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Weird webhosting reviews .org - 14-10-2009, 06:39 AM

Hi guys,

I was just browsing around and found interesting things. Maybe you will be able to answer me this.
Most of web hosting companies have weird review blog which begings with [hosting_company_name] ends with [review.org].
I thought to myself maybe it is some king of agency which works to review webhosting companies and just adds affiliate links to their names...but unfortenetely it is not as I noticed that they have all the same templates, but hosted in the different locations (probably webhosting companies have hosted in their servers).
All links are non-affiliate (or it seems that it is not).
Secondly they have the same program which gives full uptime report for their servers (program execution file hostingcompanyname.php).
What you guys think what is it? Maybe we should do some kind of independent webhosting review to get weigth on our websites? My vote would be YES
Therefore maybe we should investigate and come to the conclusion is it a fake reviews automaticly posted every few days or it is one of methods to generate content also automaticly?
Well in my opinion it wouldn‘t be a bad idea it is actaully a great idea to reach bigger audience
Thank you and will be waiting for your reviews and votes!

If you think that we should do the same stuff or similar to that maybe you can contact me (if you are interested) on vg@host1plus.com and we would have a discussion regarding shared review sites. I have few ideas about it maybe and you would be interested…


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15-10-2009, 03:08 PM

More often than not, they tend to be websites with fake (positive) reviews, covered in affiliate banner adverts. They are easy to spot, as you pointed out, by their domain name and general look and feel.

For some trust-worthy review sites, visit:

Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet (each customer is verified to the best of the community staff's ability)
Home - Hosting Reviews at Hostjury (some measures are taken to ensure fake reviews are not posted)


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