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That's too funny! I'd have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the ex boss read that one.

I love to hear how people come up with their various farm names. When we named our farm, we lived on a 3 acre property with absolutely no outstanding features except for an enormous old oak tree right smack in the middle of the pasture; hence Big Oak Farm. We've moved a couple times since then but we kept the boring old herd name just 'cause.

Good luck w/your site
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I think your web site is lovely. Don't know if cute is the word you typically apply to your animals, but they really are so cute!

It is a nice touch to have links to other owners who carry the same breeds. Hopefully they are doing the same for you.

One thing I did notice, when I was going thru the different pages of your website, I'd get to the bottom and there was no option to return to the top of the page.

I'll probably keep following your site. I really love Black Angus cattle, but due to the limited acreage we have, I've been thinking about looking into miniature cows. If that ever comes about, it would be interesting to see if any parallels exist between miniatures and how they are kept and sold.

Good luck!


Melody
www.triviafunfacts.com
 
I always find it fascinating to read how the non professionals feel about these topics.

Website promotion & design has been my specialty for more than a decade now!
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Ok.. 11 years, but still
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Graphic design came into play only about 5 years ago and only seriously in the last 3 so I know a fair bit about promotion.

1st... you have to choose which phrases you want to be on top for
2nd... your website has to target those phrases, and it would help if those phrases or keywords were what people actually use to find information like yours
3rd... your website must be a good one in other words it must work & function well, have the correct information and not violate any rules.

that's really it.
What can you do right now... just quickly becaues i normally charge for this stuff AND i have to go make dinner....


1.Your home page needs at least 2 paragraphs speaking heavily about what you do... biggest mistake people make with small sites is to have an "about us" type page or a for sale page, they should have that on their main page below the fold so that there is content where it counts.

2. Your photos should have REAL NAMES not IMG_0718.JPG. In the case of my own pictures they are as follows: or jerseybuffturkey.jpg
bufforpingtonhens.jpg You have 64 charachters to work with. yes you can slack off on lower level pages but the main pages should be done

3. You should widen your page to at least 800 pixels and use a <center> tag just inside the <body> tag

4. Lastly you need to quit using NAMO software and should either get assistance with this or buy software or even freesoftware.. may I recommend a Free version of the software that I have used for the last decade now? NetObjects Fusion 7.5 has a freeware download .

Your page looks like this to search engines:

<html>

<head>
<title>Last Straw Farm Miniature Donkeys in Washington, Indiana</title>
<meta name="description" content="Miniature donkeys at The Last Straw Farm in Washington, Indiana where miniature donkeys are bred for conformation and disposition.">
<meta name="keywords" content="miniature donkeys, Miniature donkeys, live stock, Small pet, mini donkey, small donkey, donkey, miniature, miniature donkey, sardinian, livestock, asses, indiana, The Last Straw Farm, Washington, Indiana, Donkey, donkey show, pet, exotic equine, equines for sale, burros">
<meta name="classification" content="miniature donkeys">
<meta name="robots" content="ALL">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Namo WebEditor v6.0">
<meta name="author" content="JoedieA">
<meta name="namo-theme" content="Theme\\Business_Modern\\Wood Frame">
<style>
<!--
body { background-color:#F1E2BA; color:#000000; font-family:Arial; }
h1 { color:#804000; font-family:Arial; font-size:14; }
h2 { color:#A85400; font-family:Arial; font-size:12; }
p.namo-list { color:maroon; font-family:Arial; font-size:12; }
p.namo-sublist { color:#C0893F; font-family:Arial; font-size:10; }
table.namo-table { border-left-color:white; border-top-color:white; border-right-color:#707070; border-bottom-color:#707070; }
table.namo-table td { border-left-color:#707070; border-top-color:#707070; border-right-color:white; border-bottom-color:white; }
table.namo-table th { background-color:#D8C696; border-left-color:#707070; border-top-color:#707070; border-right-color:white; border-bottom-color:white; }
span.namo-link, a:link { color:red; text-decoration:underline; }
span.namo-visited, a:visited { color:gray; text-decoration:underline; }
span.namo-active, a:active { color:#E2860A; text-decoration:underline; }
li.namo-list1 { list-style-image:url('nav/bullet1.gif'); }
li.namo-list2 { list-style-image:url('nav/bullet2.gif'); }
-->

</style>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

as you can see... there is little to no mention of what you do and instead this software or your way of using includes to pull data in is whats crushing you by making your information practically invisible.

Here's my biggest tip as always KEEP IT SIMPLE
You would do better with a handwritten HTML coded page your page is simple enough to do that. Take a tutorial, take a free online class.

If you really want to learn this, you can.

AND FINALLY... make sure your trying to get yourself into a place int he search engines that YOU CAN ACTUALLY get to! Your not going to bump someone out of their place if they've been there longer and have a better website (and remember search engines care NOTHING for your design or colors, just function & content).

Lots of luck to you!​
 
also the more times someone does a search and clicks on your site it will help towards moving you up too. I reguarly do searches for key words on my site and click on it when it comes up
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