Important Info about Template Web Sites

[jwortham1]

Wow...I've got a 3/10 and my website sucks.

[whandley]

Originally Posted by ldapkus

Do you mean Roberta's Grassfrog websites that a majority of our members here are using???

I've currently got a page ranking of 3, with a traffic rating of 786,000 last week. 32 incoming Google links with 2500 total incoming links. Roberta gives you a blank canvas, what you do with it, is totally up to the client. Check out my site at www.progressiveinspection.com yes it has a similar appearance to some of her other client websites, but the content and structure are totally different. I paid $350 for the start up and another $150 in miscellaneous changes. I've had the site with Roberta for 18 months, its performance and inspection related revenue generation has been improving every month since I began doing business with her.

[rhumphries]

Originally Posted by whandley

I've currently got a page ranking of 3, with a traffic rating of 786,000 last week. 32 incoming Google links with 2500 total incoming links. Roberta gives you a blank canvas, what you do with it, is totally up to the client. Check out my site at www.progressiveinspection.com yes it has a similar appearance to some of her other client websites, but the content and structure are totally different. I paid $350 for the start up and another $150 in miscellaneous changes. I've had the site with Roberta for 18 months, its performance and inspection related revenue generation has been improving every month since I began doing business with her.

Remember, I didn't bring Grassfrog into this. I may have been "challenged" and someone else brought up Grassfrog so I made my stand. As I said, I was making people aware of a factual issue that had nothing to do with any particular company. I get reamed for that a lot as you've seen .

Nonetheless, I don't doubt Grassfrog is a superb company. I've read nothing but amazing testimonies about them. I don't do template or custom Web development anymore, so if Grassfrog is the "go to" company, then by all means, "go to" it. My reference to Grassfrog was only to put Linas' comment into perspective after he brought them up. Frog legs was the dish of the moment....nothing more.

-R-

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[rhumphries]

Originally Posted by jwortham1

Wow...I've got a 3/10 and my website sucks.

Actually, your Web site is exactly what search crawlers want to see. Fair amount of text, bigger than average font size, lot of keywords and phrases in the body copy. I didn't do a complete analysis of your site, but those elements along make crawlers happy. There are other basis SEO techniques that I'm sure you can apply, but as long as you have people clicking through your sites (to produce web logs) and as long as other sites are pointing to you, then you will "naturally" move up.

Just be aware that a few thousand more inspectors will be coming into the industry in the next few years to complete with your position.

-R-

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[rhumphries]

About Page Ranks

• All pages are ranked if indexed by Google. A rank of 0/10 does not mean your site has not been indexed.

• Inbound links to your site are worthless if the those "pointer" sites have not been indexed by a search engine (Google or otherwise).

• Links pointing OUT to other sites contribute to BOTH your page rankings though the site being pointed to benefits the most (called "voting").

• Having a large number of pages on your site may make it easier for search crawlers to index your site, but it only contributes to your page rank in a very small way. {Remember, "page rank" is based on the law of gravity. If more sites are pointing to you (i.e., gravitating) and more people are clicking on your site (i.e., gravitating), then you will have a higher page rank.}

• If you have useful information on your site that other people can reference on their sites by linking to the pages on your site, then you will increase your page rank.

With all of that being said....

• If your page rank is 0/10, but you are 100% covered-up with business, then your page rank is irrelevant.

• If your page rank is 6/10, but you are not busy, then your page rank is irrelevant.

-R-

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[rdulay]

While web site content templates are a good starting point, we recommend each of our clients customize the content to meet the needs of their business, and tailor the content and meta keywords to their particular locations and areas of expertise. Many of our member sites have rankings of 3 and 4, largely due to the fact we also offer free search engine submission and help to our members, and maintain the largest listing of home inspector link exchanges in the industry.

Since Content is only one part of the search engine algorithm, it doesn't really matter if you start your site out with core content (many of this also available for free from NACHI's web site) or with no content at all, as long as you customize your site content and keywords to your business location and need, then make sure you exchange links with other home inspectors and submit your site to all of the key industry directories. Our clients that follow this advice, tend to do well overall on their targeted search engine rankings, regardless of whether or not they also have canned content on their sites.

If you have any questions about our products or services, please feel free to contact me directly.

Regards,

Roberta