Originally Posted By: gromicko
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http://www.nachi.org/alexasitecomparison.htm
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Nick Gromicko
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http://www.nachi.org/alexasitecomparison.htm
I much prefer email to private messages.
Originally Posted By: Blaine Wiley
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Gee Nick, I wonder how the usual band of detractors will accuse you of spewing propaganda about this one
Nice Job!
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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lead generator for NACHI.
Even some of our local chapter sites are doing better than other associations.
Onwards and upwards!
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Originally Posted By: psabados
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Personally
I like the performance of the Convention site too  
Paul
Originally Posted By: pdacey
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| gromicko wrote: |
| This is super amazing |
C'mon Nick, you know as well as I do that it's only amazing. To say it's super amazing just proves what everyone already knows about you and this org. 
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Slainte!
Patrick Dacey
swi@satx.rr.com
TREC # 6636
www.southwestinspections.com
Originally Posted By: gjohnson
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A lot of work goes into making a site climb higher in the ranks… Soon you will see the foundation in the top 100,000
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Gary (Snicker’s) Johnson - Free NACHOS
The NACHI Foundation
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Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Gary, can you believe you have the third most popular home inspection website? Too cool…
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Originally Posted By: gjohnson
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I have number 3 and 9 not so bad… I will take it… Good job on getting NACHI up there…
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Gary (Snicker’s) Johnson - Free NACHOS
The NACHI Foundation
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301-591-9895
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Month end stats just came in for September: 91,335 visitors racked up nearly 7 million hits for NACHI in the past month alone… breaking all former records.
http://www.nachi.org/stats.htm
Alexa.com is right.
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Nick Gromicko
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Originally Posted By: ekartal
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Nick,
Can you share some of your search engine optimization secrets?
Erol Kartal
ProInspect Inc.
Originally Posted By: gjohnson
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Erol,
First hint... Don't pay any of the SEO companies. Alot of times these are scams or they will get your page blacklisted from google or yahoo.
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Gary (Snicker's) Johnson - Free NACHOS
The NACHI Foundation
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Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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is somewhat “smoke & mirrors” if you ask me (Don’t tell Chris I said that!).
Here is the little secret that when non-members figure out... they're going to freak out.
Two of our sites listed in http://www.nachi.org/alexasitecomparison.htm ( www.FindAnInspector.US and www.InspectorSEEK.com) are not websites at all... www.FindAnInspector.US has 2 pages but is essentially a one page website. www.InspectorSEEK.com is also only a one page website.
The hits that got them ranked so high are not coming from inspectors visiting them every night like they do on this message board. The hits are not from visitors digging around on them deep (they're only one page deep). They are as content-poor as a $19.95 1-page website can be (but read further to find out how the quality product offered on them is driving them)
Nearly every hit on www.FindAnInspector.US and www.InspectorSEEK.com is coming from consumers and REALTORs looking for a certified home inspector or looking up the contact info of a certified home inspector they like. NACHI members are the quality product that drives them.
These two consumer sites being listed on http://www.nachi.org/alexasitecomparison.htm is impressive, but when I think about the fact that their popularity is mutually exclusive of, and not fueled by, the inspection industry in which they are categorized (because the traffic isn't coming from repeat inspectors rooting around or chatting on them)... it is enough to make me shiver in my seat.
With the exception of NACHI.org, consumers, home buyers, and REALTORs almost never visit a home inspection association website. Other than finding an inspector... nothing there interests them much. The few hits ASHI & NAHI can claim aren't from the consumers and REALTORs that inspectors desperately need to have traffic from. ASHI & NAHI members are looking at their own hits! They are generated in-house, and worthless to their own members. Same with www.InspectioNews.com, TIJ, and all these other message boards...all inspector-generated hits.
Any idiot ( me included  ) can start a good message board that gets a lot of hits from home inspectors, BUT to get mere 1-page lead generation sites (with no content) that only have the function of directing consumers and REALTORs by the millions to the certified home inspectors in their areas, to get millions of hits... now that is SUPER DUPER AMAZING. That is the traffic that makes inspectors money and those are the hits that count!
The popularity of these 1-page consumer sites is 10,000 times as impressive as NACHI.org being ranked #1. And 1,000,000 times as important to inspectors.
Nowadays, all the home buyers and REALTORs are online and they're hitting our lead generators so hard that they're passing up the inspector traffic going to the association sites the inspectors themselves belong to!
Search engine optimization is easy when your ALEXA.com says you deserve to be ranked high. NACHI members deserve to be ranked high. Our members are the best inspectors in the world and the whole smoke and mirrors optimization silliness wouldn't last long if it wasn't true. It is the known quality of the sole product (NACHI members) offered on these sites that makes these sites so popular. NACHI member's good work is what keeps them ranked high (legitimately) and 1-page, content-poor websites with rankings like this is proof.
NACHI members are like precious metals. And if you had the only source (NACHI) of precious metals in the world... you could have a 1-page website that would be outrageously popular too.
Now of course NACHI members doing good work and their communities benefiting from their good work... isn't quite enough. It still requires NACHI. Chris's business card has a tag line on the back which I love: "The internet is big... and I know how it works."
We've only just begun!
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Nick Gromicko
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Originally Posted By: ekartal
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Pretty cool. Come to think of it, I have heard that some of the SEO’s are not worth the investment.
Erol Kartal
ProInspect Inc.
Originally Posted By: dfrend
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My prediction:
Within 2 months the NACHI Foundation will be #2. 
Odds are strongly in our favor. Why. OK, I'll spill the secret. The ranks given above are a 3 month average. September was our FIRST full month on the web. Now, our 3 month average is in the 300,000's but is up from the 1,000,000's. Our one week average is at 110,000 and our ranking today is at 82,000. Based on these numbers, which have remained pretty consistent over the last few weeks, in two months our 3 month average will be below 100,000 and just behind NACHI itself. 
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Daniel R Frend
www.nachifoundation.org
The Home Inspector Store
www.homeinspectorstore.com
Originally Posted By: dcarroll
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I recently posted that when doing searches in the different search engines that ASHI sites came up more often. NACHI did come up at the top of the Google search. Started my own web site a two weeks ago and of course it is listed in “findaninspector”. Since then I have had three calls and two inspections as a result. NACHI must be doing something right. All you need to do is market yourself, and NACHI makes it easy to do. Without the most popular home inspection web site and it’s support, I’m sure I wouldn’t have had one call.
Originally Posted By: gjohnson
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While not nearly as good as NACHI the Foundations site did well for September
677 Unique Visitors
1195 Number of Visits
3183 Pages
37745 Hits
While most of these hits have come from the NACHI Site, We are now starting to get independent searches and hits from other places coming in line.
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Gary (Snicker's) Johnson - Free NACHOS
The NACHI Foundation
Executive Director
301-591-9895
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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You’re doing great Gary. If NACHI gets under the 50,000 ranking mark I’m going to throw a party, just don’t let the Foundation site get there before us
.http://www.nachi.org/alexasitecomparison.htm
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Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Here is a link to some strategies to help you get there first: http://www.qmfound.com/pol.htm
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Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Gary… you did it! www.nachifoundation.org passed ASHI and is now #2 (NACHI still #1).
Congratulations!
www.FindanInspector.US moved up but still in 5th place behind NAHI.
www.InspectorSEEK.com moved up but still in 10th place.
and www.nachiconvention.com passed up FABI to move into 8th place.
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Originally Posted By: jremas
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NACHI.org losing ground. Now at 61,000 plus.
What can we do?
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Jeff Remas
REMAS Inspections, Inc.
Northeastern PA & the Poconos
www.NEPAinspector.com
570-362-1598