Comments on: Natpal, Doppleganger Sites And Other Counter-Productive Marketing Techniques

By: Jazmin Tittl

Jazmin Tittl — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:51:46 +0000

Privacy doesn’t do anything for you from my experience.

By: Yelp Makes Small Businesses Scream | Website Promotion is not Voodoo

Yelp Makes Small Businesses Scream | Website Promotion is not Voodoo — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:48:19 +0000

[...] and you don’t fall for a slick sales pitch from the likes of SEOMatrix, Yodle (formerly Natpal), or LinksHog (or one of their hundred other [...]

By: Internet Marketing for Plastic Surgeons - Less Scary than You Think | Website Promotion is not Voodoo

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:52:36 +0000

[...] I’ve already posted about our use of call-tracking numbers. Honestly, we want to know what’s working. Since we don’t have a directory and we’re not a one-trick pony PPC aggregator we have some latitude. We don’t have a property in which we need to outrank you. [...]

By: Convert Offline - Everybody’s Doing It | Website Promotion is not Voodoo

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:30:39 +0000

[...] To be clear, we did this on their site.Â Using simple PHP and Javascript we avoided mirroring their site and the only change was the phone number. After 2 months we made a decision… [...]

By: wscott

wscott — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:44:42 +0000

Jonathon,

Thanks for your comments!

I appreciate the feedback and only wish I had more time to get what’s between my ears onto the screen.

Thanks again,
Will

By: Jonathan Haynes

Jonathan Haynes — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:25:28 +0000

This is a good blog…

By: Jonathan Haynes

Jonathan Haynes — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:23:49 +0000

Hey Court, what do you mean by “this issue was raised to us recently by a client, at which time we changed our policy for new sites.” Are you serious? So NatPal is out there building a search practice for SME’s and you guys did not understand the need for robot.txt? Hello McFly! I don’t doubt your intentions, but I will tell you, even the yellow page companies that sell clicks know better… Not to impressive.

By: PRH Solutions Blog » Blog Archive » Natpal Case Study

PRH Solutions Blog » Blog Archive » Natpal Case Study — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:56:42 +0000

[...] http://www.searchinfluence.com/blog/2007/06/natpal/ [...]

By: Natpal CEO Court Cunningham Steps Up | Website Promotion is not Voodoo

Natpal CEO Court Cunningham Steps Up | Website Promotion is not Voodoo — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:26:17 +0000

[...] Court Cunningham, the CEO of NatPal, has been incredibly quick in responding to my earlier post in which I was critical of NatPal’s handling of mirror sites. [...]

By: Court Cunningham

Court Cunningham — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:23:57 +0000

Thank you for your thoughtful post on this subject. NatPal is committed to driving as many online leads for our clients as possible, and we would never intentionally reduce the performance of their SEO efforts.
Our policy has recently changed to require the use of robots.txt tag on all new duplicate sites, and we are in the process of implementing this across our hundreds of customers.

Some background:
As a marketing lead generation provider to the SMB market, we found that most of our clients did not have an existing website. As part of delivering our online lead generation service, we also build for them, at a nominal cost, their primary website. In this case there is no issue, since there is no duplicate content.

Given our 50% quarter over quarter growth rate we are increasingly starting to work with clients who do have an existing website. As a result of our growth in this segment, this issue was raised to us recently by a client, at which time we changed our policy for new sites.

We have only one mission, driving more leads at a reasonable price for our clients. We succeed when they succeed. We have in the past and will continue to adjust our tactics to ensure we succeed in this mission.

Thanks

Court Cunningham
CEO