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I saw a post from a company called NetBiz.com that guarantees placement on the first page for certain search terms. I got a call from them probably about a year ago and gave me a major search term for my area. However, after I had paid the fees to get everything going, I did not appear under that search term. Instead it was under another search term that I believed would
never get any business. Called and said they were sorry that I misunderstood the term that I would be listed with. However the gentleman said I will definitely get lots of action under the search term they gave me. I watched my statistics over a few months and never got one hit. Personally I would be very careful of this and other SEO companies.
Jeff Launiere
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - Nov. 7, 2007 |
| Posted by SEO who knows |
Given the right understanding, SEO companies are a great advertising tool. As with any company, there are the bad apples.
Netbiz.com however is not one of those companies. We DO NOT guarantee leads, we guarantee exposer. Like any form of advertising, just because your advertising does not mean that you will get results. 80 % of home buyers look online. What better place to have your advertising dollars?! We offer 1st page placement at a set monthly fee. We even have tracking tools now you can use to see the progress your phrase is making. The prices of course range depending on how much exposer you want to receive. It's the people who expect 50,000 people to click on their website, who want to pay $25 a month. Think about it, if 50,000 people click on your site, and you sell even 3 houses, how much commission did you just make? Selling even one house a year off of this form of advertising is MORE then paying for itself.
Understand the advertising you are choosing before you choose. Don't be afraid to ask questions. I think you will find that this kind of exposer is well worth the time and money. |
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - Nov. 8, 2007 |
| Posted by Jeffery |
This is honestly the dumbest thing i have ever heard. Do you even know
how much clicks cost? I mean on average about a dollar and multiply
that x50K and see if you aren't getting what you are paying for. Seems
like there are just plenty of cheap people out there and expect the
world from a company that is just offering you placement. There is no
way they can control how many people click on your site. I mean
honestly do you think they are genies? Honestly do you expect to drive
a lamborgini for the price of a pinto? |
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - Jan. 18, 2008 |
| Posted by SEO who knows |
That was my point Jeffrey. Maybe you misread what I wrote? Clients expect to get all these clicks but don't want to pay the price. You can't pay $25 for ANY kind of advertising and get good results. This is a form of advertising, SEO companies offer you the opportunity to have first page placement at a, more often then not, set monthly fee. And the SEO takes care of keeping you up there. where as if you were to do your own placement, you would have to be on your computer every hour on the hour bidding.
This can be VERY beneficial to someone who is currently being advertised on the 10 or 12 page of over 400 pages. Do you really think someone searching on yahoo/google is going to go through 10 pages of advertising if they can find what they want on the first page? |
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - Mar. 28, 2008 |
| Posted by Mike |
That is so funny, this companies Netbiz doesn't even do SEO the offer SEP. I was with them for over 6 months and couldn't get a "Traffic Report" Talk about SCAM. Their business model is to offer you a Keyword that isn't a Broad Match or Phrase.....it's an exact match. We all know that the doesn't work unless the exact phrase is typed in and then they hope you never look at your credit card statement again. Have you even seen their websites? SEO company...ha! They don't even put Meta Keywords in clients sites. Total cash cow that only is in business to help themselves. Lets face it this is a results driven business. I'd love to know what their retention rate is on clients. I know for a fact that it is terrible with their employees. Every time I called my reps number a new name was sitting in that desk. Also the reason for a flat rate is when you get 5 clicks on that "Great Phrase" it cost them $5 & you $50.
There are good SEO/SEP companies out there. I finally found one.
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - May. 2, 2008 |
| Posted by The One |
| I always find it funny that people who spend so much money sending mailers and digging holes for posts can't see the importance and the exposure you can get through Internet marketing. Yeah you can pay per click and set up an unlimited budget then sure you may get placed 24/7 on some broad matched searches and spend quadruple what a placement company can do it for. The time and effort that placement companies such as NetBiz go through to provide an ethical and reliable service for their clients is amazing. Of course your phone won't ring off the hook on a 50 dollar placement but look at Realtor.com. You sign up for a year and pay a ridiculous amount to be featured only when you have listings. You can gain listings with placement on Google/Yahoo. The generation of people in front of you buying homes and searching for that right Realtor don't wait for your mailer, they throw it away it is called littering. They look for someone that understands that the Internet is taking over all print marketing. Don't get me wrong, people hear what they want to hear when they are on the phone talking about a new marketing strategy. The problem is Realtors don't get that people search for Homes, Property and Realtors differently. The search does not always sound the best but it could have the most performance. You can't do what these companies do by yourself and if you can where is your time to actually sell those homes? Spend 1000.00 with this company and let them build a campaign for you. If anything use the placement at your listing appointments and show your clients that unlike the last Realtor that walked through their door you understand the value of featuring their home on Google/Yahoo 24 hours a day nation wide. Also, make sure you have a quality site with enough lead capture forms, you can have your agent page on Google all day long but once that "client" uses your MLS the company and most likely another agent will probably gain that lead. Money spent on the Internet will pay off just have realistic ideas on how well it will work with your site and how much your budget will be. Be the TRUMP when it comes to Real Estate in your area and don't sign contracts, if things don't work for you leave yourself an option to change things. Make your name seen. I never had faith in thee products but I kept uping my budget with them and now I call my Sales Rep, Ms. Mulligan, to change things around and work with the market as it changes instead of forgetting what that charge was on my credit card every month. |
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - May. 15, 2008 |
| Posted by shirley smallwood |
HI I got a call from netbiz and it sounded pretty legitimate to me. I use a company called IPAssociates and it has done really well for me in putting me up on the first page under certain phrases. hopefully you can call them and get some placement with him. I am still considering netbiz. I am very leary of new things and Kelly at IPAssociates is an honest guy, just a young guy who started this company and it works. I have had wonderful results for my website since starting to use this company. if anyone has any questions give me a call, I can give you Kelly's info, email and phone numbers and links or you can just type it in. Ask for Kelly he is the owner , he started the business. thanks, Shirley Smallwood and good luck
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RE: NetBiz.com and SEO - Jun. 10, 2008 |
| Posted by Dennis |
i have been checking, since i was talking to an agent a at &t . she was looking up my info. on google search under pest control services. she could not find me. yet that is the listing i am under. i checked it on my computer and sure it was there. i don't know how she missed it.
then tonight i checked for it on my wifes computer. i went though 4 pages and i could not find it . now i am having my son check tomorrow on his computer. yet at this time i do not understand how it shows up only on my computer. hummm. funny thing huh? i think perhaps it may be only on my search on my own computer.
so i will contact netbiz.com tomorrow and inquire about this. i think i have been scam. bait and switch. if is not true i will let you know if it is true then you will not here from me. i will instead be going afer them and get my money back. and i will as i do know how to do that. i have had a couple of problems in the past and i did get my money back.
oh well if you do have any thing of interest to say i will read it. if you have any remarks which are a wast of my time i will not. but i believe any one thinking about doing business with them should think twice about it. and if you think you might do business with them any way . think very hard again. don't get burned. |
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