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By: searchenginemarketingvox » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2008

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By: AllIPTech » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2008

AllIPTech » Blog Archive » SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2008 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:38:45 +0000

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By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:02:20 +0000

“I can’t imagine that there would be enough information on most places to give interested parties a good idea of the company’s true competence”

Exactly piper. This is just really opinion. It is not like reviewing product lines where you can easily see which product is better than another.

By: Matt Alland

Matt Alland — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:00:21 +0000

Hi Roderick, and everyone – This is Matt, Director of Business Development at SEMCompare.com. Thank you for your interest in the site, I hope you’ll all check it out when we launch on March 17th!
The site is free to use, we’re excited about how it could help businesses have an easier time comparing and selecting SEM companies. So if any of you have any experiences or insights you can contribute that’d be great.
We do a number of things to ensure quality reviews: IP address and cookie tracking, name / email research, and in certain cases we’ll contact a reviewer if we suspect suspicious activity. Our goal is to keep the site objective and accurate, and it’ll be our job to make SEMCompare.com a comprehensive resource people can trust.

I’d be happy to answer whatever questions you may have, I can be reached at matt (at) semcompare.com

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:25:28 +0000

Nicole, I think you hit the nail on the head. A small business owner just won’t be into this. Maybe, just maybe, conglomorates might.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:39:16 +0000

Sadly the form has no text box for “URL of site that has been optimized”. This way you can review and bad mouth your competitors.

By: PS3

PS3 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:12:09 +0000

I have to agree with your final paragraph Nicole. Educating people to find what they actually need, not what they think they want, is the way forward.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:22:29 +0000

To pay for a service like this may not be feasible. There is plenty of free info on the Internet. A lot of reviews and feedbacks are available for all to read. Probably people with very big marketing accounts would care for their reviews. I doubt a small business owner would consider it.

By: Piper

Piper — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:19:52 +0000

I’m not crazy about the idea at all. While I’m not affiliated with any SEO/SEM agencies, I can’t imagine that there would be enough information on most places to give interested parties a good idea of the company’s true competence. I certainly hope it doesn’t end up like the SEM equivalent of RipOff Report.

I think it’s more important to teach people what they need to be looking for. Most of the information you’d want to see is readily available to anyone who wants it.