VideoRankr [review]

Posted May 5, 2015 by Brett Rutecky in

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2/ 5

Creator: Abdul Hannan

Type: Web Software (sort of)

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Everything

Today Im doing a review of a new product called VideoRankr I became interested in this software because the JV page for it said that it can help people rank a website on the first page of Google in as little as 24 hours. Even if it took several days that would be great. Also […]

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Today Im doing a review of a new product called VideoRankr

I became interested in this software because the JV page for it said that it can help people rank a website on the first page of Google in as little as 24 hours. Even if it took several days that would be great. Also I knew a lot of people (including me) would be interested in being able to do this. So I found the vendor on Skype and asked him for a review copy.

When I review software sometimes after testing I really like it, sometimes I dont like it so much and every once in a while I just cant get it to work. However provided I can get it to work, even on the ones I dont approve I normally like something about it. VideoRankr is unique in that I can honestly say there is not a single thing I like about it. Really I tried to think of something but there I couldn’t.

First of all let me make one thing clear. This is not actually a software. Well it sort of is, but not really. Its really more of a type of ordering system. You see Video Rankr allows you to order several services (more on the services later) each service, once ordered is either processed instantly or over a few hours and sometimes days. Each service you order also consumes a number of ‘credits’. Once these credits are depleted you have to buy more credits in order to continue to use this product. This is why I say its not really a software, but more of an ordering system. Thats basically what it is, a ordering system that requires you to prepay for services by purchasing credits.

This alone is enough to put a sour taste in my mouth for this product. But I wanted to give it a full and thorough test. After all if the services it provides are amazing then it might be worth paying on a per use basis to get them. So lets take a look at the services you can buy with these credits.

100+ High Retention Views: This is the least expensive service costing only 2 credits and is also possibly the most useless. First of all I just have to wonder what in the world is a ‘high retention’ view. How do you retain a person who has viewed your video? I guess they can subscribe to your channel, but that’s all I could think of that might explain the high retention claim.

But what about the ‘views’ part. Isn’t it a good thing to get views to your site? Most of the time it is. But they have to be real people who are really interested in the subject of your video. Your not going to get this by paying viewers. This is basically the video equivalent of buying fake likes.

300+ Directory Submissions: Ok so now its starting to look good right. For only 4 credits (about $5) you can get your site submitted to 300+ directory. We all know that backlinks are a good thing so this is something worth buying right? Not really. Backlinks are a good thing but they have to be good backlinks. The directories this submits to are all obscure, low page rank, and low traffic.

Above are some of the sites that this service submitted one of my videos to. Most of these sites are pointless, having nothing to do with the subject of my video and are not going to bring me any real value at all. In fact I got no additional ranking of my video from doing this even after waiting more than 2 days.

This service is no better than the directory submission services you get an Fiverr and like those it is largely a waste of your time.

50+ High PR Social Bookmarks: This is the most expensive service, costing 10 credits (about $13) and is something that takes about 2 days to process. I cant say for sure but I kind of think they are either doing this manually or they are outsourcing it to someone else. Perhaps someone on Fiverr because there are plenty of gigs on Fiverr that will submit your link to 50,100, or even 200 social sites for only $5. Not only is this of questionable value but its also over priced anyway. If you want to try a social bookmarking service just head over to Fiverr and get it done for five bucks. No need to pay thirteen with Video Rankr.

Video Syndication: For anyone who does not know what video syndication is, its basically putting your video on multiple video sites. This sounds like it could be a good thing actually. Unfortunately I cant say for sure because I ran out of credits and there was no way I was going to buy more. So I had to leave this service untested. I can say that it costs 7 credits (about $9) so if you have multiple videos to get syndicated you had better have some deep pockets.

Ok so by now you probably get the picture that I’m not to impressed with the services that are provided. But what about the ‘software’ itself? How was that? In a word: amateurish. The interface has a very low quality feel to it. When buying credits they manually track the payments and issue them to your account. There is no other option to pay except PayPal and they dont use the PayPal IPN or API at all. Its very 1995 the way they handle payment processing.

Besides that there are some interface issues. For example when submitting a video URL for back linking you are told that you must enter a description that is no less than 180 characters.

Given that there needs to be a minimum of 180 characters I would have expected there would have been some kind of character counter or something. I mean they cant expect people to manually count the characters themselves. But that did not exist. Not only that but this actually allowed me to submit the form when without entering the minimum 180 required characters. There is no error checking at all. Adding it would have taken only few lines of Javascript and would have been very easy.

These are only two examples. There are several others that all lead to the same conclusion. VideoRankr was just not designed or developed to a high, professional level standard.

Ok so I probably dont have to say what I think about this product over all do I? Its of questionable value, is over priced and poorly done. This is the perfect example of a bad product.

A quick note about the reviews I do on this site. The product vendors give me access to their products for free in order for me to do my review. However I make no promises to them regarding the results of my tests or what I will write in my review. Should you click a link that takes you to a sales page for a paid product for sale this link will be an affiliate link and I will be paid a percentage of the sales price should you decide to invest in it.

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Brett Rutecky

Brett Rutecky is a full time online marketer, web developer, and entrepreneur. He has developed scores of Facebook apps, dozens of custom web sites and hundreds of scripts.

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