SEO advice. Do this over the Christmas Holiday to improve your site's search rank.

[Nick Gromicko]

I see a lot of you are linking to our inspection articles from your inspection business websites. That is doing you no good in terms of search engine optimization.

Instead, copy each article (not just a link back to InterNACHI) and make a separate webpage out of it on YOUR inspection business website.

These articles are designed to improve your search engine ranking, but only if you bring them over to your website and add content to your website. You don't even have to link to the pages you build from your homepage. But , it does no good to just link to www.nachi.org/articles.htm

The articles are copyrighted for member use... so use them. You paid for them.

This is a good project to do over the Christmas Holiday.

[Greg Bell]

Wow!!!

There is a lot of content there. Thanks

[Nick Gromicko]

Also, if you want to squeeze your own name up in there with me and the other authors, do it. We won't squawk.

[John McKenna]

Change the first sentence and the last sentence to help create "unique" content
for the spiders to look at. Just my opinion.

[Frank Magdefrau]

Originally Posted by gromicko

Also, if you want to squeeze your own name up in there with me and the other authors, do it. We won't squawk.

So we can make out like we wrote the articles?

[Nick Gromicko]

So we can make out like we wrote the articles?

Yes, co-authored. Don't remove any authors, just add your name in with ours as one of the authors.

[Frank M. Carrio, CMI]

Nick,
You are up to ALMOST 20,000 Posts!

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by gromicko

Also, if you want to squeeze your own name up in there with me and the other authors, do it. We won't squawk.

I have a couple of article up, so thank you Nick.

Now I will add more and find a spot for my name, Thanks again.

[Bob Elliott]

I would suggest changing the wording around or risk duplicate content penalties.

[Erol Kartal]

Originally Posted by belliott

I would suggest changing the wording around or risk duplicate content penalties.

At the very least, Google will not give you bit of credit if it suspects you copied the content. The site will look nice but that's it. Too much copied content and down you go. When they say unique content helps with SEO, they mean unique.

[Marcel R. Cyr]

That is excellent Nick, thanks, and I have already edited one of them and will add to my website.
No wonder you make the big bucks.

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by ekartal

At the very least, Google will not give you bit of credit if it suspects you copied the content. The site will look nice but that's it. Too much copied content and down you go. When they say unique content helps with SEO, they mean unique.

Yeah great for jump starting the thought process, but I would not copy it.

Look how many great looking sites with tons of pages do not rank.

[James A. Levy]

Originally Posted by belliott

I would suggest changing the wording around or risk duplicate content penalties.

Bob, do you know anyone who has suffered the wrath of Google? I know of an inspection school in Northern NJ, and two inspectors, who's sites are loaded with blind text and stuffed keywords. Black hat stuff like that is supposed to get you banned from the search engine. I know of this going on on those sites for a year and a half now. I know that spiders have had to crawl their sites.
I do not condone this stuff at all, and wouldn't do it myself. I just wonder how closely Google really checks.

[Jeffrey R. Jonas]

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/20...e-content-myth

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by jlevy1

Bob, do you know anyone who has suffered the wrath of Google? I know of an inspection school in Northern NJ, and two inspectors, who's sites are loaded with blind text and stuffed keywords. Black hat stuff like that is supposed to get you banned from the search engine. I know of this going on on those sites for a year and a half now. I know that spiders have had to crawl their sites.
I do not condone this stuff at all, and wouldn't do it myself. I just wonder how closely Google really checks.

One of my sites is in the sandbox over a year now.
Actually is high on yahoo but non existent on Google.

Not much content admittedly.

I used someone else s photo ,with open permission and added flash yet I feel that might be the issue.

I would hire someone but like doing this stuff on my own even if it takes longer.

It is the Artist in me.