Scam Programs - Review Sites

Hello WA,

I really have to say something, probably not so pleasant for some of you...

A lot of people started with a Scam review site in the beginning of their WA career... Which is, of course, very good.

Now, I surfed the last 2 weeks to inform myself in some matter and when you surf on the internet and you check things that have something to do with websites, well, there is more than 50% chance that the first website you see is a Scam website of a WA member...
(Which is great: SEO is working well and we are very (VERY) present in the reviewing niche.)

But and of course there is a but: WA does not have a good name regarding reviews. Apparently there are sites for whom everything is a scam, also businesses that exist for more than 25 years. (A scam business cannot exist 25 years or more)

Let's start with the word "Scam", in the dictionary it says: "scam (skam) Informal: A fraudulent business scheme; a swindle." So my interpretation of this is: they do something that does not conform with the law. They are doing illegal activities.

I have seen a site where somebody said: "concerning reviews do not read those where Wealthy affiliate is the nr1 recommended program and also not the reviews from DS domination, they can only write a positive thing about their own program"
Ouch!

I saw indeed sites where only WA was a good program and the rest was crap, even things I know, that are perfectly legit, were scams. And I have informed me about a program somebody wrote a review about and in the review he told that he had joined it and that nothing was working and so on and so on... And as feedback here, he said he did not join that program at all... (???)
I mean... ???? So, we have the right to break down programs without checking them, just because it fits better in our strategy? Personally, I don't like that mentality. Sorry...

But I also saw some great review sites. But what appealed me was that most of those did not use the word "scam". They used terms like: "Excellent, Good,OK, Bad and Awful" or "Highly recommended, recommended, NOT recommended".
And there was more than 1 program in the Excellent or Highly recommended menu.£
That was it for me, I just wanted to share this with you and maybe it is something some of us have to think about.

You can do with it what you want, of course...

Grtz,
Bert