I deal with several waterproofing contractors who install foam board to concrete foundations and block foundations on a regular basis. These guys do it all day long so it is worth considering how they do it and what they use.
Most of these contractors are using a Ramset or Hilti gun to shoot a nail with a large metal washer on through the foam. The large washer serves as a stress plate preventing the tool from overdriving. The best tools I have seen for this application are the Hilti DX-A41 and the Ramset D45 A. These two tools deal well with this type of application.
If you have very green concrete, maybe just a few days old, you may want to consider just using the Ramset or Hilti nail and a regular hammer to drive the pin in.
Keep In Mind The Basics
1. Safety. Get training and wear proper safety gear.
2. The right pin. You will get about 1" into the concrete. Add 1" to the thickness of the material to get the right length pin.
3. The right load. Start low and work your way up. This application has lots of potential for overdrive, good for my repair business, bad for your wallet.
4.The right tool. Again, some tools are bettAlthough good on-page optimization is something you'll really want to do, it is not how you make dramatic changes in your search engine ranking! Many believe that by getting your keyword density just right, you'll really move up in the search engines. That is really a misconception. It is the off-page optimization factors that will get you high rankings.
The first thing you need to do is select a page title for your website. The page title should include only your main keywords. The least amount of words you can place in the title, the more weight Google will give each of the keywords and the higher you will rank. Your title should not contain an unnecessary number of words such as "and." Let's say you are selling aquarium products. Our keywords are going to be aquarium supply and reef supply. A perfect title for your webpage would be Aquarium Supply | Reef Supply. Replace "ands" with a "|" character and always combine your keyword when possible to cut down on the total number of words that are in your title. When Google looks at your title it will only see all your keywords. Combining keywords to cut down on the total number of words displayed in the title is a great way to boost the strength of each individual keyword, which will have an immediate impact on your ranking.
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Next we'll add 1 header tag and place our most important keyword there. The header tag should be as far towards the top of the page as possible. When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page. So, it's best to place your header tag on the top left hand or top/middle portion of your page. You can think of an header tag as a title for whatever content you have on your page. For example, the header tag of this lesson would be: aquarium supply. These are keywords we should target to begin with. Once we have our list of 3 to 4 keywords, we need to go to Google and check out the competition to see exactly how hard it will be to optimize for the specified keyword.<![CDATA[<h2> header tags]]>
Next create an header tag. This can be thought of as a sub heading for our webpage. You should place your 2nd most important keyword in the header tag. The tag should be placed somewhere towards the top half of your webpage. A good header tag for our example would be:
<![CDATA[<h2>reef supply<h2> (Usually it's best to place your primary keyword in your <h1> tags and your secondary keyword into the <h2> tags).]]>After we've done this, you need to actually create the content for your webpage. When writing content, evenly distribute your main keywords throughout the copy, but don't overdo it. Try to mention each keyword in a natural way as you are writing, but be sure to include at least one of your keywords every 1-2 paragraphs, depending on your page size. Make sure to mention your main keyword at the very top left and the very bottom right hand side of your webpage. A good way to do this to is to include this in the copyright information line at the bottom of the website.
A good example would be:
© 2005 copyright www.yourdomain.com Aquarium Supply
Bolding, italicizing and underlining...
Once we've finished writing our copy, we should go through and bold, underline, or italicize some of the keywords. Do this no more than once each. If you do more than this, it will hurt you more than it helps.
<![CDATA[Properly include <alt> image tags...]]>Next, click on the very top image of your webpage (This is usually your website's header graphic) and include an image tag using the text "aquarium supply header." Click on 2 more graphics throughout your webpage and enter your other keywords, plus an extra word like "graphic" or "image"... In this example, we would use "reef supply picture graphic." This helps to ensure that Google won't view this as spam.
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