Comments on: moneysupermarket traffic takes a nosedive

By: Alid

Alid — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:53:45 +0000

Yes Rich, I think it must be these guys:

http://www.mconsulting.co.uk/1/mexperience/clients.aspx

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:11:19 +0000

@Ernest

Think it’s the same guys as who does this one http://www.constructaquote.com/ – carry similar linking patterns

By: Ernest

Ernest — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:05:44 +0000

@Kevin

OK, good PR line. Hayley has taught you well.

However, you will notice that only a handful of (albeit sometimes the largest) search agencies are spoken about on here because of their wrong doing – not working within Google’s guidelines.

It’s up to them. I can see the short term gains they’re making and their clients (like Money Expert) take part in this, knowingly, and as part of their search strategy. Fair dos. It’s up to them. Any thoughts given on a particular agency is just to highlight that they have a different opinion to us – not that they don’t know what they’re doing …quite the opposite in most cases.

So …who is it? Or do I need to do some digging myself?!!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:14:55 +0000

@ Ernest,

Because of the attacks made on SEO agencies in the past on I-V, I am reluctant to publicly name our agency.

What I will say is, as with any agency, it’s really the people on your account that make the real difference and we now have a team working for us who are well aligned to the goals of Gocompare.com and we are very pleased with the work that they are doing for us.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:04:21 +0000

@Rich – that truly is comical link building!

@Kevin – who is your search agency nowadays?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:48:08 +0000

@Ernest

We are climbing slowly! It has taken some time to get to this position and is down to a number of factors, some of which include the number of brand searches that we now have and the quality of our link building, especially through our PR team.

As you know Ernest, we’re here for the long term, so have been prepared to be patient in our rise through the rankings.

@ Rich

As I’ve openly pointed out on other occasions, these links were purchased by our previous agency. We are gradually removing some of the poorer quality links to our site, but as with building links, we need to faze them out over time.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:52:07 +0000

Ernest – all of gocompare’s spammy links are still there – such as http://www.watchingamerica.com/index.shtml & http://www.superlowhosting.com/

BTW – have you seen the state of and nature of other links on the latter!

Not what you would call solid foundations, but then again who know’s with the Google of today.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:33:37 +0000

GoCompare are sneeking up there too! Didn’t they recently fire their search agency for buying links? I wonder if this success is down to ethic link building or the old fashion, paid for route?

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:14:24 +0000

There’s a new DP link network spammer in town, moving up the charts for “car insurance” – http://www.powerseeker.co.uk/

By: JC

JC — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:53:04 +0000

compete has them on the up ….. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/moneysupermarket.com/

aug-06 to aug-07

Paid for hitwise stats would give the best indicator.