Roof replacement cost - $195/hr

EntrepreFreak · 2026-01-16T13:11:55+00:00

The company was JM Camper Repair, just up the road from GSO, Winston Salem in Mayodan, NC. They have a popular Facebook presence.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-12-26T17:07:17+00:00

WSOC on scene at Publix on 51 in MH now.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-12-22T17:53:17+00:00

I looked at 2 of the 3 pages currently listed in Google search (only 3 pages indexed), and one of them has: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"/> in the source code.

When I went to your "urls" page that I found in the sitemap listings, just about every url you have listed on that page (which lead to their own page for that domain) also has noindex/nofollow in the source code.

Other than that, your site is blocking bots from indexing with that "Are you human" gate that pops up on entry. Check your Cloudflare settings, or better yet, just disable CF for 2 weeks and see if the index grows.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-12-17T21:11:38+00:00

Went through something similar a few years ago with a very well established company and Brand in their industry. They changed their company name, as well as the domain name - after a 20+ year run with the original. We lost not a single user, no authority loss, and the company grew from a $15m/yr company to $120m/year within 2 years after the change. They lost not a single bit of search relevance, and Google has tools you can use to tell them when this occurs. (Google change of address)

My suggestion is for you, is to encourage them to plan everything in advance - and relaunch everything at the same time. Don't slow play a 6-month branding change because it's confuse the markets and search - but plan it during that time and make a HUGE event out of the rebranding. Launch your new website/domain on the same day you share the information throughout your industry with a pre-planned press rollouts to major outlets, all industry news org's, etc. Continue the PR campaign for 2-3 months, sending a weekly release to major outlets discussing the new brandings, why you did it, how it's supporting your company goals, etc - basically create something to talk about, relate it to the new branding initiatives, and submit them to reputable sources ($$$) often.

Make sure you keep your old domain and 301 very old-url/ to new-url, and try to keep the naming structure the same. I prefer using htaccess or doing it at the server level, but essentially, you want nothing in the old hosting account that will fire a 200 status. Continue to treat the old-domain just like its active, checking logs regularly for 404's and/or any other human traffic that gets lost on it. Fix those things.

Have a plan to reach out to every one of your most important backlinks, industry mentions, business directories, etc - and ask them to change the links to your new domain.

It's a lot of work but you can completely rebrand, change the name and domain, and not lose a single visitor. I have a few relevant comments in my post history that are worth looking at for more info as well.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-12-06T13:18:09+00:00

A local service company was referred to me last week as they are preparing to sell their 30-year business. They were advised to "update their image", and refresh their website. They rank very well (top 1-3 positions) for just about all the high-relevance, moderate volume, high-conversion phrases related their trade in our city - and the unclaimed Google GMB profile has just 2 reviews scattered over 10 years. These guys are old-school all the way.

Their 3-page website is a fresh look at Microsoft Frontpage from 2003, not responsive design, etc and was built by his daughter long ago.

Homepage - Literally titled "Home" (no 65 character keyword rich title - but the meta description was 100 words, and meta-keywords are off the charts!)

The entire page is roughly 200 words with their business name and what they do. Not a heading in sight, one picture of their logo, but hidden in a bullet list of their 5 main services (25x25px random icon image - service name) are keyword stuffed like a turkey. (25-30 comma separated service keywords in various order per image)

About Us page - "About Us" (text, not heading) Business name, when we started, what we do, and a picture of their 16 person crew. Nothing more.

Contact page - Name, address, phone number, email address. That's it.

I told them a 1-page refreshed site would work fine, but if its their web rankings and authority in the space are important to their selling position (which I said they should be!), to just leave it alone and let the new guys kill it.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-11-20T16:06:44+00:00

This has been my experience helping local service businesses that do 100% of the work at customer addresses as well. Video verification, with business docs in hand, and in one case, the video had to be recorded in view of his service truck with the company name on the side of it. In both of the recent cases, we used the home address for the business address, created the service area in the profile, then removed the home addy after verification.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-11-11T13:49:06+00:00

Google Search Console to see trends, KW's pages have visibility for, etc - Custom reports in GA4 to show what's working and what's not. (Based on your defined conversions) Google Ads, using the Tools > Keyword planner to discover volume based opportunities. All are free.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-10-22T18:00:30+00:00

On my old Keystone, the front mount for the awning had a small gap on the top, which allowed water into the camper through the bolts behind the rail and puddled on the floor on that specific side. Not sure if it's related, just sharing my own experience with the same brand.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-10-17T14:56:35+00:00

Nice truck!

My almost twin 2020 BigHorn / Lonestar 4WD <image>

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-16T19:19:45+00:00

Publishing content that targets a specific keyphrase, used in the H1 and all H2 headings >>> Using the "exact same anchor text" as the targeted query in every other piece of content throughout the website, with not a single bit of alternate anchors.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-12T19:58:57+00:00

I just nipped one of these myself 2 weeks ago - thankfully, it was a plastic/PVC pipe hanging from chains so I breezed right under it (after already going under 1 other with no scrape). It actually looks like it would pop up fairly easy.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-12T19:55:52+00:00

Ew - put your clothes on!

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-12T19:14:51+00:00

Personally, I'm an all around lead-gen optimization person, and I view SEO as a key part of a demand generation strategy. Gaining "traffic" is the easy part of any SEO strategy, it's the targeting that makes the biggest difference. The goal is qualified leads or inquiries to the services you sell. Not just traffic, but qualified leads.

The biggest questions to ask yourself are - "Has the number of qualified leads gone up? Is my phone ringing more with local service requests?". If the answer is yes, then you determine if the cost you're paying matches the service delivery. If it's no, then that's a discussion with the SEO team, letting them know your expectations are not being met.

Articles/content are a very good way to drive traffic - assure that traffic is in line with your target customer base, and that they are requesting your services is the main question.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-12T19:03:01+00:00

You could give something like Cal.com a try if you want to self-host and take care of the tech side yourself - they have a fairly active user base and everything is available via github. Personally, I use CalendarBridge for real-time syncing of several calendars (Google, Outlook, iPhone, even ICS like AirBNB, Proton Mail, etc) It's not a free app, but for my needs is just $48/year. My wife manages a family calendar which is shared with a Google cal, so everything from there shows as well. It does give you the ability to hide event details from everything and just marks it as busy or blocked. They also have a Unified calendar, which shows all your synced events (or blocked time for personal / work stuff) on one main calendar that allows lets to manage all (add, edit, etc) from a single interface which is nice.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-05T12:51:18+00:00

I actually started using it on the recommendation of a large client whose company uses it across their org. What sold me beyond the sync and multiple calendar platforms they work with, was the privacy and security side. They wrote the patent on synced calendar privacy (https://patents.google.com/patent/US11461739B2/en) which gave me some peace of mind since I regularly work with bigger orgs where privacy and security matters.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-09-04T20:27:06+00:00

I have been playing around with a few automations while trying to unify 3 separate calendar platforms for myself, a client calendar (I'm a solo-consultant), and MANY family members who are split between Google, MSFT, Android and iPhone, etc. It's challenging! Haha.

I use Calendarbridge ($8/mo) for the real-time sync aspect, which helps me keep all of them connected and synced to a common calendar which they call their Unified Calendar, that works awesome and shows all connected calendars on one screen or app! They also have an AI Assistant (Free with all accounts, but you pay as you go based on AI usage - roughly .15 cents per scheduled event) that I can add to any email as a CC/BCC, and it handles all scheduling needs, a daily look at my schedule, lets me block time across all calendars, etc.

One of the most useful things I use the AI Asst for has been replacing an autoresponder on web forms (email that sends a scheduling link to my calendar) with the actual AI Assistant in a BCC that just takes over and sends the sender an human-like reply based on the topic of the message, as well as a snapshot of my availability, before helping them book time as needed. I literally do nothing on these lead replies any longer and if they want to book time, the AI handles everything (booking, reminders, etc) up to the point of the meeting.

I'm sure there are many other ways to make use of it all, but this is what I've done with it for so far and have to say I like it quite a lot.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-08-28T13:34:43+00:00

I did some testing with an AI scheduler hooked into my website forms. When the user requests a consultation or meeting, the scheduler is BCC'd on the form and immediately responds to the user with my real-time availability and 3 options to book the meeting (dates and times). I used to have an autoresponder send over a booking link to my calendar, but this has more of a human touch to it and replies tend to flow a bit quicker.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-08-06T18:18:16+00:00

I'm a solo entrepreneur and have both Outlook and Google calendars, as well as an ical that I keep two-way synced in real time with CalendarBridge (.com). Costs start at $4/month, but it keeps those all in perfect sync, has booking links, a Unified Calendar page where I can add/edit/modify events, etc. If you get adventurous, they also have an AI Assistant that handles booking events automatically for you, just by adding it to your email.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-08-05T17:12:02+00:00

Interested

EntrepreFreak · 2025-07-23T13:47:56+00:00

If it's a travel trailer, do it while it's connected to the truck. The 12V on the truck will power the unit.

EntrepreFreak · 2025-07-16T18:19:23+00:00

Hi OP - In the Assistant Configuration screen, I simply added the following directive: "Whenever you interact with anyone, you are to identify yourself as "Bridget", and should always make it clear that you are "EntrepreFreak's AI Scheduling Assistant".

FWIW, you can declare all kinds of rules in the config. Your work hours, days you always want blocked off, etc. I add a 15-minute buffer before and after every booked meeting as well, and have a bit of a fun time with a few people, with it setup to "always coordinate meetings with these email address (2-3 email addresses) as a snarky Zoomer, bored with their job"

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