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Old 6/4/10, 1:49 PM
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Default This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

http://www.nachi.org/traffic-2009.htm



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Old 6/4/10, 1:51 PM
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Default Re: This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

Check your article on sinkholes.

I have a copy of it on my site that has garnered 17,000 hits in the last 36 hours.



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Old 6/4/10, 1:59 PM
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Default Re: This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

Smart. I keep telling members to put www.nachi.org/articles.htm on their sites. Putting www.nachi.org/articles on your inspection website increases traffic which in turn increases ranking.



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Old 6/4/10, 2:10 PM
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Default Re: This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

The nachi (free) websites ought to have a method to do that or make it possible for visitors to go to the links and articles.



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Old 6/4/10, 3:03 PM
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Good idea Doug. Forwarding it to IT now.



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Old 6/4/10, 3:27 PM
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Default Re: This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

On the new Inspector Pages - which is finally almost ready - we've created a utility to do just what you're asking. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Old 6/4/10, 3:30 PM
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Ya'll are welcome. The sun shines on even an old dog's rump once in a while.



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Old 6/4/10, 4:00 PM
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Default Re: This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

I have a few nachi articles on my site as well. It is best from an SEO perspective to place an excerpt (summary) of a nachi article on your site, with a link to the original article back at nachi . Why? Google sees your summary as unique content and gives you a ranking bump, while simply copying nachi's article might get you penalized for duplicate content in the eyes of Google.



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The NACHI articles do work!
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I have a few nachi articles on my site as well. It is best from an SEO perspective to place an excerpt (summary) of a nachi article on your site, with a link to the original article back at nachi . Why? Google sees your summary as unique content and gives you a ranking bump, while simply copying nachi's article might get you penalized for duplicate content in the eyes of Google.
Exactly. This is definitely the way to go. Don't copy it identically or you'll hurt your rank. Summarize and link back to NACHI for the full thing or rewrite a good portion of the article and include the whole thing.




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Old 6/4/10, 7:40 PM
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I don't know anything about about SEO or what it even stands for....or what gets Google numbers or anything else. Don't really care, much since the keywords "missouri home inspector" will normally find me on the first page of whatever search engine you're using.

I've stuck to Nick's advice from the very beginning (2004) and have not discovered a reason to change.

Just had a real estate company contact me and agree to pay me $20 per month just to have a link to their site. Sounded good to me. They are in Kansas City.



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Old 6/4/10, 8:06 PM
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James - Well then keep doing what you're doing because it's working. It's also nice having a 5 year old domain Search engines like longevity.

So I got another 4.5 years to go...lol



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Old 6/4/10, 8:26 PM
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I don't know anything about about SEO or what it even stands for....or what gets Google numbers or anything else. Don't really care, much since the keywords "Missouri home inspector" will normally find me on the first page of whatever search engine you're using.

I've stuck to Nick's advice from the very beginning (2004) and have not discovered a reason to change.

Just had a real estate company contact me and agree to pay me $20 per month just to have a link to their site. Sounded good to me. They are in Kansas City.
I got the same deal but first they wanted to link to ReMAX. I said there was no way in hell I would do that, I got to protect my reputation. Then they came up with me linking to a FSBO site, which is okay because when it is clicked on there are no listings and my girlfriend google ad shows up on the top. Her ad account is turned off now until she gets caught back up with her clients. A lot of lookers but very slow to buy.
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Old 6/4/10, 11:44 PM
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Default Re: This is insane: Traffic at nachi.org going through the roof!

I don't believe Google punishes anyone for duplicate content. Old wives tale.

If they ever start, I'll be the first @s$hole (I'm a natural-born @s$hole BTW) to order our IT Department to write a script that creates 500 identical sites for every non-member's inspection website.

Does anyone know how many exact duplicate copies (word for word) of the U.S. Constitution there are on the internet?



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Old 6/5/10, 12:02 AM
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lol Nick.



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