Outsource For Quality and Savings

Jakerooni said:
It took me about a week to go from nowhere to page 1 on google. It's simple once you get it set paying someone hundreds of dollars a month to keep it up is about as bass ackwards as it gets for business sense. Just get it set once and then keep it up yourself.. Takes about 10 minutes a week tops.
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What do you do in those 10 minutes?
 
MaksimumAuto said:
I've stopped all SEO and work on my site until February. Everything you see right now is just a sample. This guy was able to get my video on the front page of google within 6 hours. Can you believe that...6 hours? He'll be starting full fledge in mid February when I need the exposure to begin.
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what search terms for the video?
 
Use "baltimore auto detailling"



I appear to be the 2nd link for that today...strange...can anybody else confirm that my website...maxdetailing.com...is on the first page or is it just my google?
 
toyotaguy said:
"hey there are millions out of work right now, we are in a recession where everyone wants to work, but cant find anything to do, but lets keep sending business and money overseas where we will never see the return"



:grrr:grrr:grrr
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Maybe local companies should charge less then ?



I find it pretty rediculous when a local company in my city charges a MININUM of $1500 to build a web page. A static... one page... basic web page, no image design included. A full fledged web site (something like nwtel.ca for example) would cost minimum $4500+. With those prices, it's no wonder why folks would go overseas to get this type of work done. That's a huge reason why in my city and territory, you don't find a lot of businesses with web pages.



Now I'm actually trained in web development, so I built my own site, don't need to use anyone else. On top of that, I've found a niche market in my area that I'm going to enter: web development at REASONABLE rates. We'll see how that business venture goes.



I get angry when I see the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) and their union cry and mope about the automotive industry. Most of these employees are assembly line workers, they move a door from one conveyor belt to another, and get paid (after 4 years on the job), a unionized wage of $72 a hour. The average tensure of a CAW unionized employee, as of last year, was 24 years. 24 YEARS of getting paid insane wages, and they STILL cry about factories closing ? They should be grateful that they had that job for so long. These are people who at the MOST have completed high school and nothing else, and got the job by luck back in the 70s and early 80s when vehicle assembly was really ramping up. If they grew up today instead, they'd be working at McDonald's or Walmart, at between $8 and $12 an hour, where they belong.



Maybe I sound cynical or unpatriotic, but exploitation of an industry or service is stupid. It undermines the industry and eventually it comes crumbling down because it's being taken advantage of. It's what has caused this economy situation that we're currently in. It's what caused the dot-com bubble burst that grew in the 90s.



Lucky for us detailers, our industry has more or less "self-regulated" itself over the years. If all of us, hacks included, jacked our prices 500% of what we're charging now, we'd be heading for the same crashing result.
 
WAS said:
Lucky for us detailers, our industry has more or less "self-regulated" itself over the years. If all of us, hacks included, jacked our prices 500% of what we're charging now, we'd be heading for the same crashing result.
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Not really a good example unless you find a fast and cheap shipping option to your outsourced detailer in India.
 
yakky said:
Not really a good example unless you find a fast and cheap shipping option to your outsourced detailer in India.
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No, but nothing stopping an east Indian from getting a work visa, coming to the USA and offering true, pro detailing services at half of the cost (if we were to all inflate our pricing unreasonably) of the rest of us.



For examplem, if we all charged $1000 for a basic wash 'n wax, you can bet you'd see folks entering the industry and offering it for $500, and not doing a "hack job".



In that sense, we are self-regulating, and won't see this type of thing.
 
Ok so I'm now #1 for Baltimore Auto Detailing in Google. The company I chose is actually in Indiana called Creation and Things. A small startup specializing in viral marketing. They charge an initial $250 and $100 monthly thereafter. Best value I've ever found. If anybody wants some contact info, let me know. They WILL make you #1. I thought that stuff was bull**** but apparently it's highly effective.
 
MaksimumAuto said:
Ok so I'm now #1 for Baltimore Auto Detailing in Google. The company I chose is actually in Indiana called Creation and Things. A small startup specializing in viral marketing. They charge an initial $250 and $100 monthly thereafter. Best value I've ever found. If anybody wants some contact info, let me know. They WILL make you #1. I thought that stuff was bull**** but apparently it's highly effective.
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Nice job!



That fee sounds fair given the size of Baltimore and the competition.



But, if you don't live in a large city (top 50 pop. in the US), you can reach the top of Google relatively easy on your own.



I'll start a thread here soon about how Jake and I got the top spot in Greenville, SC.
 
Jakerooni said:
And still remain #1 in Flint LOL.... Ahh good times good times.
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lol, probably one of the only too ? I hear Flint's economy isn't so grand and hasn't been in a longgggg time.
 
I have a question...



if all those companies promise you to be number one, and they sign up 10 detailing companies, how are you supposed to stay #1??? Its not like they only use one company per industry



when I search for :

huntington beach detailing

huntington beach auto detailing

orange county detailing

orange county auto detailing



I come up in the top 2/3 on each, WITHOUT paying for anything...what the reason for that? (I dont know anything about SEO)
 
Your guess is as good as mine. I'm a businessman. Not a SEO specialist. I'm glad that I figured it out instead of trying to SEO my website and put me into a nice grave.
 
toyotaguy said:
I have a question...



if all those companies promise you to be number one, and they sign up 10 detailing companies, how are you supposed to stay #1??? Its not like they only use one company per industry



when I search for :

huntington beach detailing

huntington beach auto detailing

orange county detailing

orange county auto detailing



I come up in the top 2/3 on each, WITHOUT paying for anything...what the reason for that? (I dont know anything about SEO)
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No SEO company is going to take on 10 competing businesses. They can't win in that situation.



SEO is 90% about how many sites have linked to you. I took a look at your link profile:

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489 links is a lot!!



You accumulated most of your links by posting on autopia, bimmerfest, ferrarichat, e90post, etc.



Google can see that you commented on a lot of detailing threads and recognizes you as an "authority" on the subject, thus gave your site lots of love.
 
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