All Forum Posts by: Keith M Sant

Carrot is for sure my preferred website choice for real estate investors. Their support staff is top notch and I usually get a response back within 5 minutes. 

Hey Anthony! 

I wish it wasn't, but SEO is a long play. It takes time - especially with a new site to gain Google's trust and rise in the rankings. I typically tell clients don't expect to close a deal from SEO in the first six months. It looks like you just got your first couple of leads this month and I'm pumped things are starting to pick up and hope your efforts continue the momentum you've created. I do recommend creating social profiles to strengthen your brand online. If you google your company name, the goal is to take up the entire first page of Google and have your website be the first result. Creating and linking social profiles together will help with that a lot. Once that is fixed everything else falls into place. 

You have a super solid foundation on your site and I am pumped to hear you're starting to learn more about SEO. If you ever have any questions or get stuck along the way feel free to join our free Facebook group. We do live calls Wednesday at 6:00pm CT with Q &A. Best of luck man! 

 I was looking at your site and noticed you have some technical errors with your logo out of the fold and your face getting cut off. 

You can use our custom CSS. It should resolve all your issues and add a few other cool elements like the ability to zoom images upon hovering. Let me know if you have any questions or if I can help in any way. 

.logo-full .banner .brand .brand-logo{
width:auto;
height:auto;
max-height:6rem;
}

.banner{
margin-top:0.5rem;
margin-bottom:-0.4rem;
}

.alignfull {
margin-bottom: 20px;
}

.content .h1, .content h1,
.gform_heading .h1, .gform_heading h1 {
font-size: 2.75rem;
font-weight: 500;
}

.how-it-works-head{
font-size:228% !important;
}

.content .h2, .content h2, .gform_heading .h2, .gform_heading h2 {
font-size: 2.5rem;
font-weight: 500;
}

.content .h3, .content h3, .gform_heading .h3, .gform_heading h3 {
font-size: 2rem;
font-weight: 500;
}

.content .h4, .content h4, .gform_heading .h4, .gform_heading h4 {
font-size: 1.5rem;
font-weight: 400;
}

.hero:before {
background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(100,100,100,.3), rgba(100,100,100,.3));
}

.button_header{
margin-left:10px;
}

.button_header a {
padding: 5px 10px !important;
color: #ffffff !important;
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: #ff8121;
}

.button_header:hover a
{
background-color: #d16a1b;
}
#menu-main-navigation > .menu-item a, #top-menu-banner .hl-top-menu a, .hl-top-menu-container a, .hl-top-menu-container a:active, .hl-top-menu-container a:focus, .hl-top-menu-container a:hover, .hl-top-menu-container a:visited {
font-size: 1.1rem;
}

.hero-form
.gform_footer
.gform_button {
padding: 0;
border-radius:5px;
background-color: #ff8121;
}

.hero-form
.gform_footer
.gform_button:hover {
background-color: #db6f1d;
}

.offer-you-trust
{
padding-top:0!important;
padding-bottom:0!important;
}

.fill-block
{
padding:0!important;
margin-top:0!important;
margin-bottom:0!important;
}

span[itemprop="telephone"] a {
color: #ff8121!important;
font-size:1.3rem;
}

span[itemprop="telephone"]:hover a
{
color: #ff8121!important;
font-size:1.3rem;
}

.author .sidebar {
display: none;
}
.blog .sidebar {
display: none;
}
.single-post .sidebar {
display: none;
}

@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 300;
font-display: swap;
src: local('Lato Light'), local('Lato-Light'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/normal-300.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/normal-300.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
font-style: italic;
font-weight: 300;
font-display: swap;
src: local('Lato Light Italic'), local('Lato-LightItalic'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/italic-300.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/italic-300.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
font-display: swap;
src: local('Lato Regular'), local('Lato-Regular'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/normal-400.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/normal-400.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
font-style: italic;
font-weight: 400;
font-display: swap;
src: local('Lato Italic'), local('Lato-Italic'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/italic-400.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/italic-400.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 700;
font-display: swap;
src: local('Lato Bold'), local('Lato-Bold'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/normal-700.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/normal-700.woff') format('woff');
}
@font-face {
font-family: 'Lato';
font-style: italic;
font-weight: 700;
font-display: swap;
src: local('Lato Bold Italic'), local('Lato-BoldItalic'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/italic-700.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://cdn.carrot.com/fonts/lato/v16/italic-700.woff') format('woff');
}

p {
font-size: 120%
}
body {
font-weight: 300
}

.hero-content {
padding: 0rem;
}

.zoom {
transition: transform .2s; /* Animation */
}

.zoom:hover {
transform: scale(1.5);
}

.yes_list li::before, .no_list li::before{
display: none;
}

ul.yes_list, ul.no_list {
padding-left:0;
list-style-type: none;
}

.padding-about-us {
margin-right:3%;
}

.bottom-border{
border-bottom: 1px solid;
border-bottom-color:rgb(0,0,0,.2);
padding-bottom: 5px;
}

.content-wrap {
padding-top: 0;
}

.star {
margin-bottom:1rem;
}

.wp-block-separator {
color: #ECECEC;
}

Hi @Jerryll Noorden

Keith here from SEO Meets REI. I understand that you're frustrated, but in no way is SEO Meets REI trying to steal anything or position ourselves as affiliated with you or your company. I don't understand how SEO Meets REI is stealing anything and would be considered "not a solid business" or how we have "ripped off our SEO business and our wholesaling and flipping business".

I would love to jump on a call with you and answer some of your concerns about SEO Meets REI and our business practices. My cell is (253) 293-9789. However, I feel I should respond to a few of your accusations and grievances here because they are pretty extreme.

“They are not a solid business. This does incredible damage not only to our businesses (yes more than one as they are ripping off our SEO business and our wholesaling and flipping business).”

SEO Meets REI is a solid business that offers quality products and services (different than the SEO products/course you offer). We offer on-page optimization and backlink services for real estate investors, and our SEO services are helping a substantial amount of investors close more deals each and every month. Here are just a couple of personal messages I received from clients last month:

“They have ripped off and stolen my website templates, designs, and strategies, and then sell them to their students for more than DOUBLE the price. They also ripped off my logo and my name.”

1. We didn’t “steal” anything. We innovated on top of your flow/layout. There is no copyright or patent on a design flow/layout that is built on a third-party hosting site that provides a large part of the initial flow and layout that I know of. If you have some copyright documentation please share it.

Furthermore,

- None of the content is plagiarized.

- The CSS code is completely different.

If there is a specific design element that you think we shouldn’t be allowed to use, I’d love to discuss it.

2. I don’t understand how anyone ripped off your “strategies”. If there are other things other than the design flow and layout mentioned above, I’d love to understand what you mean by that. We’re not even sure what your SEO strategies are so how could we copy them?

3. I don’t understand how we are selling anything of yours for “more than double.”

We offer a full DONE FOR YOU website optimization package for $5,000 that includes

- Copywriting with local entities included.

- Optimization of titles, meta descriptions, headings, and images.

- Internal and external link structure creation of up to 30 city pages to increase visibility in a client’s market.

- Fix content cannibalization issues and any technical errors.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe you offer a design template for $3,000+ where your clients still have to do all the work. In addition, if someone wants to learn more about SEO, you offer a course on SEO which I believe is $20,000+. The client still has to write everything themselves, but your team offers guidance for a limited amount of time.

4. Our business names are not the same. We just wanted something that was SEO friendly. As I’m assuming you did when you created your name (which is actually just a keyword).

5. I don’t see a resemblance in the logo at all. It is true that the colors are similar being variations of teal and orange, but so are a lot of companies. Facebook and Twitter both use blue logos but this doesn't mean one "stole" it from the other. If we stole orange from you then you stole orange from Carrot. The lineage goes on. Much ado about nothing.

We in no way are trying to "rip off" anyone. We created SEO Meets REI to help more people get the best possible results online as quickly and for as cheap as possible. We offer a ton of free content to investors about all things online marketing and do free live calls every Wednesday in our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/seomeetsrei.

Just because we are competitors in the SEO for real estate investor space doesn’t make us a scam or fraudulent. Competition is supposed to be fun. Yeah, we both want to have the tallest buildings, but we don’t have to tear down everyone else’s building to achieve that.

“Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”

- Jim Rohn

Hey @Anthony Stephenson, sorry I wasn't able to get you on the phone that week. Overall have you had a good experience working with SEO Meets REI?

@Steve W. This is the 3LPD but updated. So if you already have the 3LPD training you can go in and see the updates now. 

https://seomeetsrealestateinve... Does a pretty good job

Nice to meet you Josh! I am also 31 :) I currently live in Graham WA and buy and hold in Texas for that reason. 1% is pretty much non-existent here. Washington hold opportunities are great for the appreciation but now isn't the time to buy for that as we are at the top of the market. I learned my lesson with my first home purchase (that I still live in today) in 2007. :) 

Congratulations on your first rental Jimmy! Super exciting. 

Your best bet is to get 3 quotes and to also let the contractors know your are getting quotes to ensure a good price. 

Robert Jones at South Sound Inspections is great and he is in Puyallup.  

Good luck! 

Red Roof!