Finding decent opportunities online can be tough. First off, you have the ‘Gurus’ with all their spin, and then you have a lot of affiliates selling sub-standard products through fake reviews. Type ‘<product_name> review’ into Google and you are generally met with a load of results from specially registered domains (productnamereview.com) or from Squidoo, article sites, classified sites or hosted blogs. Finding a Genuine review from someone who’s actually used the product is very difficult.
But, it is possible. You just have to know where to look. So, with a view to helping you spot the scams from the genuinely useful sites, we present the ‘No-Scam’ awards 2008. Without any further ado…
The Wooden Spoon Award for Misleading & Biased Review Site
This was a tough one to pick as there are a lot of horribly biased review sites out there. After a lot of searching, we present the award to http://workathometop10.com/. The clinchers for the award were:
- Use of dodgy stock photography for the ‘review writer‘ and for the writers of the ‘testimonials‘
- Heavy recommendation of survey sites. Pfff…
- Use of ’50% off today’ and similar banners
- Very fake-looking testimonials
So well done workathometop10.com! Keep up the scummy work 
The Blogging Award for top genuine Internet Marketing Blog
This was a tough one too, as there are actually quite a few IM blogs that cover Internet Marketing well. In the end we went for MasonWorld: http://www.masonworld.com. Mark’s blog features a wealth of great free information on affiliate marketing as well as genuine reviews of products he has used. Keep it up!
The Review Award for top genuine Internet Marketing Review Site
The hardest part of this award was finding a dedicated review site that gave any negative reviews at all. The overwhelming majority just listed the top 5 or 10 products they wanted to sell and gave them all 5 or 4 stars. Finally we came across WorkFromHomeInternet.net from Sean Richards. Apart from taking silly photos of himself for the site, Sean does a very good job of adding a brief, accurate summary of a product (and he’s not afraid to give 1 star ratings) and then linking to genuine reviews elsewhere on the internet. The site is an excellent way of getting an overview of what’s currently worth buying. Full marks!
Any suggestions?
That’s it for the ‘Scammies’ for this year. If you have any suggestions for next year, please send them in.
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User comments
Wow, thanks for the positive comments. I really do try to tell it like it is over at MasonWorld.com, and I appreciate the fact that you noticed.
This is a cool idea for a blog. I love what you have done with it so far. I wish there had been a resource like this when I started.
Good luck!
Thanks,
Mark