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[C1157]Coverage Includes Unbiased Reviews

by Jeffrey Krus, P.e., Jef

In this article I will show you how you can easily find unbiased infomercial reviews that corporations don't want you to see. These reviews were recently taken down from the internet. This is part 1 of a series of articles I will be writing about how to find valuable information about products before you buy.

Infomercials have been well noted for promoting products that appeal to all of us. In only a few minutes of air time infomercials try everything imaginable to turn all of us into an impulse buyer. They try to influence people by making very attractive claims about products and they always present us with a deal that we cannot resist. At one time most of us are guilty of at least thinking about purchasing these products. The question is do they actually work and do they live up to what the infomercial claims?

Some of us, whom still have curiosity, will go to the internet and try to research these products. Unfortunately it is difficult to find unbiased reviews on infomercial products. It doesn't take long for websites & blogs to remove reviews about infomercial products especially if they are mostly negative. Corporate legal bullying, lawsuits, threats of trademark infringement, and claims of brand defaming keep webmasters from keeping infomercial reviews on their websites especially if they are negative. These claims have been shown to have little to no legal basis. Small webmasters simply do not have the legal funding to constantly defend themselves as company after company continue to make legal threats. Many infomercial companies will file actual lawsuits and then later retract them after webmasters remove negative content. This type of “bullying” tactic has been quite successful.

Two successful “bullying” examples are the websites “www.infomercialscams.com” and “www.infomercialratings.com”. Both websites were owned by the same person and were dedicated to unbiased infomercial reviews. These websites allowed the general public to post reviews on any infomercial product. Both websites have been in operation since about 2002. Over the years they have collected a wealth of valuable reviews submitted from other consumers who purchased infomercial products. Both websites have become very popular over the years and have become the leader in unbiased infomercial product reviews. Unfortunately both websites have been recently shut down permanently due to the corporate legal maneuvers mentioned earlier.

What many people don't know is that although the two mentioned websites have been shut down, many of the valuable consumer reviews are still available! There are internet archivers that crawl the internet and archive each website's content. The content is available to everyone free of charge long after websites shut down or change ownership. These archivers have created a time machine for most websites found on the internet. People can view these archives, go back in time, and see what websites like eBay or Yahoo looked like when they first started.

One such internet achiever is the “Wayback Machine” found at http://www.archive.org. Typing in the website “infomercialscams.com” or “infomercialraatings.com” at the “Wayback Machine” will present you with the history of these useful infomercial review websites. Within the “Wayback Machine” you can click on any of the dates, view, and navigate through each website as it was archived on that date. Most of the links within these websites were archived and are active. While the keyword search functions no longer work, the links can still be used to retrieve the valuable infomercial reviews that were recently taken down!

The information found within internet archivers is a corporate attorney's best friend. Archivers such as the “Wayback Machine” are always used as evidence in legitiment legal proceedings against fraudulent types of websites. As demonstrated in this article anyone can use the “Wayback Machine” to navigate through archives of the very same two websites that corporate attorneys bullied down. This is an example of where a corporation's best friend turns to be their worst enemy.

Internet business opportunities start getting reviews once they get popular. Even in the initial stages of a new internet marketing product, it will start getting reviews. When you do a search for an internet product, you'll often see pages in the top 10 show up that are a review of the product. This makes sense when you consider that the only type of sites about that product are going to be the site itself (which should get ranked) and then sites that talk about that site or product in the form of a review.

Many affiliates of a specific product are the same ones who promote the product through these review-style websites. They'll write a website that gives some awesome review of a product and the link back to the product itself is an affiliate link. There's nothing wrong with this strategy aside from the fact that the reviews are not biased and usually not based on actual experience. Some of them may be in part based on some real experience, but mostly these reviews are simply an affiliate tool.

Most of these affiliate products that are guides on how to make money online contain information that is readily available for free on the internet. I'm not saying these ebooks are not worth the price, but what I am saying is that if you know how to look, you can find a lot of this information for free online. The question then becomes how much time will it take you to gather all of that information and how distracted and confused will you become along the way?

If you can purchase a good ebook on internet marketing or making money online that costs $47 and that ebook saves you 10 hours of research or gives you even a little bit of information that gets you started down the path to internet business success, then the $47 cost was worth it. This doesn't mean you should go out there and buy every single ebook you can on how to make money online. What you should do instead is take some of the basic information from the sales page of the ebook and start doing some research to see what type of information is already available on that subject. Blogs and forums are great places to get information on these types of topics.

Internet marketers just getting started and also several people who have been at it awhile tend to get distracted by whatever the "next big thing" is and quit whatever they've been working on to jump into the new project. Don't fall into this trap because it will keep you from making the money you deserve. Get started on a project and become an expert at it. There are very few wealthy "jack of all trades" out there. People that make a lot of money focus primarily on one thing and are good at it. Use that same focus when you work on a project.

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