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The Proliferation of Spam Sites in the Diet Industry

As the owner of a diet directory, I have the unique experience of witnessing all sorts of new websites being offered on the market for diet and weightloss. And let me tell you. There's a ton of CRAP out there. There are more fake rx websites pillfering guaranteed weight loss than there are weight loss sites genuinely interested in helping you lose weight. Don't get me wrong, there are helpful rx websites out there, but by and large, most are complete and crap and you are NOT guaranteed anything when you purchase from them. This article will provide you with some tips and awareness checks before visiting some of these sites.

The Disguised (or not so disguised) Fake Helpful Weightloss Sites

You know the ones I'm talking about. These are the ones you were expecting to find great, non regurgitated information at but instead, find the same website over and over again spewing forth the same crap as you saw before on another site. Not only that, but these sites appear to be helpful, but are often overfilled with ads and other useless graphics. Go ahead, take a look at that useful site now, and tell me it doesn't seem to be a litterbox filled with crap? I call them disguised because at first appearance they seem legit, until you start peeking under the covers and then they reveal themselves. Stay away from these sites for useful information.

Online Pharmacies

Oh boy. Everyone needs a big awareness check on this one. It seems there are thousands of these places popping up everyday. If you really need to purchase something online in pill or powder form, do your research. Do some price checks as well as quality review checks. Is there an 800 number to call to verify the existence of this pharmacy? Is there any sort of customer service listed on the site? If not, you should be extremely wary of sites like these. Often times these pharmacy sites you visit are just clones of each other and god knows what you would actually get as a supplement if and when you ordered. I never knew saw dust was a metabolic enhancer....

Helpful Weightloss Blogs

Now these can be very very helpful to the casual weight loss reader. There are many people online who are engaged in blogging activities outlining their every mouthful and weight decrease or increase incrementation. Spotting the spam sites in this realm is actually pretty easy. An actual weight loss blogger will post his or hers own experiences. A spam site will generally pull in text from other sites and call it as its own. A cursory view of the blog will tell you which one it is.

Weight Loss Message Forums

Now these sites are pretty much spam free as you'll be able to see by the number of visitors and quality of message posts. However, do expect some spam advertisers to post crap, because, that is what they do. If the administrators of the message forums do a good job then you as the reader will never experience it. However, it's not to hard to spot a spammer in a message forum. They're usually spouting off crap about the latest new pill or sexual product and to CLICK HERE to see it. Do yourself a favor and don't click it.

I hope some of these awareness checks and ideas will help you ferret the good out of the bad, because like I said, I come across a bunch of them when they submit them to my directory. Here's to a new year of beneficial weight loss! Good luck.

David

This article was written for this site: Diet Directory, the BEST directory to reference when searching for all your weightloss and diet needs.

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