- Sep 7, 2012
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- Timothy
I'm sure a "big box" solution is fine for a majority of dealer out there who would rather not take the time to learn enough to hold their vendors accountable. But I thought this basically already existed within many of the better web solutions providers out there. Hasn't everyone heard of dealer.com by now?
Wikimotive is an SEO solutions provider and even as a young company focused on growth, we never even considered for a moment offering our services via DU. While the growth would be nice now, it would completely undermine the values of our company in providing the very best service to a single dealer in each market.
You can't very well scale market exclusivity. You can't very well scale expectations for results when you're held to the same results timelines in a rural area as you would be in a competitive metro area. And if contracts are a concern, I think our motto says it all.
I think the mission of DU is nice and last I checked none of us are in the non-profit sector so for those companies who are willing to slash their profitability for large scale access to dealers, I think that's great for them and DU.
As for us, we work too hard and produce far too much to give so much away. The idea that you can take a good SEO company and drop a ton of clients in their lap and expect scalability is just absurd. Last I checked there weren't graduating classes with thousands of SEO degrees coming in to the market place. How can they hire and train true experts to deliver consistent results?
Steve S is a sharp guy, but with all due respect, SEO is about gaming. Of course, you want your SEO company to follow ethical guidelines, but the idea that this great extensive testing is necessary is just foolish. Run a few google searches and you know who's who. Hell there is free software out there that will do it all for you and compile the reporting. It just sounds like he shifted the "loudness" of those purporting their expertise, to... well...himself...
That's my 2 cents...
-M
Wikimotive is an SEO solutions provider and even as a young company focused on growth, we never even considered for a moment offering our services via DU. While the growth would be nice now, it would completely undermine the values of our company in providing the very best service to a single dealer in each market.
You can't very well scale market exclusivity. You can't very well scale expectations for results when you're held to the same results timelines in a rural area as you would be in a competitive metro area. And if contracts are a concern, I think our motto says it all.
I think the mission of DU is nice and last I checked none of us are in the non-profit sector so for those companies who are willing to slash their profitability for large scale access to dealers, I think that's great for them and DU.
As for us, we work too hard and produce far too much to give so much away. The idea that you can take a good SEO company and drop a ton of clients in their lap and expect scalability is just absurd. Last I checked there weren't graduating classes with thousands of SEO degrees coming in to the market place. How can they hire and train true experts to deliver consistent results?
Steve S is a sharp guy, but with all due respect, SEO is about gaming. Of course, you want your SEO company to follow ethical guidelines, but the idea that this great extensive testing is necessary is just foolish. Run a few google searches and you know who's who. Hell there is free software out there that will do it all for you and compile the reporting. It just sounds like he shifted the "loudness" of those purporting their expertise, to... well...himself...
That's my 2 cents...
-M
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