GoDaddy Girl Candice Michelle
If you use Godaddy.com’s services for domain registration or hosting, you know that when you sign up for these services, you are presented with a myriad of other services that you can use in conjunction with what you are ordering.
It can be mind boggling.
As an experienced web programmer, I found things like Website Tonight to be annoying. It’s great for the beginner. They give you everything you need, but as you grow in your programming, you might find the editorial restrictions I encountered incredibly annoying.
But that’s for another article. Today I want to talk about their Search Engine Visibility Tool.
It will run me about $30 to renew this service and I have to say that the service isn’t as much a service as it is a guidance of what you can do to get exposure.
I felt it was an incredible waste of my money and ripped off. There are more valuable tools inside the free platform that is WordPress.org than what I encountered with the Search Engine Visibility Tool.
When I signed up for it a year ago, I jumped right on board. But all I got was guidance on what services I could sign up for to help get exposure. That and a bucket-load of spam from some of the service providers.
And might I add, exposure that never came no matter what I did.
When I moved my website somewhere else, my traffic jumped a factor of 10, but for many reasons. None of which were GoDaddy’s fault.
The only real issue I was having, was the real reason I took 3 websites and moved elsewhere: Shared hosting and the lagging load times for my different sites.
I started getting site load delays of up to 90 seconds and GoDaddy couldn’t figure it out but to say that everything looks good from their end.
Yea… but on my end, when I’m waiting 90 seconds for a page to load, that’s not good for business. So I had to take my business elsewhere.
So now you know!
Don’t get me wrong – GoDaddy reps are quick to reply and a pleasure to deal with. But the end result outside of their attentiveness is the reason I moved my hosting elsewhere. There would be no other reason to stick with GoDaddy unless they started having some of their more popular staff start to answer those service calls!
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What SEO tools free are you using and where is your site hosted now?
yeah where are you hosted now…? or is your new host not delivering these messages?
Mike, I’m using Google Analytics, WordPress Stats and a few other contraptions I’ve got attached at various points of the site.
Chuck: I’m hosted at HOSTGATOR and they are awesome. You can check out my REVIEW of HostGator at: http://wp.me/pFxCD-2zU (That’s a link to another post on Brusimm.
Thanks for the input I was just going to place an order for GoDaddy’s Word Press Hosting for my new website DOT-Physical.com when I wondered about the add-0ns. Will check out HostGator!
Thank you for the tip! You saved me the money and headache.
In regards to the information at the top, I think Bruce wrote it. I am wondering if you are suggesting using Wordpress at Godaddy or it is another provider. Please clarify.
Thank you very much for your time.
Thank you for your review. I will have to find another way to get my site listed myself.
Thank you for the review. I just bought 6 domains and was a bit annoyed by all these extra “sales talk”. I was not sure about the “certified domain”, googled that, left it out, then reached the search engine vis thing, googled, found YOU, left it out. A lot of money saved. Thanks.
BTW, I am at hostgator with some of my domains and like it as well !
Your welcome Gitta… glad sharing my own experience helped someone else. -Bruce
No LIKE Buttone here (SMILE)
BtW
both links below from your About page go to the same FP page
(CINEMA)
If Facebook is your thing, here are my FacebBook ‘Pages’:
Brusimm
Cinema Static
I tried to connect on the Brusimm page ??
Ha!!! Thanks for that Facebook link note on my about page. That’s fixed. Hmm… I have a tiny little ‘f’ at the bottom of each article… guess I need to make it bigger. Actually, thanks for the feedback. I do appreciate it!
OK, links fixed and social buttons added! Thanks for motivating Gitta!
anytime. thanks again for the information you blog
You’re most certainly welcome Gitta. And thanks for stopping by!
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Thanks for the review. I still love GoDaddy for making domains cheap and easy to sign up but the check out system and the accompanying barrage of pitches is just mad… I have to keep double checking the total to make absolutely sure I haven’t accidentally signed myself up for a 20-product catalog at 9.95 a month.
Sean, you are so dead-on… there are so many ads and offers when you check out that it can be a nerve wracking experience getting out of there with just what you want to purchase! Good point, and thanks for coming by!
Wonderful review! I anxiously added this to my cart while renewing my domain and thought “wait a tic” let me see what this is really about (like I’ve grown accustom to doing for everything else I buy). I’m all excited about a “2012″ site/brand revamp, and I was about to blindly buy this scammy/spammy promise. My 2012 resolution- No more clicking “buy now” based off of emotion. Thank you for the heads up! Happy new year!
Go daddy phone reps are great…at eventually telling you that they have no idea how to fix the problem they have created. I wasted a month of advertising with Google and Facebook just to find out my checkout area was broken AND godaddy told me it was working fine at least 6 different times I called telling them it was broken. Also their html is a mess, my Google adwords promo credit never worked, and I had one girl insist for a half an hour that I could not upload a sitemap without buying search engine visibility. I am not all that happy. BTW I use quick shopping cart. That being said, the csr people are really nice to deal with, they just can’t do anything about anything. Bill pardons should be held to account.
Bill parsons (I think) …sorry
Wheeler… I hear ya. I hosted over there for a while but the website load times sucked, so I moved. They could not figure out why my simple site was taking 30 to 45 seconds to load… #FAIL!