Talk:Certificate of deposit
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[edit] Bankcd.com
The "bankcd.con" site actually charges $7.95 to provide information on bank interest rates. The same information is available free at bankrate.com. Page edited to reflect this.
- Restored BankCD link. Although site charges to disclose which banks, rates are free to see. And I have checked and rates seem to be better than Bankrate's. It seems to me that BankCD does a better job in checking best rates. I think the users should decide by themselves which to chose.--AAAAA 02:09, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
- I just checked and BankCD is now totally free.--AAAAA 18:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Callable
Does anyone have information on Callable CDs that they could add to this article?--Adam 
(talk) 19:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removing Links
BankRate.com has become the industry standard for free rate information, but they do not exist out of the goodness of their hearts. However, since they have climbed to the top of the industry their link might as well stay. All of the other sites are basically affliate based sites trying to cash in on advertisng or PPC. We have a site that has plenty of useful information and no ads. But we charge for our placement services. I will not post our link because it would be considered spam. I feel the same about the other sites that had links--Cdduncan 17:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- I feel that all the links are useful. Bankrate also has a lot of advertising and it requires a lot of clicks to see all the rates. I did some checking and I found, for example, that bankcd.com updates their rates daily and bankrate only weekly, and bankcd.com, although not as popular, has better rates. Furthermore, BankRate requires one screen per term, so they show you more advertising. Bankcd.com shows all the rates in one screen.--AAAAA 18:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
- I was encouraged to post this for review. I would like to see all external links to "advertiser" pages be removed. Pleas read on and provide some feed back. I will be honest in that my first reason for coming here was a suggestion from some SEO person that at times you can get a link to your website if done correctly. When it comes to commercial sites you want to be ranked as high as you can, and relevant one-way links fit the bill. I spend a lot of time doing that on my own. I don't like link farms, etc. So when other sites are given free links it is frustrating. BankRate.com doesn't need anymore links. BankCD.com use to charge a fee, but I guess decided they could make more money by having people click ads on their site. And BestCashCow.com, although they give good info, doesn't exist for altruistic reasons. And I believe all 3 fall under #5 of the list of things to avoid when it comes to external links. So, I would like to see their links go away. And just so you know another user felt the same way I did, but I don't recall their exact user name, it was spam something. The history of their changes to the page have been removed. And another ad laden site has a link there now as well. So how many are needed? I vote to have them all removed. BTW, I did add some useful content to the article. $ isn't everything afterall. If those links are going to remain, I don't see why a link to a service company shouldn't be there, as well. Of course then every service company will want a link and your links section just looks useless. So my vote is to remove all "advertiser" links except for bankrate.com, because they are everywhere anyway. --Cdduncan 21:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- There are about 10,000 FDIC-insured institutions and no single service monitors all of them. Therefore, it makes sense to have several links.--AAAAA 21:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
- I was encouraged to post this for review. I would like to see all external links to "advertiser" pages be removed. Pleas read on and provide some feed back. I will be honest in that my first reason for coming here was a suggestion from some SEO person that at times you can get a link to your website if done correctly. When it comes to commercial sites you want to be ranked as high as you can, and relevant one-way links fit the bill. I spend a lot of time doing that on my own. I don't like link farms, etc. So when other sites are given free links it is frustrating. BankRate.com doesn't need anymore links. BankCD.com use to charge a fee, but I guess decided they could make more money by having people click ads on their site. And BestCashCow.com, although they give good info, doesn't exist for altruistic reasons. And I believe all 3 fall under #5 of the list of things to avoid when it comes to external links. So, I would like to see their links go away. And just so you know another user felt the same way I did, but I don't recall their exact user name, it was spam something. The history of their changes to the page have been removed. And another ad laden site has a link there now as well. So how many are needed? I vote to have them all removed. BTW, I did add some useful content to the article. $ isn't everything afterall. If those links are going to remain, I don't see why a link to a service company shouldn't be there, as well. Of course then every service company will want a link and your links section just looks useless. So my vote is to remove all "advertiser" links except for bankrate.com, because they are everywhere anyway. --Cdduncan 21:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
