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Anyone Have Experience with the SEO offered by OEM Website companies?

One of my locations recently signed up for DDC SEO.

Was wondering if anyone had experience with the SEO these companies offer.

Are they any good and worth it or am I better off doing it in house?
I would not rely fully on the OEM SEO. It is usually pretty slow to update things that matter. I had better luck handing small tasks to a group like Creative Web because they fixed the weird stuff on the site that OEM tools kept ignoring. Maybe check what issues your pages actually have before you commit to anything.
 
Even though I ranked DDC #2 for CDJR website vendors, I'd rank them near dead last for SEO.

You might be lucky for them to spend 30 minutes a month on your site - and you'll get a report saying they updated one page title, three meta descriptions, and created one citation listing for you on some obscure no-follow site.

One of my locations recently signed up for DDC SEO.

Was wondering if anyone had experience with the SEO these companies offer.

Are they any good and worth it or am I better off doing it in house?
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  • Dealers discussing DDC's SEO services overwhelmingly report that the offering is ineffective, with vendors spending minimal time on sites while producing inflated reports showing trivial changes like updating meta tags and creating no-follow citations.
  • Multiple respondents recommend doing SEO in-house or finding specialized vendors that invest in custom, market-researched content rather than boilerplate recycled material, with the consensus being that paying for these OEM website company SEO packages provides little to no meaningful ROI.

Dealers discussing DDC's SEO services overwhelmingly report that the offering is ineffective, with vendors spending minimal time on sites while producing inflated reports showing trivial changes like updating meta tags and creating no-follow citations. Multiple respondents recommend doing SEO in-house or finding specialized vendors that invest in custom, market-researched content rather than boilerplate recycled material, with the consensus being that paying for these OEM website company SEO packages provides little to no meaningful ROI.

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