Review of GoDaddy "Search Engine Visibility" & "Business Registration"

Premium features at GoDaddy

[brycen]

I inherited a small local business website that had used the premium GoDaddy features "Search Engine Visibility" & "Business Registration" ($60 and $5/year respectively).

I can say without question neither feature demonstrated any value.
None of the yellow pages got anything.
None of the local search portals got anything.
The tools were essentially useless.
The advice was worse than useless.
The advice, such as it was, was pre-Panda.
One of the tools let you compare rankings at "altavista", a search engine that no longer exists.
The most useful advice was to "get a listing at yp.com".

Worthless.

[Brownstownz]

These are just upsells. Focus on your site and don't even waste your time with this.

[anallawalla]

Many such companies love the "recurring revenue" model and don't mind how they get the revenue. By the time the customer realises they are getting no value, one or two years will have passed. Some lucky company in Asia probably provisions these customers by loading the URL into some tool just once and the rest is on auto-pilot.

[J_RaD]

godaddy is NOTHING but a minefield of upsells at almost every turn you take.

I won't touch that site for ANYTHING.

And any time i have to mess with it for someone else, my eyes bleed.

[Swanny007]

I left GoDaddy much in part due to the obnoxious incessant upsells.