6 Costly Misconceptions About Power Washing

Nice information to read on, the only quote I give over the phone is pressure washing a house. Once they tell me the square footage I can price range it giving them a up or down with a certain amount of range. I also clean a lot of homes in certain areas and know what sizes those homes are and for the roofs. Just to save gas I will give a quote over the phone for a roof or house in those areas I do a lot of work just to save on gas money. If it is an area I am not familiar with than I go to the job site and look. Door hangers have been a big help for me in a few subdivisions I work in plus word of mouth.
 
Here's what I've learned from the SEO firm and web design company that has redone my website. If you want to use someone else's words or content on your site that's fine, but you need to go through it and change it around so its at least 30-50% different than the original. Several reasons why. Number one: just copying and pasting without permission is plagiarizing. Number two: it could raise a red flag with the search engines and they will see it as a duplicate and will penalize you for it. Meaning that page won't rank at all, and you certainly don't want that. Number three: the original author could be a jerk if he wanted and just report you to google. Its not hard and all you have to do is prove to them you had the original content first. They will penalize the copy cat by not allowing any page of their site to ever rank. In this particuliar instance I have reported two sites that I found my stuff on word for word. I proved to them it was mine through my computer files and plus it was on my old website from a couple of years ago. Don't worry it wasn't any of you guys that called or emailed me asking permission. So IMO just take a little time and reword, rewrite, move around some sentences, break out the thesaurus and make it unique compared to the original and then nobody gets hurt.

Another option is to add a "no index" tag or change your robot.txt so that google doesn't index your page. Everyone is friends until someone ranks better than you do when they are using your content. Mine has been ripped off more than once...curious? Got to copyscape.com and check on yours.

Check this out...I met this cat about a year ago...show him my website and swap war stories. Then I see him at the hardware store and he pretends like he doesn't see me. Weird I think....I wonder if he is still in business. so I go to his site h2oboys.com (I don't want to give him link juice) and what do I find at the very bottom in hidden text (you have to click and drag)? My old home page word for word!:nono: All the sudden he goes from ranking in the 30's to being on the front page. And that is part of why I hesitate to give out general SEO info anymore!:stop:

Daniel Simmons
Pressure Washing Houston Texas
 
I know how you feel, there was this dumba** in hawaii that copied most of my website (nobody here) and my webguys sent a mean letter to him and he did not pull the info down in the few days that they gave him.
Next were the copies of the mean letter back to him, his website hosting company, the company that registered his website and also to Google. His site was down by the end of that same day.

It sucks when people out there copy your stuff.

There is this one Dumba** that copied my logo that I paid to have designed, he did not respond to the first letter, I think that his hosting company might respond to the second letter. I think he is a member here.
Google and the internet associations out there really don't like people that steal content, logos or anything else that is intellectual property, they call it plagarism and can keep your site from ranking, ban your site from the search engines or penalize your hosting company if changes are not made or the site taken down.
 
Nice information to read on, the only quote I give over the phone is pressure washing a house. Once they tell me the square footage I can price range it giving them a up or down with a certain amount of range. I also clean a lot of homes in certain areas and know what sizes those homes are and for the roofs. Just to save gas I will give a quote over the phone for a roof or house in those areas I do a lot of work just to save on gas money. If it is an area I am not familiar with than I go to the job site and look. Door hangers have been a big help for me in a few subdivisions I work in plus word of mouth.


I love maps.google.com...often you can get a street view of the house. I'd rather be off $20 in either direction than spend an hour round tripping an estimate and still maybe not get the job.

Conroe Texas Pressure Washing
Roof Cleaning Conroe Texas
 
Another option is to add a "no index" tag or change your robot.txt so that google doesn't index your page. Everyone is friends until someone ranks better than you do when they are using your content. Mine has been ripped off more than once...curious? Got to copyscape.com and check on yours.

Check this out...I met this cat about a year ago...show him my website and swap war stories. Then I see him at the hardware store and he pretends like he doesn't see me. Weird I think....I wonder if he is still in business. so I go to his site h2oboys.com (I don't want to give him link juice) and what do I find at the very bottom in hidden text (you have to click and drag)? My old home page word for word!:nono: All the sudden he goes from ranking in the 30's to being on the front page. And that is part of why I hesitate to give out general SEO info anymore!:stop:

Daniel Simmons
Pressure Washing Houston Texas

I know that Company very well, They keep scamming homeowners in sugar land, and ive been picking up the pieces. I had hidden text in my site at one point, (just a bunch of keywords and zip codes) and I was booted off google, but im slowly getting re indexed now.
 
I also use maps to get an idea of what the job is.on homes i try to give a est.over the phone if they are serious about the job we will go out and meet with them.It saves alot of time from tire kickers.You had a good post Russ.I just got of the phone with a man that wants some graffiti removed he said i think we just need some really hot water and alot of pressure,I asked what the suface was he said painted metal.SO yes people do have misconception about pressure washing
 
A good bit of information to leave with your customer especially if you don't sell the job on the 1st visit.
 
Estimates on the phone are all we do for residential. I am in the office 90% of the time and have access to MANY sources that allow you to see multiple views of the home, sq.footage, arial views etc while on the phone with the customer. By nature, people want an immediate response, if they have to wait, it gives them the opportunity to go elsewhere. I want to close them on the first call. This is a great thread.
 
Estimates on the phone are all we do for residential. I am in the office 90% of the time and have access to MANY sources that allow you to see multiple views of the home, sq.footage, arial views etc while on the phone with the customer. By nature, people want an immediate response, if they have to wait, it gives them the opportunity to go elsewhere. I want to close them on the first call. This is a great thread.

Hi Mike,

Interesting. I have been in sales and marketing for about 27 years and this pressure washing business is a new venture for me. I have always beat out competition by meeting folks person to person. It also has given me opportunity to look for more problems and offer solutions. This process builds credibility and creates more value over those who just fire off prices by phone. I will experiment with this new venture. Best regards!
 
i am learning alot on this board
 
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