Boy I have Fell Behind Here - Day ??

I am still working on building many layers of content to protect my own name it just has taken a back seat to online marketing. Right now the SERPS are fairly tight for my name, Paul Rushing so I have been concentrating on building dealer micro sites using squidoo.com.

One of the nice things about building these single page landers is that they can be used to market your business or used to push affiliate products. Here are some good examples -

• Golden Isles Nissan - Used to merchandise my used Nissan Inventory
• Las Vegas Hyundai - Used to push an automotive lead affiliate program
• Special Financing Tulsa - Used to push an automotive loan lead affiliate program

All of these pages are built using squidoo.com and if you are an Auto Dealer wanting someone to help you build these types of pages to target competitive keywords just visit this other page I built at squidoo to see some more examples. Automotive Micro Sites

Blog Commenting to Build Credibility in Your Niche - Day Seven

I participate quite regularly in an Automotive Online Marketing Blog quite regularly and always get amazed at how brash people become when they do not agree with you. While I do not have problems with people not agreeing with my opinion as opinions are very subjective. But sometimes enough is enough.

I made a comment to another poster that the fact that the search term "Special Finance Tulsa" was not a very competitive search term and got pounced on by another reader at that blog. He felt that using Google's Webmaster Tools was not submitting a site to Google it just helped him measure it's status.

If he did not agree with that that is ok by me because I know better, but then he proceeded to take potshots trying to talk down to me. I don't have a problem with people disagreeing with my methods of SEO at all. Hey was just trying to protect his position on using dealer micro sites were beneficial for SEO for bullshit search terms. He was proud that his credit application was ranked number on for the search term "Special Finance Tulsa"

I am sure he is trying to attack my credibility for what ever reason, I think mainly because he is proud of ranking well for those search terms and I discounted them as meaningless keywords to rank for.

You can see all of the comments at:

http://www.dealerrefresh.com/my_weblog/2008/04/to-micro-site-o.html#comments

One day people will learn to not try to intimidate me in online debates and resort to name calling. Ask Larry Host.

Use Your Real Name - Day 6

I run a blog about being an Internet Sales Manager and receive many interactions from various Automotive Vendors. Some very positive and some of them are not. Especially when I blog about how screwed up the auto business in its current online marketing initiatives.

I did a post about Dealer Micro Sites not long ago and got a very caustic comment laden with 15 links for this vendor to try to show off his product. Of course I did not approve the post. For starters this individual was trying to pitch his product on my blog, gave a caustic remark and DID NOT USE HIS REAL NAME.

I could of gotten past the first two issues if he had used his name and could of turned into a real positive discussion. Instead he killed the conversation before it got started and was never given the chance to persuade me into looking at his perspective.

The moral of the story is - If you are going to take a stance do it in the open and let your actions be identified with you...