Let’s say you’re browsing in a book store. You grab a book that has great blurbs from two of your favorite authors on the dust jacket. Awesome – this book (by an unknown author) must be solid gold. You hand over your plastic and buy $27.95 worth of hardcover glory.

You get home and find out that the book sucks.

Later, you find out that your authors never actually read the book. They were paid a hefty fee and the words were completely put into their mouth.

I prefer the reviews and recommendations be based on the reviewer actually liking the product.

On a tanent, I’ve received a few link request from sites that have absolutely nothing to do with my site (which is rather difficult, considering how electic The Casual Observer is). Huh? I would want to link to your site on day trading (and receive a reciprocal link) why, exactly? Sure, maybe it would help with search engine traffic, but our audiences have minimal overlap. I link to 16 blogs. I enjoy reading all of them, and only two of them suggested a link exchange (which I accepted after enjoying their content)
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