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edit Robert Maxim Website Solutions
Robert Maxim provides auto repair shop websites for automotive repair and service businesses. Our deep understanding of the needs of the automotive repair industry enables us to provide truly effective auto repair shop websites. read more...
edit About Us
Quality ingredients prepared honestly
Robert Maxim is a small, Internet focused auto repair marketing company. We give you attentive, personal, high quality, professional Internet services at a very reasonable price.
Using our hands-on experience in the auto service industry we blend experience, knowledge, and technology to deliver an easy-to-use automotive repair shop websites based tool which is used to increase customer acquisition and retention.
Unlike regular website developers or do-it-yourself websites, Robert Maxim provides a marketing system rather than just auto repair websites.
Are you ready to increase your customer acquisition and retention?
edit Company Vision
Robert Maxim Website Solutions - marketing for a service world
Aimed at being the top service provider focused on marketing approaches for the automotive repair industry. We believe traditional auto repair advertising is ineffective and that companies need new advertising strategies — methods with a new vision, a new attitude and without limits. Ultimately Robert Maxim's vision is to help auto repair shop owners get results.
| “ | When it comes to advertising, consumers are fed up. Their patience is burnt out and they have headed for the Internet. They recognize the power in the opinions of friends, peers and advisers, far away from the reaches of advertisers. | ” |
| —Doug Fentiman, Owner, Robert Maxim Website Solutions | ||
Are you ready to move your auto repair marketing to the next level?
edit Why Have A Website
People are seeking info about you
Your website is the first level screening process for your auto repair business. Today's savvy consumers go straight to the Web when shopping for new products and services. Paper directories are very quickly becoming obsolete. What prospective customers find on the web greatly influences their decision whether to do business with you.
What are they looking for?
They’re looking for information. They’re looking to make a connection. They’re looking for someone to trust. Not a "business", but a person. They’re looking for a relationship with read more...
edit Raving Customers
Customer Driven Auto Repair Advertising
Let your customers be your marketing partner.
The term 'Raving Customers' could be interpreted many ways. Two definitions are: customers who are "extraordinary or remarkable" or customers who "talk or write with extravagant enthusiasm".1 Finding customers who fit both of these descriptions is the sweet spot any automotive repair shop seeks. These are the customers who are so impressed with your service they gladly spread the word about "their" auto repair shop to friends and associates read more...
edit Types of Websites
Get the Website You Need
There are two main types of auto repair websites. And they are very different in the results they produce. Select the wrong type of auto repair website and you will be very disappointed with the results read more...
edit What you get
Robert Maxim's automotive repair websites are ideal for auto repair shops wanting a specialized website without the high cost of custom website development. Our Pro Plan is for auto repair shops who are serious about read more...
edit Features
- Custom Website
- Dynamic Event Calendar
- Referral Marketing Tools
- Customer Relationship Tools
- Website SEO / SEM
- Personal Marketing Manager
edit Services
- Fully Managed: We take care of your website.
- Scalable: Infinitely expandable website on powerful servers.
- No Up-front Fees: Our Pro websites do not have a setup fee.
- Numerous options: service reminders, automated newsletters, blog
edit Benefits
- Specialized auto repair marketing solution
- Lower cost from shared website development costs
- Highly effective website
- Greater customer acquisition & retention power
- Developers with auto industry experience & knowledge
edit Portfolio
Top 10 automotive repair websites design portfolio.
H&R Repair and Towing made the move from a homemade website that wasn't seeing much action. A much improved look combined with interactive relationship tools and an informative marketing message help communicate the true nature of their friendly, professional services. read more...
Cloverdale Automotive got a major upgrade from a poorly designed and performing website (one of those template websites supplied by a large corporate brand partner...) With correct website structure, clean keyword rich page URL addresses that the search engines can follow, and content that is attractive to both people and search engines should see their website results increase dramatically. read more...
Chuck's Garage II new website is a major step up from their previous 'free' website supplied by their phone directory. The new web site's specialized design, error free structure and construction, error free HTML programming, combined with correct meta tag use should see a huge jump in search engine traffic. A quality auto repair website combined with interesting content will see new customer leads from their website shoot up. read more...
The Diesel Plus website makes good use of the About Staff page with lots of detailed information about their well trained and experienced employees. A good balance of skills, experience, education, and insight into their personal interests. A great way to build trust in your business and its ability to provide solutions to peoples' problems. read more...
Valley Performance makes use of a number of photos on their About Us and Services pages. The text in the photo captions is indexed by search engines and gives a good boost to the page's SEO. This is a first website for them and they are still discovering the features and benefits of a well designed and well built specialized auto repair shop website. read more...
Auto Centric Repair makes good use of our Event Calendar feature with a variety of specials, company events, and general announcements. They also have a large number of keyword targeted service pages which can be configured to target common auto repair services sought by people in your geographical area. This website is a re-branding of Hams Automotive and an upgrade from an earlier Robert Maxim website. read more...
edit Blog and Social Media Links
Auto Repair Shop Website Marketing Blog
Useful tips and information on automotive repair shop websites, auto repair advertising, auto repair management, auto repair marketing, auto repair websites, repair shop advertising, repair shop management, repair shop marketing, repair shop websites, social media marketing, social networking, auto repair website SEO, auto shop management and general topics of interest to automotive service shop managers and owners. 
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edit Contact Us
Robert Maxim's growth and success is a result of the feedback and support from business partners and users. If you have questions, comments, or are interested in our services please contact us.
Doug Fentiman on LinkedIn
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The title of a web page appears as a clickable link in search results and bookmarks. A descriptive, compelling home page title with relevant keywords can increase the number of people visiting the site.
Search Engines
Search engines view the text of the title tag as a strong indication of what the page is about. Accurate keywords in the title tag can help the page rank better in search results.
Length
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Content
The title tag of your home page (and any other page on your site) should not contain the site’s domain name or URL. These will appear near the title in search results, so use your 70 characters to tell people what the page is about. The title tag should not contain any HTML, because it will be displayed incorrectly or not at all.
- Good: This web page has a title tag.
- Good: The title tag is a good length.
- The title of this site's home page:
- “Robert Maxim Website Solutions - Auto Repair Website Design”
H1 Headings
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Just one H1
In most cases, a web page should have just one H1 heading. Using multiple H1 headings is okay if that is a logical way to organize the page, but they should be used sparingly. That’s because search engines can view multiple H1 headings as an attempt to signal that all the content on a page is equally important, a tactic that’s seen as an attempt to game the search engine algorithms.
Purpose
Search engines look for an H1 heading to determine what a page is about. Human visitors do, too.
Content and placement
The H1 heading appears on the web page itself, unlike the page title, which people will see mostly in search results.
The H1 tag (which contains the H1 heading) is usually listed first among the other heading tags for a page. None of the major search engines, however, will penalize a site for listing H2 through H6 tags ahead of the H1 tag.
The H1 heading for a page should be different from its title. Each can target different important keywords for better SEO.
- Good: This page has one H1 heading.
- H1 heading for this site's home page:
- “Auto Repair Website Design”
RobertMaxim.com in search results
You can see below how most search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description appears below the title.
Robert Maxim Website Solutions - Auto Repair Website Design
Auto repair website design. Specialized auto repair web design by industry experts to increase auto repair shop car counts.
robertmaxim.com/
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Sites You Link To
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Search engines
Including links to relevant sites is good for your website's standing with search engines. The Web is all about linking, and carefully chosen outbound links tell search engines that you understand their value to site visitors. These outbound links also help search engines classify your site in relationship to others.
Here, we identify only the outbound links on this site's home page, but outbound links add value to any important page on a website.
Site visitors
Outbound links tell people that you want to provide them with good information, even if it’s not on your own site. These links can also prompt other people to link to your site, which can boost its reputation and ranking in search results.
Here, we identify only the outbound links on this site's home page, but outbound links add value to any important page on a website.
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| en.wikipedia.org | 2 |
| facebook.com | 4 |
| feeds.feedburner.com | 2 |
| net-ARB.com | 1 |
| starfieldtech.com | 1 |
| the350project.net | 1 |
| twitter.com | 1 |
| websitedesignerslist.com | 2 |
Image Descriptions
Image descriptions - also called alt text - are the best way to describe images to search engines and to visitors using screen readers. Learn more ...
Help for visitors with impaired vision
People with impaired vision use screen readers to help them “read” websites. If you provide descriptive alt text for images on your site, people using screen readers will know what the images are about, and will get the same full understanding of your site that others do.
Good for search engine rankings
Describing images on a web page with alt text can help the page rank higher in search results if you include important and relevant keywords. Do not be tempted to stuff irrelevant keywords into alt text just so a page will rank well for those words. Search engines can recognize this ploy for what it is: an attempt to game results.
Writing image descriptions
This is what an image description looks like in HTML:
<img src="image.jpg" alt="This is the image description">
You can write image descriptions, or alt text, by writing the HTML directly into the code for a web page. If you’re using a content management system or online commerce software package, it will probably have a feature to help you quickly create alt text for your images.
Caution: While some software packages automatically generate alt text, they don't always do it well. Always check the quality of automatically generated alt text.
- Warning: Some of your images don't have descriptions.
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Purpose
Website owners usually use robots.txt to let search engines know which pages or sections of their site shouldn't be indexed — for example, web contact forms, print versions of web pages and other content that's duplicated elsewhere on the site. Robots.txt can also be used to request that specific robots not index a site. For more information, read How To Use Robots.txt.
Be careful!
If you're going to use robots.txt, be careful not to accidentally exclude search engines from pages you want people to find. To learn more, read Don't Block Search Engine Crawlers.
Search engine robots
You'll need to know the names of specific search engine robots - or "bots" – if you’re going to exclude any or all of them from any part of your site.
- Google’s bot is called Googlebot. Google is the world’s largest search engine, and is where many people discover new websites.
- Bing’s bot is called msnbot. Bing also provides search results to people using Yahoo to search the Web. Together, Bing and Yahoo are the second largest search resource, after Google.
- Baidu’s bot is called Baiduspider. Baidu is a major search engine in China, and the number of people using it is increasing rapidly.
- AboutUs.org’s bot is called AboutUsBot. To create a Site Report, AboutUs uses crawling technology that’s similar to what search engines use.
- Good: This website’s robots.txt file is not blocking major search engines from crawling its pages. Your website can appear in any engine’s search results.
Canonical Url
This website can live at www.RobertMaxim.com or RobertMaxim.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL. Learn more ...
Choose one or the other
Whichever of these URLs you choose, make sure your website lives ONLY at that location, which is called the canonical URL for your site.
Be careful!
If you choose www.MyWebsite.com for your site, make sure people who don't type www can get to your site, too. Create a permanent 301 redirect from MyWebsite.com to www.MyWebsite.com.
If the same web page exists at two different URLs, people can choose to link to one or the other. Links from other sites to your website are valuable — they tell search engines that your site is important to people. By splitting valuable links between two identical pages, you're diluting the power of those links to help a page rank higher in search results.
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- Good: Your website resides at RobertMaxim.com, and www.RobertMaxim.com is permanently redirected to it.
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