Crexendo happens to be right in our very own back yard and we’ve been hearing a lot about them recently. In fact we even attended a seminar/luncheon put on by the Crexendo team in hopes of better understanding them and their service. We then dove a little deeper to see if their game matched their trash talk. Lets start with our experience at the seminar.
First Impressions:
Our first impression of Crexendo was positive. While attending their seminar the president of the company spoke on SEO and their service. He clearly understood what he was talking about and presented some impressive case studies. For some reason however he focused extra heavily on the importance of bookmarking. Don’t get us wrong bookmarking definitely has its place he just seemed more excited about it than most.
So after the luncheon we were feeling pretty good about Crexendo, but at the end of the day putting on a good show and getting results are two very different things and we were still curious to see if Crexendo would come through on the latter.
Legitimate or not?
After getting back to the lab we did some intense investigation of Crexendo, and later on we even spoke one on one with a sales rep of theirs. We found that they have a very specific approach to link building which heavily includes bookmarking, as we could imagine. It appears they use the same exact procedure for every single client. Basically they take each keyword they are building links for, write an article, spin it 30 times, post it to a blog or user-generated content site like HubPages, embed a couple links per article, then bookmark each article 30 times. And that’s it.
We were absolutely astounded at the simplicity of their approach. The concept however is fairly sound, and in looking at some of their clients it seems to work. The price however is a little steep starting at $1,000/mo per keyword.
Our Advice
So what is our advice concerning Crexendo? If you are in a medium to high competitive industry and you have the cash they are a decent choice. Their methods are simple, but solid and they seem to know what works.
If you have any information about this company we invite you to comment. You can also visit their official site, Crexendo.com for more information.
