Chicago Northwest Suburbs Real Estate ;-) AR steps in it again.
March 13, 2009
The Public Relations fun and games over at Active Rain took another fun twist yesterday. And I MAY be too late to miss the fun because I was asleep at the switch.
Here’s the post I am talking about:
Northwest Chicago Suburbs Real Estate
Folks at AR, listen up. Listen close and listen well. When you brag about how well your blogging ranks for some non-competitive little term…you KNOW that’s gonna invite people to point out that when it comes to SEO you have the short end of the stick.
You can say a lot of things at AR, but saying you are the tops in having posts rank in Google…and that seems to be happening regularly and getting featured…is fraudulent in my opinion. Let’s watch the search engine results over there and see who REALLY knows what they are doing, hmmm?
You can’t really blame the users at AR as they don’t know any better.
“you are the tops in having posts rank in Google…and that seems to be happening regularly and getting featured…is fraudulent in my opinion.”
I think this is good marketing on ARs part, they didn’t write it, one of their members did. Nothing wrong with featuring it.
But again the member doesn’t know any better. They are bragging about a search term that isn’t competitive so of course a site like AR will rank in the top 5 for that phrase. But anyone that knows what they are really doing could easily get a non competitive search phrase like that in the top 5, even # 1.
The day an AR member brags about getting an article #1 for a competitive phrase like “city” + real estate, that will get my attention!
That’s totally fair, Tony and you are correct.
They didn’t write it, but they did feature it on their front page. I guess that’s what I am tired of (and where I might disagree with you some) is them taking unsuspecting REALTORS down the primrose path… and not taking the opportunity to provide them with information instead of leaving them in the fog of misinformation.
But it’s there right to do it.
And then folks will call them on it.
Seems to work that way every time.
Best (and thanks as always for dropping by)!
Eric
The AR post is not even on page 1 from my location. I’ll bet your post does well Eric!
Haha, Joe’s post on Morgan’s blog made me check the SERP’s again for this term so that’s how I found your post Eric, sitting at #11 right now. The agent who wrote the original post on AR though is considering spending some time now at REW and I think she may start blogging differently.
Funny! That AR post is all the way up to page 3 now. Kickin!!
Eric – funny to find this almost a year after the post. I was reading on of Morgan’s old post about AR and searched for “Chicago Northwest Suburbs Real Estate”
And the AR post is nowhere to be found but your blog and Morgan blog post are still there a year later.
Kudos to you
David Abernathy
Hey David!
Yeah….life is funny that way…
Here’s wishing you a great 2010…when are we going to get together? I think I still owe you a blog! (grin)
best
Eric