How does this website make money?
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We don’t make any money. In fact if anything we lose money in hosting costs. Buts that’s OK with us!
We built this website as a public service because we were we were fed up with all the obviously fake reviews we came across when choosing our own PBX provider.
If you haven’t noticed already, there are:
- NO paid ads
- NO Google™ ads
- NO provider ads
- NO ADS PERIOD!
Just down and dirty user reviews, in all their uncensored glory!
Unlike other review websites Hosted PBX Providers can't pay us for preferred rankings and they will never be able to.
How do you verify the credibility of reviews?
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This isn't as hard as it seems, HOWEVER it takes time and is very boring. Nonetheless it must be done - here is what we do:
Automated methods:
- Track IP addresses. (duh)
- Track post density from unique IP addresses.
- Analyze keyword usage - fake reviews from company employees are often packed with keywords because they know this helps with SEO, these reviews are obvious and deleted immediately.
- Track repeat review verbiage across our many review sites.
- Track post timing - most companies monitor our websites regularly to look out for negative Hosted PBX reviews. The second they notice a negative Hosted PBX review they immediately counter with a positive review. This is very easy to spot.
- User rated helpfulness - all our readers have the ability to rate every individual Hosted PBX review as helpful, or not helpful. Once a Hosted PBX review is unamiously voted as not helpful the community has spoken. We either remove the Hosted PBX review all together, or push it to the bottom of the list.
Manual Methods - We read EVERY Hosted PBX review, yes we actually do this. It really sucks, but here is why it's necessary:
- Only a human can pick out overly negative Hosted PBX reviews done by a companies competitors in an effort to slander the reputation of their competition.
- Only a human can pick out overly positive Hosted PBX reviews done by a companies employees. Lets face it, most reviews are negative because people only take the time to write them when they are really pissed. However positive Hosted PBX reviews, although less frequent, also exists. BUT have a much higher probability of being fake. It takes the human intellect to pick these out.
- Experience - after you have read over 10,000 reviews, picking out fake reviews becomes second nature. We do it without even thinking about it.
WHY ARE YOU TELLING US ALL THIS??? - Won't people just read this and figure out how to circumvent your techniques?
Lets just say we left out a few very significant processes from the list. Processes we are confident will still flag fake Hosted PBX reviews even if all above listed methods fail.
YES! Our validation methods are that good! And as such are patent pending and top secret!
Do you offer preferred placement for money?
NO
Don't even contact us thinking your bribe is large enough to change out mind...unless you have courtside season tickets to the LA Lakers. ..."wait, No, must be strong"...
- Not even season tickets to the greatest baseball team ever will change our mind!
- (Seriously, that was hard to say, but we mean it!)
WE WILL NEVER OFFER PAID RANKINGS!!!
Besides, haven't you read: How does this website make money?
Also, Go Lakers!!!