Negative Reviews

[betguiden]

What do you think off this subject?

If you look at traditional consumer reviews, some products are good, some baad.
When you look at pokeraffiliate sites every thing is an outrage of fantastic pokersites (its like homer simpson, the food critic on the positive run)

So in order to:
1. Run honest websites, and good consumer sites
2. Get some integrity
3. Give the baad pokersites (and theres a few) what they kindda deserve.

Im doing negative reviews

What are your opinion on these matters?

Just put then on the site and dont care?
Just avoid to list them?
Theres no such thing as a bad pokersite, and negative talk is not good business?

I get really positive responses from my readers when i bash out at pokersites, cos its actually a niche since nobody else are doing it

[JeremyM]

I definitely agree there are some bad poker sites, however I don't see much of a point in promoting the terrible ones, IMO. Why would players stick around there? If you are ranking for bonus terms or something, that's a different story.

As far as adding negativity to reviews, I do think that is great and is something I have no problem doing. Even the best poker sites have some negative things, some more than others.

[PokerNations]

I suppose if you're going to do negative reviews, perhaps offer up on the page an alternative?

This way you can steer people who were considering one of the bad rooms to a room you do recommend, plus pickup some affiliate revenue for it.

[Trikkur]

I think it's better to do a positive review, but list the negatives. If you are doing a review of Cake Poker or w/e. Say the positives, but don't be afraid to tell people that the software sometimes freezes, hand histories aren't compatible with PT, etc.

[betguiden]

I dont promote the negative review part, their only being made to provide integrity to my site, and the rooms i do promote.
Im thinking more in the lines off being an allround poker guide, working closely with 5-7 rooms is whats working for me (because their working for my players).

My work is keeping my highrollers updated on the market, beyond that lies tons off consideration, and some pokerrooms and networks that didnt make the cut, im just going public with the reasons why.

@ PN
Thats actually a good idea, ill consider it, dont wanna be to pushy to the surfer.... The main thing in my objective here, is to stick out from the crowd, make the surfer go, OH - this website offers something i dont find anywhere else on the web.

[PokerNations]

The main thing in my objective here, is to stick out from the crowd, make the surfer go, OH - this website offers something i dont find anywhere else on the web.

The only problem I see with this line is that I know BonusWhores offers reviews with positive/negative items that are updated on a regular basis I believe, plus showcase the game quality.

An example here: http://www.bonuswhores.com/full-tilt-poker/

How do you intend for your approach to stand out from theirs?

[betguiden]

Good exsample:
First off id tell my players to get Rakeback, as signing a new player to FullTilt, without offering a market leading deal, is the same as screwing the player over in my book.
Id also be telling them about how unproffesional FullTiltPoker is handling the rakeback issue for excisting players, offering the same product, at a different price, without no clear figure on what to do to get the rebate.
2nd id tell my danish players that winnings at FullTiltPoker isnt tax free and they should play at a site where the winnings was tax free.
3rd id tell them that if they wanted to play against americans in the night time, a cake site would be the way to go if they wanted loose action.
4th id tell them that live support isnt available, and the support isnt impressive
5th id tell them that if they dont use pokertracker or other robot datamining software, their chance for profit at FullTilt is 0 to none
6th id tell them that the above is a real shame, as the software is one of the coolest at the market, but the other aspect just dont add up to a pokerroom i can put my good into promoting or recommending.

Coming from a company that for some reason, we dont know has ranked 1st in danish google for FullTiltPoker Rakeback for some years now.
It would of course be in Danish, and with correct gramma

[PokerNations]

5th id tell them that if they dont use pokertracker or other robot datamining software, their chance for profit at FullTilt is 0 to none

I don't know that I'd agree with this statement. While I agree that Pokertracker helps, it doesn't automatically make you a winning player, nor does it prevent those with a good grasp of the games they play from winning.

[DealerDan]

Yeah I wouldn't agree with the pokertracker statement at all.

Also - I think there's being honest, and there's being extremely negative and bashing a room, and with that type of content I think it falls into the latter. Full Tilt(for example) has cons, but it has pros too, and the best way to go about things IMO is to present both to the reader, and let them make the decision whether or not to sign up. Being overly negative like that would really affect conversions bad, unless the plan was to be negative about a lot of rooms and then put a positive spin on just one or two rooms.

[betguiden]

You dont have to agree, its opinion not fact.

But how about these statements then:
Poker is a game of knowledge, the player with the most knowledge mostly win?
Cake Poker dont attract the same amount of good pokerplayers, as sites that dont work actively against datamining software?