What Do You Like on Your Website?

[KinderKorner]

I'm currently revamping my goat website. Trying to figure out what I should include and what I shouldn't include.

I know I want:

Home Page

Doe Page

Buck Page

For Sale Page

Contact Page

What other pages or information do you like on your website, or like to see on websites when your looking for goats?

I'm thinking about putting an information page, or a small guide to goat care. I'm actually thinking about producing a small booklet to post online, and give out to my buyers. It would be so much easier, than explaining the small care things over and over again.

 

[WannaBeFarmR]

I always like when you can see where the goats are living. It tells me a lot about how the goats are cared for and how likely they are to be at risk for things health wise. If I know the goats had a sheltered place to stay that was clean I'm put at ease when considering a purchase. Also views of the pasture or yard are always good, if I see a filthy dry lot with moldy grain on the ground and string/wire and trash in there with the goats I generally stay clear. Who knows what foreign object is hiding in the goats stomach waiting for me and my vet to have to deal with. These are things generally noticed in background photos. But a page displaying clean safe living conditions is always a welcome sight to me. I like to see pages that tell me what the goats are fed too, Grain? Hay? Pasture? Organic? Worming/vaccinations preformed routinely? Supplements? that sort of thing. Its also good because it gives novice goat owners some reference info even if they haven't done the research they should have.

So in short: Where the goats live, and what they eat, I guess, lol.

 

[KinderKorner]

Great idea! A care and management page.

I always love those too! I love looking at how other people's farms are set up.

 

[Southern by choice]

I like to know much more about the practices of the farm. I hate having to ask.. do you do cocci preventative and why, parasite history, dry lot or pasture raised, etc... To me Titles and names are nothing if the management isn't good.
I tend to not bother with sites that just have "does/bucks/kids for sale" as the whole site. That is what many sites have. I find most of the time they are the ones that really cannot tell you much about their herd health or anything else.

I also like when people put on their site what they test for.

On the other side- it helps reduce the amount of calls that take time to answer those questions. It also helps when you have people send e-mails and ask do you have any ducks, goats, chickens etc. for sale? I simply respond with a link to my availability page.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I've had a website for a year now. My web provider gives me statistics as to what pages get the most views. We have a home page, a Sr Doe, Jr. Doe, Kids, and buck page. By far the most views is on our "Three Farmers Brown Page", which kind of a Misc blog page. We have pictures of goats who have won at shows, pictures around the farm. There is pictures of goats on my living room couch, my daughter at the American Girl Doll Store in NYC, a picture of Lynard Skynard from the 3rd row, and picutres of cheese we have made. By far the most popular page by 10-1.