WARNING: Do not advertise with MagicYellow.com

I was assured my details would appear on the first page of Google, but today I was told it could take another 8 weeks for this to happen.

Promises that you will be on the "first page of Google" are usually a red flag because the SEO competition is intense in major metro areas.  For example: I just ran a search, on Google, for Los Angeles real estate and got about 3.19M results!  What keywords did they sell you?

Based on what the submitted reviews say above, it sounds like you may not have been completely informed about their services. I have created multiple Ad Campaigns for my clients.... their reps have ALWAYS been up front, when I followed their reconmendations, based on their Keyword & SEO reports, I have seen great results & been extremely satisfied with having direct placement in the organic results of Google & Yahoo! specifically.

I think you should contact your direct rep & speak with them. Go online & REVIEW your REPORTS! You can get a GREAT deal of information from these reports which can help you with your own Search Engine Optimization.

 

Call your Account Rep & see what kind of info they can share. CALL THEM TODAY! They do Active Monitoring, you can get nearly Live SEO & Keyword Reports. They provide access to a lot more information then most advertising firms!

Although I am not in Real Estate - I too fell for the scam and wasted $450 to be in the top. It will take me months to recoup the cost as advertising budget for me is extremely tight.

I really wish I had been warned before :-(

You can be sure I'm posting it on all of my blogs.

 

I'm a professional web marketer, and I interacted with David Greene at MagicYellow.com just last week. His sales tactics were misleading and deceptive, and based on my sales experience I think he might have been following a sales script.

What's worse, I'm concerned that some people will succumb to the sales pitch of the supposed SEO benefits of placing a listing on MagicYellow.com. While I don't have any data, my professional opinion is that a MagicYellow.com listing has litte or no SEO value - certainly not $450 worth.

I posted a notice on my blog, and I echo all the comments here - MagicYellow.com is probably not a good deal for your business.

MagicYellow advertises CONSTANTLY for writers and editors to create listings. Although the pay is very low ($12 per hour), the job is near to my home, so I have answered the ad many times, as has a friend of mine. Both of us are perfectly qualified for the job, based on the stated qualifications, yet neither of us has ever heard a thing in response.

It now occurs to me that we have been shunned not because of deficient qualifications, but rather BECAUSE OF our substantial experience and apparent maturity (older than 35). That is, the MagicYellow people can tell from our resumes that we are not the kind of people who will get on the phone and lie to people.

These ads are run on Craigslist again and again, a few times a month, with no change in wording. Evidently it is a terrible place to work, with high turnover and a frequent need to hire more warm bodies.

 

 

 

 

Hi,

I actually know someone that worked for them and I am WARNING all of you that they are a scam.  They lie and make fun of the people they talk to.

The phone room manager "Tray" is a completely irrational person.  I saw five people come and go within one week.

 

Well, I was all most set up. They were to competent to even play phone tag right. I finally left a nasty voice mail, and the same email. I advertise all over for free, and do it all my self, within 4 months I have top listings every where, (for free) and have never ever had to communicate with a person on the phone to get(verified) that was my first clue, then the phone tag told me, they thought they were more important than me. then the scare tactic email, made me start researching, and wala. I am glad I dident waste my time with them, see they couldn't have gotten a dime from me.

I have more time than money, and I am not greedy(not that any of you are)so they cant deal with me. there is no reason to.

and oh, by the way, my web page is http://www.herronfarms.webs.com

and yes, it is also a free page.lol

As with most sales-related companies, the company can not monitor 100% of what the sales reps say. In some cases, a rogue or vengeful employee may make all kinds of wild claims in order to ruin the company's reputation.

I have heard that David Greene no longer works at Magic Yellow.

Any time you get wild claims and "guaranteed" promises, make sure you get those in writing from a manager. Either the company will confirm those claims or it will be alerted to the unethical practices of its employees and (hopefully) take appropriate action.

As a former employee with Magic Yellow in Agoura Hills, CA, I agree with everyone, they have very deceptive practices and all employees read a manipulative 9 page script which was formulated by the self centered sales manager TRAY who's prior sales experience was the receptionist at a 24 hour fitness club. The company is very small, they have 3 sales people total, but they come and go because there isn't any money to be made there and seasoned sales people walk after a short stint with the (NARCISSIST SALES MANAGER TRAY). The company supposedly is nationwide, so you have 3 Sales reps, 2 web designers and a bunch of looser owners who work out of a run down, 1,200 SF unprofessional office. TRAY sits at a desk in the 300SF call center and monitors the calls and on many occasions I have witnessed David Greenes practices which were praised by TRAY with the ringing of a COWBELL for the sale. The other thing that was terrible about that job is that they play rap music in the background like a PUPPY MILL and when they receive a call from an African American or a Hispanic they put the phone on MUTE and turn on the speaker phone and make racial immitations of the caller on the line. Most employees wear torn up jeans and flip flops to work. They have half page re-buttal scripts filled with lies in case the customer is going south and in most cases the customers listing does not appear in the first page of the google, bing and MSN search. So the agent, before calling you, types in many key words so that magic yellow some how appears on page one, then if they are 10 rows down, they tell the customer that there aren't any services like yours being offered in your community so you will be number 1 in the listings, which is a lie. I can't believe that I stayed their for 9 month's but after seeing how many people they were ripping off, morally I had to quit!!!

As a former employee of Magic Yellow let me let you all know they like blaming the previous manager Tray for all the wrong doing. The manager that is with the company now lies to customer telling them about how they have helped there buisnesses to get higher on the search engines it just so happens Mclaines Rv repair is her husband and she makes sure he gets to the top by constantly searching him out. They do this with many of their companies. But you will notice then only use a few as examples its because they know they are located at the top 3 or 4th spot on the search engine they chose. The office manager they have there was the one who made sure Tray lost his job so she could take over and lie even worse to customers then he did. Her husband advertising with her company only show how far the company will go to lie to their potential customers. If you look at there Testimoinals you will see her husbands is at the top of the page. And they will make sure to show you that one first so be careful. I saw so many people come and go from this place and the owners do not care what their manager does to conduct their buisness they just enjoy the money and homes it builds for them all. So many employees are unhappy with this company if they try to explain how it is not right for misleading people they are fired that simple. Beware of this company and there lies this is real and they steal peoples money and do nothing to help their buisness.