Sentences with phrase «buy fake reviews»

The authors could have taken the easy way out and bought fake reviews (which, unfortunately, some authors do).

Kelvin — Mr. Locke isn't a great example, since he did it by buying fake reviews.

Especially, since so much selfie «marketing» is just straight out lying — creating fake «company» names for a company of one person, buying fake reviews, giving each other fake awards, claiming to be «best sellers» because some newspaper put up a chart of e-book sales.

I couldn't agree more with the idea that buying fake reviews (and providing them) is wrong.

Buying fake reviews is even worse.

Already, on the news this morning, 19 NYC restaurants are being fined for writing / buying fake reviews.

Also, while many firms may be buying fake reviews to boost their Google Places rankings, I strongly recommend staying away from this tactic as it will likely negatively affect your standing with Google Places farther down the road.

Not exact matches

On Yelp's efforts to combat fake reviews: Certainly shady businesses or «reputation management» firms do sometimes try to buy reviews.

Perhaps the article isn't sending the not - too - subtle message that indie authors suck, thus their reviews must be fake, or at least suspect, thus the only way to save yourself the grief is to buy trad pub books, which have paid reviews from the shills who do it for a living... er... never mind.

Claims of fake reviews, plots to buy your own book in bulk to manipulate the sales numbers, and an overgrowth of companies that sell guaranteed increases in rankings have basically spoiled the system for everyone, from the most talented but undiscovered writer to the most supportive reader who can't find the great books in an ocean of titles.

Purchased reviews have been an embarrassment to the Zon since 2012, when the New York Times revealed indie superstar John Locke bought his way to fame and fortune with fake reviews (and many other authors had as well.)

The only way you can succeed is by lying and buying fake «awards» and «reviews» and selling stuff to naive people who are outside of the writing world and don't know that now readers need to check publishers» IDs before buying anything.

Fake reviews are a problem for sellers and buyers, whether they're reviews that have been bought or reviews by trolls who haven't read the book but are on some kind of destructive mission.

As a result of allowing fake reviews and ratings on books that have not been bought or read the APIs from both goodreads and Amazon are complete frauds.

In 2016, the Everything Store cracked down on fake reviews suing at least three sellers for buying them.

I also think it's a little ironic that the person who outed the guy writing the fake reviews was a writer who «bought» one of his reviews; I don't think she had any right to complain if she was buying into it.

Like you, I'd prefer everything I earn to be honest and true, and I'd feel like crap if I knew people were buying my book because of fake and purchased reviews.

I feel like most of these reviews are faked because I bought your medication for my animals and they got sick.

Pre Ordering is just plain dumb, don't buy the game until it's done, has reviews and gameplay videos from actual users and not the bullshots and fake gameplay like aliens marines mess.

In fact, the company was recently caught posting fake reviews to Best Buy's website in an effort to juice sales.

If all had gone according to plan, the Mate 10 Pro would have been Huawei's big entry into the U.S. as a premium brand, but between getting dropped by AT&T and soliciting fake reviews on Best Buy... it isn't off to a great start.

The Mate 10 Pro entered the market with no carrier partnerships, it has faced accusations of spying for the Chinese government, it was recently caught getting people to write fake reviews on Best Buy's website, and the FBI, CIA, and NSA have all warned against using Huawei products.

Huawei was accused of asking people to write fake reviews for the Mate 10 Pro on Best Buy's website in exchange for a chance to beta test the phone, but the company denies that this was the case.