Comments on: Bad reviews – Should you publish them or not?

By: Julius

Julius — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:43:44 +0000

Thanks for your response. The sad thing is that some people who make reviews don't even include links to other products they are comparing the main product with. So oftentimes, we have to look up those other products just to know what the person is talking about.

By: Julius

Julius — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:43:44 +0000

By: jlucado

jlucado — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:05:59 +0000

You can attract as much traffic with a bad review as you can with a good review.

Sometimes more traffic can be attracted with a sour review if the subject has proper SEO and is a hot topic.

Then the trick is for the "call to action" to lead your prospect to what you are marketing.

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:50:59 +0000

I think there is a place for comparison posts, pulling similar reviews together and comparing the products, but that's a bit off-topic for reviewing...

I think it's OK to link to similar products if you have reviewed them as well. But one review should be able to stand on its own without knowledge of the other products.

And you are right that great review includes both good and bad aspects of the product before drawing conclusions. Then whether or not you give the product good or bad rating is based on those aspects.

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:46:39 +0000

Yeah, if you are gonna write a review anyway, it's good that it's honest (in an objective manner) and I guess in the gaming world publishing bad reviews is more normal than in some other “niche”. And with that audience, if you make a false positive review of a game that suck, they sure will tell you (and then leave your site)

By: Julius

Julius — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:32:02 +0000

Hi. I rarely write reviews but I enjoy reading them. Most of the time I read CD reviews. To me, a good review talks about both good and bad things about the product. Also, just to share a bit of my thoughts. I really don't like reviews that make reference to other products in order to get their point across. Something like “I'm reviewing product X. product X is similar to product y, but x requires less maintenance. One can't expect that everyone reading his post knows what product Y is.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:30:33 +0000

In general I only take the time to write about things I've enjoyed, so most of my reviews tend to be positive. If something is absolutely terrible I'm usually so fed up with it that I can't even be bothered writing about it! :)

Having said that, I'm going to be writing a games review for another site soon that won't be a very positive one… the editor of the site sends me games, and I tell him what I think. So in this instance I have to write a review no matter what, and it really is a terrible game!