Update Your Site

If you have your own website, make sure you're updating it often. Not only are you providing more information for potential customers, but you're also telling the search engines that your site is becoming more useful. The search engine spiders see an active site and they see someone that's trying to be helpful to site visitors, and they'll reward that effort with higher search rankings. But one important thing to remember, make sure you're adding content that's related to your site. If you're a plumber and you add 3 pages talking about your dog or your favorite football team, you're only going to confuse the spiders. In everything you do, make it clear what your site is about, and why you've built it. In this way, you'll be certain to see higher rankings and more targeted site visitors...so if you haven't lately, update your site!

The Social Graph

You've probably heard of Facebook before...here's an interview with the founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. In it he talks about their mission of finding new ways to allow people to communicate to other people, and that they haven't even scratched the surface in helping people communicate. Makes me wonder how else contractors could be communicating with potential customers. I don't think we've even scratched the surface either.

If you are like us, you'd like to be 'ahead of the game' with your
search engine optimization efforts.

As quickly as things change online, we certainly expect search to
evolve in the next few years. But what do the experts think about
where search is going? Check out this article on search in 2010, which is a compilation of interviews from top
mgmt at google, ask, msn, etc.

How do you all think these trends affect us, in the home services
industries?

Text Messaging Now Available!

As most of you are aware, we are constantly working to find new ways to help our partners get the best possible value out of our services. The latest advance we have made allows you to receive text messages on your cell phone as soon as an email lead is sent to your email account!

By using this free feature, you don't have to worry about being out of the office or not being in front of your computer at all times. Now, not only will have instant communication with those potential customers who call you directly after finding your information online, but you will also know instantly when a potential customer submits their contact information through the online form. That means that you will be able to get in touch with them right away!

If you are interested in receiving these text messages, please let us know. You can just send us an email with the cell phone number where you would like the texts to be sent, and we'll take care of the rest!