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May I ask why?
by lamlam 9y ago
May I ask why?
- rublev 9y agoProbably because it's designed to feign organic interest in a niche market to get readers to hand over their money and thus little by little tactics like this erode faith in the web.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- danso 9y agoJust the other day I was looking for a good running-hydration-backpack and Googling for that brought up a bevy of sites that used round-up lists of Amazon affiliate links. The content was relatively well-written, if bland. In the end, these listicles were too bland to be helpful and I ended up adding "site:reddit.com" to my query.
- rhizome 9y agoAKA The Wirecutter/Sweethome Strategy.
- js2 9y agoI don't think that's fair. Wirecutter/Sweethome is quite well researched and what is recommended they review directly.
- yellow_postit 9y agoIt's also marketing to ensure your product is included in their reviews.
- rhizome 9y agoYes, I like them too, but I'm not sure anybody else had really executed on that model before them, and at any rate they are the strategy to be copied nowadays.
- petra 9y agoWell, the incentives of the wirecutter are to recommend you the more expensive products, like any commission based salesman. And it shows.
- pmoriarty 9y agoThis reminds me of how Amazon reviews used to be really helpful, but more and more these days I'm seeing so many obviously fake reviews that are cluttering up the site, especially for "popular" products. It's really watering down the value of the site for me.
- js2 9y agoNathan VaporAir.
- paulcole 9y agoUltimate Direction AK 3.0 :)
- js2 9y agoThat's a huge vest. Mostly I use my handheld so even the VaporAir is more than I need. So different use cases for these two recommendations.
- paulcole 9y agoYeah it definitely is a big pack. During the fall/winter here in the PNW I carry a lot of layers. I'm also Type I Diabetic so I carry some emergency supplies that I (hopefully) never use and most people don't need to bother with. Lately I've been really liking the Jurek Endure. That plus an Amp handheld (squish it up and bungee it to the waist pack when empty) have been great for up to about 15 miles this summer.
- petra 9y agoWhat about sockpuppets when using site:.reddit.com ?
- cctan 9y agoSooner or later the readers will find out the truth. But in the mean time before the market re-adjusts itself, he's raking in 10k per month.
- nudiustertian 9y agobecause sites like that push either totally generic information off as a 'review' tricking people into thinking its the best product or straight up lie about it and make up most of the first page search results
- rhizome 9y agoYes, the writing is 5th Grade book report level. "There are many hydration backpacks on the market and it can be hard to choose. One of them is X, which has [feature list]. Another one that some people like is Y, which has [feature list]..."
- sidlls 9y agoIsn't the average person's reading level not much higher than that?
- dboreham 9y agoPretty good for a Perl script though.
- s0rce 9y agoThere are so many sites with reviews like that. After reading for a while it becomes sadly clear that they didn't actually physically interact with the items in question. They just rehash manufacturer curated information or steal from other review sites. So much useless information.
- rhizome 9y agoI've found that invariably they have wordy and low-density first paragraphs that make it fairly obvious what's going on, and further reading reveals that it's going to be a long slog after which my back button comes out of its holster. Fine, they got a SERP click out of me, but that's as far as it goes.