Getting quality visitors to my site

[hereiamlive]

It is the problem I am facing now.
I have a web design and hosting site. We offer a quality product at a very completive price.
I designed the website to be simple and user friendly. We do run promotions and specials all the time to get visitors to bite. I got some good advise from a forum to start a forum. So a forum was born, I loaded the forum with resources on web design with articles, training videos, and much more. I add new stuff to the forum almost every day. Then I submitted the site to Google and other search engines which helped I am sure. I find the Google bot on the site here and there now. I once again received a good idea for the website from a friend who reminded me that most successful websites have a company blog. I started a company blog and update it a lot. I also submitted a couple of articles to the article directory sites for link backs to the site. My meta is good. And I show up on the search engines several times.
I have about 2000 Unique visitors a month, but it is not turning into good profits.
Any one have any ideas what is missing for me?

Thank you for your time.

[tommylogic]

Originally Posted by hereiamlive

...the problem ... very completive price...

About the site itself..its all tables.. yikes!!! That would scare away any potential client.

This is about the worst part of it, get it straight ASAP. Markup Validation: Failed validation, 68 Errors

Your CSS is also not valid. It is hard coded into your page itself. And my gosh.. HTML lesson #1... how about declaring a DOCTYPE !!!
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Then you can start working on this stuff:
Work on you reach for starters... Alexa

Maintain quality relevant material in each of your pages. Your meta description should be different for each page.

This probably doesn't matter much but can't be good. meta name= "expires" content= "Oct, 12, 2007"

Patience is about the best advice I can give with the SEO.

I dunno man.. start within.. then work outward. Get your site straight then maybe start cold calling local businesses and charities.

[hereiamlive]

Having all kinds of problems fixing the validation error.
I have more now that I have started fixing it than I had before.
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[tommylogic]

You need to start with declaring a "DOCTYPE".. look it up if you have to. You have to let the web know if its XHTML 1.0 Transitional, HTML 4.01, whatever.. something

then there's the tables man.. tables...

[zumojuice]

On the front end design side, you site seems ok, but nothing startling. The honest thing is, I think you've created a nice site, but not for a web design/hosting site. It may be that the artifacted images, dark colours, and lack of clarity and information is simply turning people away. This site would probably be ok, if you were not selling anything. The web is a different animal when selling, your site needs to portray a trust and quality that you are not a dodgy sun of a gun. It is far easier (and therefore there are far more) scams on the net than on the street, so you have your work cut out to look darn shiny.

The front page needs to tell users what you are, and provide the options you give. It will be well worth looking at other hosting sites and looking at the sort of content they feature.

[ooyes]

Cool :)

[Toon]

Small Bisness Website Design

Not a great title tag though

[D856C]

You make similar business mistakes to 99.999% of other web hosts.

First, you offer no information. You have no value proposition or Unique Selling Proposition. You offer nothing any one of 50,000 identical sites don't do a better job at. So you do what 99.999% of sites do -- try to make up with price what isn't there in value.

After you take a course in web construction, you had better start another in business. You've decided to take on templatemonster and every other web host. This is called a frontal assault on a well entrenched position.

Long story short: you lose.

Position your business. You are never going to get "everybody who every thought about having a web site" so get over that. Find a targetable niche which has money. Custom tailor your offering to that niche. Raise your prices, because, you're never going to out-india India ....Unless you're China.

People don't want websites. They want website which produces sales. At least, the people who are relatively price insensitive do. Price insensitive doesn't mean value insensitive, however.

And nothing on the site indicates 1) You have any idea what a business customer wants from a host -- but isn't getting 2) What, if anything, in the world of web construction has the slightest relevance for turning a site visitor into a paying customer.

Digital Economics: Being competitive does not mean getting up to the level of bland, featureless mediocrity. Competitive doesn't mean "Well, I'm like everyone else, so why not give me your business." That works for the neighborhood pizza business because it actually takes the least little effort to leave and go to the next business. No so online. Competitive means showing a competitive advantage.

You have some chance of a competitive advantage becoming knowledgeable about some niche. You have no chance trying to be everything to all comers. And no, "small business" is not a niche.

The neighborhood pizza place with a good location can be lazy in marketing because they can depend on people going there just because it's there. You can't. You have to assume the shopper has five other competitors on their list ...possibly loading in other tabs of their browser as they read yours. It takes all of one second to go elsewhere.

[zumojuice]

There are some very well made points there. Ignore them at your peril.

[hereiamlive]

Thanks guys
I am really going to give all this some thought.