Website Expenses

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

To each his own. I'm with James, plus don't have the time or desire OR the patience to dink around with a web site. I pay someone $600 p/year to host, alter, play with, monitor and whatever else those kind of folks do to a site. I don't know and don't wanta learn. Its of no interest to me - its just a tool. I pick it up, use it and walk away. I wanta spend all my free time at the new 24 hour fitness center watching the hot mommies on the bun machines - not be plastered in front of a computer doing stuff on a computer.

Sorry ladies, thats just an enjoyable old guys pastime.

[Doug Edwards, CMI]

Better than standing in the mall holding your wife's purse while she goes in and tries on the big girl undies...I guess, I wouldn't know.

[cvowell]

Originally Posted by wforsyth

Cheryl, your husband's photos are incredible! You should protect them so it prevents right-clicking and saving so people won't steal them. They are truly spectacular!

He does do great work. I am lucky enough to have a house full of spectacular photography. And even luckier to be able to be with him when he takes the pictures. The photos on his web site have a very low resolution, if someone takes them, they wont be able to do much with them. He leaves them available for downloading for students. A lot of schools in California reference his web site for fish ID's.

But, keeping with the thread topic, web sites are easy to do, I do my husbands and mine, and I am not a pro by any means. But we prefer to spend what little free money we have on other things rather than web design and hosting. Such as, travel!

[wforsyth]

You must get to travel to wonderful places to get such fabulous photos!

[inspectorsites.com]

Originally Posted by bfb

Hi Greg,

How are you today? Well since I'm not gaining any financial compensation from the links I posted.....

V/R
Billy

HI All, this is Greg, owner of inspectorsites.com, it looks like someone mistakenly assumed i had anything to do with this thread...

Please let me clarify, I did not make any posts in this thread, Billy has made an error reading linus's post where he thanked me and assumed linus was greg.

Billy, i would appreciate it if you would edit your post accordingly.

Who am i,

I offer a great service for only $19.95 a month. just check out www.inspectorsites.com

It's not $3 a month hosting, i cant compete with that price, but then they cant compete with the editor and templates i offer either, so cost is relative to service received. I offer a great site building and editing system and you get support from me, someone familiar with home inspectors, not someone overseas who cant pronounce your name. If you already have a website and you can manage it, i offer hosting only for $9.95/mo.

Hope that clarifies my and my company in this thread.

Greg Glickauf
www.inspectorsites.com

[gporter]

Originally Posted by bfb

Ok guys,

You helped me out now it's my turn. I have reviewed alot of HI websites and and messages posted on this board. And I have to say I have a feeling more than a couple is paying more for a website than needed. For ex...

A. If your paying more than $5.00 a month for hosting your getting robbed.

I use http://www.computinghost.com and only pay no more than $3.50 a month. Feature enriched and if I wanted I could build a complete dynamic site. But for our basic website needs its everything you need.

B. If your paying someone to update your site with simple text your getting robbed. Very easy to do. As long as your know your server username and password you can simply FTP and edit the file anytime you want. I will show you how.

C. Complete pre made designs can be downloaded for free. It's called open source. If you find one you like let me know and I'll help you get it set up.

Visit: http://www.opensource.org

or

Do a google search. Type in...open source web templates

You will litterly have several sites to roam through and find a template you like. I found my template on one of them and my entire overhead for my site is no more than $4 a month.

D. You took the time to learn how to be an HI take some time to learn basic html. Its easy to learn and once you do you'll be like man I should of done this along time ago. Great learning tool is....

http://www.w3schools.com

Everything you need to know is on this site.

To view my site and what you could have for $4 a month visit http://www.housedetective.ws

As for my URL I only pay $5.99 year. Visit http://www.1and1.com

If you want me to design a full site I will consider trades with you. For ex...
I need some tools to help get me started. Just an idea.

V/R
Billy

Thanks Billy

[David Nice]

I bet they have great customer service when the server goes down.

[Nick Gromicko]

www.nachi.org/brutal.htm

[Bill C. Merrell, CMI]

One of the other things to think about is to buy web site names which may attract business or interest, and forward them to your main web site. Web sites are inexpensive $ 4 to $ 7 bucks a year and can be forwarded absolutely free.
www.merrellweb.com for NACHI discounted pricing

[inspectorsites.com]

Originally Posted by dnice

I bet they have great customer service when the server goes down.

HI...Its not "we", ite Me, I own the company. But, yes I do have great customer service. (and my server has never "gone down")

Servers are actually rather reliable, its usually a network backbone or router that gets messed up and slows traffic. If / when things like that happen, there are ways of rerouting traffic so you generally never see an outage anymore unless someone actually turns off the server like if their company closed up shop.

If you ever interested in testing out my sertvice, just give me a call.

[Fred Duemig]

Originally Posted by inspectorsites.com

HI All, this is Greg, owner of inspectorsites.com...
I offer a great service for only $19.95 a month. just check out www.inspectorsites.com
Greg Glickauf
www.inspectorsites.com

I have to agree. I just switched my site over from GF and the customer service from Greg has been outstanding. No charges for tech services when a change to the website needs to be done. As a matter of fact, Greg even answers your questions without charging you for a tech session, imagine that.

My new site is www.divisioninspect.com.

Inspectorsites has exceeded my expectations in many ways. Thanks Greg.

Fred

PS: If we had exchanged links in the past you can find your link here: http://www.divisioninspect.com/home-inspector-links.htm

[Mathew Hawley]

I want to share with you the company I used for my website I had them design my website and do the SEO. Within 2 weeks I was getting ranked on the first page of Google under (Brevard County Fl home inspectors), (Home inspectors Brevard County), (4 point insurance inspections Brevard County Fl), (Brevard County Fl mold inspections), (Thermal imaging Brevard County Fl), (Brevard County roof inspections), (Brevard county investors inspections), (Brevard County Pre-purchase inspections), (Brevard County condo inspections)- anything that has to do with home inspections in Brevard County in any arrangement of search words I rank on the first page of Google EVERYTIME! See for yourself by doing a Google search on any of the above search phrases. I have recently started getting a first page rank on Yahoo, MSN and a few others.

The guys name is Brian. He is very affordable (A couple of hundred dollars). He loves what he does. You will be able to tell that just talking to him. His customer service is great. You will see results.

He is more into the SEO than website design, but he will design websites as well. Here is his info if you are interested. Phone # 321-953-2435
eWareness Inc. - A Veteran-owned web communications company specializing in helping companies increase
traffic, generate leads and grow business via online
resources. If you found our site, it's likely due to
eWareness' years of search engine marketing expertise.

[inspectorsites.com]

almost anyone can get you on the first page of a search engine with a 4 word search phrases, you can do that yourself, 4 word phrases are unique enough to do that.

The key however is to find out what people are searching for, then target those words. Have you looked to see if anyone is actually searching the words "Brevard County roof inspections" when you do so, you will probably find out that nobody is doing a goggle search using the phrase, Brevard County roof inspections, so in the long run, its really useless to optimize for that when nobody is ever going to enter that into a search query.

I'm not knocking what you did, or the seo persons work, i am just offering that what was done is not hard to do at all and its important to find out what people are searching for and optimize for those words. He did, in fact, get you listed well, your site is also number one for "Brevard Home Inspector" which is probably a real good position and search phrase for you. So you did get your moneys worth in the long run.

If anyone is interested in reading up on seo, here are a few great links:
http://searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.seochat.com/
http://www.seobook.com/
http://websearch.about.com/od/keywor...rch_engine.htm
http://www.webmonkey.com/01/23/index1a.html
http://www.seo-guy.com/
http://www.searchengines.com/

if you want to pay for a good keyword analysis tool, here is the best:
http://www.wordtracker.com/
... a free one is here:
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

hope this helps educate a few out there....

Greg.

[Nick Gromicko]

Regardless of what custom site you go with, take the free site, free search engine optimization, and free hosting forever from www.InspectorPages.com
It doesn't hurt to have a second site, especially when it is all free.

[rmccullough]

Originally Posted by inspectorsites.com

HI...Its not "we", ite Me, I own the company. But, yes I do have great customer service. (and my server has never "gone down")

Servers are actually rather reliable, its usually a network backbone or router that gets messed up and slows traffic. If / when things like that happen, there are ways of rerouting traffic so you generally never see an outage anymore unless someone actually turns off the server like if their company closed up shop.

If you ever interested in testing out my sertvice, just give me a call.

I have to say that I now have a site with Greg and his support has been GREAT to say the least. I HUGHLY recommend Greg and his service to everyone. (This is a NON PAID advertisement)

www.alerthomeservices.com

Thanks Greg