For my details please visit my blog at hosting-reviews-exposed.com Are “HOST REVIEW” sites honest? Are they unbiased, impartial, and factual… or are they just after your money? How does a hosting company get on the “top 10″ list? Amazingly most hosting reviews websites have one thing in common They are getting paid by hosting companies for reviews (either directly in the form of advertising or indirectly via affiliate commissions) — making their reviews extremely biased, one-sided, and highly questionable in terms of accuracy. They all promote the same group of companies. The reason that the same hosting companies always make it to the “top” of the hosting comparison charts is because those companies, one way or another, pay to be listed there. These hosts include Host Monster, Blue Host, Lunar Pages, IX Webhosting, InMotionHosting, StartLogic, Host Pappa, Pow Web, etc. It’s a well-known fact web hosting companies running their affiliate programs through Commission Junction offer among the highest affiliate commissions in the hosting industry. Thus “clever” PPC (pay per click) affiliate marketers decided: why not create websites with “top web hosting companies” lists and list these companies as “top”? Hosting company reviews seldom base their “rating” on their quality of service (although many claim to). Instead, most of them rate a webhost on the *size* of the affiliate commission. Those web hosts offering the highest commissions usually get the top spots — because …
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Jackson, NJ (PRWEB) May 10, 2007
Web Hosting Review Blog is celebrating it’s first anniversary since going live in June of 2007. Over the period of last year the website reviewed over 28 leading web hosting providers.
“The idea behind this blog was simple. We wanted to provide an opportunity to web masters to voice their opinion about their web hosting providers” said Vlad Zablotskyy, the owner of Web Hosting Review Blog- “Our team attempts to verify the authenticity of every review, which can be hard some times, especially when dealing with negative reviews”
Any visitor to Web Hosting Review blog has an opportunity to rate their web hosting provider and write a short review. Mr. Zablotskyy also said ” We would like attract web masters and even web design and web development companies, who can provide honest and unbiased information about their day to day dealings with web hosting providers”. “It is our belief that no one can provide better information about web hosting providers than web-masters themselves”, added Mr. Zablotskyy.
The Web Hosting Review Blog is attracting attention of representatives from various web hosting providers who monitor and respond to comments and concerns expressed by other visitors.
Web hosting is one of the most competitive industries on the Internet today with thousands of companies offering services across the globe. Web Hosting Review Blog takes its part in “educating customers by offering both positive and negative reviews of web hosting providers.”
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Excellent video. Cannot say enough about this. People need to know that hosting reviews are NOT REAL.
great job! *thumbs up*
they are scams those review sites
well you busted all of them.
How can a dumb person choose which host is good then ?
@MonSwon I am working on the webhosting companies right now, just put my site in blog mode. Problem is the first 10 hosts I reviewed have a lot of dirt.
Right keep up with this work ye, coz Im and so many other ppl are so pissed off with this and shit like it, it really needs exposing, its always about the coin, bust other crap too, all the shitty con things, you really are doing a service to the the internet. community
@94dgrif Why would an affiliate not be biased? For that matter when you promote your virus program do you compare it to others? I actually have, and I have had better results from nod32, but then again AVG is better then Norton. Most host affiliates do not even try the hosts they recommend. One example is a affiliate I did a post on recently called whybluehost, who are not even hosted on bluehost but hostgator servers. Big difference between promoting what use and what you don’t use.
@reviewsexposed I agree with you that a lot of list sites are biased, and I’d probably go as far as to say that most are. But I don’t believe that being an affiliate of a company in the list is evidence of bias. In the same way I recommend AVG to everyone that needs an anti-virus program because it’s my personal favorite. I became an affiliate of AVG so that if people follow my advice I get a commission.
@94dgrif First I ask you what defines a scam? Perhaps something along the lines of fabricating information to lead to high payout, could that be a scam? Because that is what these sites are doing. Yes they could run legitimately with affiliate links, but that is not how these companies work. They work on a high affiliate payout, if you don’t believe me go to these “top” hosts and look at their affiliate programs. Some run secondary affiliate programs with companies like cj.com.
You may or may not be right about the scam, I don’t know. But think of it like this. If you ran a site that listed the best host sites with links to each, wouldn’t you join the affiliation with every site on that list? You could run the list 100% genuinely, and still accept the click-through revenue from whichever link a user visited. I know I would. The incriminating evidence would be if they were Only affiliated with the top few.
@dfreysinger I am not sure what this response has to do with webhosts that use fake review to pump their bottomline.
@goldduo I would love to get a more detailed account from you on my blog in regards to your inmotion problems.
@llwyth The problem is not so much that they are affiliates, its the pretending to review and give a positive spin to mislead people into believing they are getting a good deal. The other problem is that more focus in spending on affiliates and advertising then actual spending on customer care.
@bearwoodbrown Those “awards” are nothing more then affiliates, there not real companies. They award whomever pays the most on commissions. They don’t bother to try the hosts to create real reviews.
@imfase I am trying my best to be at the top of those results
@sgtpete1 I have not done any research on hostmonster yet, but I can tell you that I would not go to hostgator since they have a extremely high affiliate payout. Plust hostgator at this time is number 5 on webhostingstuff’s top 25 list.
@alexandrubalaci33 Just host is number 2 on webhostingstuff’s top 25, they have a a really huge affiliate payout. I am sorry but they use fake reviews. I am happy your having no problems at this time. But if I were you once the problems start happening I would migrate to a host that does not use fake reviews and does not pay out extremely high payments to affiliates.
@heightboosting inmotion is number 6 on webhostingstuff’s top 25 list, so I have to say there not a company to consider, especially since they have a over the top affiliate payout. I will actually doing a blog post about them tomorrow.
What is the best web hosting?
great post !
@1996quique It’s a link that company that host the reviews get paid for every time someone clicks on it. So essentially that means whichever affiliate pays more per click, they will be a higher rank.
Ive been using Fat Cow and it seeems to be pretty good ,they seem to be winning awards , and the affilate program is pretty well paid
What Is A Affilate Link???
this is right on point, i noticed this right away and im glad your video actually made in between them all on google
Hey, nice video.. great job with exposing these frauds… what do you think about INMOTION hosting ?? i have read a lot of customers, like real customers comments about INMOTION, and they say its good… what about hostgator too ???