Jan 27 2008
How Trustworthy Are Hosting Reviews?
The demand of web hosting products continually rose to new heights since the advent of Web 2.0 years ago. Web hosting products sales, usually constituted of shared hosting plans, virtual servers hosting and dedicated server packages soared as innovations on the Web recaptured worldwide audiences’ interest. The combined popularity of new-age websites like blogs, social communities, video streaming, and social bookmarks sites, along with the healthy growth of online advertisement marketing, invoked people to set their own ventures on the Internet.
People’s first stop to join the Internet bandwagon is to find a good hosting company. Normally, most of them would consult Google (or any search engine) to find “reliable” hosting review websites. Given the thousands of sites that appear on search engine results page, not all review sites are reliable. People need to be careful else they could end up putting money on fraudsters’ pockets than enjoying its worth.
Honest web hosting review websites are expected not to accept money from hosting company clients for their opinions. Being an affiliate of the products they review, though actually allowable and legal, still certainly can cast doubt on the truthfulness of their say. Though many would defend that they are only paid by their writings, obviously it is some sort of advertisement and could influence the outcome of the review. Web hosting companies participating on these sites are willing to pay a good amount just to have a good spot on the page – shame on them for fooling people.
I recently found an interesting YouTube video on how to spot fake, biased hosting review websites. It shows that identifying biased reviews are not that easy to spot for normal Web users. Watch the video below and you’ll learn the hints and see the reality behind web hosting review websites. You will realize how “trustworthy” they are.
I fully credit the person who made the video. If you benefit the advices of this post, and you’re one of those people who are looking for a good web hosting company, don’t get scammed! You may contact me directly and I will let you know a good host that I trust, and you can trust. Don’t worry, it’s free and unbiased. My judgments are based on my experience.
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January 27th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
There is one I do use based on the fact that the rank is generated by the users reviews of the host. If they get a bad review, the rank is lowered.
I think a lot of them ‘Advertise With Us’ links are for banner ads, not the listing ranks, but chances are a lot of the ones in the video are rank purchases. But if I were to run a site like one of them, I SURE would be having affiliate links, I really don’t see how THAT gets them BUSTED. I wouldn’t be doing it for free either.
I have posted both a Paid Review and a non paid review of my current host. (Which I think you already know about, but maybe your readers might not.)
Paid or not, my review is true, and as accurate as I think it is. So maybe these host ranking sites aren’t what folks should be using. Maybe they should gauge what others are saying about particular hosting companies in their blog posts. Maybe they should use the host company name in a Google search and read the blog posts instead, because we know that most of THEM are written by real people.
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January 28th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Wow Macbros, thanks for your very substantial comment!
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 am
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and wish to assit as far as possible.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
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