Review 3166

My first thought about this weblog? Someone just bought a good chunk of stock in Plantronics and needs to the price to shoot up through the roof if they plan on making any profit. With as many Google Ads that can be found on this site, it might just be possible. Even after reading the entire three months of archives, I still have no idea who is writing this weblog or the purpose behind it – other than make a few quick bucks.

I’m a diehard Firefox user. When I loaded this site in my favorite browser, I was met with what was obviously a style sheet made specifically for Internet Explorer. For other Firefox users that happen upon this site, they’ll see just a white background with white text, in a layout that seems somewhat broken. Don’t worry, though – the Google and Amazon ads are still there.

Once I finally loaded the site in IE, it was a little more pleasing to the eye using different blues and grays in the design. The site easy to navigate and the archives are listed both by date and by category, which makes locating different items easy.

Pop-up ads used to be my major annoyance while surfing the Internet. Thanks to pop-up blockers, I’m able to almost completely avoid these. Now, the latest craze of advertising happens to be affiliate ads – Google, Amazon, etc. This site over does it. There are three locations on each page where readers are subjected to keyword ads. In addition, the posts where the author reviews different products contains a link to Amazon, which the author makes money off of every time readers order the product by clicking the link.

The posts contain exactly what the title of this weblog indicates. They are all full of “Plantronics and Wireless Headsets Information”. The author includes reviews of products recently hitting the market, news about the latest technologies that are in development stages, and actual information or definitions about the terms and products the author frequently mentions.

It’s very clear throughout each entry that the author is preying on people searching through Google. The latest post uses the phrase “best price for nextel i95 phone bluetooth” SIX times in a post that’s only three small paragraphs long. If that doesn’t indicate that this site is only in the business of trolling for hits, I don’t know what is.

While I can certainly appreciate an entrepenurial spirit, it grows tired when trying to pass it off as a blog. This site would be better considered as a review-oriented or informational site. A site like that would perhaps be better suited for as many ads as this author chooses to include. It’s not a site most people will bookmark as something they want to visit again and again. It’s an informational site that will only be useful to those people looking for “Plantronics and Wireless Headsets Information”. Everyone else will, without a doubt, skip right onto the next weblog.
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