I have watched their videos and read a bit on their website-from what I have seen it looks like a lot of fluff, without a lot of substance from the perspective of being a good advertising platform. It looks to me like what they are doing is trying to sell people on joining their network for about $300 with the promise of potential results and commissions from signing other people up.
The geo-targeting technology is not that unique from what I can tell, and actually not that reliable in the way they are trying to utilize it. For instance; I am on my VPN so it is completely useless to me as a search engine because it thinks I am in Dayton, OH.
I do not want to bash anyone's company or idea, but before I recommend this or not to friends, customers and prospects I want to learn as much about it as I can. If you have hard evidence that shows any positives or negatives of this company please let me know.
If you go to Semrush.com and plugin localadlink.com you will see that they have no high organic rankings for any significantly searched keyword phrases. Not that they are only trying to grow their company via SEO, but the likelihood of someone using them over Google, Google Maps, Google Local or a local online Yellow Pages seems very slim.
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This is great answer I received back through Linked In:
Flyn Penoyer wrote:
I will respond by saying the following. The network marketing industry is huge and creates more millionaires than any other industry and creates them from average people. It is a legitimate business.
You must carefully examine any such organization that you might join. Many are not viable or don't have good products -- I don't mean quality, I mean products that are coming into demand.
You should try to join a company that is pre expansion. Most companies including NM ones go for a time and then if they can reach a 2% market penetration explode in what is called the expansion phase. It is in this phase that someone that has build a good solid network can suddenly see a 10X growth in what they are doing.
With regard to marketing these types of products on the internet it is obviously not a viable model -- they are "push through" products requiring person to person efforts. If this was not true why would the companies give 50% or more of revenues back to the associates.
It is an easy business and requires little skill -- that is why many who are successful have come from fairly unskilled jobs. However, it does require unwavering dedication and consistency to achieve success.
Well as far as being a business owner that uses localadlink to advertise. I will say i was very skeptical at first even the first month i was not impressed, but now two almost three months advertising i have seen some great results from being on there site as a business. My website has gotten alot more local views since i started with them. I would recommend them to anyone that is looking to increase there advertising for a great price. If you want to ask me any other questions about them i will try to answer them cooperdetail@yahoo.com
Here's some factual results for the Power of LocalAdLink:
Go to Google.com type in "greek food oak park il" (you have to put the city in because you may be in a different zip code or city) Look for PapaSpiros Greek Taverna (top left of screen with LocalAdLink underneath) we put him there. Back to Google.com and type "honda costa mesa ca" look for Power Honda, same link under them. Click Power Honda and you will see his webpage in LocalAdLink with a Coupons, Pictures and Video Tab. Visit my presentation at www.AdLinkFlorida.com for more info and contact me with your comments/questions. Dennis 727.515.3577
Why does LocalAdLink rate an “F” with the BBB
I will tell you why. It's because the company is a fraud. I am a Brand Builder with LocalAdlink. I have been door to door too many different businesses in my local area. I have sold ads to businesses and to myself. My ad has never shown on any site but localadlink.com. Today they email me this:
"Thank you for contacting LocalAdLink concerning your Basic ad only
allowing one Targeted Term to be edited. Rest assured that our tech team
is already aware of this and they are working diligently to have this
issue resolved as quickly as possible. The good news is, both of the
Targeted Terms you entered when first creating the ad are already in our
system and has been pushed out to our third party affiliates to target
your advertisement. If you would like to make a change to your Targeted
Terms, please write a brand new email to support@localadlink.com. Put in
the subject "ATTN: Marketing" and include the following information when
requesting an ad edit:
• .com username for ad
• LAL invoice number
• Business name of your ad
• States where you chose your Targeted Zip Codes
• Both of your desired Targeted Terms {even if you do not wish to
change both of them}
• Link to listing when you click view listing
We appreciate your patience in this matter and apologize for the
inconvenience this has caused. Best of luck in your endeavours.
--
Tier 2 .COM Tech"
This has been going on since 2-09-09 I bought the ad on 2-09-09. I have been emailing support for over month. Please keep in mind this is a month to month service. I have been trying to call customer support for over a month at this number 949-679-7000 hmmm why is it they never answer the phone? That's just my ad. My customers are not showing either. All I see coming to me will be trying to clear my name. I have been to so many businesses spreading the word about this revolutionary product. I was 100% onboard with this company, believing everything. The service sounds so good and it works for like a week then for some reason, it just fails to provide. People are paying $99.95/month for this service that I personally sold them. Services are not being rendered and I am out here in my local community looking like a fraud. I am an honest salesman these people bought this service hook, line and sinker. I feel dishonest in a way. I feel like I have cheated my neighbors and fellow citizens out of their hard earned money. They could have canceled within 72hrs of making the purchase, but Localadlink was up and running for a week then, my customer stopped being seen. I actually paid to become a Brand Builder for the company and the support I receive is horrible. My customer’s don't see this. I have been handling all the problems between the customer and the company. This company is a terrible company to work for. If you don't believe the BBB title, here check it out for yourself http://www.la.bbb.org/BusinessReport.aspx?CompanyID=100079069
I have many issues with the company here are a few.
Issues to be addressed:
• CEO told us “We are not selling Search Engine Sponsored Ads – Support says, “When someone searches for the ad it will show localadlink.com under your heading of the ad and will be located as a sponsored site of the third party affiliate.”
o Does anyone really know what we are selling?
o If all our Documentation and Marketing Material is in line with Supports statement; that we are selling “Sponsored Ads as Third Party Affiliates”, why is the CEO Telling us different in the seminars?
• In the last Technology Update 3/10/09. Current Bugs that will be fixed within 24 hours: #5
“Search Engines - We are moving to get higher ranking organically with all search engines. We are aware of a reduction in display frequency within the Search Engines over the last 48 hours. This is due to last weekend's updates as well.”
I have never seen localadlink “customers” in the Organic field. Let alone a “higher ranking organically”. what does that mean?
My question is, “What if the customer doesn’t have a website?” How are they going to be organically in the search engines? – “Explain HOW and be SPECIFIC…”
• Support like to fall back on their Statistic System, until you point out that it’s not working. The Statistic System we are currently selling to our Clients is not working – Support says, “The statistics page isn't 100% accurate. IT is aware of this and we will be implementing a more accurate statistics.” Then why did they email statistics based on their self known inaccurate statistics.
o Why is this not passed on to the entire sales force currently selling ads so we can tell our clients? The Clients are looking and the sales force is looking bad in front of the clients.
• WHAT??? Support says, “To speed up the process please refrains from sending multiple emails regarding the same issue. Also, to help with response time, please write a NEW ticket instead of replying to this one.”
o So, to speed up the process “refrain from sending multiple emails on this issue” but, instead of replying to this issue, “write a NEW ticket…” ??? How does this help??? Why fill up the system with New Tickets hen support does not answer the questions being asked in the first place!
o Why does it matter if we reply: it is going to take weeks, even months or if we create a New Ticket: it takes weeks and sometimes over a month to get an initial response in the first place…? What is the worst of the two evils when neither way resolves the issues being presented?
• We have been told for months that Support will have a 24 hour response time: “When a ticket is replied to, it will show in our system as received on the time of the initial ticket which means it could take weeks, even months until support reads it.“ HOW is “Weeks, even Months until Support Reads it...” acceptable from a Customer Support Department?
I have emailed this to support days ago with no response...
The positive comments are weak or non-specific, and the neutral or negative comments are more knowledge and facts based in my opinion.
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