I’m not protecting Brian because on he is advertising here on DR. I’m protecting my Blog, because a few comments were personal and had not much to do with offering a free webinar for others to possibly learn something. The webinar could have been from anyone. Obviously some have too much time on their hands.

Trolls ruin blogs and discourage others from posting in fear of being jumped on.

Other than the comment from the one and only Richard Astley (which will be deleted), every comment here is legit with an real email and link to a site.

If company/business wants to ask a few of their happy clients to post their feedback on a website…what’s so wrong with that? I do not consider that to be “fake”. It happens in every vertical, as it should (online word of mouth). The unhappy customers always express their opinions.

Corey was the first to post, expressed his opinions and was not deleted.

“I’m all for promotion and advertising but how much of this is real and how much made up?”

That’s for YOU to decide. I believe that I have done a fair job in monitoring DealerRefresh over the last (almost) 4 years to give a real representation of what is real and what is not. If you disagree, there are plenty of other Dealer Industry networking websites to contribute to.

This is why I have stayed away in the past from posting too much on the subject of SEO. So many SEO “professionals” are quick to inject their option of what is right and what is wrong. What is whitehat, blackhat and plain ol’ “craphat”.

I personally am a fan of very straight forward content based SEO. From my experiences, this is what Brian has to offer his clients. And has even helped me with a few things for myself.

So let’s get off this negativity get back into focus here on what really matters. Selling cars and helping dealers to find new opportunities to sell more cars.

Sign up for the webinar, heck you might learn something.

Real SEO’s in any niche do not put on a public display of keywords on a marketing site.

That is a bad practice asking for disaster.

With the economy hurting in all niches and the average lead affiliate generating $12 CPA, somebody could come along and make your job a lot tougher….

Rick Astly now is endorsing Pasch’s offerings which perhaps has led to the resurgence of his career. Kudos on that. That’s amazing results and deserving of some sort of SEO Award.

There is no validation on the comments, and anyone with an aircard can change IP’s at the click of a button and repost. I’m all for promotion and advertising but how much of this is real and how much made up? All of the negative reviews are coming and going as fast as they are listed. And it’s too bad about Skidrow- I heard they were making a comeback =)

As with any company, nobody’s perfect, and some are excellent but let’s not see this site have this high level of blatant censorship nor should it be falsely manipulated for personal gain through fake reviews, although I’m sure Rick Astly is happy with his great personal service…

I love them because there are very few trustworthy and respectable SEOs that can deliver REAL results. At the top of this list has to be Pasch.

I ‘hate’ them because they REALLY make ranking top 10, for the same thing you’re trying to rank for, extremely hard. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even have to dig into someone’s SEO campaign when we’re getting boxed out, to know who’s running it.

Of course I don’t really hate them – I do look forward to this seminar – and perhaps I can figure out the Pasch Magic Sauce.

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There’s an old saying – of which I forget the exact wording – but it’s along the lines of the cobbler’s children walk without shoes.

The best non-dealer SEO’s that I know of, don’t even have websites; referrals and results drive their business. I can’t help but notice that of the Pasch clients who chimed in above, they’re all ranking rather well:

Massachusetts Infiniti Dealers
http://www.google.com/search?q=massachusetts+infiniti+dealers

Massachusetts Nissan Dealers
http://www.google.com/search?q=massachusetts+nissan+dealers

Arizona Infiniti Dealers
http://www.google.com/search?q=arizona+infiniti+dealers

If it were me, that’s all my business card would have – links like that and on the back of the business card a credit card authorization form.

Chip-

PS: I’ve never in my coding life written a page that validates – but I blame Microsoft for that .

We resist pointing out the faults of our competitors. If we were to do that, it would cheapen us in the perception of those listening, do little if any damage to the competitor and not help our business.

But it takes all kinds, I guess. Keep up the great work Brian.