Software Engineer - Boston, MA

Please review my site: Software Engineer - Boston, MA

It is pretty straightforward. I am trying to find clients for my software engineering services in the Boston, MA area.

Any suggestions for improvement?

Software Engineer - Boston, MA

1) Don't use empty <p> elements to create extra spacing. Increase the top margin on those <h2>s instead. (You might want to use a class on the first <h2> to keep its margin from being increased as well though.)

2) You should be aware that text/html should not be used with XHTML 1.1; use application/xhtml+xml instead or switch to XHTML 1.0 Strict or HTML 4.01 Strict. IE (as of IE7) doesn't support application/xhtml+xml. Simply changing the <meta> element does not work. This needs to be sent in the actual HTTP Response Header.
Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful
Serving up XHTML with the correct MIME type
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/xhtml-mimetype/
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary
Content-Typing XHTML
http://www.dynamicsitesolutions.com/demos/test.xhtml

3) I'm finding the text of the links in the "Additional Links" section hard to read when I rollover them. I suggest you adjust those colors.

Thanks a lot.

I did everything except for the "additional links" part which does not seem that big because it is only on the roll over.

Does it seem to be search engine friendly? Should I eventually get high rankings for the search term "software engineer boston ma"?

What about the content? Does the content seem to be professional/effective for it's obvious purpose?

Thanks again!!

What content? There's very little.

That list on the Services page is kind of scary.

I'm sure you can shorten the services page down to about 10 at the least. I suggest putting a portfolio up and putting on there a list of things you have done with it. I'd rather see the houses a carpenter built than the tools he used to build them.

Not such a big fan of the colors (I'm color blind, so I don't think I'm seeing the same thing as you) as blue on black (what I'm seeing, it is probably something else) hurts my eyes.

Professionally I'd say the references, companies, education, et cetera could be put into one portfolio page. (I did the same once and my business teacher suggested I do it this way and I got more job offers as it appears more professional)

A business class never hurts

I will change the content up a little bit and make the Portfolio page.

The idea behind the services is for the search engines. I was thinking about making a web page for each from that page so that a search for "software engineer boston ma java" for example, the page for Java should be high on the rankings. Looking at it is a bit daunting now that I think about it.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll post back after some updates.

Make your site for visitors first and search-engines second.

I'm no SEO expert, but I do have several pages that rank fairly highly on my site.

I don't think that this statement always holds true:

"Make your site for visitors first and search-engines second."

I made my first site in that sense and the only traffic I'm getting from search engines is the second half of my company's name and the word LLC (meaning Limited Liability Company). Which neither really have anything to do with my software engineering services I am offering.

I wish I had designed it first for search engines and then for my users, but I did not in that case.

Perhaps you don't fully understand what I mean.

Do you have lots of keyword rich content?

Do you make use of header elements?

Do you use user friendly URLs?

Approximately how many incoming links do you have?

I have a few hundred inbound links. A lot of them are from the same website, different pages however.

What do you mean by header elements? meta-tags? I have all of those and they are different for each.

My website is at http://www.bindingdesigns.com/ the one for my company. I founded the company, but I may change the name at the end of the year...change the domain...

I have all the URLs differing only by the url variables. The content is all generated from index.php. So, it is something like ...com/index.php?page=about...

I don't have a different actual file for each webpage. That seems overwhelming to have so many webpages. It wastes time for me.

Is there a way to fool the search engines by having all requests go to the same index.php file, but request like ....com/about/something/ and that will actually request the top level index.php and I can parse the directories to get the correct content?

Thanks!

I meant external incoming links.


I mean <h1>, <h2>, ..., <h6>.


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