everything is is fresh a couple of things have been done but those are...