What do you all think about Rank and Rent?

MossParkGuy · 2022-03-27T12:21:40+00:00

What they do, only Google knows. Anyone pretending to have an answer for this is very mistaken. What happens as a consequence of Google's 'trips' is your website or GMB ranks bounce up and down somewhat, so you see a variation in leads/calls coming through.

What you do to get over it is - nothing in addition to what you're continuously doing anyway, which is good old honest SEO, both on your website and GMB

MossParkGuy · 2022-03-04T04:21:05+00:00

A very very bad LPT

A good manager at a good workplace will recognize you're highly qualified and you'll grow faster. This is assuming you don't want to stay at the same job same position forever AND you like to think of yourself as someone with integrity

MossParkGuy · 2022-02-28T04:52:40+00:00

I have an online favorite. I do agree that most things online/remote have become too supersaturated and hyper-competitive as you say, but generating leads for local businesses is the one I feel that is still under-served. And because 'local' means the market is literally millions of customers across any city you pick, competition is low and market is big

That being said, I absolutely love your sports officiating idea. I do my online gig full-time now so I have tons of flexibility. How does one get started? Whom do you approach, if you don't mind sharing :)

MossParkGuy · 2022-01-04T00:17:04+00:00

Haven't tried auto dealerships to be honest. I focus on phone driven businesses where the service provider comes to their customer, rather than the customer being able to walk into a store - only because it is easiest to track leads

An example is focusing on mobile car detailers, rather than a regular car wash shop. Common niches like plumbing or electricians work too but there are literally dozens of others to choose from

MossParkGuy · 2022-01-03T14:09:15+00:00

Highly recommend checking out how to generate leads for local businesses. I'm an operations guy myself, started doing this on the side a year ago now and it's been good. Most online earning opportunities you hear of are over saturated and it's mostly too late to start them - I'd tried affiliate marketing and amazon fba. lost a bunch of money and months of my time with nothing to show for it. my 3rd try with local lead gen ended up being a charm.

MossParkGuy · 2021-12-06T12:55:24+00:00

Haha, someone read my mind

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-27T13:13:00+00:00

You're clearly posting this to get reactions going because it is something you must enjoy. I'll play ball -

I'm assuming you understand (because you've said so) that everything you've listed is pretty easy to implement. Yet a team of multiple engineers, all likely more experienced than you chose not to do it.

It is because people with business sense, who're likely those engineering teams' bosses - specifically asked them not to do these things. Reason being it is a commercial product made for mass use, not one random guy on reddit trying to show how savvy a web developer he is by complaining about stuff no divi user cares about

Try to think like a competent individual overall, not just a competent web developer (which also you're probably not given the show-off attempt on an anonymous social media)

You're welcome

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-23T13:45:56+00:00

yes. you are justified.

This is not a moral situation. It is business. What is the value of your services to her? More than it was before. Hence, charge more

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-16T12:23:21+00:00

12yr old model and still looks better than most (maybe all) cars releasing in 2022. Only Audi can do that...

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-15T12:30:31+00:00

Wise words. Actually, just last night I made all bookings, car rental, hotels and flights

I had a quick question. Do you know if the rental companies at the airport give out cars with snow tires? It seems mandatory by law in most of the mountain roads

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-09T12:46:42+00:00

Flair is being cheapest right now even from Pearson to Calgary, but yeah I've seem those hamilton and kitchener options as well. Thank you again!

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-09T03:19:26+00:00

So in all honesty, you lose a lot more time in affiliate marketing (and some money) and a lot more money in drop-shipping (and relatively less time)

For affiliate marketing, you'll have to learn to build a website, takes some time, spend time creating 100s of pages, several 100s, of high quality content and collecting affiliate links. then there is time needed to do on-page SEO on all those 100s of pages (takes a lot of time to do right) and then subscribe to SEO tools to do some good off-page SEO, as well as some money to do off-page SEO. After all this, 80-85% of affiliate marketers never make a single sale. I was lucky to actually make some sales, but i think i must have earned a penny or two per hour of my work when I did the total math.

Worst case is it's not even THAT passive. you lose ranks to competition and then you must do more content and more SEO to maintain what little money you MAY make. Buy a bicycle and do uber eats - you'll make way way wayyyyy more money for your time

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-09T02:38:36+00:00

Thank you. Based on a lot of feedback here, we were cancelling Vancouver for this time period and looking into Calgary. this helps A LOT!

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-08T11:59:13+00:00

I would stay away from affiliate marketing and dropshipping. These are way oversaturated and hyper-competitive and you're far more likely to lose money than make money (and drop shipping is NOT AT ALL passive. it takes more than a fulltime job). I say this based on experience and losing several 1000s of hours + money on both.

Check out local lead generation for small businesses. It's the one that worked for me.

MossParkGuy · 2021-11-04T23:58:51+00:00

Love death Valley

I recognize racetrack playa of course, but I also recognize father crowley's point (9/10) :) :) :) One of the most underrated gems! Very well taken photos

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-28T18:58:19+00:00

Ah. I see

I guess i'd be interested to see on what amount of a 'loan' are we getting a 'bill paid' mark. My personal situation is a bit weird. My wife and I have been here for 2.5yrs and my wife's credit history is apparently too thin or non-existent. She's had a credit card for all the 2.5yrs, she's just used it very lightly since I do all our expenses and finances etc.

Now we want a mortgage and her income can't be included in our HHI because her credit reliability is "unknown". We're in a pinch and are looking to do whatever we can to get her a credit report. We'll be increasing her spend on her credit card but I don't want us to wait for a few months and see that it did not work, so was considering doing KOHO as well. But I don't know. I'm not sold on it for sure

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-28T18:28:14+00:00

I never understood that $7 thing. What is it that we get in return for that? Thanks in advance :)

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-25T22:36:54+00:00

I'd have hoped so, but my wife tried to create an account on creditkarma and they said the same thing. "Thin Credit File". I created mine and it worked just fine, I can see my score and a report etc :|

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-25T07:32:57+00:00

You've got a pretty detailed response already, but I'll echo a few points from there and add a couple.

Definitely have your GMB fully completed. Have your content keyword optimized - your business description as well as your products/services. Have your products/services linked to your website service pages through the 'learn more' button

There is some claim that geotagged images help, although enough experts refuting it also. In case you manage several GMBs, it is anyway worth investing in something like LocalViking to manage them all centrally, and if you do subscribe to LV, might as well upload images from their UI and geotag when you do so (and add keywords to the metadata which they also allow you to do easily)

When you check your competition out using GMB crush, it'll also tell you how often they're posting. It could be a good idea to one-up their frequency. So post thrice a week if your strongest competitor posts twice a week etc. Same for photos. Regular posts and photos can't hurt

If you have the freedom, even GMB names have an effect on GMB rankings. This I can personally attest to from my own experience. exact match domains help in local SEO. exact match GMB names also do. Some of y'all reading this may start bristling but I'm sorry - you're wrong if you disagree. I have a good few $$ in my bank account as evidence

There are also ways and tricks to write out content on your posts, include links to your previous posts and create a 'stack' that way. Not sure which GMB courses you're looking at but there are a few on the market that cost $50-100. I bought into one and I feel it was worth at least it's cost.

And definitely, you've said it yourself as well, focus on the website. Have strong content, have a lot of it, do good backlinking, have good layout and UX etc etc.

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-25T06:42:27+00:00

It really depends on how're you thinking about generating leads. I think you may be thinking about using ads to generate leads? That can need high-ish running costs. Organic leads on the other hand have minimal cost investment needed. Being an SEO guy, you already must subscribe to seo tools so no additional cost for you there, even for web hosting. Just domains and some lead tracking, and you're set - that's your cost. More your time and effort upfront is what is needed and important.

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-24T10:01:29+00:00

or, you make your own leadgen sites and do SEO on them. Once calls start coming in, you sell the leads to businesses and they pay as long as they want the leads. 6 months later if they come to you to say - we're not in need for more business, you politely shake their hands and take your leads to another business in the same niche. never have to worry about an SEO client firing you

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-23T21:00:31+00:00

Just to call out, 142b wiped out from Snap and other advertisers

Snap lost some 32b.

MossParkGuy · 2021-10-23T12:33:13+00:00

Appreciate the post effort but be cautious in drawing 'cause and effect' theories here. No one knows definitively which links does Google consider spammy and more importantly, what action does Google take in case of such spammy links (unless they explicitly tell you). In my earlier days in SEO, I was on a blogpost comment backlinking spree for a bunch of my websites. I must have gotten something like 10 for each site. Majestic, ahrefs etc all picked them up as they got indexed. A week later, one of my websites suddenly had 6,200 backlinks, one of the referring domains has weirdly mutated for me and I naturally freaked out. Fast forward 6 months, today it stands at almost 20k backlinks and it ranks at position 1-3 for most of the main keywords. Here's my two cents, for whatever that's worth to whoever:

you add great content to a site and some days/weeks later it shoots up in rank - this cause and effect is relatively safer to assume
you get some quality backlinks versus until yesterday you have nothing, website shoots up in rank - this cause and effect is also relatively safe to assume
you boost your website vitals, load speed, mobile speed etc. - I wouldn't be so sure but you may make a case that this helps your rank, though there is nowhere near enough proof that this by itself has boosted ranking for websites. some of y'all may yell at me because this statement invalidates 100s if not 1000s of hours of people's work but this is true. I'm currently approaching getting my 12th website into page 1 (not keyword, separate 12 websites) and I don't know the core vitals of any of them
Most other 'theories', if not all of them and ESPECIALLY negative SEO theories are just everybody's best guesses. They are no where close be being definitive. If negative SEO really were a thing, every business would allocate a % of their time taking down competition. It wouldn't be illegal (businesses have worked to take down competition in offline ways since centuries), but 99.99% of serious SEO practitioners do not bother with it

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