Evaluate Website

Look a lot of SEO Companies over here in the States offer a free audit of your website, as part of an initial conversation. And I’m assuming they don’t just look at it technically, but also how appealing is it going to be to the consumer.

I want to talk to someone who knows marketing, and who knows websites, who can have a conversation with me. I want to ask questions, and I want to get some answers.

Check out this video I’ve attached. He is an adwords advertiser, that I used from 2019-2022. But that last year was crazy expensive. I was paying on average, $80 per call. How do I know? Because if you go to the website/landing page he made for me, Escondido-treeservice.com, you can see the phone # is 760-317-4897. That is not my cell phone or business phone. That is a tracking #, and it goes through Calltrackingmetrics.com, so don’t call it please.

He starts out talking about how the website I am making doesn’t work right. Notice he is looking at the tablet view. I am still working on that view, and btw I use Elementor.

So he has had that website connected to my Google My Business page, which is #1 in my town, so it is not a small thing. This year I am getting about 30 contacts (calls and forms) on average a month for free, so that is not too bad. Course, couple years ago, in the pandemic, it was more like 50 a month from that.

So I am making this website I want you to look at called https://treeserviceescondido.com/. I want your opinion on it. See, I did it myself, so it may not be battened down really well. It may need just a bit of help. But besides the technical aspects, compare it with that other guy’s site, and tell me what you think.

Under the “services” tab, I have three different landing pages. At least that is what I want them to be.
I don’t know that much about marketing. I went into adwords, with a site called https://andys-treeservice.com/. I did it in areas south of Escondido, that’s why I used a different name.

I want to know at minimum:
1) What do you think of using a different domain name outside of Escondido, since the main site has the town in the domain name?

2) What do you think of my site overall? Is it worthy of customer attention? If you watched that video, you can hear the guy sneering at it. Is it worth the sneers? Is it crap? Or could I go ahead? See I am paying him $250 per month to use his website and his call tracking, which is under his account. I would have to disconnect from his website and connect mine. From his reaction, it would be a disaster. Is that true?

3) What technical fixes need to be made on this website, other than tablet view? He has his website hard coded, by a very good coder, and it is quite fast. Is Elementor ok to use?

4) When I did the test with adwords, I paid about $80 per call that I got, and Monsterinsights said that there were 97 sessions, 164 pageviews, 53 seconds average duration, and 76 users. Just 53 seconds is awful, but I am not a marketer. Is this normal for adwords? Would it be different if they came there from my map? Or from SEO page?

5) I want to take that guy’s site off and connect mine to my Google My Business (map) page. I don’t want there to be a lessening in map rank when that happens. He says there will be. What do you think?

6) Also I want to SEO this in Escondido. What do you think of that?

Please don't call those phone #s. They are all under that tracking # system, and I don't want you guys messing up the numbers. And I don't want you calling to sell me anyway. Just put a bid on this project please.