This has been an ongoing problem since the search bar on the new web site was put up.
Posting this here in public view as an attempt to get this corrected as soon as possible for the membership.
This should be very near number one priority for nachi members.
what is the problem?
We enter 20 zip codes and the results do not show us as inspectors in those entered unless we live near there.
This seems to be only related to the search bar near the top left.
The www.findaninspector.us works better but could use some new logic too.
It also could be more visible instead of being almost the same color as the background.
NACHI is the best association but these types of engineered problems will likely not keep it there for the long term.
Sorry Chris (webmaster), I know you only work here and may not be making all of the decisions related to this.
All 4 are different searches and work differently. This goes back a couple years when on this message board members had a lengthy argument about how our searches should be performed… there were 4 different camps… so we made a separate site and search for each. Furthermore, Chris has it rigged so that searches appear differently on different computers and shuffle somewhat randomly with some bias toward parity (least traffic member sites bubble to the top).
The one with the problem is at the top left of home page and has a search bar that is very visible to potential clients, it has this in it: Postal Code or City, State
This is the one that has a 20 mile limit, home inspectors typically serve 50 mile limits and some even more, please change to 50 miles so that the other half of my zipcodes work.
thanks
As per your request we have expanded the search from 20 miles to 50 miles.
Please don’t tell Chuck Mccann… he hates to see any member driven ideas enacted. :roll: And for God’s sake, don’t let him know that Chris Morrell doesn’t peform home inspections … he likes to think that NACHI should be run solely by those who currently perform home inspections for some weirdo reason.
But Part 2 of the complaint is that the www.findaninspector.us link at the very top left of the page is camouflaged. It is practically useless because of its color. It is the better of the two search engines because it relies on our service area–not where we live (which is totally irrelevant). Would like to see www.findaninspector.us have the same prominence on the page as inspectorseek (why not a blank line there too for folks to enter a zip code???).
I still do not like the programming logic of inspectorseek. It makes no sense to encourage a customer to select an inspector based on where the inspector lives!
Please consider making findaninspector.us at least as prominent on the page.
I’m not sure where you mean exactly. www.findaninspecor.us is at the top left of every page and is not as prominent as inspectorseek. It is camouflaged. See photo below. Can’t we just put a field for zip code entry similar to inspectorseek? Then they’d have an equal presentation on the page. You can put inspectorseek first if you want to favor those inspectors who live in metropolotin areas. However you do it, it should be more prominent–color changed so that the link doesn’t blend into the background.
I was viewing the new website several times a day and never even noticed the link because of its color before Bruce King alerted us to the situation.
[FONT=Arial]Many of us are disgruntled about the use of www.inspectorseek.com on the top left of the NACHI pages. The more useful www.findaninspector.us search tool is practically invisible to guests (and members)—I’ll admit that I only yesterday noticed it’s there and I visit the site several times each day. The color of the link blends in with the background.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]We enter dozens of zip codes because that identifies the markets we serve. Inspectors that live > 20 miles from a municipality are excluded from the search results in the www.inspectorseek.com results. To me, where we live is IRRELEVENT. What’s important is what markets we serve. We who live in the boonies are discriminated against in the marketing based on where we live. I’ve gotten zero leads from this search tool. If you must use inspectorseek, please extend the range from the current 20 miles to a minimum of 50 miles as the default. But that is not the best solution—I drive 50 miles one way to practically every inspection I perform. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Again, I will argue that the logic of inspectorseek is flawed—where the inspector lives is irrelevant.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Please see the links below. Nick seems to agree with our complaint and has posted a message. Thanks for your consideration.[/FONT]
Joe, I agree with you but that decision was made by the membership on a lengthy thread on the old message board. You can probably find it if you look hard enough.
Nothing to do with Chris or I. The decision to have one site search on desired market and one on primary zip code was what the membership wanted. It was the result of a roughly 50/50 split in the membership. So we did one of each. www.InspectorSEEK.com and www.FindanInspector.us Then more recently we did www.InspectorLocator which searches on services offered.
… he likes to think that NACHI should be run solely by those who currently perform home inspections for some weirdo reason.