We are doing very badly in the Google rankings. If you search on "Bank charges" at least the first two pages of hits belong to the banks' own sites.

Many of the websites which link to us are linking to the forum. However to move up the Google ladder, they need to link to our home page at www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk

If you have a website, it would be helpful to use the following code for your link:-

The Consumer Action Group - Reclaim your Right as a consumer and reclaim your unfair bank charges! Free site with letter templates and helpful forum.

Even if you change the text, please keep the words "bank charges" in it.

If you know a website which links to our forum or doesn't link at all, please could you contact the webmaster and suggest that they could link using the above code.

Do you have a website? Add the following code to add a link to The Consumer Action Group:

 

The Consumer Action Group - Reclaim your Right as a consumer and reclaim your unfair bank charges! Free site with letter templates and helpful forum.

No sooner said than done. I just copied it from your post and pasted into my signature, so it was no trouble at all.

I'm a moderator in a window cleaning forum, the biggest in the UK with over 6000 members; I've advertised this site twice so far, in that forum.

I'm also a member of a debt forum; and I've advertised this site there too; with the approval of the moderators there too.

I'm doing my best; the good boy I am!

This is an excellent site!

Wow Tosh - I don't mean to be rude but I would never have dreamt that there was a window cleaning forum!

Vinegar and newspaper - that's my tip!

Sorry for going off the very important topic BF but I couldn't resist.

Wow Tosh - I don't mean to be rude but I would never have dreamt that there was a window cleaning forum!

 

Vinegar and newspaper - that's my tip!

 

Sorry for going off the very important topic BF but I couldn't resist.

No problem; we're thick as planks us window cleaners; so I understand where you're comming from! Obviously us window cleaners can't be computer literate and participate in an on-line 'forum', because that uses 'words; spelling and stuff'.

You'd be surprised at what successful window cleaners earn.

Now stop being stupid and get on with the forum at hand.

Ok I managed to get my signature character count down when adding the code by changing it to use tahoma as font...

I humbly submit to you... The CAG Affiliate Logo Candidate!

Could either Dave or BF ratify this as a useful affiliate logo, and duly authorise it's use for links to the website?

Ok, I've got the signature...so now I have just gotta go and put myself around a little

Have pasted the links into my 'LINKS' page on me website.

Unfortunately I can't post the address on here 'cos it's a commercial site with my phone numbers on it and stuff but suffice to say, it's done.

I just Googled bank charges to see how the site is doing there now. No sign of it, but Motley Fool was about second down so I clicked on there. There was an article by this guy who was passing on his "experiences". He did have several links to CAG which was good, and freely admitted to "adapting" some of the templates here.

All good you may think.

I was not impressed.

1. His DPA letter (drafted himself) made no mention of paying the £10 fee, and did not ask for information on manual interventions.

2. 18 days after his first article he writes another and apparently he has had so many emails in response to the first that he hasn't had time to buy a stamp for his adapted letter to the bank yet.

I am sure there were other things wrong too but I am no expert.

Luckily he has had time to solve the tricky issue of calculating interest on claims so we can all rest easy in our beds now.

I hope that CAG doesn't get its reputation tarnished by this kind of jumping on the band wagon.

Apparently his mum is a lawyer so he gets all his legal advice from her. Bless him.

Thought this might be useful to other people - I've been using this as my signature on other forums for a while now.

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Edit: Nuts, trying to find a way to post it without it actually appearing 'as is'. Contains a transparent logo with the forum image and website address, and a text-link underneath to the forums.

[ URL=http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk][ img]http://www.albumtown.com/data2/a0bdebcba6bfd6455d57296f88365b17/65326_p1018653.gif[/img][/url]

Remove the spaces before each open square bracket - "["

The biggest advice sector umbrella organisation- AdviceUK -will feature the link in their next Update with short summary on reclaiming unfair penalty charges. This goes to many hundreds of large and small advice providers.

I will be more than happy to include a link on my site but there are other ways that you could get useful incoming links to your site like submitting money articles to one of the many article directories such as http://www.articlecity.com and http://www.goarticles.com etc.

These sites are incredibly popular and will be used by 1000's of online publishers...each one of them containing your link. They also have a very high pr ranking as well.

Also, although you can't afford to use Adwords would it not be worth your while to install Adsense ads? I don't think I have seen any on the site, although they might be well hidden.

I will be giving you a donation as this site is an essential tool in beating the banks.

If I can lend any of my skills in any way please don't hesitate to give me a shout.

Best wishes and thanks for all of your hard work.

Gary

Just posted the link on car club forum..

We have 300 members and shed loads of registered users so will be keeping an eye on the results of that.

I know its only a little compared to the huge sites already mentioned, but every little helps:D

I haven't got a website, but as a branch commitee member and trade group delegate of the T&GWU, I passed your site on to our commitee.We thinking about to print it in our next infos to our members across the UK.

Its the best I can do for this fantastic forum. At least we got some thousand members!

Hi

eBay.co.uk - bank charges, Information Products, Laptops, DVDs items at low prices

are these people selling the info on this site? Is this allowed?

Easiest way to counter this is to do some listings with no charge, just the CAG web address (not as a link but as a pic).

There, I`ve done it.

Have just added a blog (and a link) to a business web site with over 50,000 members.

Hope that helps!

At least if you search for `bank charges` on ebay, it shouldn`t cost anything now.

Edit until working.

There is a forum called freecycle which enables members to list and obtain free items. It is a national thing that when you register you pick your town. I have placed an add today for the group on the Northampton site and have had responses already.

Mark

I have added the link which will appear at the bottom of every page on my website. Hope it helps.

Good luck to everyone!

A link appears at the bottom of every page of my website with thanks.

If one fotrunate person finds this site I will be so pleased - better than the theives on ebay who are SELLING the templates.

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Just an idea. Im no expert but wouldnt it boost the ratings on google of every member opened the google search page and typed consumer action group. This would put the site at number 1 then link to it from there. Surely with all members doing that it would raise the site on googles ratings.