Check this out! Let me know what you think. Cheap Advertising.

[KMS]

I have been doing a lot of research on how to not have to spend thousands of dollars in advertising each year. An acquaintance of mine showed me this new website. www.godocauto.com Its is suppose to work though back-linking, SEO, Google, Bing, Yahoo. Please let me know what you think. I am very interested, and it is very cheap.

[mspecperformance]

Let's hear so,e thoughts

[KMS]

We joined. I was impressed with their website, Facebook page, and Google Plus Page. It is a fairly new company, and looks fairly simple to use as a customer. We only work on two Makes of vehicles so it only cost us $19.95 plus tax for the first 3 months. I thought it was worth a try. It definitely looks to have some potential. What do you think?

[mspecperformance]

What do they do that is different from the other pay to advertise sites like automd.com and such?

 

All of those sites claim to help with SEO as well.

[KMS]

The problem with those sites I have found is that we have only had a handful of customers come from them in 11 years, which means they are not doing anything to advertise for us. Not only that most of them advertise for dealerships also. I haven't had any success with those sites, and from the membership letter we received from godocauto.com it sounds like they know what they are doing? It gave us a list of things to do to help with SEO. It is cheaper and specified by Make. This website, from what I see, is only for independent shops.

[mspecperformance]

I still don't see what they do. I am pretty much a hawk when it comes to anything auto repair business related on the internet and this is the first I am hearing from them. I am just curious as to how their service actually helps with SEO. I understand how back links work however what is this service specifically doing that you can't do yourself or a full marketing suite from an auto related marketing company can't or is not doing for you.

 

 

Also from my perspective I have no seen any repairpal, automd, etc etc sites have great results or good ROI. What works is yelp, google+, organic SEO and adwords. If there is a service to boost these avenues of marketing then I'd be interested. Otherwise if its a site built on promises of driving more customers I don't believe it.

[KMS]

Here is what I found out. I was told it works with Google Plus, Yahoo, Bing, Organic SEO, link building, high-rank back links, Facebook, and Pintrest.

 

The way I look at it is if I get two customers out of it in 12 months, it is well worth it. My ROI would be great!

[KMS]

Set up two appointments this morning GoDocAuto.com, new customers. These two appointments paid for my membership already. Also received my first review on their site last week

[mspecperformance]

Really???? interesting!

[KMS]

I couldn't believe it either! It was worth my $20.00

[lmcca]

• "$19.95 / month, for up to two Makes of vehicles, Repair Shops Only."

so what 2 makes did you buy for 20 whole dollars.

 

[lmcca]

oh, and you are his only shop in the United States. i clicked on everyone of the states and the only shop to come up was yours in Ohio. No other shop in the nation is doing this. I think he needs the advertising more than us

[lmcca]

sorry, just trying to help others. SEO is not an overnight thing. you CANNOT buy your way to seo rankings, you have to do many things to get top spot and it takes months. You can get at the top but its not seo ranking or generic rankings doing it, its people buying ad spots and pay for click spots that are there on those spots in a short amount of time.

 

Google and other search engines have worked long and hard to keep you from paying to be on page one, slot one. They want your content, your website traffic, meta data, key words among other things to rank at the top.

 

Did you check that the review was really your customer cause, the way its written is not how customers write reviews, its too technical and fishy looking. Yes its only 20 dollars but is it just smoke and mirrors?

[lmcca]

another weird thing is the owner of that site is right around the corner from you, yall are neighbors, how cool.

 

 

is your name Peter by chance??

[KMS]

 

• "$19.95 / month, for up to two Makes of vehicles, Repair Shops Only."

so what 2 makes did you buy for 20 whole dollars.

 

 

BMW and MINI. It is a brand new site and only went live this month. We'll see what happens. My name is Brett. The review is from one of our customers, and she does know about cars. She is a race instructor at Mid-Ohio.

[GermanCArDEpot.com]

I would love to see this site do well. I like repairpal. It has a very good roi for us . site is growing every month .They are partners with many autoclubs and will tow cars to your shop.

[lmcca]

and you have nothing to do with this company other than your a customer, the only customer, in the same small area of Ohio?

[KMS]

The only thing I don't like about like about a site like this is that they advertise everybody, even chain stores and dealerships. If you don't mind me asking, how much do you pay a month to be on Repair Pal?

[KMS]

The only thing I don't like about like about a site like this is that they advertise everybody, even chain stores and dealerships. If you don't mind me asking, how much do you pay a month to be on Repair Pal?

[KMS]

The only thing I don't like about like about a site like this is that they advertise everybody, even chain stores and dealerships. If you don't mind me asking, how much do you pay a month to be on Repair Pal?

[KMS]

The only thing I don't like about like about a site like this is that they advertise everybody, even chain stores and dealerships. If you don't mind me asking, how much do you pay a month to be on Repair Pal?

[Alex]

KMS, I removed the links to that site. You seem to have the only site on there and are the only member on that site. There is no way they can offer any backlinks or SEO value to any member here from one registered site, unless they are linking all their member sites together (when they get some members). I can appreciate your success with that site and wanting to share the info with this community.

 

However, whether it's yours or not, the owners need to follow our guidelines on advertising, if that site is to be promoted on ASO: http://www.autoshopowner.com/forum-8/announcement-3-promoting-your-company-on-aso-please-read/

 

I'm going to leave this topic open because you have been a member here and we value your opinion. But one mention about them is fine, lets let them register if they want to promote their services as a paid advertiser. Thanks.