Thread: Great Idea-I think-Link Sharing!

I am paying a fortune right now in marketing, it's increasing my business but decreasing my bottom line. I keep telling myself that there has to be a cheaper way to get my site found.

After researching, I have found that one of the best ways to get your site found by the search engines is to have links from other sites to your own. So, to that end, I propose that everyone with a web address start "linking" up.

I haven;t figured out exactly how to get things started, so for now I propose a link exchange system. There are a lot of us on here and we could really help drive traffic to each others site's. Inspectors helping inspectors. We are in geographically different areas so helping the competition isn't much of a concern. Besides, link exchanging is symbiotic, it helps me as much as it helps you, even if we are in the same market. For most of you though thats not the case, I am in Maryland, but I don't mind trading links with MD or VA inspectors.

I'll cease my rambling and submit my email address. If your interested in me putting a link to your site in my site and are willing to reciprocate, please email me at esmith@rightinspector.com.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

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Instead, how bout I send you my old lady and you send me yours....

Oh, never mind. You don't have to send me yours at all.

RR

I'm LMAO over here. Of all of the responses I prognosticated that was not amongst them. Not by a long shot.

Thank for the laugh.

I am working on a linking program for InspectionNews and hope to have it up next month.

Linking is great, having a link from a high ranking site is much better. InspectionNews has been climbing the charts rapidly and I hope that will benefit all members by linking to your site.

Stay tuned!

I'm happy to place a link to Inspection News on my site. Is there a particular formatted link type that you already have for this purpose or does "Inserting A Hyperlink" work for you?

That would be great!

I'm not sure if this code will post. Let me try

<a href="http://www.inspectionews.net" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/images/inspnewsbannersm2.gif" alt="Home inspection information for professional home inspectors. Find information on mold, insurance, tools, ASHI, NAHI, NACHI, roofing, electrical, plumbing, fireplaces, HVAC, training and more!" width="225" height="46"></a>


Or just a test link to www.InspectionNews.net

Thanks!

Brian, I added the link. It worked fine. It was a tad(way) too big. I cut the size by half. Feel free to go to my site and check it out. It is on the bottom of the Contact page.

By submitting our url's to our profile, are we also liked from your site to our's?

Brian,

Your link is on DFW Home Inspector Dallas Fort Worth Texas Home Inspector Real Estate Inspector

Link back will be appreciated once you get it up and running.
Thanks

I am placing a link to your site from mine, it will be up in a few minutes. Should I have been looking in the "Affiliate Links" page on your site for the link to mine?

If so I missed it.

Thanks.

Brian,
Ditto for

Bungalows to Mansions Professional Home Inspection, LLC ICC Certified, Serving Gainesville and Alachua County Florida, providing Professional Home Inspection Services. 352 - 871 - 8989

Thanks
Bruce

I'm going to be doing some testing of the new reciprocal links pages with some of you who have posted here and said that you have a link back to InspectionNews.

This is still Beta testing. Don't be surprised if you receive an e-mail from the system.

If you receive an odd e-mail or one that does not make sense please let me know.

I'm hoping to have the InspectionNews Reciprocal Links Directory operational by the end of Friday.

There will still be modifications and adjustments made after Friday but I'm hoping I will have it ready for you to submit a link to your web site.

Any member of InspectionNews who would like to take advantage of this directory may do so for free. The only stipulation is that you have a link back to InspectionNews.

The goals of this directory are:

1. To get the directory(s) ranked high in search engines so that consumers can more easily find your web site and hopefully increase your business.
2. Provide another link TO your web site to help increase the search engine ranking of your own site.
3. Provide a path from your site so other inspectors (yes, inspectors look at other inspector's sites) will learn about the benefits of InspectionNews.net

You will probably end up with 2 reciprocal links from InspectionNews.

One from the "State Links Page"

One from the "City Links Page"

More ways for customers to find you. More ways for search engine bots to find and rank you.

Since not everyone is real tech savy (me) or has lot's of web hosting experience (me again) would it be possible to post the steps for adding these links? Since I am new to being a web master (sounds bad) it would be a big help for alot of peple (or at least me!) Thanks, Charlie

Originally Posted by Charlie Wells

would it be possible to post the steps for adding these links?

Hi Charlie,

Yes, when I'm ready for people to add their own links (I thought it was going to be today) I will post step by step directions.

Several months ago I posted here wanting to start up a link exchange.
I made an offer then, and it is still open to all.
I have pages made up with Microsoft Front page with listings for all inspectors on IN that had web sites.
I will gladly e-mail you the templates.
You would have to modify it with your Co. name etc.

Check out the format here.
Critical Home Inspection Services, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, inspector list,

Reciprocity would be nice.

If you'd like to be included in the list, E-mail me at victor@home2spec.com

Same if you'd like a copy of the pages.

Brian;

I also have links back to IN in several pages of my site.

for instance, under "favorite links"

critical home Inspection Services, Myrtle Beach, inspector,South Carolina

Thank you Victor!

I will give you a way to add your link to my links pages soon!

Thought it was going to be today but to much going on. Sorry about that.

Brian,

What is the code in the fragment to make it smaller? What is a good size?

Bruce

I think I figured it out. Look ma, I'm a computer geek!!

For those of you that are linking to InspectionNews please make sure your link is going to:

http://www.inspectionnews.net

and not

http://inspectionnews.net

It seems to be making a difference with the new reciprocal link program I am setting up. Yes, the one that i was going to have ready last Friday

Stay tuned, it will be ready soon.

Looking for Beta testers of the InspectionNews Reciprocal links pages.

Step one is to add the following code on your site.

<a href="http://www.inspectionnews.net" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/images/inspnewsbannersm2.gif" alt="Home inspection information for professional home inspectors. Find information on mold, insurance, tools, ASHI, NAHI, NACHI, roofing, electrical, plumbing, fireplaces, HVAC, training and more!" width="225" height="46"></a>

Then go to:
http://www.inspectionnews.net/home-i...or/addlink.php

You can go directly to Step 2 on this page (if you did step one above).

a) You can use your same username and password that you use for the message board.

b) Select a category (Your state)

c) Enter additional information

Note: "Your url:" is your home page.

"Reciprocal link (the exact URL that links back to InspectionNews):" is to the web page the you placed the reciprocal link on.

Let me know if you have trouble or get an error.

I'd be interested in hearing comments concerning linking. I mentioned linking to the guy that developed my site. He said while linking was a good way to raise your ranking the search engines on the major sites like Google, Yahoo and the likes have found a way to determine if your site is a linked site and if so your rating doesn't change. Whether its fact of not I don't know. Anyone heard this ?

Brian;
I cut and pasted your HTML and when I previewed, it still came up as HTML.
Using MS frontpage 2003.

I tried it --- with the html above and the html on the addlink page ...

I keep getting the message that inspectionnews can't find my web page (www.abide-able.com), or can't find the link to INN ....

I clicked the link I had added to my site, and, lo and belhold, I was takien to the NACHI site!!

Your html takes us to inspectionews.net rather than inspectionnews.net!!

I added the extra 'N' and got to INN OK.

Originally Posted by Victor DaGraca

Brian;
I cut and pasted your HTML and when I previewed, it still came up as HTML.
Using MS frontpage 2003.

Hi Victor,
When you add the code make sure you switch to the code view of your page (I'm not sure about frontpage 2003 but other versions have a tab in the lower left for "Normal" "HTML" and "Preview" screens) Place a couple letters like "DDDD" on your page where you want the link to be and highlight them with your mouse. Now click on HTML and it should take you right to DDDD. Now replace that with the code .

If you try to add code to the WYSIWYG (normal view) you will get code on the page.

Since you already have a link on my links pages (I added it during testing) the system is probably going to tell you "Sorry, your link is already on the site.

If you are interested in helping me test and playing with your site just let me know and I will delete your link so you can add it again.

Originally Posted by Bob White

I tried it --- with the HTML above and the HTML on the addlink page ...

I keep getting the message that inspectionnews can't find my web page (www.abide-able.com), or can't find the link to INN ....

I clicked the link I had added to my site, and, lo and belhold, I was takien to the NACHI site!!

Your html takes us to inspectionews.net rather than inspectionnews.net!!

I added the extra 'N' and got to INN OK.

Oops! Thanks for catching that. A typo on my part. That is exactly why Nick bought that URL.

Hold on.

Don't try and test the links site.

I see an issue I need to figure out.

Brian;

My bad on MsFrontPage ...it's 2000 not 2003
anyhow....
That's exactly what I have been doing... I have 3 tabs, normal, HTML, preview.
I always do what you stated.
In normal I highlight where I want to be, switch to HTML and add the code. In this instance though, when I switch back to Normal or even preview, I still get the HTML.

I have had issues with code written for other links, and I think the problem might be in how FrontPage processes the code.
I'm going to try and tweek it to the format that other links have and see what happens.
If it works, I'll let you know and give you the tweek.
Thanks, Victor

Brian;

Here's your code

<a href="http://www.inspectionnews.net" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/images/inspnewsbannersm2.gif" alt="Home inspection information for professional home inspectors. Find information on mold, insurance, tools, ASHI, NAHI, NACHI, roofing, electrical, plumbing, fireplaces, HVAC, training and more!" width="225" height="46"></a>


Here's what Front page translates it into

<p><font color="#0000c0" size="1">&lt;a href=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;http://www.inspectionews.net&quot;</font>
target=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;_blank&quot;</font>&gt;&lt;img
border=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;0&quot;</font> src=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/images/inspnewsbannersm2.gif&quot;</font>
alt=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;Home inspection information for
professional home inspectors. Find information on mold, <a class="gal" onmouseover="GAL_popup(this,&quot;1&quot;, 300, &quot;style=\&quot;border: 1pt solid #990000;\&quot;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=\&quot;http://frea.com/\&quot; target=\&quot;_blank\&quot;&gt;Now more than ever, E&amp;O insurance is a necessity for all home inspection businesses. FREA offers a comprehensive Claims-Made policy with the best rates and lowest deductibles.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;style=\&quot;background: #FFFFFF;padding: 4px;font-size: 10px;font-weight: ;color: #000000;\&quot;&quot;, &quot;Sponsor FREA&quot;, &quot;style=\&quot;border-top: 2px solid black;border-bottom: 2px solid black;background: #CCCC99;padding: 2px;font-size: 10px;font-weight: bold;color: #000000;\&quot;&quot;" onmouseout="GAL_hidepopup();" href="http://www.inspectionnews.net/home_inspection/autolink.php?id=6&amp;script=showthread&amp;forumi d=21" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">insurance</a>,
tools, ASHI, NAHI, NACHI, roofing, electrical, plumbing, fireplaces, HVAC,
training and more!&quot;</font> width=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;225&quot;</font>
height=<font color="#000000" size="1">&quot;46&quot;</font>&gt;&lt;/a&gt;<br>
</font></p>



Apparently, it translates brackets < > into.... &lt;

Hi Victor,

I think I see the problem and I have run into it before.

Sometimes when you copy code from a web site (or word document) it doesn't translate exactly when you copy & Paste into a web editor.

What I do is paste it into a text editor (I use text pad ( TextPad Downloads ) but you can use NotePad that comes with window. This takes all the formatting out that you get when you copy from another program.

Then just copy and paste again from the text editor into your web editor.

This is my standard move when I develop a site for someone and they send me the info in a word document or I copy info from their old site.

Originally Posted by Brian Hannigan

What I do is paste it into a text editor (I use text pad ( TextPad Downloads ) but you can use NotePad that comes with window. This takes all the formatting out that you get when you copy from another program.

Years ago when I did my web site I found that WordPad (which also comes with Windows) would also remove all formatting. It would accomplish the same thing as NotePad, but I found WordPad easier to use.

I would copy and paste from WordPerfect or Word to WordPad, then copy from WordPad like Brian said to my HTML editor.

In HTML, &lt; is the 'less than' sign "<" and &gt; is the 'greater than' sign "<".

It worked. I copied and pasted into Notepad, then copied that, and pasted it into FrontPage. the IN.N logo shows up and the mouseovers work.
There's only one issue now....
It is not clickable.
I go to preview mode... fully functionable... everything else is clickable....
not so with IN.N
working on it.....

The InspectionNews Reciprocal links section is now open.

The purpose(s) of reciprocal links is:

1) Links coming from a related web site to your web site will improve the search engine position of your site.

2) The InspectionNews Inspector Directory will be marketed toward consumers looking for an inspector.

For the one link you provide from your site to http://www.InspectionNews.net, InspectionNews will provide 2 links back to your site. One from a state page and one from a state/city page.

You only need to list your web site once on the state page and I will include the second link on your city page.

I will say that you need to follow the directions carefully when adding your link to the system.

If you run into any trouble while adding your web site just let me know and I will help.

This is a FREE service from InspectionNews! I hope it will help to bring you more business opportunities.

To submit your listing go here:
http://www.inspectionnews.net/home-i...or/addlink.php

The Directory Home Page is located here:
http://www.inspectionnews.net/home-i...resources.html

Originally Posted by Victor DaGraca

Brian;
I cut and pasted your HTML and when I previewed, it still came up as HTML.
Using MS frontpage 2003.

Victor,
You need to put the html code in while in the HTML area of your editor, not while viewing the wysiwyg part. Thats's why it's showing up as a text file.
Dana

Thanks Dana:
However, see post #28 above. Been there done that.

Oops Victor,
Missed that one. I think it might be Front Page then. I know it's easier to use but it is known to be buggy in the way it executes code. It seems to add a lot of extra bits for some reason. I use an open source editor called Nvu that works great. Open source=free. Great price. You can set it up to publish to your site same as FrontPage. I use another free one for that called Filezilla.
Dana

So far there are 28 links from InspectionNews back to inspector's web sites. Texas then California are leading the way.

If you have any trouble adding your link just let me know and I will help.

Go here http://www.inspectionnews.net/home-i...or/addlink.php and follow the directions to add a link from InspectionNews to your inspection web site.

Many more inspectors have taken advantage of the InspectionNews reciprocal links to help boost their web site ranking in search engines, have you?

Go here http://www.inspectionnews.net/home-i...or/addlink.php and follow the directions to add a link from InspectionNews to your inspection web site.