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"Find A Certified Roof Cleaner Directory"

  Here is a link to a free roof cleaning directory. 

http://roofcleaningcontractors.com/submit/

This site really has nothing to do with link juice although that will come in time. What it is for is a direct assualt against the directories that are for paid leads and to help you with long tail keywords that you might not be ranking for anyway.We are doing quite well at this and that's where the value is.

The $50 is not for the link...it's for access to the blog network, the featured video pages and two SEO reviews of your website. We also SEO the listing (on page) and pump it (off page) if it doesn't respond well in the organic. The blog network is still being built but those RCC owned blogs will be juiced up as well, PR1-PR3 and controled both in total outbound links but in comment links as well so that the PR flow is not destroyed by too many.

I really don't mind if people choose the free, I spend on average 4+ hours on gold member listings. The difference in the serps is evident for the gold members only because I personally make sure that the page is fully optimized.

When we have good coverage on the map...the real value will kick in as we can then approach the direct marketing phase of this thing.

It's about ARMA roof cleaners. Regardless of your Org affiliations or your Cert's or lack of...all of us ARMA roof cleaners are related to a common cause and I built this site to promote that cause. We are brothers from another mother. This site and it's supporting blogs and resources will take on the gimmick cleaning products and the lead services (SM, AL, etc) on behalf of all, including RCIA.

Think of it as the Switzerland of roof cleaning....we are neutral and support all ARMA roof cleaners.

We are tracking a few hundred keywords right now but here are some snaps of just a few to help explain what I'm saying.....

A huge mistake almost everyone is making is on content. This directory is not like a normal directory. Every listing is like a web page or post in a blog. You have no restrictions on how long it is. There are people putting up as little as 1 sentence, no links, no images and no keyword focus.

I have total control of the google serp snipet and usually add the phone number but many don't even put a phone number in their listing. Always put a phone number in an ad.

As a general rule of thumb....every page or post you ever create on any page of any site...should have a keyword focus with a 3.0 density, proper H1, H2, H3, ect tag structure and at least 1 outbound link with anchor text. make sure the focus keyword is in the H1 tag. If you have multiple images and text links, vary the anchor text.

To the google crawlers.....every unique URL is a page and has it's own PR and is indexed based on it's content. The fewer words....the less places in the index you appear.

Roof Cleaning New Jersey wrote:

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Give us an example. If it leaks, I can fix it. Other than that I'm clueless.

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You have to at least have the bronze package ($1.25 a month) for HTML pages.

Just put 200-300 words on the page and I'll polish it up. Don't copy paste your site content, make it unique.

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

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Roof Cleaning Cleveland (216) 323-0552 wrote:

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It's $50.00 for the year. I paid for it, Barry seems to really know his stuff. It's only been out for a month or two, he thinks the page rank should be 2-3 by the next index.

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I see it as possible link juice, maybe even good for a citation someday (if phone numbers are allowed)

The problem with many of these roof cleaning directory is this, they lack the SEO Clout to break into the search results, in real competitive markets.

Still, it is a relevant link, and if it gets some page rank, may be worth it one day. I went for the free listing, because I already dominate my market, organically.

I will help it, since I consider Barry Riddell our friends, and fellow working roof cleaners.

I have moved this thread to general public discussion, that is open to Google. This will "return the favor", and give this directory a page rank 3 link on the RCIA! 

I will also put a link to it on the RCIA Facebook Page 

 

http://www.roofcleaningcontractors.com/

 

Edit - Well, I went crazy, and posted it on every cleaning group I belong to on Facebook, including my own Company Page, LOL 

Let's all help it get going you guys, do the same on your Facebook pages ? In fact, I think I will post the RCIA in there ? Why not ?

It can't hurt. 

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 Thanks Chris

BTW, when we spoke the other day, I told you that your site was loading fine for me. This morning I was tweaking your listing page and went to your site for some content. It loaded fine the first time and then it went blank like you said it was doing for you. All I could get was a white screen. I tried to run a spider program to crawl your URL and it gave me a 404 error. Usually, when a page shows then disappears and shows....repeatedly, it's a DNS issue. When you change hosts....you'll see this happen a lot in the first 48 hours after the switch since the nameserver changes need to filter down to all the ISP's. That's where I went looking....

I think you have a nameserver conflict and/or your DNS settings are messed up. Also, your host should be showing a 404 error page when this happens and it isn't which tells me the error is probably in your A, txt, SOA records or all of them.

I'm not sure when this all began but sitebeam is reporting that your URL is down 40% in popularity in the last 3 months. It could be related since people would be getting the white screen (and no 404). This could be costing you work.