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Again do not understand what you are talking about.
I had a read and I saw that it said it doesn't use any referral program, aka get paid for link clicks.
In any case you're better off to contact the owner of that website not me if you have any questions, or suggestions for them to change their content. Because HostUp does not own this website.
Being AFFILIATED is not the same as being paid for link this.
This ”I’m too stupid to understand how what I’m doing is illegal” is not really working for you, and the grave that your digging for yourself in this thread is getting deeper.
What is an Affiliate Program? An affiliate program is an agreement in which a business pays another business or influencer ('the affiliate') a commission for sending traffic and/or sales their way. This can be achieved through web content, social media, or a product integration.
We do not pay them..
This clear as day scam and you denying it playing the dumb card is bad for my heart rate.
But how do we know it was a paid service and not a trade for services?
I never said affiliate program, I said AFFILIATED. I even explained to you that that there’s a difference.
We don’t. Still affiliated.
First place for doing our SEO/design. That’s affiliation. It’s actually worse since doing that and claiming to be unbiased is illegal in Sweden.
Sorry I can not find it. I tried skimming through the most part. I do not see any part where it says it is unaffiliated.
I don't see the problem. I helped them out of goodwill. Never did we pay them or trade services.
Honestly, I’m done.
Their header says ” Vi jämför Sveriges olika webbhotell på riktigt – utan affiliate program.”
Indicating that they, apart from affiliate sites, provide ”real” information. Yet, they’re affiliated with you, just not through a program.
Oh, you helped them out of the good of your heart, they helped you out of the good of their heart, and you’re not affiliated. Thanks.
You’d make a horrible lawyer.
”Yeah actually I’m not a drug dealer. I give away drugs out of the goodness of my heart and people on the street give me gifts in return”.
Ultimately it all smells, but I'm not sure what else you can do beyond what you've laid out for us all to review.
In the wake of the points raised by @emgh and the confusing replies from @HostUp we may have to consider removing or editing our article about the website in question.
Great measure!👏
Well, if you look at the two websites' backlink profiles and reviews mentioned on hostup.se's website to build trust, it looks like HostUp uses webbhotellinfo.se for low-end SEO(1) and to build trust on fake reviews. Not only from the webbhotellinfo.se review but also from fake reviews on Trustpilot(2).
1) webbhotellinfo.se has a spammy link profile and they don't use affiliate links because they want to parse SEO juice to HostUs.se. They links to other providers to build SEO trust. (They need way better backlinks before that website will add any SEO value.)
2) It is a Swedish host but most of the reviews are from "customers" from other countries and most of them have only made 1 review.
It simply looks too spammy to be natural.
@HostUp you need better marketing people.
Every web hosting affiliate in Sweden does though. Google pretty much never penalizes here since it's such a small market for them. Apart from algorithmic penalties, of course.
Yeah, maybe so. But I'm confident the main reasoning is to appear to be unbiased. Not to pass link juice. They would rather have link juice to "someone elses" fake unbiased website than to their main website is my guess.
Not too sure about that either, the Swedish backlink market is much different from US. What they have isn't perfect, but enough to rank first spot on "bästa webbhotellet".
I think most reviews are fake, honestly, we can't know. I conclude this based on dates, however, the language isn't really important here since the reviews they mention are mostly for hostup.org (their international brand, advertised here).