Consumer advice on contractors

Blogging is a wonderful way to record information. The problem is that the information you place online is, quite possibly, as invisible to the world as it would be sitting on your own hard drive.

Say that you have a complaint against a building contractor and you believe that it would be a service to warn others of their shoddy work. People who want confidence in a contractor before they call them might look for "escondido strawbale house contractors complaints" on Google or Dogpile. They won't find Leslie Miley's blog though, unless they know to search on the contractor's name: Three Little Pigs Construction. Exchanging the word "recommendations" for "complaints" does pull up an article on Anthony Flynn of RAF Construction but that article, as well as Mister Pimley's complaint about Mission Pools were posted on the Internet within the last few months. Miley's blog was posted almost two years ago.

Nothing but serendipity led to finding Laura Silver's list of recommendations last updated 18 months ago. Mentioning it and linking to it here will make it that much more prominent in the Google hit list next time someone searches.

The next post will present an alternative way to research consumer comments. Stay tuned.