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Originally Posted by actyper
2) Every training site review on pokertrainingguide has a "Weaknesses" section
An example of a weakness section at your site for a sponsored site:
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Perhaps the sites only weakness is their lack variety when it comes to games. The main thrust of the site is the No Limit Holden games. If you only play NLH then this is not even a concern. Though they have recently released some introductory videos for mixed games.
An example of the "conclusion" at your site for a sponsored site, which are all emphatic yesses:
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The current outlook is that [site] has nowhere to go but up, and is a must buy if you are serious about improving your tournament game.
I think you'd have to agree that you have an incentive to cheerlead for advertisements and affiliate revenue. Your reviews are exactly in line with what they would be if they were doing that. I mean, it's not like sites are going to pay to be listed and be panned, are they?
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Originally Posted by actyper
3) No training site pays for any higher rankings on ptg, not allowed. Those are completely unbiased.
It's pretty ambiguous which content is advertisement and which content is "unbiased reporting". On the left hand side of the page, there's the advertisement that sites are paying to have there, "featured sites", that uses your wording like "The cream of the crop poker training site with top pros". The sites are paying you to have that there. Across on the right side of the page, there's your original content, with the exact same wording. You were again paid to have certain sites in those positions, even if those are not your official rankings, which are, in my opinion, also suspicious.
Again, most of this isn't up for debate between you and me. Feel free to correct factual assertions that I'm mistaken about, but otherwise, this forum is for user discussion, not sites to advertise and argue that they're valuable.