Not My Idea of Marketing

**HHI Golf Guy** · 05-13-2005, 11:31 PM

From FoxNews.com:

Skin Bared to Sell Real Estate

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)

**judyo** · 05-14-2005, 11:28 AM

Sure was a good picture, though! Now if I could put my head on that body & switch out my Pekingese, Gizmo, would I get more clients?

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-14-2005, 11:32 AM

What a lunatic. Sure it got her some attention... but at what price?

This is all over some other forums I'm on...

I would never do that, even if I was female and had a good body.

**judyo** · 05-14-2005, 11:40 AM

Seriously, if I were her I would definitely think twice about showing vacant properties or sitting open houses alone after that billboard stint.

**HMiller** · 05-14-2005, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by judyo

Seriously, if I were her I would definitely think twice about showing vacant properties or sitting open houses alone after that billboard stint.

Good point. I think she has a team working for her (I assume it's made up of men

) so hopefully they're doing that work.

I think she was going more for the publicity resulting from the controversy than from the ad itself and apparently it's working as she's all over the news out there locally and it now seems nationally. Wonder how many relo requests she's getting? Personally, I say if it works then more power to her.

For those who haven't seen the billboard Personally, I'm more offended by her websites. Complete dup content, tsk tsk tsk.

**judyo** · 05-15-2005, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by HMiller

Personally, I'm more offended by her websites. Complete dup content, tsk tsk tsk.

LOL! I'm a woman & I didn't read the website. I just looked at the pictures!

**Phoenix Realtor** · 05-15-2005, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by judyo

LOL! I'm a woman & I didn't read the website. I just looked at the pictures!

The exact oppisite of what men have been telling everyone about Playboy magazine for years! They just read the articles...

**HMiller** · 05-15-2005, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Phoenix Realtor

The exact oppisite of what men have been telling everyone about Playboy magazine for years! They just read the articles...

... and they do have some great articles too.

**HomeSurfer** · 05-16-2005, 01:43 AM

Wendy is a formal personal trainer.

I've talked to her several times in the past and she seems like a very nice person. I like her. The bikini billboard doesn't bother me.

As for the duplicate content, it was written to inform the web visitor, not for search engine optimization.

However, it is not located directly on her site so her site has no duplicate content penalty. At least some of the content pages are indexed by Google and at least some have a PR3. There are approximately 150 pages of offisite content, all linking to her home page, using personalized anchor text, "Long Beach Real Estate by Wendy"...

Now...

...explain how Wendy's "duplicate content" is a bad thing?

JudyO has the same content setup that Wendy has. She'll be interested. So let's try not to write a kneejerk reaction here.

**HMiller** · 05-16-2005, 12:05 PM

Actually ABC, when I posted I shouldn't have mentioned that her "site" is all dup content, I should have just said her homepage as I didn't actually delve into her site. Well, except for her billboard page in order to uh, ahem, analyze her advertising methods and learn from it. My conclusion being that I could never pull that off as a bikini would never look quite as good on me. My comment about being offended wasn't meant to be taken seriously, was just trying to make a lighthearted joke. Sorry if it didn't come out that way and I certainly didn't mean to direct any comments toward whoever created the content.