Surprise Surprise We don’t agree on much of any thing I am starting my 18th year in this business how many do you have. I see the wantabe’s come and go all the time. :shock:
As long as Nick, Ben and Kate agree I don’t care about your advice Charley when it comes to a website.
I don’t give you or anyone else advice about web sites what was this supposedly advice I gave you. What have you been smoking today???
Your right it was the other way around. So like I have said on another thread. If you don’t listen to the advice I can’t feel sorry for you.
I’m not looking for sympathy, Sympathy is found in the dictionary between ???&???. You did not answer my question how long have you been a Hi and while I am asking what was your profession before you decided to become the most knowledgeable HI to ever join this Org:p
I have been everywhere Charley. Started out as a helper for Natural stone work, I have a picture of me with hard hat,belt and started working when I was only 16.
Many jobs involving Construction work and houses. Not a Contractor but did take a class on Contracting put on by the School.
After that I was looking after buildings as Supervisor and then worked up to Property Management, Snow Removal and Superintendent.
Before getting into Home Inspection I was doing IAQ Investigations and Heating mostly as we hardly needed AC. At the same time had 3 employees and a very successful Custodial Company.
Had to sell the Custodial Company to focus on HI.
Oh and at the same time teaching Home Inspection I was doing both Home Inspections and IAQ for Health Canada via a private firm as a contract.
According to this analysis your site is kind of slow Billy.
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.stlhomeinspector.com%2F
Your site is rated a 68 out of 100 Billy.
I build all my own sites by myself including this one full of PICs: www.contractorsassociation.org
All of the sites I’ve built are ranked in the 90’s out of 100: Website Speed Test | Pingdom Tools
Anyone can check any website from here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ Just enter your website address.
Ok I get it you were a janitor:p
And his Load time is 5.71s. Which is very slow.
I know. Billy, do you want me to fix your site up for you? I can make it lightning snappy.
Your point Charley!
I learned a great deal about management and was an Assistant manager for a Small chain company. Thing is the employees were dealing drugs out the back.
Now you say you are an retired HVAC contractor.
Whipty do. I have had many talks with guys like you and they say “Where did you learn so much about IAQ.”
I have hijacked this thread to long I’m gone:(
Actually that part is terrible.
Should be under 2 seconds.
Nick you have Billy traveling with you as an expert on SEO this year so why the grill job here ?
Shooting yourself in the foot ?
I don’t understand what you mean. I have my own thinking on SEO that keeps changing (evolving with what Google is doing). If you do this: http://www.nachi.org/seo-tips-for-inspectors.htm you’ve done enough for most inspection companies.
Anyway, we weren’t discussing SEO, we were discussing site load speed and whether or not my advice (the topic of this thread) harms your site laod speed. It does not. It might have in 1995, but like I’ve explained, my advice evolves with the times.
Well if Billy is touring with you as the sponsor and you are pointing out his own sites deficiencies thats like Michael Jordan saying Hanes makes substandard undies or McDonalds saying Pepsi is better than Coke.
In other words cutting off your nose to spite your face.
OK site load speed …you added as I typed should be under 2 seconds or you can lose about 12% of searches based on that alone and do not ask why I know this stuff as I read alot.
Not my method of operation. My advice is never affected by sponsors. Never has been. It’s a foreign process for my brain to even try to think like that.
Just tested mine. 88 out of 100. 1.3 load time. I have few pictures, and they are low resolution. If you do not have the client’s attention after 10 seconds, pictures and video do not matter. I took many points from Nick last year, and my new site provider starting in Sept. of 2013.