PippieStrueg

Well that's the trade of. You want to get your name out there and have people find you on the internet. Then you lie. You want to stay true to yourself? Find people that are willing to write a testimonial for you and find value in that. There is good in both these options.

Yes. "My guitar class with Dan was absolutely a great experience. I was nervous to get started. As a child I had played the guitar just for fun. But now I'm a grown up I found it hard to go back to reading notes and finding all the right notes on the guitar. But Dan made me feel it's a breeze. It's not, it's hard work. Dan knows that. So do I. But he gave me the feeling I can accomplish this. I would totally recommend Dan." Sylvia R. [Vancouver Island, Canada] -> change name Translate that put it on your website. If you want an SEO written testimonial I'll send you my paypal Good luck anyone can do it and anyone does

Not a lot of people agree with me but here it goes: Testimonials are not necessarily written as real testimonials. I have written many of them. If you are looking for genuine testimonials, yes you should approach people you have worked with, see it as a reference. But the average Jane Doe doesn't really care about names of leading people in the business. Same as blogs, these are all written by editors, and the goal is to put in as much SEO words as your creativity can handle. So testimonials and blogs do the same thing: rank you higher on the search lists. So you need testimonials? Write them! I made half an annual salary writing comments on Amazon.com about products and how great they were. I made about a dollar a posting. Good money but totally made up I never used the product let alone I bought it. Amazon is only interested in high ratings, and that is it. People want to be deceived and the internet is the perfect platform to do that. Surf along!