Sneak Peek of New InspectorSeek.com Web Site

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by ccurrins

Thanks for the tip and I've linked Dominic, serving an area with dozens of 40,000-50,000 populated cities instead of one major I linked several different ones on different pages.

Good idea! The more cities linked to it with 'home inspector' appended, the better.

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

Good idea! The more cities linked to it with 'home inspector' appended, the better.

Cool! That was my guess. But again this is only a test. LOL

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Originally Posted by ccurrins

Cool! That was my guess. But again this is only a test. LOL

Did you redo your website? It looks different?

[Thomas M. Hauswirth]

The page looks great, but I have one questions. On the mock-up it has some names for Philadelphia area inspectors and then a button for "More Philadelphia Area Inspectors". What determines who shows up on the first page and who only shows up when a potential client clicks on the "more" button? Why would some inspectors get preferential treatment by appearing on the first page over others?

[Chris Morrell, CTO]

Originally Posted by thauswirth

What determines who shows up on the first page and who only shows up when a potential client clicks on the "more" button? Why would some inspectors get preferential treatment by appearing on the first page over others?

Good question, Thomas. The new InspectorSeek.com will have built-in geocoding that can determine where a person is searching from based on their IP address. For example, based on your IP address I can tell that you're in the Hartford, CT metro area, and more specifically you're in a town south of Hartford (it guessed Meriden, CT). The accuracy for country is over 99.8% accurate, so we'll be able to show slightly different pages for USA and Canada. The city accuracy is around 81% which isn't perfect, but it's the best we can do, and the metro area is somewhat better than that. We will use this data to show InterNACHI members in the area of the person visiting InspectorSeek.com. So when I visit InspectorSeek.com, I will see Philadelphia area inspectors. When you search, you'll see Hardford area inspectors.

The second part of your question is how we choose the 4 or 5 that are going to show on the home page. This is a tricky issue and we're trying to handle it as fairly as possible. The system will essentially do an InspectorSeek.com search on the city it thinks the viewer is in, and select the top 5 results for that city to show on the front page. That search is based mostly on location, and then randomized. So InterNACHI members closest to the search location will show up closer (and this is based on your "primary place of business"—not your actual location), but if two or more inspectors are equidistant from the search location, their placement is randomized each time so that the sorting is fair. That means that each member will rotate on and off the front page depending on where people are searching from. When a visitor clicks the "More" button they will see the full search results.

Hope that helps explain the system a little better.

Cheers,

[Nick Gromicko]

The "look" of www.InspectorSEEK.com has been updated.

Still working on underlying code.

[Randy D. Stufflebeem]

Sweeeeet!!!!

[bdoles2]

Boy I have a lot of competition... Almost 198 NACHI inspectors within a 36 mile range.

[mivie]

I added it to my links, but the link said page not found. Is that because it is still under construction?

[mivie]

Never mind I got it.
(Had to get my 4 yr old to show me)

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by bdoles2

Boy I have a lot of competition... Almost 198 NACHI inspectors within a 36 mile range.

That's why I'm not sure if InspectorSeek and FindAnInspector is good marketing are not. With so many inspectors to choose from it starts turning it into a "how much do you charge" war.

[Nick Gromicko]

As the closer (the guy who answers the phone and converts every call into a scheduled inspection) for my multi-inspector firm for many years, I can say that "How much do you charge?" was music to my ears.

My answer was always... "I charge about $100 more than all my competitors, do you have a pen and paper? Good. Let me tell you why I charge $100 more than all my competitors and let me explain why you should spend that extra $100 and hire me."

I closed 19 out of 20 calls. I think the other 1 in 20 were just my competitors anonymously calling to see how the heck I was doin' it.

[David P. Valley]

Originally Posted by gromicko

The "look" of www.InspectorSEEK.com has been updated.

Still working on underlying code.

I see issues with this site.

The first issue is...Some Inspectors are listed twice under the same area.

The second issue is...Why so many inspectors for one area? There is no way all these inspectors are still in business.

[Larry D. Kage]

Originally Posted by inxil

Good question, Thomas. The new InspectorSeek.com will have built-in geocoding that can determine where a person is searching from based on their IP address. For example, based on your IP address I can tell that you're in the Hartford, CT metro area, and more specifically you're in a town south of Hartford (it guessed Meriden, CT). The accuracy for country is over 99.8% accurate, so we'll be able to show slightly different pages for USA and Canada. The city accuracy is around 81% which isn't perfect, but it's the best we can do, and the metro area is somewhat better than that. We will use this data to show InterNACHI members in the area of the person visiting InspectorSeek.com. So when I visit InspectorSeek.com, I will see Philadelphia area inspectors. When you search, you'll see Hardford area inspectors.

Hope that helps explain the system a little better.

Cheers,

I have many clients from out of town that could care less about who the inspectors are near where they are searching from.

[bdoles2]

The first issue is...Some Inspectors are listed twice under the same area.

The second issue is...Why so many inspectors for one area? There is no way all these inspectors are still in business.

That's why I'm not sure if InspectorSeek and FindAnInspector is good marketing are not. With so many inspectors to choose from it starts turning it into a "how much do you charge" war.

Very good points.