I wanted to leave a review today for this amazing service that BlueSteele provides.
This service is an extremely unique service that is very rare to find. There are 100's of xrumer, backlinks, drip feed, social bookmark services, and from what I have found, only 1 local seo/places/maps provider.
From the very begining, it is a pleasure to work with: the client intake form is done in an excel spreadsheet, with all of the information neatly organized. communication remains constant, through skype, email and phone. although i am an experience seo consultant, local/maps is my weak point and i needed a good amount of education. they were able to provide me with this education in order for me to understand.
its important to understand that this is very similar to the seo ranking process, but at the same time, it is not: in seo, there are gradual bumps in the rankings, little by little and you can see progress as we go. WHAT I HAVE FOUND, and im not saying this is a standard, but with GP, you might be on page 15 1 day, and the next day you will be on page 1 ranking #2 (my case)
the process for me took about 1.5 months, bluesteele did a good job of managing my anxiety and remaining in contact with me, to update me on the progress and citations.
once ranking was "complete" i.e. the site was snugly in position at the top of the rankings for a few days, they send me a full multi-tabbed excel spreadsheet report complete with all inbound/outbound links, username and passwords,video urls, map urls, directores etc etc.
again, i cannot express enough how valuable this can be for a particular business. the roi can be immense for your clients. On a low end keyword producing 700 hits per month, take 10% on the low end and you have 7 new customers. In this case, my client was a roofer, this can mean anything from $500 jobs - $50,000 jobs and up! I have done a myriad of GP listings for my clients and NEVER has there been a sitution when there was not a positive ROI.
the price for this service is right on point, you have to think about all you are getting to with this listing. This is a SHITLOAD of man hours to do all of these citations, directories, .kml file generating, .geo-sitemap.xml generating (which takes research,e tc) virtual address/phone number considerations, etc.
overall i would like to recommend this service to the wickedfire community as a premium service. it is the premier company offering this on WF, and my belief is that they will be around for a long time.
please note that i purchased the creature 3.0 package.
only down side is the amount of angry people emailing my client about us bumping their website down in the rankings and them losing all of their customers! true story.