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dotcouk

The ecotivity website now allows registered users to submit their own articles or features about their green businesses or products from free. Meaning completely free of charge marketing for your environmentally friendly products.

In beta phase at the moment, meaning that minor faults need ironing out, bet well worth checking out.

The ecotivity website can be found at www.ecotivity.com If you want to submit an article, click submit article.

Cardew

It is a pity that this site allows, and hence gives credibility, to firms jumping on the Green bandwagon to promote their wares with all the usual outrageous claims.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=254075

Firms like The Green Company stating.

A well installed high quality system has an operational life of 35 years works on cloudy days. At current electricity prices you could generate £700 of electricity per year with a 1kW solar electricity system.

A hot water system would produce all your hot water during the summer and around 50% of it during the winter.

A well installed high quality turbine has an operational life of 25 years and at current electricity prices you could generate £450 of electricity per year with a 1kW turbine.

dotcouk

Sorry Cardew, you are wrong about this one - any article submitted to the ecotivity site is previewed by an editorial team so any unusual outrageous claims wont get published!

The Green Company is no where to be seen on the ecotivity website - but the website does tell you have to make a solar shower for free from an old radiator and other junk - outrageous, but true!

I think that it is about time that every company and person jumped on the green bandwagon - it's the only way for the green movement to become a popular movement and not just some special club for hippies.

If you want to jump on the green bandwagon and promote something that you sell yourself, or something that you have used and you want other to benefit from - publish it on ecotivity.....


dotcouk

Cardew

dotcouk wrote:

Sorry Cardew, you are wrong about this one - any article submitted to the ecotivity site is previewed by an editorial team so any unusual outrageous claims wont get published!

The Green Company is no where to be seen on the ecotivity website

dotcouk

I most certainly was not wrong; do you think I invented it? I went to the ecotivity site direct from your link and The Green Company was one of several firms advertising on the right hand side under the energy 'tab'. I had never heard of them.

I followed the link direct to their site and cut and pasted from their site into the post above(I certainly wouldn't have copy typed it.) and went back to them via your link again to check something else.

Now I accept that they are apparently not now advertising on the site(I wonder why??) However they were without doubt advertising on the site and presumably escaped the attentions of the editorial team. Could it be that someone saw this thread and removed them?

Do you perchance have a connection with Ecotivity? If so you could check.

dotcouk

I can see what the problem is - the site is host to Google ads - these are presented automatically by Google based on key words in a website. 99% of these Google ads are for real 'green' or at least honest companies, however because a website that hosts these adverts has no real control over Google, they get what they are given - the result being that sometimes a company like the green company's ad get presented.

So - editorial is in control - ads are controlled by the so called "do no evil" Google.

Cardew - maybe you should submit some editorial reviewing green energy companies to the ecotivity website??:D

Ken-Dodds-Hairy-Knodule

dotcouk wrote:

ads are controlled by the so called "do no evil" Google.

LOL, so that site is nothing more than a google scraper - making noth google and themselves money on the green bandwagon and forcing loads of irrelavant ads (such as the one cardew pointed out) disguised as fact/a directory.

Best avoided IMO.

https://www.scroogle.org for anyone who wants to use the google search engine without having their multitude of ads foisted upon you.

Cardew

Sorry Cardew, you are wrong about this one - any article submitted to the ecotivity site is previewed by an editorial team so any unusual outrageous claims wont get published!

The Green Company is no where to be seen on the ecotivity website

dotcouk wrote:

I can see what the problem is - the site is host to Google ads - these are presented automatically by Google based on key words in a website. 99% of these Google ads are for real 'green' or at least honest companies, however because a website that hosts these adverts has no real control over Google, they get what they are given - the result being that sometimes a company like the green company's ad get presented.

So - editorial is in control - ads are controlled by the so called "do no evil" Google.

Cardew - maybe you should submit some editorial reviewing green energy companies to the ecotivity website??:D

I’ll take that as a retraction of your earlier comment then, if not an apology!

Seriously,how on earth can you state that 99% of Google ads are honest. Also I really don’t understand what this sentence means:

So - editorial is in control - ads are controlled by the so called "do no evil" Google.

You are very much not in control if you give Google access to your website.


With regard to me reviewing green energy sites, let me explain my position:

I started looking at solar energy in UK about 25 years ago, my interest then was purely to investigate financial savings and that remains my main motivation – with any environmental savings a bonus.

I have yet to see any case, for any form of alternative energy, that makes financial sense if you carry out a realistic fiscal appraisal. I have yet to see any Government agency or respected independent organisation e.g ‘Which’ that concludes alternative energy will save money.

So any review would commence with a health warning stating none of these firms will save you money.

Unfortunately that is not what the majority of people on these environmental sites want to hear. Once the ‘Green Mist’ descends over them they are blinded to reality.

gromituk

Ken-Dodds-Hairy-Knodule wrote:

LOL, so that site is nothing more than a google scraper

I think that's a little unfair. Sites have to pay for their hosting costs somehow, and this is one way of doing it. People ought to be savvy enough to differentiate between editorial content and advertising.

dotcouk

thanks gromituk.

At the end of the day, the ecotivity website is trying to push people into greener alternatives. Some of the alternatives might not be totally without harm to the environment.

The site lets users submit their own articles, so giving the smaller green product producer another way to promote their green product for free.

As for the 'green bandwagon' lets see everyone jumping on it!

Cardew

dotcouk wrote:

As for the 'green bandwagon' lets see everyone jumping on it!

I really think you are missing the point completely.

Of course we all want to see genuine green products promoted and used.

However it has given many unscrupulous companies the chance to ‘jump on the bandwagon’ and scam the public by exploiting their desire to be environmentally responsible.

Outrageous claims of savings, vastly overpriced products and bogus claims of environmental advantages are the stock in trade modus operandi of many companies.

Pensioners swindled(no other word for it) out of thousands of pounds of savings, because they are swept up in the hysteria of the Green movement, are just some of the casualties.

Ken-Dodds-Hairy-Knodule

dotcouk wrote:

As for the 'green bandwagon' lets see everyone jumping on it!

Lets not. Those of us who are genuinely green and have been for many years want to support REAL green companies. What we don't want to support are scum who are just marketting a product as green because it's the new fashion for the middle classes & they know there is a quick profit in it (sort've like that website, really)...