Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: markpowell on October 05, 2009, 03:52:25 pm
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Just had a text message from Yellow Pages, after telling them that i did not want to do business with them anymore, i have just had a text message from them offering a free website guaranteed to be on the first page of Google if i sign for next book. Still not going to bother tho, they must be struggling big time.
Mark
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i regret going into yell.com again. they just got me a month before i decided it wasn't worth it, hey ho, thats £400 i'll never see again. but thats deffo it, not adding in anything that starts with Y.E.L.L again.
derek
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Just had a text message from Yellow Pages, after telling them that i did not want to do business with them anymore, i have just had a text message from them offering a free website guaranteed to be on the first page of Google if i sign for next book. Still not going to bother tho, they must be struggling big time.
Mark
i asked for an offer being my 1st time they said no lol
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Good on you. I dont know how any company can guarantee website to be on first page of google., as its completelly out o their hands. thats just why i cant stand yellow pages they will tell you anyting to get you in with them.
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Yeah, they told me to expect £30k's worth of work ??? ??? ???
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Yeah, they told me to expect £30k's worth of work ??? ??? ???
:o they must think they magicians, even big companies dont get that out of them :(
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Yeah, they told me to expect £30k's worth of work ??? ??? ???
:o they must think they magicians, even big companies dont get that out of them :(
My add been on yell.com for 4 months and have not had a click yet!!! i called them oh it takes time, but they told me i would get about 4 calls per week, errrrrrr im over here ;D ;D ;D
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Yell.com complete waste of money ;D
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Yeah, they told me to expect £30k's worth of work ??? ??? ???
:o they must think they magicians, even big companies dont get that out of them :(
My add been on yell.com for 4 months and have not had a click yet!!! i called them oh it takes time, but they told me i would get about 4 calls per week, errrrrrr im over here ;D ;D ;D
yeah they told us same when they first rang, i just said we can afford it, so they come up with 100's of options and discounts.and we still didnt go for it.
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I was told not to go for a full page ad because I would not be able to cope with the work load it would generate ???
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Colin ;D
Must say up o about 5 years ago y pages was a great medium for pulling in work and at one point i did have a good size advert that brought me work and at least 4 or 5 calls a day ...
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When I worked for a C/C he got loads of work from YP too, that was going back to only 2002! That's why I thought it was a must to have have an ad in YP!
Every one seems to Google everything nowadays and this is what's taken YP's place I believe....
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yeah thats true, internet taken over many things, still though many of elderly people cannot use computer, therefore paper directories are much better.
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you carpet cleaners really need to think outside the box.
you can guarantee 1st page Google! With PPC
you think that a company that is going down like Yelow pages is not going to try anything new, your wrong.
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For what they charge for a 1/4 or 1/8 page i got full page in BT Phone Book
And they use to be part of the same group!!! ??? ??? ???
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you carpet cleaners really need to think outside the box.
you can guarantee 1st page Google! With PPC
you think that a company that is going down like Yelow pages is not going to try anything new, your wrong.
They have started a new thing! SEO on your yell.com page, still we have nothing ??? ??? ???
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Well, I'm going back in the directory this year, first time in four years. Got the buy one get one free, plus free web page. I still think the directory is a bit of a must, bloody lot of money though. Still down to £4500 +vat from the 13K I used to spend!
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times have changed in 4 years emclean. i'd have a rethink. or at least a bloody good think before you spend that much, what could you do with that money if you didn't go in, an excellent leaflet campaign, or a good run in your local paper. or even better a top notch website seo'd to goodness gracious me.
but if your confident then i hope you have more luck than me. good luck skipper.
derek
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Ive done really well out of the PS yell thingy
paid for its self twice over of the 1st call and Ive booked a few each month
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you carpet cleaners really need to think outside the box.
you can guarantee 1st page Google! With PPC
you think that a company that is going down like Yelow pages is not going to try anything new, your wrong.
They have started a new thing! SEO on your yell.com page, still we have nothing ??? ??? ???
thats not SEO, thats just allowing additional info about your company.
The main page you want majorly SEO'd is your home/index page of your website.
Yell.com cannot offer this and you will always be competing with other cleaners in your category.
Least with online search engine the more you are listed on free directories providing natural direct non reciprocal links to your website, and the better SEO'd you site is the better placement on google you will have.
I get all my web action via my website - i choose to have yell.com this year to back up the professionalism as in yesteryear yell.com was the place to look for professional trades, not dodgy guys with slick websites pretending to be professional.
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I have to admit, I'm not looking to make a fortune, just cover my costs. The reason being I have noticed a big drop in commercial enquities since dropping the directory. I still service all the commercial jobs I picked up from YP in the past so I have got my money back, and £4500 wont skint me (hopefully), and I can get the VAT back, so worth a gamble (hopefully)
Cheers
Justin
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This is how i look at it. Why are they offering a free website on the first page of google?
If Yell.Com is as good as they reakon, why not give you a free listing on there, they are admitting that Yell is pants and that we all know that Google is the place to be if you use the internet as a marketing tool.
I have done YP for many years and slowly watched it slip down hill year on year, they will never see another penny from me that is for sure.
Mark
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Got to say YP is still great for me and despite my reservations Yell has been far better than I anticipated.
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Well, I'm going back in the directory this year, first time in four years. Got the buy one get one free, plus free web page. I still think the directory is a bit of a must, bloody lot of money though. Still down to £4500 +vat from the 13K I used to spend!
Am I right in saying you're in the same area as me? That'll be the Basingstoke, Guildford, Alton edition at about 1.0 inched deep. The same book that used to be Basingstoke and Guildford at 1.5 inches deep and no doubt a few years back was probably just Basingstoke at 2.0 inches deep.
ok businesses advertising in it is clearly dying but with less competition in a larger area would probably bring in more work pro rata.
I've put my money into yell.com this time and we are bringing in more than the monthly outlay.
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Yawn.com
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booked another yell. 2 day
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I get jobs from Yell.com and for the price it's fine, but I get far more from websites and they cost about, well next to nothing. :-\
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Got the rep coming today for my annual meeting,think i am going to reduce my add,have upped it every year since i started out,last year i had a pic of me in my logo`ed top,not got owt from it really.Maybe my ugly mug is putting people off ?
This is the 4th new rep in 5 years,see how much sheit the try and sell me