$25 worth of free internet health leads.

insurancecalifornia · 02-13-2007, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Melmunch3

Oleg, we do NOT use a rel="nofollow" tag, and we do pass pagerank.

I would recomend you to use the tag nofollow . I guess thank you for the links!

***Melmunch3*** · 02-13-2007, 05:48 PM

Since we monitor for spam fairly closely, I see no reason to implement it. I don't mind passing page rank to those who are participating and actually adding something to the forum. Those who are not, get deleted.
You are welcome for the free links! Of course, since we have session id's in our url's there is not much page rank on these internal pages anyway.

insurancecalifornia · 02-13-2007, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Melmunch3

Since we monitor for spam fairly closely, I see no reason to implement it. I don't mind passing page rank to those who are participating and actually adding something to the forum. Those who are not, get deleted.
You are welcome for the free links! Of course, since we have session id's in our url's there is not much page rank on these internal pages anyway.

Cool, if you want to place ad about broker forum please let me know I can post to my new website broker-locator.com at no charge.

http://broker-locator.com/images/ads/125x125_right.gif

Thanks

***Melmunch3*** · 02-13-2007, 06:00 PM

Acording to Alexa, you don't get any traffic! You are not in the yahoo and msn indexes at all, and your only external links in google are from this forum.

Thanks for the offer, but we will pass.

insurancecalifornia · 02-13-2007, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Melmunch3

Acording to Alexa, you don't get any traffic! You are not in the yahoo and msn indexes at all, and your only external links in google are from this forum.

Thanks for the offer, but we will pass.

Well, I do not know why people look on Alexa? It's not accurate. I can get you the best rating on Alexa by installing the Alexa bar .

I also said earlier that website is new and I am still developing. I will have it full indexed and more traffic with in next 6 month.

***Melmunch3*** · 02-13-2007, 06:16 PM

It may not be accurate, but it is quite telling when no one with the toolbar has ever visited a site. In any case, you may want to change the lead to "find A broker, and not THE broker. Also, your title tags are incomprehensible, and that is what shows up when people run an exact match, not to mention that the engines will only see 70 or so characters. To learn more, you should read this post. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/best-prac...for-title-tags

insurancecalifornia · 02-13-2007, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Melmunch3

It may not be accurate, but it is quite telling when no one with the toolbar has ever visited a site. In any case, you may want to change the lead to "find A broker, and not THE broker. Also, your title tags are incomprehensible, and that is what shows up when people run an exact match, not to mention that the engines will only see 70 or so characters. To learn more, you should read this post. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/best-prac...for-title-tags

To be honestly the site still under development and I have not even look in to the key words or any optimization.

But thank you for the advice. I will read the post

somarco · 02-14-2007, 03:04 PM

Getting back on track . . .

I cancelled Vimo.

For the second time in less than a month.

Initially cancelled them when they initiated a 24 hour wait on suspending leads. Must have been several others that did the same because they quickly changed it to immediate suspension.

Quality of the leads is mediocre. Their credit policy used to be very liberal but now I almost never get a credit. Blowing thru a lot of leads to get a decent prospect.

Not my idea of fun.

healthagent · 02-14-2007, 03:53 PM

Now we're back to generating your own business. Hire telemarketers. I'm very good at this business and it should say something that I don't deal with internet leads anymore. Back when I used to deal with them the quality was better. Times have changed.

02-14-2007, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by john_petrowski

Now we're back to generating your own business. Hire telemarketers. I'm very good at this business and it should say something that I don't deal with internet leads anymore. Back when I used to deal with them the quality was better. Times have changed.

John what is your closing ratio with your telemarketed leads?

I no like your new signuture...you just trying to recrewt!

healthagent · 02-14-2007, 04:45 PM

I'm doing zero recruiting. I won't put any other agents under me. I'm just tired of watching people get burned by signing crappy contracts. I try to keep them away from that.

I'm closing 1 out of 15 telemarketed leads.

*STIBROKER@AUSTIN.RR.COM* · 02-14-2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by somarco

Quality of the leads is mediocre. Their credit policy used to be very liberal but now I almost never get a credit. Blowing thru a lot of leads to get a decent prospect. Not my idea of fun.

a lead is a lead....everyone I have talked to in most case's needed advice...sometimes that advice turns into a sale....sometimes two mo's down the line.....

somarco · 02-14-2007, 06:38 PM

A lead is a lead . . . but some lead sources are better.

When I first started using Vimo they would give credit for leads that you were unable to talk to within 7 days. Call 4 - 5x and leave messages. No return phone call or response to email and Vimo would credit.

Not any longer.

They also gave credit for uninsurables, and those looking for something other than health insurance (such as dental).

No more.

I have better sources. Glad it is working for you.

healthagent · 02-14-2007, 07:06 PM

Leadco.biz had one of the best return policies out there.

somarco · 02-14-2007, 09:34 PM

I did use Leadco at one time, and yes, they were easy to work with on the credits. Most of the folks I got lived in trailers, consumed PBR by the 6 pack before dinner, were barefoot & pregnant, and looking for coverage for less than $40 per month.

I really didn't have anything for them.

healthagent · 02-14-2007, 10:04 PM

Internet leads are in general, garbage. Very intelligent business owners who need individual plans don't troll the net and they don't plug in their personal info since they know they'll be bombarded by calls. Most of your internet leads are young singles or "Becky age 37 and two kids." I'm not saying you can't sign people up - but it's not the client base I'm looking for.

How many leads do you receive before you get a family in their 50's that has money and the premium is gonna be around $500 a month? Very few a far between. That's my average lead through telemarketing small business owners.

Plus, the dumb part is I don't pay any more. Internet leads run from $6 to $8 a pop. My leads are $7.50. So for me it's $7.50 for exclusive leads from business owners or $8 for leads from broke people looking for $80 a month premiums. Oh...and you have to fight for the business.