[Nameless Drudge]

Has anyone gone past the free listing stage and paid for the extras ,been quoted £150 +vat for 14 months and then i get a link to my website,better descriptions of services etc and currently would be the only window cleaner in my area paying for the extra service and prominence,touchlocal appear in the top of the page,am tempted as with a website being set up i am thinking this may help increase its ranking. Outside of the cost then of course i would do it and at  the price offered only a couple of converted regular customers makes it worthwhile and possibly gets me into areas of higher demand. As a fledgling newbie i am well tempted with this,even if its only telling me i exist.
     So be glad to hear of anyones positive experience of touchlocal or advice to leave alone.   

[AJ]

drop  me an email to admin@uk-cleaner.co.uk

[Nameless Drudge]

I have e-mailed aj and noticed its another listing site.

Does anyone have experience of paying this type of site for ads,i am already totally jacked off with my phone ringing from salespeople,have just got over van insurance,then liability insurance(doing without as it doesn`t seem to cover anything i might break),am just getting angry and i reckon  i really  know what is best,Knock,Knock,then Knock some more.

[wezzy32]

dont go with touch local i did and got nothing.what a waist off money

[ant french]

sounds stupid mate but advertise on gumtree, im going to do this, my mate did it for gardening and he got 5 calls in one week 

[Nameless Drudge]

i did that this afternoon after the bloke doing my site recommended that,especially as it provides a link to the site,cheers for mentioning it though and cheers again for the info on the other thread about linking you tube.

[ant french]

i still aint done my blog link or youtube yet, just get ya video on ya fone of you cleaning some windows and a shot of you next to ya van and upload it but First thing you can do is add a link to your profile so it shows up on each post you make. Google crawls this forum and will follow the links from the forum to your site. The next thing to do is exchange links with sites related to you and listed in Google's index. Finally, you can submit your site to directories, write articles for article directories and basically use links to get Googlebot to your site. ummm put a site map on your site  try http://www.google.com/webmasters/
 

and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-jJMgGZ5k

[glen parva]

sounds stupid mate but advertise on gumtree, im going to do this, my mate did it for gardening and he got 5 calls in one week 

i do avertise on gumtree
very hit and miss
i picked up a £140.00 job every month of it and other
job you never no if you dont try it and it free

[ant french]

another trick put ya website on ya gumtree ad then google spiders follow to your site and u get listed faster. 

[LBWCS]

touch local were rubbish for me! paid £300 quid, got one £45job every 2 month and that wa it. build a webite, it more effective and it lasts a lot longer. Dont underestimate google maps also.

[clearlyclean]

my touchlocal comes up for renewal in feb,I get a few jobs a month but mostly I get pestered to add more pennies in their pockets,and you get a lot of messers who have been dumped.I dont think it is much value for money,I was told I would get top of the listings but that only happens if I work the internet myself.

[ant french]

i have had nothing but insurance companies and market reasearch calling me this week asking bout my business, god knows how they found out  thomson local aswell which was strange when i never called them

[clearlyclean]

I think they trawl internet finding contact details,I get about 6 calls a week at least and any time i alter my touchlocal listing they ring the next day.

[ant french]

i was thinking today if someone wanted my info they can get it so easy on the internet, say for instant they want my van im getting tomora, they go to who is  enter domain and get address etc, so in a way a website isnt a good idea but its needed to get a bit of info out to custys to show them were not cowboys with stick on signs lol

[Lee13]

I had a meeting with Touch local, they tried to sell me a package costing about £600 a year!

I turned them down, then a few days later they came back with a cheaper price, and again I turned them down.

This went on for a few weeks - in the end they were offering pretty much the same deal but for about £150!

Con men, and a waste of money in my opinion

[ant french]

them free to advertise websites and papers are the good ones, people always look at them. im thinking about advertising for 120 quid which is for 3 months in a local magazine with businesses etc in the area and news. think it goes out to 10,000 homes in the area so that figures out at 12p per home lol    i know most the old people read it and talk about it so might give it a bash