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Quality Reviews For Best Choices

How often do people steal your clicks? If you are like me, most probably too many times. I use the internet a lot, mostly for seeking information. For example, before I buy a new TV, car or swimming pool, I do my research online.

I find out all the little nifty technical details, such as resolutions&refresh rates, maintenance intervals and coatings. Only when I think, I know enough, I choose the best product.

For some product, this is easy, for others quite difficult. It depends on how the mass market they are; how much interest people show, how much info the manufacturer provides and how many enthusiastic reviewers are willing to post their opinion. It’s wonderful if just enough quality material is available, however, it can be quite annoying if people share too much low quality information.

Example: try searching for a review of Samsung Galaxy smart phone. Type “Samsung galaxy review” in Google, hit search and be amazed. First, 5 or even 10 links will be people posting some content, just to attract you to their site, which has lousy content and that’s not even the worst news The worst news is that once there, you are jumped at with tens of commercial links – any one of those you click makes a profit for the owner of the site.

This is actually the problem I am trying to address in this article. Such behaviour is not moral and unethical. However, it is very widespread. It is getting increasingly difficult to find hones quality reviews and information online. Strictly speaking, in such cases you are deceived, your faith in search results is betrayed. You become a tool for clicking on ‘pay-per-click’ links.

Do not misunderstand. I hold nothing against pay-per-click links. I am happy to click, if a link holds a value for my buying decisions. The content of the website providing information on a product or service must have good content, honest and truthful reviews. If it does not, then everything on such a website is useless. Isn’t it, why even bother?

I personally have no problem spotting such tricky sites, which I actually call traps. However, I do have a problem if they steal people’s valuable time and if somebody I know becomes a victim. My father, who is barely starting to use the internet anyway, goes round and round in circles just through such websites.

Discussing this subject me and my best friend Greg decided to put a stop to this. I admit that we do know that we cannot stop them, but what we can do is create a website with hones and valuable information based on your personal experience.

It is just what we did. We decided we wanted to share our experience with services and product with the world in a useful and honest way, and we created Best5Choices.com. The vision was to write personal reviews of things we spend time on ourselves when gathering information for our buying decisions.

The key advantage such a site is unbiased personal experience. At first, we did not know if people really wanted to use such a website, but it turned out the concept seemed solid and quickly other people joined with their reviews.

The goal of best5choices.com is to offer short but insightful reviews of things you are interested in. Check for yourself: best5choices.com.