Archive for July, 2011

Consumers Benefit from Automotive Technician Certification

Perhaps years ago any backyard auto mechanic would do, after all cars were simpler then, less complex and anyone with a good mechanical aptitude, a knowhow of how the engine works and a set of tools and the skill set to use them could fix a small problem or even a big one.  Today, that has all changed.  With today’s high tech vehicles the margin for error is dramatically less and the cost of a mistake is significantly more so it makes financial sense to protect your investment in your vehicle through maintenance and service performed by qualified professionals.

 

Contrary to popular belief automotive trade is not a compulsory trade in many parts of North America – it certainly is not in British Columbia.  This means that anyone can open and run an auto repair shop without having a single certified automotive technician on staff.

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Automotive SEO tips part four ? Build your inbound links

Welcome back to the fourth article of our automotive SEO series, in this article we will explore inbound links. Inbound links is just like the name describes, it is a link that is from an external source pointed to your website, while outbound links mean the exact opposite. It is important to understand the concept of inbound links because it plays a major role in your Google ranking. Google unlike some other search engines uses a logarithm called Page Rank; it is named after one of its founders Larry Page. The concept of this system is to judge how important your website is compare to your competitors. In essence Page Rank system calculates how many inbound links your web site has, and how important are those links and assign a value and based on the value of these links rank your web site accordingly.

 

Let’s explore this concept little further, imagine your have a web site about selling shoes called weloveshoes dot com, and you have 30 inbound links from other external sources. If your inbound links are from web sites that are not relevant to your topic, or from a link farm. Google will give you very little value. But if your inbound links are from other online shoe resources and blogs Google sees this as been relevant therefore important to your web site. Imagine if this is a voting system, you have 30 people telling Google you are who you say you are, and on top of that you are popular in their community. Google will reflect this with a higher rank when you search for key phrases relevant to your topic.

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Characteristics of Good Automotive Spray Booths

Spray booths are a closed environment that is being controlled by pressure. It is actually used for painting cars in an automotive shop. Working conditions which include the humidity, air flow and temperature must be monitored for a perfect painting job so two or more ventilation machines are installed together with the booth. Automotive spray booths consists of one or more burners in heating the air to prevent bubbles to form on the body of the car while painting.

There are various companies that manufactures automotive spray booths. Naturally, there are different ways on how they make it. They use different materials and equipments to complete a spray booth. One must need to contemplate on factors to be considered in choosing the right one. Only premium quality materials and galvanized steel for the panel construction of the booth must be used to assemble automotive spray booths. This shows a stronger and more efficient structure in catering painting services for cars.

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