PlayadelIngles.info appears to be down at the time of reviewing (11:19 10/07/2010) after functioing for a few months or so.
We were asked to review our note of caution we published before the site was launched, in a nutshell the owners of the site were asking for money for advertising before the site was up and running. Advertising our Cafe or similar business with their Site, was going to cost around 50euros for the year.
Putting it bluntley our article said this was going to be a waste of money for businesses to pay for advertising on their site.
They were asking businesses to pay for advertising before the site was running.
Wehn we were asked if we would be interested in paying for advertising we asked to see the site bit were told it does not exist yet, now it does, so lets see how wise it was to pay for advertising
Cafeflorin.com was asked to update this page by the owner of the site who walked into our cafe and told us that he founf the tone of our article to be unfair.
"Caution advised about buying publicity too early." was our phrase for our readers who might be considering paying for advertising on a Web Site that was not yet up and running
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We do not know if many businesses have paid for advertising on playadelingles.info or if their sales pitch worked on many business owners
We always said and still say it´s about readership numbers, why pay to advertise with anything, magazine, Web site, radio station or any other media form unless they have a readership
Important Read -Get the numbers right first
We originally saw several red lights and advised against paying before the site had independent proof of visitor numbers.
We do wish this site success, we can do this and warn our readers at the same time
We suggest you ask them how many visitors their Web site has now, one of our source shows they have around 25 page views every day, the same source puts playa-del-ingles.biz at over 500 page views per day