Thanks for your reply. Although it was a bit negative, i still appreciate the help.
I chose John because he was locally based and able to meet me personally to discuss things. I had communication problems with the guy that built my previous website and wanted to avoid that kind of thing again.
If you look in his "Case Study" section, there are quite a few sites he has built and i contacted the webmaster of each one. Every single reply was positive and they had lots of good things to say about John.
Also, I searched for "Oxo Tin" on google and one of his sites was number one. I also like the design of a few of his sites (In particular the Peter Cooper American Car Spares site).
I actually have done the keyword research myself under his instruction (To save money as he is £45/hour).
I have used Adwords in the past but using only my own knowledge and i wasn't that impressed. I'm sure it was just because i didn't do my research.
John said something about creating a landing page and using the site i currently have with Google adwords. The plan was to buy visits and see what the conversion rate was. Therefore we could make sure the project would be successful before i spend lots of money.
He is on holiday until the end of the week though so i can't really do anything until then.
When i met John, i was very impressed with his knowledge and qualifications and he seemed like the man for the job.
unfortunately I'm still at uni so can't really put too much time into it. Hopefully all will work out in the end though.
Grr, i seem to have too much bad luck with websites recently
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