“First of all, Jackie Nerito is a pseudonym”

guess what di**head I am not a pseudonynm, I write whenever I can and whenever I want, this is my blog, my space and I have freedom to write whatever I please. Andy also calls the story posted on sphinn fake, yeah right, the story is not fake Andy, your facts are, whoever posted that, must have read my blog. I used to have old blog, but I created new one recently on word press, they probably came and followed the link.

I will tell you what pseudonym is, its “Andy Beard”. I mean common, can you have more fake name then that Andy, your name is fake 100% and everyone knows it. Maybe the viewers would like to know your real name and things you have done before, is that why you are using this fake name now.

Oh here is a nice post or two about what Andy Beard does and how he decieves people:

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/05/is-robert-scoble-stealing-or-marketing/

http://bloggerperformance.blogspot.com/

Just read about him.

What really impresseses me, is this british id*** always thinks he is some kind of SEO god, probably a kid in his early 20′s with too much self esteem. Andy I got news for you buddy, you have to move on with your life. Most of the facts you presented are fake and shown to be in your favour, to portray you as some sort of saviour when readin about Wide Circles.

I do not personally work for Wide Circles, but I thought this would be a nice topic to discuss, and probably has pis**d your british a** off. Well surprise, surprise, it’s called freedom of speech Andy Beard. I can’t believe there are people out there like Andy Beard, this person is checking what other people do more then he checks himself. You should really see someone and get some professional help. I am not going to be talking about Wide Circles anymore, obviosuly because you see arrogant and not understanding my previous points made about them.

Andy Beard also goes on saying:

After my last post regarding Wide Circles I exchanged emails with one of their support representatives, with their message being

Wow, so you exchanged messages with them ? I also exchange messages with Eva Longoria. You should check the facts before buzzing Andy Beard, it is obvious you did not do your research, the evidence you presented is not an evidence, most of the links you posted do not even work, and those that do could have either been posted by you or by their competitors.

Thank you for being silly Andy.

This is what Andy writes, “Wide Circles = Blog Comment Spam | Andy Beard”.

It is clear from reading the article and his comments that this guy never even bothered looking into other aspects of the company. WideCircles.com does not just provide relevant blog and forum comments but also they offer myriad of other services, when coupled together do in fact result in significant traffic increase and page rank and do help with SEO strategy overall.

He goes on saying how blog comments with signatures are dangerous and line people up for reputation disaster. Well Andy I got news for you, people HAVE in fact been using comments and signatures to get lot of inbound links to their sites many times in the past before, just do google searches on few big name domains and you will find out how they became big. Comments when done properly and by trained staff are not dangerous, they can increase your rank, help you with seo and allow you recieve lot of referral traffic.

The primary point here is that you are contributing valuable content to a website, ofcourse website owner will like the content if it matches his website, many webmasters in fact agree that they will provide link juice to people who supply them with good content, so this is not an exception. However I think what widecircles.com is targetting primarly is referral traffic as indicated by few commentators in Andy’s blog and not SEO part, but certainly SEO part does help and this is other part of the equation involved in optimizing someone websites.

Other thing he says is:

“Another thing to be cautious about, these are paid links, even the forum links, and Google are always on the lookout for link buying, especially on obvious web destinations such as popular webmaster forums.”

Common Andy, and you call yourself SEO expert, that statement is completely flawed. Google looks at content sometimes manually when they need to, not all the time, imagine what kind of work force they would need to analyze every single page. Also when the content is looked at, they look for spam, not for sincere and genuine comments. You think someone will penalize you, because some user decided to write a comment about your site on some blog ? That is completely ridicouls way of thinking. If that was true, then google would be banning sites left and right, just because some users decided they wanted to get rid of competition and started posting comments about companies on some forums.

Andy Beard always makes me laugh but this time he went over the top. Another statement he made:

“I have argued in the past that paid blog comments can be legitimate, but it is under very specific circumstances, that Wide Circles just does not meet.”

Ok, and what should they meet Andy ? You are forgetting there is myriad of providers out there who offer same kind of services ( paid commenting ), and some of which you personally supported. So why would their approach differ. Again if they provide paid comment service, and comments are genuine and not spammy, then anyone including the webmaster will approve them and leave them there because in reality they do contribute to the website, by providing related content that webmasters crave for, so giving a little of link juice should not be a problem.

Wide Circles does not go out and blatantly spam, they do actually look at the blogs, after all thats why they charge the price, which they do. And like I said earlier Andy you should have looked at other services they offer and whole range of things, before coming up with false accusations and statements which only fit into your own personal agenda against them. My reports are always unbiased and I intend to provide readers with clear view on the facts, which I can always back up.

Thanks.

What’s intresting here, the .net website says this “

Wide Circles uses Xrumer to promote there customers programs, these will not work great for you unless, you want to ruin your rankings”

It is clearly obvious that this statement is false, since Wide Circles or widecircles.com ( the real website and the company ) does not use xrumer but instead they use human publishers. This is visible from their community portal website and other pages, also if you sign up for a publisher account you can see that they are using humans to do these tasks, since they require knowledge on how to write a comment, pass the tests required and so on, clearly something xrumer can never do.

Secondly he goes on talking how widecircles or wide circles uses the domain proxy, he says:

“Wide Circles is so legit of a company they use Domains by proxy to hide there Whois records.”

Well almost anyone out there uses private registration these days, that does not mean the company is trying to hide something, even paypal and ebay and other companies use private registration you moron. Private registration is enabled by default when you register domains at some registrars since they want to make more money. This is clearly not an indicator whether company is engaged in legal or illegal practice and that kind of statement made by this idiot at .net website is clearly stupid. It seems then he went on to spam bunch of forums to increase his ranking at that .net website. How stupid is this ? The whole website ( widecircles.net ) seems to be setup to just clearly alter the real facts and depict company in worst possible light just for his own amusment.

Having used widecircles.com recently I noticed company offers many other avenues, not just forum or blog commenting service for which they use what they call social signatures, they also have divisions for creative material writing and they offer blog article writing and other things, this certainly is an indicator that they are not just engaged in one service but many. I am for one a supporter of blog comments that are of good quality and if I see a comment of good quality I will certainly approve it, even at the cost of giving it some link juice.

There are many companies out there providing blog comment services, but I think widecircles.com is doing a great work and coupling this together with many other services such as social bookmarking, which I am probably going to talk in another article. They seem to be moving in right direction, but I think the reasoning behind some of the decsions they made recently is pretty good.
Thanks.