Comments on: Review: Web Hosting Pal

By: Mike Lee

Mike Lee — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:50:05 +0000

Ah, no wonder! Good luck with your new web property. I can’t wait to check it out again!

By: webhostingpal

webhostingpal — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:39:28 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. We purchased web hosting pal a few months back. That’s why the info and design are out of date. The reviewme posts are just that, reviews of the site. We are using this information as feedback on how to improve webhostingpal.com. You will be seeing a very different site in the coming months and we appreciate the honest review

By: Mike Lee

Mike Lee — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:12:15 +0000

Hehe, no worries. Fortunately, ReviewMe is okay with the other affiliate plugs. Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money!

By: Rolly

Rolly — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:02:28 +0000

They asked for it? Well then, looks like I’ve got egg on my face and I’ll be the first to publically admit it! I’ve never heard of ReviewMe. I did the ol’ thermal retinal scan of their homepage and it looked “social networking” so I got out of there. But, you learn something new every day. What a knee-jerk reaction on my part.

Yes, you were in Google Alerts. I see tons of good and not so good come thru there. I thought you were writing just for the sake of b*tching about something. There’s a lot of that.

Affiliate competitor: By that I meant, the other site is promoting web hosting and if you’re promoting DreamHost, then you’re competitors, but like I said, I thought you were slinging dirt just to get a plug in for DreamHost and it seemed a dirty way to do it. Don’t know what ReviewMe’s rules are on that. Might want to check on your other affiliate plugs, too. LOL Nice try. LMAO You did a great job of getting them in there. LMMFAO Sorry, but the more I think about it, the funnier it is. ROTFLMMFAO!!!

So, if Web Hosting Pal asked for it, then you gave them constructive information.

Man, what a 180 I did, but I still wouldn’t give you my URL. Hope you get your coffee money. Cheers, dude.

By: Mike Lee

Mike Lee — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:33:42 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Rolly! Quite a nerve I touched there, huh? You’re not a part of Web Hosting Pal, are you?

I’ll buy that promoting DreamHost in this review can be seen as bad form – my bad. I’d go back and erase it, but that would be in even poorer form.

But I disagree that this is a verbal assault. It’s a frank review, albeit a harsh & critical one. But they signed up for it on ReviewMe, for better or worse. There was no way I could honestly review that site and not say anything negative about it.

If he’s making decent money – dude, I would totally tip my hat to him and wish him all the best! Hell, he could be sitting there right now, in his comfy leather chair, smoking a cigar, and laughing at this little review as the affiliate dollars roll in.

And perhaps I’m being naive here, but how are they an affiliate competitor? You mean a competitor of me? Or of DreamHost? Or of ReviewMe? I don’t quite follow here.

Oh, and wow, this was on Google Alerts?! Hot damn!

By: Rolly

Rolly — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:52:42 +0000

JHC! Experiment? Are you intentionally inviting a law suit? You have just verbally assulated one of your affiliate competitors for the sake of promoting DreamHost. I tried this tactic once myself in a completely non-related niche and it landed me in hot water with the company I was advertising. The company I was dissing turned me in to the one I was advertising. They said they didn’t want me promoting their business with such hostile animosity towards the other company and they threatened to delete my affiliate account. This is a bad, bad way to promote DreamHost and it’s a piss poor way to show off your SEO knowledge.

If you want to post a review of a web hosting company you’ve had first hand crappy experience with, that’s different, but to blast someone else’s site because it’s not pretty enough or isn’t giving comprehensive reviews, that’s just uncalled for. The guy may actually be making some decent money if he’s ranking is so high.

My cheesy little web hosting review site is earning me thousands of dollars a month, but I’ll be go to hell if I’ll mention my URL just so you can rip me a new one over it.

By the way, I found your site because it came across Google Alerts. Hundreds, if not, thousands of others may see this, too.