Post: #76

I took a break from this but you have some good ideas here Nilla. I'll be back at it on Monday and thanks for the tips to all

Post: #77

(07-07-2012 03:00 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  I took a break from this but you have some good ideas here Nilla. I'll be back at it on Monday and thanks for the tips to all

Really, it would be great if you built up a stable of 15+ trusted taxi drivers and a network of rooms/apartments all across DR. If you did that, it'd be like you owned the country. Then you build up relationships with car washes, etc. You'd kinda be like the Godfather wherever you show up.

Pussy will always sell and the DR is a top destination. Plus it's a small country and would be easy to build up a network that lasts years. Then you get a website and build single guy traffic to it and do what Dominicans do, take your cut from every little piece of the gringo pie (taxi service/consulting, car washes, apartments, etc).

Heck, even though Roosh forum members wouldn't be your primary target, you could work out some kind of deal with Roosh and get traffic from his forum. Ali was a great marketing case study and that thread has caused a lot of people to suddenly be a lot more interested in DR. Can use FB, plenty of fish, craigslist, and a bunch of other sites to build up traffic.

Post: #78

(06-20-2012 12:02 AM)RioNomad Wrote:  

(06-19-2012 11:36 PM)Big Nilla Wrote:  Once you get a website up, blast it with http://fiverr.com with the following...

1. 20,000 xrumer links
2. link wheel
3. link pyramid
4. .edu links
5. bookmarks
6. scrapebox
7. senuke

$35 and you have your seo covered. Don't waste money paying an "seo guy." Doing those 7 things to a new site may get you google "sandboxed" but it sounds like your fine with or without a site that ranks. So hit it hard like it's a big Dominican ass. Maybe pay people on fiverr to post yelp reviews for you also.

If you need a banner... http://5dollarbanners.com/

If you don't know any of what I said above, just have one of the IM guys on here help you out a bit.

Do NOT fucking do this.

Big Nilla, have you followed the Penguin update at all? If so, you would know that XRummering your website and using shit like SENuke and Scrapebox blog commenting is suicide.

When is the last time you ranked a site using those techniques?

RioNomad is 100% correct.

1st question: Do you have a domain?

I believe I saw you were in Tampa, correct? Don't let anyone tell you to get tampa-auto-repair.com or anything like that. You want nameofbusiness.com. IF you business IS called El Mech Tampa Auto Repair, you can include that geographic modifier if you want.

To start, you need hosting. I prefer Blue Host, but you'll be fine with Host Gator and probably save money on one website. Write down all your user names, passwords, etc.

You can hire someone to do the whole process for you, probably for under $200. You can get a very legit website by someone in India or Pakistan for $200. Use Odesk.com or elance to do this. Tell them you want them to install wordpress on your domain and design your website. Chose someone reasonable with a examples and good feedback. It's better to pay a bit more for someone who is responsive and understands what you want.

You 100% want to use WordPress. It grew up with the internet, organizes everything the way Google likes it, and is as easy as using Microsoft word.

There are TWO ways to take a local market

First way:

What you want to focus on initially, is getting top placement in your local listings. Google is the biggest game in town, but there's plenty of old people in Florida and old people use Internet Explorer and by default, Bing. Don't skip it.

You want reviews for your website. You'll need a Google business page for this. DO NOT buy reviews. You can have your friends do it, but they need to be from a gmail account they actually use. These need to be done from completely different locations--houses, apartments, coffee shops, etc. Stagger them out over 1-3 months. Do not do one review from the same place. Keep it random and natural looking.

Once Google and Bing are done, you want to make sure your business is in what are essentially the "online yellow pages." These are websites like City Search, Yellow Book, etc. These lend a lot of trust to your website and are important in a local market.

I have a ridiculously legit source for this service. PM if you want it, once your website is up.

Pro tip: Don't fuck with Yelp. They get sued a LOT because they "filter" reviews that are legit. That or they'll let your reviews get through, then they'll call you and ask you to pay for ads via their whack ass program. When you say no, it's highly likely that your website WILL drop.

It's honestly not worth the headache. That company takes advantage of small businesses. Seriously, Fuck Yelp.

Big Nilla mentioned buying reviews on Fiverr. Do NOT do that. Google will penalize you. Yelp will penalize you. In fact, they just busted some people for buying reviews and those people were not going the easy Fiverr route.

People talk about SEO on here like they're pros. Don't take shortcuts. This is your business. Anything on Fiverr is very low quality, for the most part. Your website can generate you a plethora of cash forever if you do it the right way.

The second way is to achieve optimal placement in the natural (organic) results. These are the regular results (meaning not local listings). Some people outsource SEO, but 90% of that is total shit.

If you dominate local and organic seo, you'll have more business than you know what to do with.

Get at me if you have anymore questions. This is exactly what I do for a living.

Post: #79

Hey El

I know we communicated before about possibly doing some web design and I kind of flaked on you - to be honest, we had no real idea of what direction we were going to go with your ideas and starting from scratch like that would end up costing me a lot of man-hours before we even got around to what we theoretically might do - let alone getting around to you getting some kind of payout.

Not to mention I'm sure I was off and on the party at the time.

Anyhow, since you already know exactly what you want in this case - which is a site for your existing biz - it would be a cinch to throw together for you at a reasonable price.

There are a couple dudes here who can vouch for me. I've designed at least one site for a group of guys that come from this forum and another has seen my skills (to be precise, they're my designer's skills - I micromanage him, cancel out the cultural and language barriers, and make sure shit on the site works the way it should). Yes, he's from the Philippines.

We have a long-standing working relationship and we've done a lot of sites together - I can show you examples of other corporate sites we've done. They're pro. Here's a quote from one of my recent clients, a landscaper - I can show you where he posted this online: "we got 3 new clients within the first 10 days of advertising this site."

I can also bust you out a mockup of what your site would look like by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. If you don't like it, no charge. On top of that, I can help you with some of this marketing stuff, and my main gig is commercial copywriting, so I can come up with some sales-oriented copy for your site at an additional charge.

PM me again if you want to give it another go and we can get on the phone to talk it out.

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