@George you said "The amount of censorship of these comments are getting ridiculous Jeff." You sure are right about that, give me a call and I'll fill you in on more!
I'm not protecting Brian because on he is advertising here on DR. I'm protecting my Blog, because a few comments were personal and had not much to do with offering a free webinar for others to possibly learn something. The webinar could have been from anyone. Obviously some have too much time on their hands.
Trolls ruin blogs and discourage others from posting in fear of being jumped on.
Other than the comment from the one and only Richard Astley (which will be deleted), every comment here is legit with an real email and link to a site.
If company/business wants to ask a few of their happy clients to post their feedback on a website...what's so wrong with that? I do not consider that to be "fake". It happens in every vertical, as it should (online word of mouth). The unhappy customers always express their opinions.
Corey was the first to post, expressed his opinions and was not deleted.
"I’m all for promotion and advertising but how much of this is real and how much made up?"
That's for YOU to decide. I believe that I have done a fair job in monitoring DealerRefresh over the last (almost) 4 years to give a real representation of what is real and what is not. If you disagree, there are plenty of other Dealer Industry networking websites to contribute to.
This is why I have stayed away in the past from posting too much on the subject of SEO. So many SEO "professionals" are quick to inject their option of what is right and what is wrong. What is whitehat, blackhat and plain ol' "craphat".
I personally am a fan of very straight forward content based SEO. From my experiences, this is what Brian has to offer his clients. And has even helped me with a few things for myself.
So let's get off this negativity get back into focus here on what really matters. Selling cars and helping dealers to find new opportunities to sell more cars.
Sign up for the webinar, heck you might learn something.