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Jill Whalen
Domain:
High Rankings® Search Engine Optimization Information and Search Engine Marketing Tips
Score:
OVERRATED
Review: Thankfully I've never met her in person, because I would give her an earful of shit about how stupid this woman really is. I remember her boasting about her amazing SEO powers back in the day and how she was able to charge her clients $10k a month to get them top spots on the engines with 4+ word keywords that weren't competitive at all! Wow Jill, good job!! I think anyone with a brain can do that! She used to consider herself a self proclaimed expert and bitch in SEO, but really her presence is the bitch of it all. She brings nothing to the table, and I've heard her speeches and read her reviews and posts and it's all just a bunch of regurgitated bullshit. Someone once made a site poking fun at her, and as much as I dislike her and her views, I didn't think she deserved it all that much. She's definitely got a knack for pissing people off though, but believe it or not, I'm not one of those people. I just never liked her and thought she was 100% full of shit and overrated from the start. How someone can go from asking really silly ridiculous questions on a forum for 3 months, and then become an expert in the field is beyond me. Just goes to show you that if you hype yourself up enough, even you start to believe it so that you can convince people that don't know any better that you really are amazing at what you do. I'm still waiting to hear from some of her "big clients" that really got some huge benefit from her shitty rankings.
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Daron Babin
Domain:
Free Internet Radio, just load Webmaster Radio 24/7
Score:
UNDERRATED
Review: I like Daron a lot. In fact, I've known of him and been friends with him for many years. Even back when he was known as SEGuru in the Adult world. He's one of the most passionate guys when it comes to search engines, and yet, no one gives him any credit or acknowledgement for it. He's helped develope some pretty powerful tools that pioneered the way into the whole SEO game. He runs WebmasterRadio now and is doing amazing things with it, but from what I hear, he still likes to go back and do some quick SEO work. It's like a pig in shit, nothing makes the guy happier. You can find him slurring his words and talking about all sorts of strange things at EVERY industry related event and conference. He and his counterpart Brandy are seriously at everything, and they sometimes look like hell the day it ends from all the traveling these two do, it's amazing they haven't killed someone yet. DB is a good guy overall and speaks his mind too. Sure he makes enemies, but he's got a hell of a lot more fans. His brainchild of WebmasterRadio is fuckin awesome, and he's the official media sponsor at everything. These guys rock and I have no doubt they will continue to lead the way in the media within the industry. Also many kudos to DB for his move out of the Adult world for the most part. I know it's tough to leave those guys and that lifestyle, but it's a lot nicer here man!
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Haiko (AbestWeb Forum owner)
Domain: forum.abestweb.com
Score:
OVERRATED
Review: This forum and guy takes the cake on being overrated. Nothing around beats them. They charge something like $3k to ad networks and programs to have your own special support forum, but you won't see any ROI from it, not to mention you'll get maybe 2-3 people to come into your forum and actually post, and none of it is good either. What a steal of a lifetime! Seriously! The information on this forum is all about "how can this benefit our advertisers". Heavy censored stuff, and most of the tips they reveal are things that were mediocre years ago and are dead now. If I had a rubber stamp that could stamp a site as overrated 5 million times, this is the forum I'd push it at. The only real thing they have going for them is the age of the site and forums, and the fact that they have CJ.com blowing them. Of all of the ad networks and aff program owners I know who have said they advertised there, only one, yeah ONE, ShareASale has ever said they liked it and got good feedback. Everyone else says it's the biggest mistake and you should just stay away. They said it, not me, why do you think all of the worst advertisers, aff programs and networks advertise over there? Because either they are making a huge mistake and got suckered into it, or they are really bad and ABW is the only place they know of that will actually believe their BS and use their program.
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