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O’meara Ford Denver. Fake Reviews?
O’meara Ford Denver. Fake Reviews?
Fake reviews are a big problem in the on line world. It look’s like O’meara Ford in Denver, and possibly several other car dealerships are having a huge amount of what seems to be fake reviews posted on Google Places to help their horrible ratings. But you be the judge.
Below you will find the “other” reviews posted by individuals who posted great reviews about O’meare ford Denver. They all rate other car dealerships, and some rate the same exact companies that the others did. Are you kidding?
Here are the actual profile’s and reviews of three individuals who posted great reviews for O’meara. You decide. If I had more time I would go look at the other 50 or so, but I am sure the vast majority would look fake as well.
Kathrine: 5 reviews all on Car Dealers in Denver.
The profile above has 5 car dealership reviews?
3 car dealership reviews, and the same hotel casino reviews as the profile above.
Wish I had more time, but I will follow up with more. My advice is to be very careful when reading O’Meara Ford Denver reviews, or any of the dealships these profiles refer to.
More when I have time…
contractorleads.com
Contractorleads.com
A client forwards an email from contractorleads.com offering appointments.
I call the sales representative for contractorleads.com and hear the standard sales pitch. Leads generated from T.V, Internet and other sources. The problem I have is I have never seen contractorleads.com on line in Colorado, or on T.V. So how are they going to generate a prospect?
I ask my standard question of any company a client is thinking of advertising with. Can you provide 3 references in this market? contractorleads.com tells me no, it’s propitiatory. Huh? How is giving out a reference proprietary?
So I ask who runs the company. contractorleads.com tells me they don’t release this information, and the sales rep is getting pretty sick of my difficult questions. To her credit she does put me on hold to ask a manager if she can tell me. She comes back and says she is sure she can not, but they are owned by a group of investors in an LLC. So I ask the name of the LLC. Nope, they don’t release that, contractorleads.com will not even tell you that.
Contractorleads.com did a little service magic bashing in the intro, but I will say this about service magic, you go on line and get the names and information on all of the executive management, and they will provide references.
So, If you are planning on looking at lead sources, my feeling is contractorleads.com considers contractors to be pretty stupid. And if you ask any regular questions about a company you are about to hand your money to (and credit card information) they will basically end the conversation. I say… no to contractorleads.com
Try www.servicemagic.com instead.
Why I do not follow you on Twitter
I get a bunch of people following my twitter account (@mikebayes)
This is how I decide if I am going to follow back:
- The first thing I do is look at their profile to see what they tweet about and if they will be interesting to me. I look at the last 4 or 5 tweets. If they are all advertising for their stuff, I am not going to follow.
- I also see the frequency of posts. If the post every 8 minutes, I am not going to follow.
- And, I look at how many people they follow and how many followers they have. If they follow 1200 and have 30 followers, I skip it.
- If I make it through this, I go to their web site. If its something interesting I am going to follow at that point.
- I also ask myself why are they following me? This can get you added or not pretty fast.
How do you decide who to follow?
My not very important view on tweeting:
I try to be interesting and keep the self promoting tweets to a 20% of less ratio. Not easy. But I have found that if I really don’t have anything to say, I can retweet someone who does. BTW, I think you should re-tweet
often. At least 10% of the time. You don’t look nearly as self centered 😉
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Small business Health Care
Ok, I know this isn’t about SEO, or marketing, or increaseing your revenue. We just happen to feel that as a community, small business owners are with out question the least represented, least understood, and least listened to.
That’s why I actual read the white house blog from time to time. That link will take you to an interesting blog on small business health care. Did you know we pay on average, 18% more for health care than larger businesses.
And that’s with out factoring in the type of care small business plans provide.
Well, enough about that.
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Denver Sales Training, or coaching?
One of the challenges we face in business is a clear description of what a business does.
We are a sales acceleration firm. As such, we do a lot of SEO in Denver, as it’s difficult to find a business who can not benefit from a strong SEO program.
That is why you will find so much information on SEO on this blog. Scroll down to find that most of these blogs are about search engine optimization and Internet Marketing.
But, we also offer sales coaching for business owners and senior managers. Sales coaching is not sales training. It is a process to accelerate your businesses sales through a proven system.
I coached two of Denver’s fastest growing companies (as named by the Denver Journal in 2010). And we still do the SEO work for both. But I can tell you that the SEO without the sales coaching would have been far less effective in what every business really wants. It’s not about higher rankings, it’s about more revenue.
If you want to see more on our sales coaching you can view it here.
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SEO Denver
We see so many web design, and to some extent, social media companies offering SEO (search engine optimization) services in Denver.
In most cases, they are just not going to be very good at it. I am sure there are exceptions, but SEO is a skill set that takes not only experience, but on going study and research.
Several of our clients moved to us after long periods of waiting for their web firm’s SEO to kick in. After reviewing the work they were doing, they would have had to wait forever. Some Web design firms seem to think that by completing the basic search engine friendly work on a site it will some how magically appear on the first page of Google. Most experts agree that around 25% of your SEO success is based on your on site SEO., leaving the vast majority of your rankings to the off site SEO. That’s the stuff most web design firms don’t know how to do.
If you are looking for a good SEO firm, ask them these questions.
Who developed the Google ranking algorithm (Page rank) And who is the patent assigned to?
Answer, Larry Page, co founder of Google. And Stanford university
Ask, how important is a pages PR rank in SEO these days?
Answer: Not very!
Ask them the value of Google web master tools for SEO?
Google web master is a free, and highly important tool for tracking how Google views your web site.
Ask them how they will research Key words to use, and how they will use the keywords to attract more visitors.
If they plan to just dump the keywords into your text, thats bad.
Ask them the difference between Dynamic URL’s and Static URL’s on a site, and which is better for SEO.
Answer: The important part is they can describe the difference, and communicate the use of each.
Ask them what they do to stay on top of Google and other Search Engine changes that could make a difference for your rankings.
You would like to hear how they track all of the changes they make with SEO clients, as well as all the off site SEO practices to establish the value of each, and that they subscribe to several national SEO sites and associations, as well as track changes through the Google blogs.
And ask them if Face book, Word Press, and Blogger.com are follow or no follow links.
Answer, Face book: no follow, Word Press is No Follow, Blogger.com Follow
If they can get through those questions, it’s time to do one more test. Ask them for three sites they have done the Denver SEO on that are currently ranked on the First page, and the keywords. And make sure these are recent!
Our main site www.salesjumpstart.net
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Denver SEO and Good Marketing
It’s really the same thing. In our sales coaching, one of the main topics is how to sell more through business relationships.
Local SEO is just an extension of that principle. Your site needs to “build good relationships” with other local and national sites to attract attention.
In business you want to first, build great relationships with your current customers, and then build strategic relationships with other companies that can promote your service, and in turn you can promote theirs.
The bottom line on building better positive relationships in business is finding ways to support your customers and network in new and valuable ways.
Ask not what they can do for you, but ask what you can do for them.
A good step would be offering to write a letter of reference for their services, and allowing them to post it on their web site. Testimonials are an important part of building trust, and they should jump at the offer. It’s good for their site and company and if you add your business information to the testimonial include your web site, and that’s a plus for your SEO.
I truly believe that the way you advance your business is by helping others advance theirs. And just like with good local SEO, make sure you chose the companies you promote carefully, as you will be judged to an extent by their reputation.
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For Local Denver SEO, Content is King
Going back to our premise that good Search engine optimization is all about good marketing, Google recently announced some more changes that will affect rankings on sites with duplicate content. You can see the Google blog here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-search-and-search-engine-spam.html
What you want on your site is fresh and good content. Site owners that just swap information from other sites or Blogs don’t do much to bring up the bar (so to speak) for good content.
Fresh, original and new…. those are great marketing concepts, and very good for S.E.O. as well.
Read the post on White Hat Search Engine Marketing
Denver Local SEO is more than rankings
Local SEO should be more than getting your site ranked well on search engines. You need to also think what your web site ranking will look like!
Given the choice of being first for a category with no reviews, or third with 10 great reviews I would go with the third spot, and the reviews.
Reviews bring positive attention, and will more than likely bring more clicks to your web site.
There are several other factors that will affect how Google displays your web site. You need to manage all of those to get the right people to your site.
See more about us at www.salesjumpstart.net